Weak volume and fading momentum kept XRP pinned near the bottom of its recent range, with the $1.05-$1.10 area emerging as the market’s key line in the sand.
The newly public company shed close to half of bitcoin’s entire market value in three sessions after announcing its first bond sale. Bitcoin, absorbing the same backdrop, fell less than 1%.
A rotation out of this year’s best AI and chip stocks sank Asian markets, with South Korea’s Kospi down 6%, and crypto fell with them. Bitcoin is down more than 3% on the week.
The White House issued twin executive orders to accelerate U.S. development of large-scale quantum computers while simultaneously hardening defenses against such machines.
An attacker forged withdrawal proofs to drain about $1.7 million, the same type of flaw behind this year’s biggest bridge hacks. Fast containment kept the damage small.
Doctor Profit, a widely followed crypto analyst, says bitcoin is forming a “bear flag” pattern.
Eased ETF selling and improving risk appetite are being offset by a firmer dollar and cautious institutional flows, leaving bitcoin range-bound, one analyst said.
A helpful feature of speeding up transactions has become redundant and a “fingerprint” for tracking. Developers now want to do away with it.
A new governance proposal would let validators redirect part of their staking income toward ecosystem funding, raising questions about coordination, incentives and who gets to decide where the money goes.
Heavy selling pushed XRP to its lowest level of the weekend session, but strong buying quickly erased most of the decline and returned the token to its recent trading range.
sian stocks and tech climbed as the US and Iran agreed a roadmap to a final peace deal, sending oil below $80. Crypto stayed soft, with bitcoin down 2% on the week and the memecoins leading the losses.
CME Group sued the CFTC on Thursday, alleging that the agency was wrong in how it approved Kalshi’s first U.S. perpetual futures product.