Ripple is trying to put XRP and RLUSD into the market for AI-agent payments in an environment that is still mostly paying in the dollar-pegged USDC stablecoin. The company introduced the XRPL AI Starter Kit earlier this week, a set of developer tools for building AI agents that can send payments on the XRP Ledger, […]
The two biggest DeFi exploits of the past two months have one thing in common. They used a tool that does not exist on the XRP Ledger. Thorchain lost roughly $10.8 million on May 15 to a cross-chain attack that drained funds across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BSC, and Base. Drift Protocol, a Solana-based decentralized perpetual exchange, […]
The S&P 500’s longest weekly winning streak since 2023 and Brent crude settling near $92 on U.S.-Iran ceasefire hopes have failed to pull bitcoin BTC$73,466.17 and ether (ETH) higher, with the two largest cryptocurrencies finishing the week down nearly 3% as cooling spot bitcoin ETF inflows reinforced the pullback. The S&P 500 posted its ninth […]
XRP is back at the top of South Korean trading screens. The token’s won pair was the most traded market on Upbit over the past 24 hours, with about $110.9 million in volume, ahead of bitcoin’s $88.6 million and ether’s $67 million, CoinGecko data shows. On Bithumb, XRP/KRW recorded about $41 million in volume, ranking […]
Bitcoin BTC$71,736.44 and other major cryptocurrencies all fell around 2% late Saturday evening U.S. hours after Vice President J.D. Vance announced that U.S. and Iranian negotiators had failed to agree to an extended ceasefire. The parties met in Pakistan Saturday to negotiate an agreement after the U.S.’s nearly six-week long campaign against Iran. Vance said […]
Grayscale’s two new crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) will go live on NYSE Arca on Monday, offering U.S. investors simplified access to DOGE$0.1405 and XRP for the first time through regulated public markets. The Grayscale Dogecoin Trust ETF (GDOG) and Grayscale XRP Trust ETF (GXRP) are each structured as spot ETPs that hold their respective underlying […]
Monday’s rebound in crypto markets quickly unwound on Tuesday with bitcoin BTC$103,337.35 slipping back below $104,000. After briefly topping $107,000 overnight, the largest cryptocurrency fell to $103,200 by U.S. morning hours. The drop erased the gains fueled by President Donald Trump’s “tariff dividend” plan and rising optimism the U.S. government shutdown is about to end. […]
A proposed XRP Ledger amendment, Batch (XLS-56), is generating excitement among developers and validators alike. One pseudonymous XRP validator, Vet, has shared his experience testing the Batch functionality on the dev net, where multiple transactions, including minting and payments for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), can be bundled and executed automatically. The amendment, according to Vet, enables […]
The REX-Osprey XRP ETF (XRPR) has surpassed $100 million in assets under management (AUM) in just five weeks after its launch, according to issuer REX-Osprey. The ETF has experienced rapid growth since its launch on Sept. 18. It offers investors exposure to the price of XRP, currently the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Loading… With […]
XRP$2.3304 and Solana’s SOL$183.77 stand out as the major cryptocurrencies with a key sentiment gauge showing bullish momentum, while their peers bitcoin BTC$106,931.06, and ether ETH$3,894.35 remain stuck in the gloom. This key sentiment gauge, known as the 25-delta risk reversal, is actually an options strategy involving the simultaneous purchase of a 25-delta call and […]
Bitcoin is holding around $122,000 in Wednesday’s Asian hours after setting a record high at $126,200 earlier this week, with some market watchers still expecting a surge to a record $140,000 later this month. Economist Timothy Peterson said in an X post Tuesday that bitcoin has a 50% probability of rising to $140,000, citing simulations […]
Ripple cryptographer J. Ayo Akinyele says he’s pushing to make the XRP Ledger (XRPL) the “first choice for institutions seeking innovation and trust” — and to do it with privacy-first tooling. Akinyele, a senior director of engineering at Ripple, lays out the case in a blog post published Thursday, arguing that finance can’t function without […]