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Ripple has enabled staking for Ethereum and Solana within its institutional custody business, expanding beyond safekeeping to include asset servicing features that large investors increasingly consider standard.
The new capability, delivered through a partnership with staking infrastructure provider Figment, enables Ripple Custody clients to offer staking on major proof-of-stake networks without...
Bitcoin’s sharp selloff last week appears to have triggered one of the largest buy-the-dip episodes of this market cycle.
Data tracking accumulator addresses showed a record surge of coins moving into wallets associated with long-term holding behavior, even as flows through exchange-traded fund (ETF) products stayed net negative.
The timing mattered. The inflow landed right after a violent...
Ethereum researcher ladislaus.eth published a walkthrough last week explaining how Ethereum plans to move from re-executing every transaction to verifying zero-knowledge proofs.
The post frames it as a “quiet but fundamental transformation,” and the framing is accurate. Not because the work is secret, but because its implications ripple across Ethereum's entire architecture in ways that won't be...
Bitcoin has a habit of turning certain numbers into places.
A number becomes a shared memory, a public square where enough humans stare at the same line long enough that it starts to feel real.
For the last few days, that place has been $71,500.
Two days ago, I published a piece saying Bitcoin needed to recover $71,500 soon, or the drift back toward $60,000 begins. I hit publish right as attempt...
XRP supply and escrow unlocks: a guide to modeling 2026 net flows
XRP supply in 2026 hinges on how much escrowed XRP Ripple chooses to distribute after monthly unlocks.
The process is capped by the ledger, while market impact still depends on net flows and demand.
According to the XRP Ledger, total supply is fixed at 100 billion XRP, while Ripple’s on-ledger escrow system sets an upper bound of 1...
Ripple is working to make decentralized finance more familiar to regulated institutions and is placing XRP at the center of that effort.
DeFi’s earlier growth cycles were built around open, retail-facing liquidity pools and the associated risk tolerance. Total value locked across major protocols climbed into the tens of billions of dollars and, at previous peaks, surpassed $100 billion.
Ripple’s...
China’s gradual retreat from US government debt is evolving from a quiet background trend into an explicit risk-management signal, and Bitcoin traders are watching the market for the next domino.
The immediate trigger for this renewed anxiety came on Feb. 9 when Bloomberg reported that Chinese regulators were urging commercial banks to limit their exposure to US treasuries, citing concentration...
If you hold either US dollars or Bitcoin, then you're a little poorer this morning than when you went to bed last night. It doesn't matter whether there's cash in your pocket or sats in your wallet; both have less purchasing power today than they did yesterday.
That's because Bitcoin is down, the dollar is down too, but the feeling isn't quite the same. That quiet little subtraction before you...
Bitcoin’s price story lately has been told like it only has one main character, the ETFs.
Money goes in, price goes up, money goes out, price goes down. It’s a clean narrative, and it’s not wrong, but it’s incomplete, because Bitcoin is not just a ticker. The network has its own internal plumbing, and some of the best clues about where we are in the cycle are sitting in plain sight on-chain.
The...
White House stablecoin meeting could unfreeze the CLARITY Act, but your USDC rewards may be the price
The newly confirmed Feb. 10 White House meeting on stablecoin policy is being framed by some market observers as a step toward breaking the logjam around the CLARITY Act, a broad crypto market-structure bill that has already run into procedural hurdles in the Senate.
In a post on X, Milk Road...