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The broader Solana memecoin economy is currently facing a liquidity crisis and collapsing volumes, but one asset has successfully decoupled from the sector-wide decline.
According to CryptoSlate data, PIPPIN, a token born from an AI experiment in early 2024, has emerged as one of the best-performing crypto tokens in the last 30 days, surging 556% to defy a market trend defined by capital flight...
Bitcoin was launched fifteen years ago. The industry has ballooned into a nearly $4 trillion ecosystem, yet Satoshi’s vision of everyday payments remains largely unfulfilled. The hope for peer-to-peer payments has shifted to stablecoins. But rather than replacing banks, stablecoins risk becoming bank-like infrastructure. Stronger regulation in the U.S. and Europe may push them toward centralized...
XRP spot ETFs have posted one of the most consistent inflow streaks of this quarter, attracting roughly $756 million across eleven consecutive trading sessions since their Nov. 13 launch.
Yet the strength in the ETF demand contrasts with XRP’s price performance.
According to CryptoSlate’s data, the token has fallen about 20% over the same period and currently trades near $2.03.
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Vitalik Buterin recently sent a 256 ETH grant to two messaging projects, Session and SimpleX Chat, without the usual ecosystem fanfare.
The gesture was modest in size but pointed in intent, because both applications occupy a part of the internet that rarely gets real support: metadata-resistant communication.
Their designs tackle the parts of digital messaging that encryption alone cannot protect...
Jerome Powell stepped in front of cameras on Dec. 1 at the Hoover Institution’s George Shultz memorial event with three audiences watching: bond traders pricing an 87% chance of a December rate cut, a divided Federal Open Market Committee bracing for possible dissents, and a Bitcoin market that just bled $4.3 billion from US spot ETFs in November alone.
The event billed itself as an academic...
Solana’s memecoin trading registered $13.9 billion in monthly volume last month, the lowest print since February 2024, when the mania hadn’t yet caught fire.
At the same time, Polymarket clocked $3.7 billion in volume, its best month since launch, while Kalshi posted $4.25 billion in volume, its second-best performance. Together, the two largest prediction platforms moved nearly $8 billion, equal...
Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade activates Dec. 3, deploying a suite of changes designed to increase rollup throughput, tighten gas markets, and add native support for passkey-style signatures.
The fork introduces PeerDAS data-availability sampling, doubles the default block gas limit, and prepares the network for blob-only parameter expansions scheduled for later this month and January.
Fusaka is named...
Vanguard caves on crypto to retain clients as rivals win flows — opens $9.3T platform to crypto ETFs
On Dec. 2, Vanguard will reportedly open its massive brokerage platform to spot Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
This strategic volte-face ends the asset manager’s steadfast isolation from the $3 trillion digital asset market.
For years, Vanguard stood as the most prominent holdout of the crypto space, driven by a philosophy that viewed the high volatility of...
OpenEden has closed a new strategic investment round backed by some of the most influential names in blockchain and institutional finance, including Ripple, Lightspeed Faction, Gate Ventures, FalconX, Anchorage Digital Ventures, Flowdesk, P2 Ventures, Selini Capital, Kaia Foundation, and Sigma Capital.
The raise marks a significant milestone for the RWA tokenization platform as institutional...
Strategy Inc., the corporate Bitcoin vault formerly known as MicroStrategy, has signaled that the mechanics driving its rapid growth have hit a cyclical wall.
On Dec. 1, the Tysons Corner-based firm revealed that it was prioritizing a $1.44 billion cash reserve and providing investors with detailed parameters for potential asset sales. This represents a pragmatic evolution of its treasury...