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US spot Bitcoin ETF products drew $622.75 million last week, their sixth straight week of net inflows. US spot Bitcoin ETF products drew $622.75 million in net inflows during the week of May 4 to 8, extending the streak to six consecutive weeks of positive flows. SoSoValue tracked the figures on May 11. BlackRock’s IBIT dominated the period with $596 million in net inflows. Grayscale’s GBTC was the notable exception, posting $62 million in net outflows over the same stretch. IBIT’s cumulative total now stands at $66.1 billion. Six weeks and what comes next The current run is the longest…

$XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have continued to attract fresh capital, outpacing both Bitcoin and Ethereum for five consecutive weeks. Despite an overwhelming blanket of bearish sentiment covering the broader cryptocurrency market, institutional demand for $XRP is growing at a slow and steady pace. $XRP’s continued net flows $XRP ETFs captured a weekly total net inflow of $10.68 million (as of the week ending June 12). This brings the cumulative total net inflow to an impressive $1.44 billion. During this period, the total value traded stood at $61.22 million, and the total net assets hovered at $978.86 million. This steady performance…

July 1 is shaping up to be an important deadline for Ripple. It centres on a regulatory filing that has not yet appeared in public records. This development has become especially significant for anyone following recent $XRP News. Meanwhile, the outcome may impact the market. The Deadline Explained California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation is finalising its licensing framework under the Digital Financial Assets Law. July 1, 2026, marks the enactment date. Under the proposed rules, businesses may continue operating in California if they submit a complete DFAL application before that date. Various $XRP News articles have also discussed…

Latest developments: Kalshi’s launch of CFTC-regulated crypto perpetuals has reignited a long-running debate over financial market definitions. John Lothian and Kalshi’s Udesh Jha joined The Policy Protocol to debate this topic. John Lothian, publisher of John Lothian News, argued that perpetual contracts resemble swaps because they involve recurring bilateral cash-flow payments through funding-rate mechanisms. Udesh Jha, Kalshi’s head of exchange analytics, countered that perpetuals function like futures because they are exchange-traded, centrally cleared and designed to track underlying spot markets. The debate follows the recent approval and launch of crypto perpetuals on Kalshi under CFTC oversight. The disagreement: Both sides…

On Tuesday, MoonPay revealed that its MoonPay Trade is now live via Ledger Wallet. The integration will allow users to provide access to cross-chain trading while leveraging the security of the Ledger ecosystem. The announcement comes during a growth in the demand for trading among institutional traders, and MoonPay Trade will provide a secure way to trade digital assets without revealing their private keys. On June 16, MoonPay, a leading financial technology platform for digital assets, announced that MoonPay Trade is now available directly through Ledger Wallet. The official announcement stated that the integration will allow users of Ledger Wallet…

Bitcoin price hovered in a tight range around 82,000 today, extending a week of steady but cautious gains as structural forces, not retail hype, set the tone for the market. At time of writing, Bitcoin price trades near 82,000, up about 0.65% from Sunday morning but still roughly 22% below its level a year ago and far off the October 2025 peak above 126,000. Over the past week the coin has held mostly between 80,000 and 82,000. The latest leg higher came late last week after the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio signaled reduced risk of further military escalation…

Solstice Finance, a Solana-native DeFi protocol designed to deliver institutional-quality, delta-neutral yield strategies to both retail users and institutions, has launched $SLX, the utility and governance token powering its ecosystem. The token went live on Monday across multiple exchanges simultaneously, with claims opening through the Legion platform and trading starting on Binance Alpha, Gate.io, Bitget, OKX, and MEXC within hours of each other. Solstice structured $SLX to look nothing like the typical token launch playbook. There is no venture capital allocation. The supply is fixed. Vesting is tied to protocol adoption and TVL growth rather than calendar dates. In other…

Dragonfly General Partner Rob Hadick believes stablecoins are entering a new phase. While $USDT and $USDC remain dominant today, he argues that growing competition from banks, fintechs, and new issuers will eventually break the stablecoin duopoly and create a more diverse market built around specific use cases. Key Takeaways: Dragonfly’s Rob Hadick says $USDT and $USDC won’t remain a stablecoin duopoly for years. Paxos, Agora, and fintechs could gain share via payments, remittances, and compliance rails. Hadick says stablecoins are only about 5% developed, with major growth still ahead. Dragonfly’s Rob Hadick Says the $USDT-$USDC Duopoly Won’t Survive the Next…

Today, crypto market analyst CoinMarketCap highlighted top cryptocurrencies that experienced the highest price gains in the last seven days. The third week of June 2026 brought new waves of capital rotations into some digital assets driven by unique qualities and development around their respective projects, as per the data from the analyst. Bitcoin and Ethereum ended the week from June 14 to June 20 with a continued lack of strength, as most crypto markets struggle to find direction amid cautious investor sentiment, partly due to inflation concerns announced by the Federal Reserve last week on Wednesday, June 17. Despite the…

In brief A Tennessee man was indicted on 11 federal counts for running an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme through his firm Star Credit Holdings from 2020–2024. He allegedly lured investors with false promises of guaranteed returns, paid old investors with new investor funds, and diverted over $1.9 million to himself and family. Charges include wire fraud, money laundering, and filing false tax returns; he faces potentially decades in federal prison if convicted. A Tennessee man has been indicted on federal charges stemming from an alleged cryptocurrency investment fraud that bilked investors across the country out of millions of dollars, the…