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The $XRP Ledger (XRPL) has officially crossed the 8 million activated accounts milestone for the first time in history. The latest milestone confirms that the $XRP ecosystem’s user base continues to grow despite the difficult market conditions that have dampened investor sentiment since Q4 2025. At the time of writing, the number of activated wallets had reached 8,000,688, with 688 new accounts added after the network crossed the 8 million mark earlier in the day. Total Activated $XRP Wallets | XRPScan Data from XRPScan also shows that these 8,000,688 activated wallets currently hold 67.526 billion $XRP, which represents the circulating…

Jeong Sang-ho, the chief executive of the South Korean digital-asset deposit platform Delio, has formally appealed the 15-year prison sentence handed down in the first trial on fraud charges linked to approximately 70 billion won (around $51 million) in customer digital assets. The appeal, filed on Aug. 14 with the Seoul Southern District Court, was confirmed through the Supreme Court’s case search system on Aug. 16. This legal move prolongs a case that has already drawn significant public attention and raised questions about the regulation of crypto deposit services in South Korea. Background: The Collapse of Delio and Its Aftermath…

One of the biggest Bitcoin security stories of the year unfolded last week as a firmware exploit affecting certain Coldcard hardware wallets renewed industry debate around self-custody and operational security. At the same time, another story was developing in the background. Over the same seven trading days, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $790.6 million in net inflows, according to the Bitcoin For Corporations ETF Dashboard. More than $1.0 billion entered the funds while $212.7 million exited, resulting in one of the strongest weekly periods in recent months. The two developments are not necessarily related. ETF flow data cannot tell us…

In brief Ethereum Foundation researchers want Frame Transactions and FOCIL prioritized for the Hegotá upgrade. Frame Transactions and related proposals could let privacy pools pay their own fees without relying on third parties. Developers are considering 66 proposals for the 2027 upgrade, with FOCIL currently the only confirmed addition. Ethereum developers are considering changes that could let privacy pools pay their own transaction fees, reducing their reliance on third-party services that can expose wallet activity. In a post on X on Monday, Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter said the Protocol Architecture team wants to prioritize two proposals for Hegotá, the…

A securities class action lawsuit targeting BitGo Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BTGO) is drawing attention from multiple law firms — and the clock is ticking for investors who want to play an active role. The BitGo securities lawsuit, filed on behalf of shareholders who bought into the company’s January 2026 IPO or held its stock through May of the same year, centers on allegations that BitGo misled investors about the financial risks tied to its Bitcoin treasury and broader digital asset exposure. Key takeaways Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP has filed a securities class action against BitGo Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BTGO),…

For fifteen years the loudest promise in crypto was that $XRP would replace Swift. Not complement it, not plug into it, replace it: the slow, expensive, pre-funded machinery of correspondent banking swept away by a bridge asset that settles in seconds. It was the thesis that sold the token, filled the conference halls, and outlasted a five-year lawsuit.On July 9, 2026, Swift answered. The network moved its own blockchain ledger into live operation with seventeen pioneer banks, among them Citi, HSBC, Wells Fargo, UBS, Standard Chartered, and MUFG. The build took nine months. The system runs 24 hours a day…

The Blockchain Association urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to rescind two provisions of Regulation NMS, arguing that rules written for conventional stock exchanges could restrict tokenized securities markets. The Washington based industry group published its comment letter on Aug. 18 supporting the proposed repeal of Rules 611 and 610(e). The SEC issued the proposal on June 11 under file number S7-2026-20. The proposal remains under consideration. Neither rule has been repealed, and the Commission has not announced a date for voting on a final version. Blockchain Association backs repeal of both rules Rule 611, commonly called the Order…

BUZZ Deploys 2,016 Nvidia GPUs Under HIVE’s $350M AI Contract HIVE Digital Technologies is deepening its push into artificial intelligence infrastructure, signing a five-year cloud services agreement that will deploy more than 2,000 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs in Canada. The contract, secured through wholly owned subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing, carries a total value of about $350 million and is expected to contribute roughly $70 million in annualized revenue. That would lift BUZZ HPC’s total annualized revenue to about $180 million. Roughly $35 million is already active, while another $145 million is contracted and expected to come online through the…

As an industry, DeFi is operating from a weakened base. TVL across the sector has fallen by more than a third since the start of the year to roughly $70 billion, driven by a broad correction in the crypto market, compressed yields and a run of protocol exploits, including the $292 million KelpDAO hack in April. Still, the sector is forecast to reach $2.7 trillion by 2030, with tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) among the fastest-growing segments, according to a Standard Chartered projection. “Now is a great time for initiatives like these, where real capital goes toward both the structural work…

Wall Street permabull Tom Lee expects Ethereum to significantly outperform Bitcoin in the coming years. The Fundstrat co-founder believes that the next major catalyst for $ETH could be substantially larger than the forces that drove previous crypto cycles. The Fundstrat founder and BitMine chairman views the Ethereum-to-Bitcoin ($ETH/$BTC) ratio as an important signal for the broader cryptocurrency market. In a recent post, Lee said the “tailwind” for $ETH over the next few years could exceed those seen during the initial coin offering (ICO) and non-fungible token ($NFT) booms. At press time, the ratio stood at 0.02994 and was moving above…