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David Schwartz has spotted an unexplained improvement in the performance of his $XRP Ledger infrastructure. His XRPL hub has climbed back above 500 connected peers after becoming noticeably more stable over the past two weeks. The Ripple executive says he has been seeing fewer peer disconnects, but he admits that he does not yet know what is behind the improvement. “Over the past two weeks my hub has mysteriously gotten more stable and reliable with fewer peer disconnects. I’m not sure of the cause, but I’ll take it. I’m back over 500 peers!” Schwartz wrote on X. The accompanying chart…

Pump.fun said on Wednesday that creators can launch coins paired with tokenized stocks, wrapped bitcoin and ether, and metals, instead of the $SOL and $USDC pairs the Solana launchpad has offered until now. The product is called Custom Pairs and is live in the create form. The change brings onto Solana the trade that has driven much of Robinhood Chain’s activity since July. Memecoins quoted in tokenized equities pushed Robinhood Chain past Solana in tokenized stock volume in late July, The Defiant reported. Pump.fun is now selling the same structure on its own curve and routing half the fees into…

While the “golden cross” pattern, considered technically positive in Bitcoin, proved valid only for a short time, the rapidly rising expectations of a Fed interest rate hike increased pressure on the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin ($BTC) surged to $79,837 yesterday, causing the 50-day exponential moving average (EMA) on the daily chart to cross above the 200-day EMA. This formed a golden cross, a bullish signal in the market. However, $BTC subsequently retreated to approximately $77,438, causing the 50-day EMA to fall back below the 200-day EMA, and the technical signal quickly lost its validity. Bitcoin Pullback Following Inflation Data Release The…

Starknet’s recent tweet highlights its engagement with Bitcoin yield strategies, drawing significant attention from the crypto trading community. The ‘Shield Your Sats’ campaign encourages traders to participate in Bitcoin yield generation, which could influence market dynamics in the coming weeks. With just seven days left to engage, the initiative aims to enhance the accessibility of yield options for Bitcoin holders. More details are available in Starknet’s recent communication here. What Went Down Starknet’s tweet has sparked discussions regarding the potential benefits and risks associated with Bitcoin yield strategies. As traders assess the implications of this engagement, there is a growing…

Qivalis, the independent euro-pegged stablecoin builder with a growing number of banks as shareholders in the project, has also been undergoing a transformation. Sell notes that one year ago he was the only employee; now Qivalis has grown to about 40 staffers and is close to securing an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license in the Netherlands. The aim is to go live with a regulated euro stablecoin by the end of this year. In the past, business blockchain firms like R3 and Hyperledger were working on streamlining the paper-based side of transactions, instruments like letters of credit, for instance. But…

In the wake of Allman’s death, De Bode took the helm at Ondo. Shortly after De Bode’s ascension to acting CEO, Allman’s mother appointed herself and another of her children, Tahnee Towill, to Ondo’s board, named herself chair and interim CEO, and attempted to remove him from all company positions (he remains acting CEO and a member of Ondo’s board as of a Sept. 3 court order). Ondo Finance declined to comment, and CoinDesk’s call to De Bode went unanswered. Kathleen Allman subsequently filed suit against De Bode, accusing him of a “brazen usurpation of corporate control” and alleging that…

Since launching in late November 2025, SGX’s crypto perpetual futures, covering bitcoin (BTP) and ether (ETP), have recorded $5.8 billion, or roughly 400,000 lots, in cumulative traded volume. Daily average volume across both contracts stood at 1.3k lots ($19 million) as of August, with bitcoin accounting for 66% of open interest and 83% of daily average volume since inception. The highest single-day figure came in at 11.5k lots, or $145 million in notional value. Asked whether volumes had picked up following August’s bitcoin and broader crypto rally, Lam pointed to onboarding timelines as the natural pace-setter. New clients go through…

U.S. federal debt has crossed $40 trillion, while Treasury yields have returned to levels last seen around the Global Financial Crisis. Bitcoin Suisse described the sovereign debt balance sheet as an increasingly important pressure point for markets. It also complicates the traditional response to an equity-heavy portfolio to buy bonds. Stocks and Treasuries have increasingly moved together during major inflation, interest-rate and geopolitical shocks. Bitcoin Suisse argues this has weakened the assumption that sovereign bonds should automatically constitute a portfolio’s primary diversification play. Bitcoin allocation Bitcoin Suisse frames bitcoin as a potential source of portfolio resilience: volatile and sensitive to…

Circle’s Wrapped Bitcoin (cirBTC) has reached a notable milestone, growing to a $301.9M market cap. This development reflects a burgeoning interest in decentralized finance (DeFi), with $252.9M deposited into the DeFi ecosystem on Arc. According to a recent tweet from @tokenterminal, Arc now accounts for 83.2% of cirBTC’s total market cap and 91.4% of its DeFi deposits, indicating a strong trend in tokenized assets. This growth suggests a promising outlook for the integration of traditional assets into the crypto space. What Happened The broader crypto market is currently displaying mixed signals, but Circle’s cirBTC is making a significant mark in…

The U.K.’s largest banks executed the world’s first customer transaction using tokenized British pound deposits on a share platform. The money movement included remortgage payments and a test of a consumer purchase, according to an announcement on Thursday. The project is testing whether regulated bank money can move in tokenized form between institutions and in retail payments. The deposits moving across a common system involving several banks differs from a recent initiative by Lloyds to use tokenized deposits to buy a tokenized gilt within its own arrangement. Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Monzo, Nationwide, NatWest and Santander took part in…