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XRPL Expands Its Reach as LOBSTR Integration Unlocks Seamless Access and Institutional Momentum Builds The $XRP Ledger (XRPL) is entering a new phase of steady expansion, driven by deeper wallet integrations and rising institutional interest. A notable development comes from LOBSTR Wallet, a popular non-custodial platform originally built for Stellar. Known for its simple, user-friendly design, LOBSTR now supports the $XRP Ledger as part of its move toward multi-network functionality. The partnership, developed in collaboration with XRPL Commons, adds another layer of connectivity to the broader XRPL ecosystem and strengthens its growing developer footprint. With this update, users can now…

Crypto’s market structure bill cleared committee and then walked into a trap with two jaws. One fight is about the President’s crypto fortune. The other is about whether writing code makes you a money transmitter. Neither side will move, and the clock is running out. A month ago the CLARITY Act looked close to inevitable. The Senate Banking Committee had advanced it 15 to 9 on May 14, two Democrats had crossed the aisle, the bill landed on the Senate Legislative Calendar on June 1, and prediction markets priced its 2026 passage near 74%. Senator Cynthia Lummis, one of its…

Coinbase has hit back at claims that it doxxed a customer who made use of the exchange’s first crypto-backed mortgage. During a June 16 event, at which Coinbase unveiled 21 new products, the company shared a photo of the house apparently backed by the mortgage, describing the owner as someone who owns a lot of bitcoin ($BTC). However, a critic soon claimed to have pulled up the buyer’s Zillow listing — not ideal, given that $BTC’s parabolic price increase over the past 17 years and the fact that keys instantly confer ownership make owners appealing targets for thieves. Attempting to…

Bitcoin price started a downside correction from the $82,000 zone. $BTC is consolidating and might aim for a fresh increase if it clears $82,000. Bitcoin failed to stay above $81,500 and extended losses. The price is trading above $80,500 and the 100 hourly simple moving average. There is a key contracting triangle forming with support at $80,800 on the hourly chart of the $BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair might extend losses if it stays below the $81,800 and $82,000 levels. Bitcoin Price Dips Again Bitcoin price failed to clear the $82,000 resistance zone. $BTC started a downside…

Tom Lee, chairman of BitMine Immersion Technologies, the largest corporate holder of Ether, dismissed a warning from a former Ethereum Foundation contributor that the network’s core development faces a funding crisis, saying there is “zero chance” of a shortfall. “In my opinion, zero chance of this ‘crisis’ happening for $ETH,” Lee wrote on X, adding “zero” and the line “Funding secured.” Lee was responding to Trent Van Epps, who coordinated core protocol development and the Protocol Guild funding effort at the Ethereum Foundation from 2021 until April 2026. In an article published Thursday, Van Epps warned that Ethereum’s core development…

Crypto exchange Bybit will offer eligible customers access to tokenized bond funds managed by PIMCO and China Merchants Bank International, expanding its push into real-world assets through partnerships with Plume and DigiFT. Bybit’s new RWA Earn platform launched with two tokenized bond funds: the PIMCO Dynamic Income Opportunities Fund (PDO), which invests across fixed-income assets including corporate debt, mortgage-backed securities and government bonds, and the CMBI Investment Grade Bond Fund, which focuses on investment-grade credit in Asian and global markets. According to Monday’s announcement, the funds are tokenized through DigiFT, a digital asset exchange regulated in Singapore and Hong Kong,…

Chainlink has completed a SOC 2 Type 2 examination conducted by Big Four accounting firm Deloitte and Touche LLP, covering its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Data Feeds products, making it the only oracle platform in the blockchain industry to hold SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type 2, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification simultaneously. NEW: Big-4 firm Deloitte & Touche LLP completed SOC 2 Type 2 examination for Chainlink CCIP & Data Feeds.Chainlink is the only data and interop oracle platform meeting key institutional security standards:• SOC 2 Type 2• SOC 2 Type 1• ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification pic.twitter.com/bnuYrbCYX7 — Chainlink…

The rest of the Clarity Act depends on that guarantee, because there is no digital asset market to regulate if the people who build it cannot afford to build it in the U.S. The provision survived the committee markup intact, despite a filed amendment that would have gutted it, and it must stay in through the final vote, fully and without dilution. Here is why this matters to people who will never read a word of the statute. The engineers who write this software, from core Solana contributors to the designers of new DeFi protocols, publish code that anyone in…

In brief Multi-chain perps exchange Satori Finance is closing its doors next month. The firm raised $10 million from Coinbase Ventures, Jump Capital, and others in 2022. Satori said the extended market downturn had a significant impact on its financial situation. Satori Finance, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange backed by Coinbase Ventures and Jump Capital, is sunsetting its platform due to financial stress amid a declining crypto market. The firm, which raised $10 million from investors in 2022, supported perps trading on Ethereum, BNB Chain, and prominent layer-2 networks like Base and Arbitrum, among other crypto networks. “Unfortunately, due to…

Moody’s Ratings is rolling out its credit ratings to Solana (SOL), allowing issuers of tokenized bonds and other fixed-income securities to embed the firm’s assessments directly into blockchain-based assets. The move, announced Wednesday in partnership with Solana-focused tokenization specialist Alphaledger, expands Moody’s Token Integration Engine (TIE) to a major public blockchain after its first deployment earlier this year on the institutional-focused Canton Network (CC). The move builds on a pilot project completed last year, when they demonstrated how municipal bond ratings could be attached directly to tokenized securities on Solana. Tokenization — the process of creating blockchain-based versions of traditional…