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$XRP Ledger Strengthens RWA Leadership as Tokenized Gold Crosses $1 Million Tokenized gold is gaining momentum on the $XRP Ledger (XRPL), marking another milestone in the network’s rapidly expanding real-world asset (RWA) ecosystem. According to Trensik, a platform tracking verified RWAs on XRPL, tokenized gold (XAUa) has officially exceeded $1 million in cumulative trading volume. While modest compared to the global gold market, the milestone highlights growing demand for blockchain-based commodities and increasing confidence in tokenized assets on XRPL. Unlike traditional gold markets, which are limited by trading hours and intermediaries, XAUa trades 24/7 and settles on-chain in seconds, giving…

Bitcoin recently closed at $58,500, its lowest point of the quarter, and the explanation most analysts reached for was macro pressure, ETF outflows and institutional fear. Gareth Soloway, Chief Market Strategist at Verified Investing, has a different read that most people have not considered. A significant portion of last week’s selling had nothing to do with Bitcoin’s fundamentals and everything to do with fund managers cleaning up their quarterly statements. The Window Undressing Nobody Talked About At the end of every quarter, institutional money managers make their portfolios look presentable before sending statements to clients. They buy what worked and…

Ethereum is hovering around the $1.9K range. If $1,850 holds, $ETH’s next major target sits around $2.3K. Ethereum ($ETH) has staged a recovery after holding its long-term ascending trendline, and if broken, it would change the entire narrative. It has bounced and is now pressing toward $2,000, a resistance level that previously acted as support and the first test since the rebound. The largest altcoin is currently trading at $1,923, after a modest 2.61% gain in value. Moreover, $ETH’s trend has been cleaner than BTC’s throughout this cycle. What remains is a market approaching strong resistance with core support sitting…

Retail investing platforms have spent a number of years racing to become “everything apps” for finance, piling on stocks, crypto, banking and payments in a bid to keep users inside a single ecosystem. But for moomoo, the next battle isn’t about who offers the most assets. It’s about who gives retail investors the same level of intelligence and execution long reserved for Wall Street institutions. “We want to democratize access to the best tools that have historically only been available to institutional investors,” Albi Mema, director of crypto operations at moomoo U.S., told CoinDesk in an interview. “A decade ago…

The Cardano Foundation is stepping out from behind the blockchain’s technical curtain to actively push adoption and seed its decentralized finance markets, a reversal of the supporting role it held for most of the network’s history, Chief Executive Officer Frederik Gregaard said. “We believe that before we were about enabling adoption and now we’re getting much more focused on actually getting real transactions building onchain,” Gregaard said in a June 5 interview with The Defiant. “In the last six months we started to do some active market making and helped on some AMMs.” The Cardano Foundation is providing an eight-figure…

Tether, the renowned blockchain entity behind the $USDT stablecoin, has introduced an exclusive feature for its Wallet Development Kit (WDK). The new playground feature for Tether’s Wallet Development Kit permits developers to test fundamental wallet functionality through a web browser. As per Paolo Ardoino, the CEO of Tether, the development eliminates the requirement for builders to manually configure local settings or special devices ahead of leveraging wallet capabilities. Thus, the feature enables browser-powered testing to streamline the early wallet development phases and decrease technical barriers. Tether’s Wallet Development Kit just launched a web playground feature to test basic wallet functionality…

Record Outflows Hit Bitcoin Funds Net outflows from spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) topped $4.5 billion in June 2026, making it the worst monthly withdrawal since their approval in early 2024. For some observers, the $4.5 billion flight was not a minor blip; rather, it was a heavy, coordinated retreat by institutional allocators. Data shows that in May and June alone, roughly $6.5 billion was wiped from spot ETFs, representing a significant chunk of the estimated $35 billion that flowed into these funds during their first year of trading. June’s outflows also coincided with one of bitcoin’s worst performances in…

Ethereum is showing early breakout signs while holding inside a multiyear accumulation structure. Analysts see $5,000 and $6,941 as key targets, with $12,000 possible if $ETH clears its major resistance levels. Ethereum’s Largest Accumulation Could Target $12,000 Ethereum remains inside what analyst Javon Marks describes as its largest accumulation phase on record. The long-term structure resembles $ETH’s previous consolidation cycles, which ended with major breakouts and strong rallies. $ETH ten-day chart. Source: Javon Marks/X The chart shows Ethereum testing the lower boundary of a broad ascending channel that has developed since 2022. Holding this support could keep the accumulation structure…

Josh Gruenbaum, the Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration, has been overseeing government contracts for companies backed by Thrive Capital, the venture firm founded by Joshua Kushner. The problem: Gruenbaum is also an investor in Thrive Capital. The SmartPay connection Gruenbaum was appointed to lead the FAS in January 2025, arriving with no prior government experience. The FAS oversees the SmartPay program, which handles hundreds of billions of dollars in federal employee charge card spending. Ramp, a fintech startup valued at roughly $13 billion, has been positioning itself to modernize that very program. The company…

Pi Network borrowed crypto’s most powerful word and built a very different machine behind it. The full supply math runs from the 3.1415926 starting rate to the unlock schedule that now swamps it, and that math defines what the price can realistically do. Few words in crypto carry the weight of “halving.” Bitcoin built a 16-year religion around it: a clockwork cut to new supply, every four years, that has preceded every major bull market the asset has had. So when Pi Network describes its own mining system in halving language, and when its team points to halvings as the…