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Former PayPal President and Lightspark CEO David Marcus made striking statements about the future of Bitcoin and the latest developments in the sector in the Squawk Box program he attended on CNBC. Speaking after the Bitcoin 2025 Conference, Marcus argued that digital assets have now become an important part of the mainstream financial system. One of Marcus’ most striking statements was, “Many major US banks are about to join the Bitcoin network.” Marcus, who stated that institutions such as NewBank, one of the leading digital banks in Latin America, and Revolut, based in Europe, have already integrated into the Bitcoin…

Brad Garinghouse, chief executive officer at Ripple, has already commented on the much-awaited launch of CME Group’s XRP futures, claiming that the rollout of the product has marked a major institutional milestone for the token. Earlier today, CME confirmed that XRP futures (both standard and micro versions) went live after months of anticipation. Institutional players will now be able to gain exposure to one of the leading altcoins without directly holding it. XRP futures can be traded outright, meaning that traders simply buy or sell a contract. Traders can also agree to buy or sell XRP futures on a fixed…

Ispoverse has revealed a strategic partnership with Conflux Network, a permissionless Layer 1 blockchain, to combine scalability of blockchains and the AI-powered gaming. The partnership will involve Conflux in the AI-backed play-to-earn (P2E) gaming network of Ispoverse to develop a safe and accessible Web3 application that enables users to enjoy fast, and scalable services. ⚡️Big Partnership! Conflux & Ispoverse join forces!🚀Delighted to welcome L1 blockchain @Conflux_Network in our AI-powered P2E Game!⛰ Conflux will use the growing #Ispoverse gaming infra for increased marketing exposure, while the Ispoverse will support the secure Conflux… pic.twitter.com/ziWnABjYrL — Ispoverse (@IspoverseGame) July 3, 2025 Strengthening Ispoverse’s…

At this week’s Bitcoin Vegas, the Bitcoin Rootstock Collective DAO announced its integration with Reown, the on-chain UX platform that created the WalletConnect Network. 🌍 Ora in diretta: RootstockCollective x @reown_Metti in stake $RIF. Supporta i costruttori. Unisciti alla DAO.La nostra integrazione con @Reown_ AppKit significa che ora puoi connetterti al Collective con: @MetaMask, @iSafePal, @BitgetWallet, @subwalletapp, @wigwam_app e @Rabby_ioNessun gatekeeping. Solo… pic.twitter.com/eT0NGvS6cE — Rootstock Collective 📍 ETHGlobal Prague (@RootstockColl) 28 maggio 2025 Thanks to this integration, you can now connect to the collective with MetaMask, SafePal, Bitget Wallet, SubWallet, Wigwam App, and Rabby Wallet. Rootstock: the DAO based on…

XRP Healthcare plans to go public in Canada and expects to finish the deal in August 2025. The firm has bought Pharma Ville, the biggest pharmacy chain in Uganda, to support its growth in healthcare services across Africa. Dubai-based private company XRP Healthcare will trade publicly backed by a TSX Venture Exchange listed capital pool company, AAJ Capital 3 Corp. On May 14, 2025, the companies signed a letter of intent to complete a reverse takeover representing AAJ’s qualifying transaction under Exchange Policy 2.4. Once complete, AAJ will own all of XRP Healthcare and the combined operation will focus on…

Bitget Wallet is offering TRC‑20 USDT transfers at half cost in a new promotion, with the first transfer free. Bitget Wallet is giving users a cheaper way to send stablecoins. On Thursday, June 3, the platform announced an upgrade to its GetGas feature, cutting the cost of sending USDT across the Tron Network (TRX) in half. In addition, the wallet will offer a gas-free transfer for the first transaction. According to the Bitget Wallet team, the app is now the most efficient option among major wallets for USDT transactions. The team explains that this is part of its strategy to…

Nate Geraci, the cofounder of the ETF Institute and president of the ETF Store, issued an X post on May 19, expressing confidence about XRP’s next big move after the debut of the much-awaited XRP futures. The Ripple community is set for more institutional adoption, all thanks to CME’s decision to expand its suite of regulated crypto derivatives by including XRP. Per the development, the XRP futures contract will be issued based on the CME CF XRP-Dollar Reference Rate, which represents cash-settled futures. CME-traded XRP futures are now *live*…CFTC-regulated contracts on XRP.Spot XRP ETFs only a matter of time. pic.twitter.com/MOhHtoGWbs…

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has estimated that the electricity that Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious co-founder of the leading cryptocurrency, paid to mine 1 million BTC would have been under $3,700 total. Hoskinson shared three different scenarios estimating how much electricity it would have cost Nakamoto to mine 1 million bitcoins between 2009–2010. The Bitcoin creator mined their coins during a time of extremely low mining difficulty, almost non-existent competition, and CPU mining. The scenarios in the table show various plausible ways Satoshi might have mined the coins with different assumptions about the number of mining machines, wattage, duty cycle, and…

SpoonOS and DBOS have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at supporting developers in building durable AI agentic applications. The partnership seeks to enable coordination between on-chain smart contracts and reliable off-chain workflows, offering a comprehensive infrastructure for production-ready AI agents. SpoonOS is an agentic operating system that supports LLM-powered agents in decentralized environments. The platform enables developers to build, coordinate, and scale on-chain applications using a standardized framework designed for Web3-native AI workflows. DBOS, or Durable By-Orchestration System, is an open-source library that offers workflow orchestration and execution durability in Python and TypeScript. With built-in checkpointing, DBOS ensures that workflow…

Sei Labs, the main contributor to the layer 1 blockchain Sei, has announced the release of the Sei Giga whitepaper that outlines the design of the industry’s first multi-proposer Ethereum Virtual Machine layer 1 blockchain. Sei Giga is Sei (SEI) blockchain network’s new path towards becoming the first multi-proposer Ethereum Virtual Machine L1. According to an announcement shared with crypto.news, the upgrade proposes a design of parallel blocks, powered by the Autobahn consensus protocol. It means Sei Giga brings a solution to network bottlenecks related to data availability, execution, and storage, among others. The whitepaper release is the latest major…