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Visa and Mastercard shares fell on Friday, wiping out over $60 billion in combined market value, as investors responded to news that major merchants, including Walmart, are looking towards the use of stablecoins to “bypass traditional payment networks.” Visa stock closed the business week down 4.98% at $352.85, while Mastercard dropped 4.62% to end at $562.03. The declines made both companies among the worst performers on the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the day. The selloff followed a report by The Wall Street Journal that merchants are assessing if stablecoins, digital currencies pegged to fiat assets such as the US…

pSTAKE rose almost 57% on May 21, leading the daily gainer altcoins. RIZ, SXT, and COOKIE all gained significantly as traders gravitated towards staking and utility-based assets. Mid-cap performers benefited from liquidity and visibility from major exchanges like Binance and Coinbase. Several altcoins on May 21, 2025, registered double-digit gains, with pSTAKE Finance (PSTAKE) topping the charts, logging a 56.9% price gain. Additionally, it highlighted a spike in interest around lower cap and mid-tier projects, trading on Binance and other mainstream centralized exchanges. DAILY GAINERS$PSTAKE +56.9% $RIZ +35.9% $SXT +28.8% $COOKIE +22.4% $MNDE +19.6% $KAITO +17.6% $EDGE +16.4% $WCT +14.3%…

Ripple’s legal standoff with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken a significant turn following new legal interpretations of a recent court injunction. According to Fred Rispoli, an attorney closely monitoring the case, the court’s temporary restraining order pertains specifically to institutional XRP sales Ripple made before 2018. That means the company’s current and future sales to institutions are still legal, so long as they do not mirror the structure of those early transactions. The SEC asserts that Ripple’s $728 million XRP to institutional investors from 2013 to 2018 amounted to illegal sales of unregistered securities under US…

Coinbase is testing a new upgrade aimed at its most valuable users, and this time, CEO Brian Armstrong himself is confirming what’s behind the scenes. It is about Coinbase Concierge, a premium support program that gives top-tier clients access to dedicated human advisors for hands-on help, faster problem-solving and tailored strategic support. Only a few thousand people currently have access to Concierge, but the early feedback has been really positive, says Armstrong. The new service is being rolled out slowly to Coinbase One Premium subscribers and high-net-worth clients, and it is separate from the exchange’s standard 24/7 live chat and…

Even though the price of Bitcoin has more than doubled their production costs, miners are not selling their holdings. That is what Ki Young Ju, the CEO of CryptoQuant, recently highlighted with the Marathon Digital (MARA) example. The company right now is mining Bitcoin at around $51,700 per coin, while BTC is trading above $105,000. Even though these margins are big, on-chain data shows miners are mostly holding, not selling. If you look closely at MARA’s operational costs, you will see what Ju means. In the first quarter of 2025, it cost the company an average of $51,726 to produce…

A closely followed crypto strategist believes that the current Bitcoin pullback is setting up BTC for a move to new record highs. Analyst Justin Bennett tells his 115,000 followers on the social media platform X that BTC’s retracement will likely drive traders to believe that the bull market is over. According to the analyst, he expects Bitcoin to correct below $100,000 before it ignites a fresh leg up en route to $120,000. “This is the part where everyone gets super bearish, expecting a 2021-style macro top. It’s also probably where overly aggressive shorts get rekt. 1. The run-up isn’t even…

Some small companies with very low market value are suddenly claiming they will buy large amounts of XRP and Solana during the current crypto bull run. While these announcements sound big, they are raising serious doubts. Most of these companies have no strong ties to the crypto industry and very limited financial backing. Just recently, Singapore-based Trident Digital Tech announced plans to raise $500 million to build a massive XRP treasury, despite having a market cap of just $16 million and shares trading under $0.40 on Nasdaq. VanEck: $XRP, $SOL treasury plans by micro caps likely scams@vaneck_us’ Head of Digital…

TRON’s daily transactions doubled from 4.3M to 8.4M over 16 months. Growth driven by stablecoin transfers, low fees, and high-speed throughput. Transaction activity held steady above 8M since Feb 2025 despite market fluctuations. TRON’s blockchain network has registered a rise in transactional activity over the past 16 months, with new data confirming a 95% increase in its daily transaction count. According to on-chain data from CryptoQuant, the 30-day moving average of daily transactions grew from approximately 4.3 million in early 2024 to 8.4 million by mid-May 2025. The sustained increase points to the scale of network usage and highlights a…

In the case of Terraform Labs and Terra (LUNA) co-founder Do Hyeong Kwon, the defense team has requested a two-week postponement of the pretrial filing deadline of July 1, 2025. According to the petition filed in the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York, the parties believe that extending the deadline will help “avoid unnecessary filing processes.” The prosecutor’s office agrees with the request. Lawyers stated that Kwon was ready, but that the extension would be beneficial due to the “productive discussions” between the parties. It was also reported that the requested postponement would not affect other court…

X account @Etherscan_SHIB has shared that major cryptocurrency exchange OKX plans to remove Shiba Inu ecosystem token BONE from its trading lists. OKX to delist BONE and several other tokens The post sends an encouragement to the SHIB community, saying that “OKX delisting is not the end” and reminds the SHIB army that BONE continues to trade on another large crypto exchange – Crypto.com where millions of users have gained an exposure to it. Besides, according to the post, there are “95,058 on-chain holders and still growing daily.” Don’t panic #BONE holders. OKX delisting is not the end.$BONE is still…