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With $763.5 million in cryptocurrency funding spread across six projects, the first full week of 2026 got off to a great start thanks to Rain’s $250 million Series C round. Summary Rain led the week with a $250M Series C, valuing the stablecoin firm at $1.95B. BlackOpal and Tres Finance together added $330M via funding and M&A activity. Bitcoin infrastructure projects like Babylon and ZenChain also secured new capital. According to Cryptofundraising data, the following summarizes this week’s cryptocurrency funding activity: Rain Raised $250 million in a Series C round Fully diluted valuation of $1.95 billion Rain is a blockchain-based…

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said he now sees a 90% chance that the long-debated Clarity Act will pass by the end of April, signaling growing confidence inside the crypto industry that U.S. lawmakers may finally deliver long-sought regulatory certainty. Speaking on Fox Business, Garlinghouse said momentum has accelerated following renewed engagement from lawmakers and the White House. He described recent meetings in Washington that included leaders from both crypto and traditional banking, suggesting political appetite to move legislation forward has strengthened after months of delays. The Clarity Act is designed to define which digital assets fall under securities laws and…

Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has released its 39th Proof of Reserves (PoR) report, based on a snapshot from February 1st. The report highlighted the monthly changes in user assets. According to the data, users’ total Bitcoin ($BTC) holdings on the platform have reached approximately 639,000 $BTC. This figure represents a 0.41% increase compared to the previous snapshot on January 1st. A net increase of approximately 2,614 $BTC was recorded in $BTC balances. Ethereum ($ETH) also saw a decline. Users’ total $ETH holdings were reported at approximately 4.18 million $ETH, a 3.74% decrease compared to the previous…

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty decreased by 11.16% to approximately 125.86 trillion at the most recent retarget boundary around block 935,424. That marks the largest negative adjustment since the 2021 China mining ban, the sixth consecutive downward retarget, and the tenth largest negative adjustment in Bitcoin’s history. However, difficulty adjustments are lagging indicators, as they reflect what occurred over the previous 2,016 blocks rather than what’s happening now. The real question is whether the machines that went dark are coming back, or whether this retarget marks the start of a deeper miner shakeout. The most useful forward signal is the next adjustment.…

The combination of blockchain and artificial intelligence is widely regarded as the next major evolution in digital commerce. However, the inability of automated agents to conduct transactions autonomously has so far made large-scale adoption difficult to achieve. To address this problem, Xyber has formed a significant alliance with Base, the Ethereum Layer-2 Network launched by Coinbase for Base to be the key location of AI agents. The partnership aims to provide the infrastructure (money) to support AI agents through the use of Xyber’s specialized marketplace. Building the Financial Infrastructure for Autonomous Agents As artificial intelligence agents are changing from straightforward…

FXRP supply tops 100M, ~70% deployed in XRPFi DeFi via staking, lending, vaults. Summary Nearly 100M $XRP bridged as FXRP, with ~70% actively deployed in DeFi. Firelight holds about 21% of FXRP staked, while Upshift vaults scaled from ~$6M to ~$25M capacity. Lending via Kinetic and Morpho saw roughly $39M and $8M in early borrowing, deepening onchain liquidity. Flare’s bid to become the execution layer for “XRPFi” just cleared a hard milestone: nearly 100 million $XRP has now been bridged to the network as FXRP, with close to 70% of that capital actively deployed in DeFi rather than sitting idle.…

Ethereum’s new roadmap lands in a market that is less interested in vision and more interested in evidence. That is the core tension behind the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Priorities Update for 2026, which breaks the network’s next phase into three tracks, including Scale, Improve UX, and Harden the L1. The roadmap is technical, but the market question is not. Investors want to know whether these priorities can help $ETH recover in this bear market, and whether they can do so by changing risk and economics rather than just developer sentiment. That is why the Foundation’s framing matters. It is not…

$XRP holders recently transferred over 31 million tokens into the Binance exchange, leading to uncertainties about how the price could react. The price has dropped 51% since October 2025, though price swings have started to calm down in recent weeks. Even so, buyers have not stepped in with enough strength to spark a clear rebound, and $XRP continues to move sideways around $1.39. Now, a sudden transfer of more than 31 million $XRP to Binance in a single day has raised fresh questions about where the price could head next. Key Points Amid the ongoing bearish consolidation, $XRP recently saw…

Table of Contents When Did Luxxfolio Launch Its Litecoin Mining Operations?What Hardware and Infrastructure Power Luxxfolio’s Mining?How Does Mining Support Luxxfolio’s Litecoin Treasury Strategy?Why Is Luxxfolio Focused on Scrypt and Litecoin?What Are Luxxfolio’s Expansion Plans?What Risks Affect Luxxfolio’s Litecoin Mining Operations?How Does Luxxfolio Fit Within the Litecoin Ecosystem?Conclusion: What Defines Luxxfolio’s Litecoin Mining Strategy?Sources:Frequently Asked Questions Luxxfolio Holdings Inc. is a Vancouver-based digital infrastructure company focused on Litecoin ($LTC) as its primary reserve asset. The company states it is the first publicly traded entity to adopt Litecoin as its main treasury asset while operating an active mining infrastructure. This report…

The DeFi landscape is currently in the process of transitioning from fragmented liquidity to a single, unified, omnichain future. To facilitate cross-chain interaction, Oku (an advanced trading platform built on the Uniswap v3 network) has just announced its integration with Circle’s Cross Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP). Customers will now be able to transfer their native $USDC from 14 different blockchains with no slippage at all; thereby removing one of the biggest challenges confronting crypto: using potentially unreliable, wrapped assets. Bridging the Gap with Native Liquidity Historically, the conventional method of transferring assets between chains has involved the ‘lock-and-mint’ approach. Users…