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$XRP users are increasingly moving tokens away from major cryptocurrency exchanges. On-chain data shows that withdrawals are now exceeding deposits across Coinbase, Binance, and Bybit. According to CryptoQuant analyst Amr Taha, Coinbase recorded its strongest withdrawal-heavy seven-day period in about five months. Binance also returned to levels last seen in February. The shift points to a change in exchange-user behavior, although $XRP’s price has remained mostly stable. Coinbase Sees Strongest Withdrawal Trend Since February Taha said Coinbase’s seven-day net deposit/withdrawal transaction count fell to around -13,000 on July 15. This marked the exchange’s most negative reading since mid-February. The latest…

Every evening, a handful of numbers tells the market what institutions did with Bitcoin that day, and in June 2026 those numbers set a record no one wanted. Here is the machinery behind ETF inflows and outflows: who actually buys the coins, what cash versus in-kind settlement changes, and how to read flow data without being fooled by headlines. In June 2026, more than $4 billion left the United States spot Bitcoin ETFs in a single month, the worst stretch since the products launched, and the number led every market story for weeks. Most of the people trading on that…

Ethereum has rejected the 100-day EMA after failing to surge past the $1,950 level, with the bulls still in control of the market. $ETH’s rally over the last 24 hours comes after Ethereum treasury company BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) reported its quarterly earnings. The company generated $45.7 million in staking and validator revenue during the quarter ended May 31, highlighting the growing contribution of Ethereum staking to its business model. According to the company’s latest Form 10-Q filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), staking operations accounted for nearly 98% of total quarterly revenue, which reached $46.5 million.…

According to recent ecosystem data, the layer-1 blockchain is approaching full readiness for the V11 hard fork, which has been officially dubbed “van Rossem.” Major cryptocurrency exchanges, including industry giants Binance and Coinbase, have already signaled their operational readiness. The much-anticipated upgrade is essentially ready to go, but it still needs to receive the final sign-off from the Constitutional Committee (CC). The “van Rossem” hard fork? The upgrade has been named after the late Max van Rossem, and it is meant to honor his substantial contributions to building the Cardano community and developing its governance structure. Technically, V11 is categorized…

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) warned that criminals are increasingly exploiting stablecoins for illicit finance, with most identified onchain criminal activity now involving the dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies. In its latest report published Thursday, the global anti-money laundering watchdog said criminal networks have also begun developing proprietary stablecoins designed to resist freezing and asset seizures. The FATF urged jurisdictions to accelerate implementation of crypto AML standards as illicit actors exploit regulatory gaps. The findings come from the FATF’s latest annual review of countries’ implementation of its AML standards for cryptocurrencies. While 83% of surveyed jurisdictions have adopted the Travel Rule into…

A new study suggests traders may be manipulating Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin bets to swing wagers their way. Researchers at Stanford University and Singapore Management University said they examined roughly 16,000 of Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin contracts for two months, finding signs that traders may have been manipulating spot price on Binance. “In the final seconds before settlement, Binance spot order flow spikes, resulting in price movements that revert shortly after settlement,” the paper reads. “Clearly, this is a transitory push to manipulate the spot price, not trading on information.” Research faults Binance over Polymarket’s manipulation Polymarket uses a Chainlink oracle for…

Ethereum [$ETH] extended its recovery after buyers forced a decisive breakout above the $1,894.89 resistance zone. This breakout follows days of consolidation. Later on, the recovery accelerated toward $1,923.82, bringing the $1,940–$1,950 resistance zone into focus. Source: $ETH/USD on TradingView Notably, lower-than-expected U.S. inflation further strengthened the existing bullish momentum. This was by improving appetite for risk assets, reinforcing buyers already in control. The breakout also coincided with the largest green volume spike on the chart, confirming stronger participation behind the move. Thereafter, trading activity eased as bulls lost steam, with the price consolidating beneath resistance instead of reversing sharply.…

$XRP Ledger Emerges as Key Infrastructure Behind Brazil’s Expanding Stablecoin Ecosystem The $XRP Ledger (XRPL) is strengthening its role in global digital finance, with crypto researcher SMQKE highlighting its growing contribution to Brazil’s booming stablecoin market. More notably, the XRPL is already powering real-world issuance of Brazilian real (BRL)-backed stablecoins in one of the world’s fastest-growing digital asset ecosystems. Brazil now has more than 10 BRL-denominated stablecoins in circulation, spanning both public and institutional use cases. Projects such as BRZ, BRLA, and BRLM are driving faster digital payments, lower-cost cross-border transfers, and broader tokenized finance adoption. According to SMQKE, several…

Paymonade is one of the handful of crypto asset service providers to clear the MiCAR deadline on July 1. The continent’s crypto industry is now shifting based on the long-awaited regulatory changes. Damoon Technology (Europe) AG, trading as Paymonade, was granted a MiCA license by Liechtenstein’s Financial Market Authority (FMA). With this license, Paymonade becomes a part of the new core of European crypto firms, not ousted by the July 1 MiCAR deadline. Once cleared by Liechtenstein, Paymonade can provide regulated crypto-asset services to all 30 nations in the Euro Area. For now, the EU has decided on a unified…

One number tells you whether United States institutions are buying Bitcoin or backing away: the gap between the price on Coinbase and the price on the rest of the world’s exchanges. Here is how the Coinbase Premium Index works, why it moved markets in 2026, and how to read it without fooling yourself. Every market has a tell. In Bitcoin, one of the most watched is almost embarrassingly simple: the same coin trades on hundreds of venues at once, and the price is never exactly the same everywhere. Most of those gaps are noise. One of them is a signal,…