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Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook said that inflation expectations are currently stable, but this depends on maintaining appropriate monetary policy. Cook stated that the Fed should not become complacent and that a cautious approach to inflation must continue. Cook stated that since last summer, the balance of risks has shifted significantly towards higher inflation, while the downside risks to the labor market have decreased. According to Cook, the US labor market generally maintains a stable appearance. Cook stated that it would be reasonable to expect inflation to slow down for some time, but added that the Fed is ready…

The xrpld 3.3.0 technology version integrates a consolidated package of five protocol amendments scheduled for official distribution next week. The delivery-versus-payment (DvP) settlement feature allows grouping and executing up to eight transactions atomically under an all-or-nothing principle. The fee sponsorship mechanism enables financial institutions to absorb network costs and account reserves for their end users. RippleX’s Product Lead, Jazzi Cooper, announced the launch of a new technology update package centered on the executable xrpld 3.3.0. This proposal includes five $XRP amendments designed to accelerate global network adoption in cross-border payment operations, collateral management, asset trading, and instant settlement. XRPL has…

Garlinghouse Calls CLARITY Act the Final $XRP Regulatory Barrier as Institutional Adoption Looms Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse believes the CLARITY Act could be the last major regulatory hurdle preventing $XRP from achieving broader institutional adoption. Responding to a post on X, formerly Twitter, by Ripple Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty, Garlinghouse backed the push for the legislation, stating: “My thoughts exactly… Perfect can’t be the enemy of good. Let’s get this done.” Alderoty described the CLARITY Act as a consumer protection framework rather than just a crypto industry bill. He argued that the legislation would strengthen anti-money laundering (AML) and…

Hong Kong digital asset services business HashKey Holdings has merged its HashKey Exchange and HashKey Global exchanges into a single platform and application. Core jurisdictional hubs including Hong Kong, Singapore, the Middle East (Dubai) and Bermuda have been merged under a single platform, according to a Monday announcement. The move represents a departure from the early stages of the virtual asset industry when licensed exchanges typically operated under regional siloed models to simplify compliance. HashKey said. The transition follows a principle of “unified entry, localized compliance” where all users download the same application while the platform manages compliance across their…

Uniswap’s $UNI token climbed 22% in 24 hours to $3.28 on $621 million in trading volume Tuesday, one day after Standard Chartered published a $100 long-term price target for the asset. The move hit the 100th percentile of CoinGecko’s recent price-change distribution for $UNI, meaning no comparable 24-hour window in the tracked dataset registered a larger gain. The volume-to-market-cap ratio came in at 0.30 against a $2.04 billion market cap, a level that distinguishes the session from thin-book price manipulation. $UNI has gained 31% over the trailing seven days and is trading roughly 93% below its 2021 all-time high of…

Introduction Most DeFi users believe they interact directly with an automated market maker when they swap tokens on Uniswap or SushiSwap. In 2022, this was broadly true. A user signed a transaction, that transaction entered the public mempool, a validator included it in a block, and the AMM’s constant-product formula determined the price. This model has a problem. Public mempools are hunting grounds. MEV bots monitor pending transactions and execute sandwich attacks: they buy before your trade pushes the price up, then sell after, extracting value from the spread. Flashbots estimated that MEV extraction on Ethereum exceeded $600 million in…

Following Michael Saylor’s advertisements likening STRC to a high-yield bank account or money market, Strive swapped $50 million of the cash it had in March for STRC, and soon added another $500,000. As of a new filing, the asset manager quietly disclosed that its shares were worth just $44.18 million as of July 10, a paper loss of roughly $6.3 million excluding dividends. Although it published a glowing press release about its purchase, the admission of loss sat otherwise unannounced in an SEC filing, tucked between cash and $BTC balances. Unlike the purchase, no press campaign trumpeted the loss. The…

A community of validators and holders kept the Terra Classic blockchain running after its 2022 collapse by voting in an on-chain burn tax that automatically destroys a slice of $LUNC on every transaction. That single governance decision, combined with voluntary exchange burns led by Binance, has removed hundreds of billions of tokens from circulation and kept the chain active more than four years after most observers wrote it off. Terra Classic ($LUNC) is what remains of the original Terra blockchain after the TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin lost its dollar peg in May 2022. That collapse wiped out tens of billions of…

Singapore is increasing oversight of banks with cryptocurrency exposure as regulators prepare for stricter global banking standards. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has instructed locally incorporated banks to disclose their crypto holdings and engage with the regulator on risk treatment before new prudential rules take effect. Although MAS postponed the Basel-aligned framework until January 1, 2027, or later, the regulator wants institutions to strengthen reporting systems and improve risk management without waiting for the final rules. BREAKING: SINGAPORE REGULATOR REQUESTS BANKS TO REPORT THEIR CRYPTOS. 👀 Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said banks must:🔸 Inventory all cryptos; deadline to…

Coinbase said its new “Launches” tab is now available, letting users find and trade tokens on Base and Solana as soon as they go live onchain, according to a post from the exchange’s official X account published Monday. The tab sits inside Coinbase’s built-in decentralized exchange (DEX), which routes trades to onchain liquidity rather than requiring a token to be formally listed on the centralized exchange. Coinbase’s DEX product page says users can trade “the most popular and trending tokens on Base and Solana moments after their launch,” with access to “key data and risk signals on all tokens.” Coinbase…