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Crypto is storming into traditional finance as Coinbase’s CEO predicts 401(k) adoption, institutional momentum surges, and digital assets reshape retirement investing and market benchmarks. Crypto Crashes the 401(k) Party With Unstoppable Institutional Force Institutional momentum and the integration of cryptocurrencies into traditional financial frameworks are steadily transforming how digital assets are evaluated by both regulators and market participants. Illustrating this broader shift, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong offered two insights Tuesday via the social media platform X. The Coinbase executive first suggested that digital assets are approaching a tipping point in retirement investing, specifically in 401(k) plans. These employer-sponsored retirement accounts…

⚈ XRP whales bought around 900 million tokens in April, signaling possible bullish sentiment.⚈ The SEC delayed its XRP ETF decision, and short positions recently surged.⚈ Despite bullish buys, whale activity slowed, and a $68.7M transfer hints at selling. XRP whales seems to have retained a bullish outlook, despite some of the token’s recent challenges It appears that large accounts — those holding more than 10,000,000 tokens, have purchased approximately 900 million XRP over the past month, noted cryptocurrency technical analyst Ali Martinez, who shared his findings in a May 2 X post. XRP whales are not unanimous regarding the…

The legal entanglement between Ripple and the U.S. SEC took a new turn after Judge Analisa Torres denied a joint motion to modify the final judgment. This has raised serious questions about the future of their settlement. Meanwhile, Australian lawyer Bill Morgan has outlined six critical legal issues facing both parties. Judge Torres Rejects Motion Notably, on May 8, Ripple and the SEC jointly filed a motion seeking to amend key terms of a previously agreed-upon settlement. This included lifting a permanent injunction on Ripple’s institutional XRP sales and reducing a $125 million civil penalty to $50 million. However, Judge…

After Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade hit the mainnet on May 7, Base Network is sprinting, leveraging the fork to scale. In an interview with BeInCrypto, Jesse Pollak, Head of Base and Coinbase Wallet, explains how they are doubling on transaction throughput and pioneering smart wallet evolution. Base Eyes Doubling of Throughput With More Blobs Per Block The long-awaited Ethereum Pectra upgrade hit mainnet on May 7, unlocking powerful new features like EIP-7702 and increasing blob capacity to support rollup scalability. For Jesse Pollak, Creator of Base and Head of Protocols at Coinbase, beyond marking a new chapter for Ethereum, the upgrade…

Bitcoin ETFs saw $5.13 billion in inflows since mid-April, with BlackRock leading the charge. Along with it, Bitcoin whales have added over 81,000 BTC in the last six weeks, accumulating quietly. All eyes are on the upcoming FOMC meeting, with a 98% chance of unchanged rates. While everyone’s eyes are on the upcoming Fed decision on May 7, something much bigger might be happening quietly in the background. Since mid-April, billions of dollars have been flowing into Bitcoin ETFs — but that’s not all. Bitcoin whales have also been buying huge amounts of BTC, even though the market hasn’t made…

Equilibria, a leading open-source platform to generate decentralized and private oracle solutions, has announced its latest partnership with Superform Labs, a permissionless marketplace providing cross-chain yields to DeFi protocols. The collaboration focuses on launching $SuperETH, an exclusive product to assist consumers in earning massive yields on Ethereum ($ETH) holdings. The platform took to its official social media account on X to reveal this development. SuperETH is now live on Equilibria — ready to maximize your yield with double-digit boosted APY and 50x @superformxyz Points on top!🔥SuperETH optimizes ETH returns across top lending protocols like Morpho and Euler, giving you extra…

UBS says its wealthy clients are pulling money out of U.S.-dollar assets and shifting their investments to gold- crypto, and Chinese markets over trade tensions and a volatile global economy. Investors felt safe keeping most of their wealth in U.S.-based assets for years because of the country’s strong economy, stable currency, and deep financial markets. Still, recent trade disputes, new tariffs, and concerns about the long-term strength of the dollar are crushing their confidence. UBS clients reduce U.S.-dollar exposure as volatility rises The co-head of wealth management for Asia at USB, Amy Lo, said that the company’s wealthy clients are…

⚈ Ripple re-locked 700 million XRP on May 1, easing sell-off concerns.⚈ No new XRP is entering circulation for May, helping stabilize the price.⚈ XRP lags behind Bitcoin, rising only 4.25% in the past 30 days. Ripple Labs’ completed its scheduled monthly rebalancing on May 1, moving 1 billion XRP and relocking a significant portion of the tokens back into escrow. The digital assets company, per its usual pattern, was scheduled to unleash 1 billion tokens worth approximately $2.2 billion from two wallets, Ripple (26) and Ripple (27). In a reassuring sign for investors, no new XRP will be released…

Vladimir Smerkis, co-founder of the crypto game Blum and former head of Binance’s CIS division, has been arrested in Moscow on suspicion of fraud. The Zamoskvoretsky District Court ordered his detention this week. Authorities have not disclosed the specifics of the alleged criminal activity. Blum Distances Itself From Vladimir Smerkis Blum rose to prominence as part of the “tap-to-earn” wave—games where users repeatedly tap their screens to earn digital tokens. In Blum’s case, players tapped falling snowflakes to collect in-game currency, which the project claimed could be exchanged for real-world money. The arrest comes as scrutiny intensifies over tap-to-earn platforms.…

TORONTO — David Goyer, the filmmaker whose credits include the Blade trilogy, The Dark Knight, and Apple TV’s Foundation series, said Friday he is building a new blockchain-based science-fiction universe called Emergence. The world of Emergence, according to Goyer, features spaceships, relic-hunting and white holes — science-fiction staples that will serve as the foundation for a sprawling transmedia project built inside Incention, Goyer’s new blockchain platform. In a panel discussion at CoinDesk’s Consensus conference in Toronto, Goyer appeared alongside SY Lee of Story Protocol, the intellectual property-focused blockchain upon which Incention and Emergence are based. There, Goyer laid out his…