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Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce giant, has taken a significant step to accelerate cryptocurrency adoption. By integrating $XRP as a payment method into its platform, the company provides direct access to 44 million users. According to the announcement, users can now make payments with $XRP through the Rakuten Pay app. This integration will enable $XRP use at over 5 million merchant locations across Japan. Users can also buy and sell this digital asset developed by Ripple through the app, purchase $XRP with Rakuten points, and store their assets in the Rakuten Wallet. Related News Why Did the Bitcoin Price Go Up?…

Top crypto executives are making a stronger call on Ethereum’s role in traditional finance. In their view, banks will prefer Ethereum when real money, real assets, and real settlement move on-chain. Real Vision’s Raoul Pal says Wall Street is already moving toward blockchain infrastructure. The remaining question is not whether banks adopt blockchain, but which network they trust most. His bet is on Ethereum, the largest DeFi network globally. Why Banks May Choose Ethereum Pal said large financial institutions care most about uptime, resilience, scale, and proven history. Banks do not usually bet core systems on untested technology. They prefer…

Treasury’s new compliance rules for stablecoin issuers carry the same obligations as a bank charter. Most issuers can’t afford that. Which is the point. On April 8, Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the Office of Foreign Assets Control published a joint proposed rule that most of the crypto industry either missed or misread. The rule implements the $GENIUS Act’s requirement that permitted payment stablecoin issuers — PPSIs, in the new regulatory shorthand — be treated as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act. Full AML/CFT programs. Suspicious activity reports filed with FinCEN. Customer due diligence at bank-grade standards. Technical…

Crypto exchange OKX said Wednesday it is launching a Europe-specific cryptocurrency derivatives platform called X-Perps. The company said the new derivatives product is available to retail and institutional traders across the European Economic Area (EEA). OKX said the platform is purpose-built in compliance with the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), a European Union regulatory framework governing financial instruments such as securities and derivatives. The launch comes just over a year after OKX secured a MiFID II license in March 2025, which allowed the exchange to expand its derivatives trading across the EU. Platform features multi-asset collateral and up to…

Lace Wallet, a lightweight, non-custodial, and multi-chain wallet built for storing, sending, and managing digital assets, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with Midnight, a privacy-first and fourth-generation blockchain designed for data protection in decentralized applications. The hidden purpose of this landmark collaboration is to strengthen privacy and public blockchain assets within a single wallet. Midnight is now accessible inside the Lace extension.So what’s changed, and why should you care?This post breaks down how @MidnightNtwrk fits alongside Cardano in one wallet experience, and why combining public and private assets is part of Lace’s longer-term direction.… pic.twitter.com/6R8eTP80iV — lace.io (@lace_io)…

The Ethereum mainnet reached its highest ever quarterly transaction volume in the first quarter of 2026, processing a total of 200.4 million transactions. This figure represents more than double the increase seen in 2023, when the figure was around 90 million, indicating that the network is experiencing a strong “U-shaped recovery”. However, the divergence between the network’s fundamental data and price performance is noteworthy. Ethereum’s price has fallen by more than 50% compared to its peak of around $5,000 in August 2025, and is currently trading around $2,330. According to experts, the main driving force behind the increase in transaction…

Crypto oversight is climbing the global policy agenda as regulators push faster enforcement across digital asset markets. The latest FATF declaration signals tighter scrutiny ahead, with cross-border compliance pressure set to rise for crypto firms and jurisdictions. Key Takeaways: FATF increased pressure on jurisdictions to enforce crypto standards faster. Stablecoins face sharper scrutiny as illicit finance risks grow. Jurisdictions could face tougher accountability if gaps persist. FATF Tightens Global Crypto Compliance Push Crypto oversight climbed the global policy agenda after Financial Action Task Force (FATF) ministers increased pressure on countries to close gaps in digital asset regulation. In a declaration…

Stables and Mansa have formed a strategic partnership to improve stablecoin settlement infrastructure across Asia. The deal creates a dedicated liquidity layer for Stables’ fiat-to-$USDT corridors, targeting faster and more reliable cross-border settlement. Stables and Mansa are trying to solve a problem that has become harder to ignore in Asia’s stablecoin market. Demand is already there. The pipes, by their own telling, still are not. The two companies announced a strategic partnership on April 15 aimed at improving stablecoin connectivity across the region, where Asia accounts for around 60% of global stablecoin flows but only about 1% of local banks…

Fintech company Ramp Network said Friday it launched a multichain self-custodial wallet designed to tackle a common friction point in crypto of needing to rely on outside providers for core actions such as buying, swapping and cashing out. The company said the wallet allows users to buy, sell, trade and cash out digital assets inside a single application, using Ramp’s own on-ramp, off-ramp and cross-chain infrastructure rather than handing users off to external services, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph. Ramp said the wallet launches with support for Ether (ETH) across eight networks: Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Linea, MegaETH, Optimism,…

Following the surge in the cryptocurrency market led by Bitcoin, one of the notable developments in the cryptocurrency market occurred on the Ethereum front. Analyst Ali Martinez stated that a significant breakout has occurred in Ethereum’s technical outlook and that the price could be moving towards a new target. According to Martinez’s assessment, the Ethereum price has crossed a critical threshold by surpassing the $2,385 level, which represents the horizontal resistance of the ascending triangle formation. A break above this level is interpreted as a significant structural shift from a technical analysis perspective. Related News After the Bull Run, Michael…