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Chainlink community lead Zach Rynes argued that $XRP still lacks tangible adoption within the global financial system, reigniting the long-running debate over the token’s real-world utility. A former SWIFT executive publicly rejected rumors that the financial messaging network plans to integrate $XRP, undermining claims that have circulated across social media for years. Ripple continues expanding partnerships and payment-related initiatives, but the discussion over whether those developments translate into meaningful demand for $XRP remains unresolved. The debate over $XRP’s real-world utility has returned to the spotlight after Chainlink community lead Zach Rynes argued that the token still lacks meaningful adoption across…

Minority Staff Fault the Bill on Five Counts The Minority Staff of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, led by ranking member U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), reviewed the July 22 text of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. The result was an Aug. 5 analysis identifying five major loopholes in the CLARITY Act. The CLARITY Act, H.R. 3633, is digital asset market structure legislation that draws jurisdictional lines between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Staff set out five things they believe a crypto framework must do at minimum: protect pensions…

UK Professional Investor Access Eligible UK professional investors will gain futures, perpetuals, and crypto options access, Keith Grose, UK head of crypto exchange Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN), wrote in a company blog post on Aug. 11. The rollout broadens the exchange’s UK product range and connects digital assets with traditional financial markets through one platform. Grose wrote: “Eligible investors can trade over 170 contracts across crypto, commodities, equities, and FX 24/7 with up to 50x leverage.” The expansion follows Coinbase’s July UK investment services authorization, which authorizes regulated financial instruments alongside the company’s separately regulated crypto products. That regulatory status underpins…

New data shows individual investors still hold the majority of Bitcoin supply, outpacing institutions, corporations, funds, and government wallets. The past few years have been filled with talk about how institutions have swallowed up the Bitcoin supply. Yet data shows that an overwhelming amount is still held by individuals. Surprisingly, new data has shown that individuals still retain the most Bitcoin by market share. They hold significantly more than businesses, funds, and ETFS, and even Satoshi-era wallets. Over the past few years, there has been much speculation about the buy-and-hold tactics of corporations and institutions. Yet it may be individuals…

Maple Finance [$SYRUP] has climbed over the past day, and much of that move traces back to the protocol’s strengthening fundamentals. The altcoin rallied 14% as fresh partnerships and capital rotation flowed into the ecosystem, and that underlying performance could sustain the rally across the next several trading sessions. Capital inflows power $SYRUP’s fundamentals Capital moving into Maple Finance has driven much of the token’s recent performance. Assets under management reached $4.6 billion in the first half of 2026, up 81% year-on-year, while loans outstanding hit an all-time high of $1.9 billion, a 123% jump over the same period. The…

A South Korean lawmaker has proposed postponing the country’s virtual asset income tax for another three years, pushing the effective date to January 1, 2030. Representative Jung Sung-kook of the ruling People Power Party plans to introduce a partial amendment to the Income Tax Act, according to a report from MBN. Why the tax is being delayed again The proposed delay would move the start of taxation on virtual asset income from January 1, 2027, to January 1, 2030. Jung’s office indicated that the additional time is needed to complete a broader review of virtual asset taxation and related systems.…

Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced its support for the planned network upgrade and hard fork on the Ontology ($ONT) network. According to the exchange’s statement, deposit and withdrawal operations on the $ONT network will be temporarily suspended to ensure users can continue their transactions securely. Binance announced that it will suspend token deposits and withdrawals on the Ontology network as of 02:00 AM on August 22, 2026. The network upgrade and hard fork are expected to take place around 03:00 AM on August 22, 2026, at block height 20,800,000. The company stated that the upgrade…

Bitcoin has traded between $60,000 and $67,000 for several weeks, making $63,000 one of the most heavily supplied price areas. The only larger concentration sits between $78,000 and $82,000, where bitcoin topped out in May. Glassnode’s Entity-Adjusted UTXO Realized Price Distribution (URPD) shows how much bitcoin supply last moved within each price band, with each entity’s balance assigned to its average acquisition price. More than 3% of the supply, approximately 515,000 $BTC, is concentrated around $63,000, while more than 2%, or roughly 362,000 $BTC, sits around $61,000. Bitcoin is also trading almost exactly in line with its 200-week moving average,…

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the entire cryptocurrency market are experiencing a major surge. $BTC has climbed above $79,000, while $ETH has surpassed $2,400. As the bullish sentiment in the market continues, Arthur Hayes, the former CEO of BitMEX and a closely watched figure, has made new statements about $BTC and $ETH. Speaking to crypto journalist Laura Shin, Hayes revealed that his largest portfolio position outside of Bitcoin is in Ethereum. Hayes noted that although $ETH ranks second by market capitalization, it has yet to surpass its 2021 peak, adding that Ethereum has a lower risk of falling to zero compared to…

Chainlink’s Arbitrum Orbit Integration Targets The Security Gap In Layer-3 Messaging is the kind of crypto story that looks simple at headline level but becomes more useful once you place it inside the wider market backdrop. As app-specific chains become easier to launch, the risk shifts toward how safely they communicate with everything else. The reason it deserves attention today is not that one announcement or filing magically changes the whole market. It is that the update adds another data point to a sector still trying to work out where capital, users, and regulation are actually moving. TL;DR Chainlink expanded…