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Tron has recorded a rapid surge in its network activity over the last day as the blockchain sees growing participation from holders despite the weak market momentum. On Tuesday, June 23, blockchain monitoring platform Lookonchain provided data revealing that Tron has led the market with the highest daily blockchain activity. Tron outperforms Ethereum Per the data, the network recorded a massive 3.93 million active addresses within the last 24 hours, surpassing major networks like Ethereum, Solana, and others. The source provided charts revealing that TRON has led the rest of the blockchains with the highest active addresses, highlighting its growing…

Chris Larsen, the Ripple co-founder and apparent privacy champion who wired San Francisco with thousands of police cameras, has appeared on a leaked guest list for Dialog, surveillance mogul Peter Thiel’s invitation-only network. Investigative journalist Dave Troy published previously unreported names yesterday. He tagged Larsen as both a participant and a founding fellow of the organization, which has been described as “Bilderberg (an off-the-record gathering of political and business elite) meets Silicon Valley salon.” Dialog, meanwhile, positions itself as a hush-hush place where leaders from various fields and ideological backgrounds can come together and build relationships. As part of this,…

$XRP Ledger Nears One Million AI Agent Transactions as Real-World Utility Accelerates The $XRP Ledger (XRPL) is rapidly expanding beyond its roots as a payments network, emerging as critical infrastructure for the fast-growing AI economy. As autonomous AI agents begin conducting financial transactions on their own, XRPL is positioning itself at the center of machine-to-machine commerce. According to t54.ai, a company building trusted infrastructure for AI agents, nearly 1 million AI agent transactions have already settled through its XRPL x402 facilitator. The milestone signals that AI-powered blockchain payments are no longer experimental, they’re happening at scale. The momentum accelerated last…

Bitcoin ($BTC) struggled to reclaim $60,000 on Friday amid continued global market volatility. Key points: Bitcoin closes below $60,000 on daily time frames for the first time since September 2024. Asian stock markets see another day of major losses on tech-stock concerns. $BTC price analysis hopes for a reclaim of the 200-week trend line as the bull case. Bitcoin risks $60,000 resistance flip as tech selling persists Data from TradingView showed that prior support was increasingly becoming the bulls’ new hurdle after Bitcoin’s first sub-$60,000 daily close since September 2024. $BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Asia stock markets saw more…

The banking group, ICBA, is asking the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City to turn Kraken’s Fed account into an active renewal test before the initial one-year term expires. In a June 18 letter, the community-bank trade group urged the Kansas City Fed to immediately review whether Kraken Financial’s limited-purpose account remains consistent with the Fed’s account-access guidelines and to consider further restrictions, suspension, non-renewal, or termination if warranted. The request changes the tone around a limited-purpose Fed account that Kraken had framed in March as a direct-settlement milestone for crypto. The Kansas City Fed approved Wyoming-based Payward Financial, dba…

Kenyan lawmakers are questioning whether a 30% domestic reserve requirement would protect users or restrict participation by international issuers. According to local media reports, the dispute emerged during talks between the Committee on Delegated Legislation and virtual asset representatives reviewing Treasury regulations. MPs Question Whether Local Reserves Add Protection According to a post published on the official Kenyan Parliament Facebook page, Regulation 74 would require issuers to hold at least 30% of stablecoin funds in segregated accounts at commercial banks in Kenya. The remaining reserves would have to be invested locally in secure, low-risk, high-quality liquid assets. Reserves backing fiat-referenced…

Choppy Trading Snaps a Two-Day Slide Bitcoin oscillated between $58,500 and $60,500 on Friday, snapping a steep 48-hour decline that had shaved nearly $4,500 off its value. According to market data, the digital asset stabilized above $59,000 Thursday afternoon and briefly reclaimed $60,000 before a sudden sell-off triggered an intraday low of $58,326. Within two hours, bitcoin crossed $60,000 again, only to retreat just below the threshold. Following a brief period of consolidation, a sudden rally pushed the asset to an intraday high of nearly $60,600, though the gains vanished by 9:20 a.m. A similar pattern played out shortly after,…

In recent hours, a bearish bet has emerged for the seventh largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Solana ($SOL), even as the broader crypto market declines. According to Lookonchain, a crypto whale has turned extremely bearish on Solana. In recent hours, the whale called “0x9137” opened a 20x short on 554,680 $SOL worth $38.15 million. A whale is extremely bearish on $SOL.One hour ago, whale 0x9137 opened a 20x short on 554,680 $SOL($38.15M).https://t.co/ruG1FjxaXl pic.twitter.com/WjS6o96vEW — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) June 23, 2026 “A whale is extremely bearish on $SOL. One hour ago, whale 0x9137 opened a 20x short on 554,680 $SOL ($38.15M),” Lookonchain…

The South Korean government is moving forward with a plan to grant Dunamu, the operator of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, access to administrative data including resident registration records and tax payment certificates. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety is expected to designate Dunamu as an institution authorized for joint use of administrative information within this month, according to a report from BloomingBit. Regulatory Milestone for Crypto Exchanges If approved, Dunamu would become the first cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea to receive such access to public data. Industry observers view this development as a significant step toward the…

Last month, Tando, the Kenya-based Bitcoin payments company, announced it had created a service that allows 40 million Kenyans to send and receive Bitcoin using the existing M-Pesa infrastructure. To pull this off, they strung together numerous pieces of technology, including in-house solutions, to make bitcoin’s Lightning Network act as a translation layer for millions. Tando Launched in 2024, Tando, the Kenyan payments company founded by Jason and Sabina Waithira Gitau, began as an attempt to solve a very specific problem: how do Kenyans spend Bitcoin like they do Kenyan Shillings (KES)? They quickly realized the best way to do…