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Morph has launched a non-custodial payments platform that supports $USDC and $USDT, lets businesses connect their own wallets, and settles customer payments directly on-chain. Morph Payments leaves funds in users’ wallets According to an Aug. 12 press release from Morph shared with crypto.news, the service is available to online businesses, freelancers, and distributed organizations that want to accept, send, and monitor stablecoin payments. Morph Payments works by connecting a self-custodial wallet to the platform rather than requiring a business to transfer its funds into an account controlled by Morph. When a customer completes a payment, the stablecoins move directly to…

Bitcoin finished July on a strong note before losing momentum at the start of August with two straight daily closes below $63,000. The decline has raised fresh caution even as blockchain data points to steady buying around current price levels. That buying activity became clearer in recent on-chain data, which shows roughly 155,000 BTC moved into the $62,000 to $65,000 cost-basis range during the latest pullback. The zone now holds the largest concentration of supply across the market and represents about 0.7% of Bitcoin’s circulating supply. Accumulation Continues Despite Price Weakness According to the recent Bitfinex report, the supply cluster…

Coinbase founder Jesse Pollak responded to criticism that Coinbase sells Ethereum ($ETH), saying that the company’s contributions to the Ethereum ecosystem are being overlooked. Pollak stated in a social media post that Coinbase is by far one of the largest institutional $ETH holders, excluding digital asset treasury companies known as “DATs.” He also claimed that Coinbase has become one of Ethereum’s largest customers through the Base network, and that the company has made significant contributions to many developments in the EVM and Ethereum roadmap. Pollak stated that Coinbase introduced millions of users to the Ethereum ecosystem through Base, adding, “I…

Markus Infanger, an executive at Ripple, will speak at a major $XRP event. Infanger, who is RippleX’s senior vice president (SVP), is expected to participate in $XRP Seoul 2026, an event hosted by $XRP Ledger Korea scheduled for October 3 during KBW (Korea Blockchain Week). This event connects $XRP holders, builders, and ecosystem projects worldwide. The official $XRP Seoul 2026 X account announced that Infanger will be among the featured speakers at the event. This follows an earlier announcement in June that Ripple president Monica Long would be among the key speakers at the event. We’re honored to welcome @markusinfanger,…

The Clarity Act would take $XRP’s current digital commodity status, which today rests only on a joint interpretation from the SEC and the CFTC, and write it into permanent federal law. That single change would move $XRP’s oversight from the SEC to the CFTC, the same agency that regulates oil, gold, and wheat, and it would remove the risk that a future administration reverses the classification with a stroke of a pen. What Is the Clarity Act? The bill’s formal name is the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, also known as H.R. 3633. It passed the House of Representatives on…

Shiba Inu has continued to trade on a downward trajectory amid prolonged broader market volatility. However, its exchange activity over the last 24 hours has provided a different signal. With its price still struggling to reclaim its recent high around the $0.000005 mark, the latest data from crypto analytics platform CryptoQuant has provided investors with a glimpse of hope for a possible price recovery soon. 44 billion $SHIB in demand Per the data, the Shiba Inu exchange netflow has drawn attention amid the market downturn after projecting a negative balance of 44.1 billion $SHIB as of Thursday, August 13. While…

Strategy CEO Phong Le remains confident in the company’s long-term Bitcoin strategy, despite recent $BTC sales and heavy market losses. Speaking to CNBC, Le described the current market as another Bitcoin bear cycle. He said Strategy has been through similar conditions before. Therefore, he believes the company will come out stronger and outperform Bitcoin during the next bull run. CEO Calls Current Market Another Bitcoin Bear Cycle Le said Bitcoin’s recent weakness is largely driven by broader macroeconomic conditions rather than problems with the asset itself. Comparing the current environment to the 2022 downturn, he said Strategy has successfully navigated…

Ethereum’s largest whale wallets holding over 1000 $ETH trimmed off 1.7M coins in the last three months. According to Santiment, this whale cohort’s overall holdings dropped from 58.64M $ETH to 56.91M $ETH between May and August. This translated to a 2.9% fall. Notably, the mega whale holdings across exchanges and staking contracts also slipped from 7.07M $ETH to 6.54M $ETH. Source: Santiment Interestingly, the wallet category holding 1 to 10 $ETH surged to over 4.5% of the circulating supply over the same period. This suggested that retail was actively accumulating during the Q2 drawdown. Will staking and ETF demand push…

Does $XRP Need SWIFT? Analysts Say the Future Doesn’t Depend on It The debate over whether $XRP needs SWIFT has gained fresh momentum after SWIFT revealed that its blockchain-based shared ledger is ready for initial deployment just nine months after development began. More notably, this announcement marks a significant step in SWIFT’s digital asset strategy and has reignited questions over whether the global messaging giant and $XRP are future rivals, partners, or entirely separate solutions. Various market analysts insist the answer is clear that $XRP doesn’t need SWIFT to achieve global adoption. Market commentator X argued that Ripple has already…

Only 281 of 1,343 crypto service providers operating across the European Economic Area have secured MiCA authorization after the EU’s final transition period expired on July 1, leaving more than 1,000 firms without approval under the bloc’s licensing regime. According to blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs, 1,062 firms in its dataset had not obtained authorization under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation by the deadline and must now leave the market, restructure their operations or transfer customers to an authorized provider. The gap extends beyond licensing. TRM found that 12% of firms without authorization carry a High or Severe risk rating,…