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Ripple veteran David Schwartz has debunked a social media rumor claiming that the company has secretly pre-allocated the vast majority of its $XRP escrow to hidden institutional players. Recently, an X user falsely alleged that the Ripple CTO Emeritus had confirmed the existence of these clandestine contracts. Shutting down the rumor The initial social media post implied that there was a hidden operation occurring behind the scenes at Ripple. Ripple’s Schwartz Denies Pre-Allocated $XRP Contracts Are Real Bitcoin (BTC) Lost $70,000: What’s Next? Is Chainlink (LINK) Hiding $10 Potential? $XRP Aims at $1.20 Once Again: Crypto Market Review The majority…

Bitcoin ($BTC) finally closed a month with positive price performance for the first time since September, but it only snapped its five-month losing streak by the slimmest of margins. $BTC opened the month at $67,000 and closed at $68,221. In other words, the entire “gain” amounted to about $1,200 per coin, or 1.8%. For context, $BTC often fluctuates by that amount within a few minutes on an average day. Energized by even the most pitiful shred of evidence that the crypto bear market might be ending, the $BTC community celebrated the momentum shift. The Fear and Greed Index hit an…

Crypto fundraising increased by almost 50% year-on-year between March 2025 and March 2026, despite the number of deals dropping 46% as VCs concentrated bets on late-stage and strategic mega-rounds. Messari’s crypto fundraising overview shared by the company’s CEO Eric Turner on Sunday shows that the average deal size increased to $34 million in the last 12 months, up 272% from a year earlier. This came as the number of active investors fell 34.5% to 3,225. “Capital concentration is heavily skewed by late-stage and strategic mega-rounds,” Messari said, noting that in February, just three fundraising events contributed 44% of the $795…

SEOUL, South Korea – In a remarkable display of cryptocurrency philanthropy, a 70-year-old South Korean investor has donated 100,000 $XRP tokens valued at approximately 210 million won ($152,000) to Seoul National University Hospital, marking another significant contribution in his ongoing support for medical institutions. This substantial $XRP donation represents the latest chapter in Kim Geo-seok’s philanthropic journey, which has seen him contribute both traditional currency and digital assets to healthcare development. Major $XRP Donation to Seoul National University Hospital Kim Geo-seok, an individual investor in his seventies, has made headlines with his latest cryptocurrency contribution to one of South Korea’s…

Bitcoin has not yet witnessed the profit structure reset that the market witnessed in previous bear markets, despite the persistent declines. Bitcoin ($BTC) has opened April with a modest rebound, rising 3% in the past 24 hours and moving back above the $68,000 mark. Despite this short-term strength, the broader trend still points downward, showing that the market remains under pressure. Amid the downtrend, data shows Bitcoin’s profit structure has not yet gone through the kind of reset seen in past bear markets. Notably, in earlier cycles, prices had to fall much more before the market could fully recover. Key…

Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins started the new week with a decline due to the rise in oil prices. However, they subsequently recovered and the market turned green again. However, amid ongoing US-Iran conflicts and continuing market weakness and uncertainty, Coinshares released its cryptocurrency report, stating that it experienced $619 million in inflows last week. “There was a $619 million inflow into cryptocurrency investment products. Strong demand at the start of the week was offset by outflows at the end of the week due to rising oil prices despite weak employment data.” Bitcoin Leads the Way! Looking at crypto funds individually,…

In a significant blockchain transaction reported on April 10, 2025, the Worldcoin development team executed a substantial transfer of 89.65 million $WLD tokens, valued at approximately $26.17 million, to a new cryptocurrency address. Subsequently, the team initiated deposits of 48,900 $WLD, worth $14,250, to the global exchange Binance, according to data from the on-chain analytics platform Onchain Lens. This Worldcoin $WLD transfer represents one of the largest single movements of the project’s native token since its mainnet launch, immediately drawing attention from market analysts, regulatory observers, and the cryptocurrency community worldwide. Worldcoin $WLD Transfer: Breaking Down the Transaction Data The…

Global payments provider Visa has added five more chains to its stablecoin settlement pilot program amid strong demand for on-chain rails. Among the new additions are Circle’s Arc, Coinbase-incubated Base, Canton, Polygon, and Stripe-backed Tempo. Collectively, Visa now supports nine blockchains. In Q1 2026, Visa reported that its stablecoin settlement hit a $7B run rate, marking a 50% increase on a quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) basis. For the payments provider, the growth underscored “increasing confidence” in on-chain rails. Rubail Birwadker, Global Head of Growth Products and Strategic Partnerships at Visa, noted that expanded multi-chain support is aimed at reflecting the users’ different…

Australian crypto exchange $BTC Markets has notified the country’s securities regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, of its intention to apply for a markets license to offer regulated tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). “Our plan is to obtain licensing infrastructure that enables particular types of tokenized assets to be offered and available to the public,” said $BTC Markets CEO Lucas Dobbins on Monday. The vision is a world where tokenized equities, bonds, and real-world assets will trade alongside cryptocurrencies, markets will operate continuously, and settlement will be instant, he added. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Dobbins said “the roughly $26 billion in…

Hedera has released Hedera Agent Lab, a browser-based development platform that lets developers build on-chain AI agents using no-code, low-code, or full custom code workflows, all accessible from the Hedera Developer Portal. Building AI agents on Hedera just easier. Hedera Agent Lab is now live on the Developer Portal – a fully integrated, browser-based environment to build, run, & chat with your Hedera agent in minutes.✅ No-code. Low-code. Full control. You pick. Full breakdown:… — Hedera (@hedera) March 26, 2026 The platform is built on the open-source Hedera Agent Kit and supports LangChain and Vercel AI SDK as framework options,…