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The Bitwise $XRP ETF has seen a big jump in trading activity over the past three sessions as institutional investors pay more attention to $XRP price. Bitwise President Teddy Fusaro said more than $80 million worth of the ETF was traded in the latest session. The two sessions before that each had more than $60 million in trading volume. Accordingly, Fusaro said trading volume has “really popped” over the past three sessions. Notably, the Bitwise president disclosed that the latest session marked the highest-volume trading day since the ETF’s launch. Image by Teddy Fusaro Bitwise leads $XRP ETF inflows The…

A group of South Korean lawmakers has introduced a bill to amend an existing financial law and expand the Financial Intelligence Unit’s (FIU) authority to investigate unregistered crypto businesses. On Thursday, People Power Party lawmaker Eom Tae-young and nine other lawmakers filed the bill, which aims to add a new provision to the Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information. Under the proposal, anyone could report suspected violations of the law to the FIU. The agency could investigate and analyze alleged violations, file complaints with the relevant authorities, request criminal investigations or provide information to investigators. The bill…

Consumer complaints tied to cryptocurrency in Busan have surged more than 37-fold year-on-year, according to city government data analyzed by the Naeil Shinmun. The sharp increase highlights growing consumer harm as digital asset trading expands in South Korea’s second-largest city. Data shows dramatic rise in crypto-related counseling Busan city government data on consumer counseling cases received by the 1372 Consumer Counseling Center and the city’s Consumer Life Center in the first half of 2026 revealed 150 cryptocurrency-related consultations, up 3,650% from the same period a year earlier. The figure represents a 37-fold increase, reflecting a surge in disputes linked to…

Ethereum price traded near $2,478 on Aug. 25 after gaining roughly 30% over seven days, but an overbought daily reading and concentrated liquidity around $2,500–$2,550 could decide whether the rally extends toward $3,000 or enters a deeper pullback. Ethereum price holds most of its 30% weekly gain According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum ($ETH) price was trading at approximately $2,478 at the time of writing, having eased from an intraday high of $2,532. The asset remains roughly 29% above its Aug. 19 opening price of $1,916. The rally carried $ETH through $2,000, $2,200, and $2,400 in less than a week,…

Two public-comment PDFs on a US Securities and Exchange Commission docket describe a proposed Grand Theft Auto VI currency called Sharkbux and a possible implementation on Solana. The PDFs display Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games branding, but corporate authorization of the submissions remains unresolved. At most, the PDFs put an unauthenticated proposal into the public record. Any Rockstar crypto plan for GTA VI remains unproven. While it appears likely to be an attempt to pump an unaffiliated memecoin, there are limits to what can be inferred from a Solana wallet named in one of the files. The documents describe a…

But if we look past the name, Clarity isn’t really a bill about enabling crypto, the technology. It is a bill about enabling crypto middlemen. Crypto was supposed to remove middlemen Crypto’s origin story begins with the Bitcoin whitepaper, published amid the 2008 financial crisis. “Trusted third parties,” i.e., middlemen or intermediaries, may have once been necessary, but they are also points of failure. The combination of cryptography with the ubiquity of the internet could safely replace those points of failure with peer-to-peer transactions. That was the point. Securely enabling a peer-to-peer financial system through technology. Yet, reading the text…

Peter Schiff warns that Bitcoin hacking will become easier due to AI and quantum computing. Peter Schiff, a critic of Bitcoin, has renewed his long-standing criticism of the cryptocurrency industry by taking advantage of one of the biggest hardware wallet security incidents in recent years. Coldcard hack shakes up the market In the wake of the Coldcard wallet hack that depleted up to $89 million in Bitcoin from over 1,200 addresses, Schiff contended that as artificial intelligence and quantum computing develop further, the security risks that Bitcoin holders face will only rise. Schiff wrote, “This will only get worse as…

A notable Ethereum transaction occurred at a cryptocurrency address believed to belong to Tron founder Justin Sun, approximately a year after its last appearance. According to On-Chain data, the address 0x176…0a132, associated with Sun, applied to unlock 5,000 $ETH via Lido. The assets in question were reportedly worth approximately $12.3 million at the time of the transaction. The transaction was notable because it marked the first time Sun had unlocked this amount of stETH since July 18, 2025. According to on-chain data, the purpose of the transaction is still unknown. Lido operates as a liquid staking protocol that allows users…

The Nifty 50 has set a historic record by failing to surpass its previous day’s high for 12 consecutive trading sessions from August 4 to August 19, 2026. This is the longest streak of its kind in Nifty’s history, breaking the previous record of 9 consecutive sessions, most recently recorded in December 2014. Nifty’s Record 12-Session Failure to Break the Previous High The NSE Nifty 50 failed to surpass the previous day’s high for 12 consecutive trading sessions, from August 4 to August 19, 2026. The streak is the longest of its kind in the index’s history, surpassing the previous…

World Liberty Financial ($WLFI), the decentralized finance platform associated with the Trump family, has announced that its $USD1 stablecoin will be issued natively on the Canton Network. The move marks a significant step for $WLFI as it seeks to expand its footprint in the institutional digital asset space, leveraging Canton’s privacy-enabled blockchain designed for regulated financial applications. What This Means for $WLFI and the Stablecoin Market The native issuance on Canton Network distinguishes $USD1 from many other stablecoins that are typically deployed on public, permissionless blockchains like Ethereum or Solana. Canton is a permissioned blockchain network specifically engineered for institutional…