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Ionic Digital has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a direct listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker IOND, a move that would allow existing shareholders to trade their holdings without the company issuing new shares. The filing comes days after Ionic completed a $400 million private financing, as it continues to reposition its business around AI infrastructure and digital data centers. The proposed listing differs from a traditional initial public offering because it is not intended to raise additional capital. Instead, registered shareholders may sell up to 10.8 million common shares once the…

The $XRP Ledger has recorded more than 6,000 newly activated addresses in a single day for the first time in over three months, as network activity returns. This development comes even as broad market selling pressure continues to weigh on $XRP’s price, pushing it to new yearly lows. After climbing back to $1.29 in mid-June, $XRP followed the wider market downturn, eventually falling to a new yearly low of $1.00795 by June 26. $XRP Sees 3-Month Peak in New Daily Addresses Interestingly, while the price continues to struggle near the lower end of the key $1 psychological level, currently trading…

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a long-standing critic of the cryptocurrency industry, has called for new legislation to prevent President Donald Trump from personally profiting from his crypto-related business activities. Her demand follows the release of Trump’s annual financial disclosure for 2025, filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, which reported that the president earned approximately $1.4 billion from his cryptocurrency ventures last year. Warren’s Legislative Push Warren, who has consistently advocated for stricter oversight of digital assets, argued that the scale of Trump’s crypto earnings creates an unprecedented conflict of interest. In a statement, she said that no…

How a buy-then-build turned into a contested market NPR reported Monday that Zuckerberg met Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour last year to discuss buying the exchange as its user numbers climbed, citing three people who were not authorized to speak publicly. The talks never advanced to a formal offer. Accounts of the collapse diverge: some sources said Mansour was unwilling to sell, while others said Meta judged the legal and regulatory questions around Kalshi too messy to take on. Rather than walk away from the sector, Zuckerberg directed staff to build a standalone app, internally named Arena. The design…

Bitcoin’s battle around the $60K region is entering a decisive phase after sellers are forcing a breakdown below this major support area. With momentum still favoring the sellers, traders are now watching whether demand can prevent a deeper correction toward the mid-$50K region. Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, $BTC has extended its bearish trend after losing several major support zones. The recent rejection by the 200-day moving average around $80K and the breakdown of the 100-day moving average near $ 74 K have reinforced the longer-term downtrend, with both moving averages now sloping lower and…

Eight-year-old Ether ($ETH) wallets have started moving coins for the first time since 2017, adding fresh supply to the market as Ether trades just above $1,500. Onchain data shows 37,806 $ETH from long-dormant addresses became active, while separate whale transactions point to continued accumulation by other large investors. The mixed positioning comes as total long-term $ETH whale profitability has fallen below zero for the first time since 2019, leaving every major whale cohort sitting on unrealized losses. $ETH whale traders are split between accumulation and distribution According to Lookonchain, four Ethereum wallets that received 37,602 $ETH nearly eight years ago…

Peersyst, a blockchain development startup, has announced an upcoming upgrade to the $XRP Ledger EVM sidechain. The XRPL EVM is a sidechain for the $XRP Ledger that adds Ethereum-compatible smart contracts. In a recent X post, Peersyst released information about the upcoming XRPL EVM v11, stating that this next upgrade would focus on strengthening the network with increased economic security, safer cross-chain connectivity, enhanced validator management, and additional stack hardening. Peersyst teased a proposal for Testnet as soon as this week, with Mainnet to follow. 📣 XRPL EVM v11 is coming!Our next upgrade is focused on strengthening the network with…

The consortium model for stablecoins rarely works. That was the blunt assessment from Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, who tore into the structure behind OUSD and similar multi-party stablecoin efforts. In a statement originally highlighted by WuBlockchain, Allaire didn’t mince words. “Large groups of large companies coordinate poorly, have misaligned incentives, slow things down and rarely create the space for real durable innovation,” he said. Allaire’s comments land at a sensitive moment for the stablecoin market. The U.S. Senate is set to vote on a landmark crypto bill that could reshape how dollar-pegged tokens are issued and backed, a legislative push…

Türkiye’s largest digital asset platform Paribu has integrated Polymarket into its app, making it the first platform in the country to offer users access to prediction markets. The feature went live on 01 July through the DeFi section of the Paribu app, allowing users to trade outcome-based contracts directly from their existing balance without needing a separate wallet or new account. What Prediction Markets Are Prediction markets let participants take a position on whether a specific future event will occur. Each contract is priced as a probability — if a contract trades at 0.70, the market is collectively assigning a…

Just as $BTC is struggling to regain the $60,000 level, another hard fork is looming. The BIP-110 proposal, aiming to remove ordinals and $NFT, attempts to gain support from miners, or create a chain split in August. $BTC is facing another community split, escalating the simmering conflict between Bitcoin maximalists and the users of $NFT and ordinals. On-chain data, with additional text or images, has been a contentious issue on the general mission of the Bitcoin network. The BIP-110 supporters are strictly in favor of $BTC as a payment network, and consider all other types of data as spam. BIP-110…