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Ripple wants to make XRP blockchain development more decentralised with new funding routes
4+ hour, 20+ min ago (551+ words) Crypto payments firm Ripple wants to transition funding for the development of the XRP Ledger blockchain to a more distributed model, where independent organisations, venture partners, and community-led initiatives play a larger role in supporting builders. The $40 billion company, which…...
Why transaction volume on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is surging
5+ hour, 28+ min ago (631+ words) Transactions on Bitcoin's Lightning Network are surging " but who's really using it? The Lightning Network has been promoted by Bitcoin maxis like Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who last year integrated the layer 2 into his payments platform, Cash App. Bitcoiners argue…...
US Senator opens probe into Binance over $1.7bn in alleged ties to terrorist groups
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (537+ words) More than a dozen US senators have some serious questions about the crypto industry's largest exchange. Binance, which recorded more than $9.9 billion in volume today, is at the centre of a new investigation by the Committee on Homeland Security and…...
Crypto.com joins the club with bank charter approval. Here are the other firms it joins
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (760+ words) Crypto.com this week became the latest crypto company to receive conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust banking charter. The approval comes after the US" largest banking lobby this month urged…...
Strategy stands alone as it comprises 99% of all Bitcoin treasury buying these days
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (347+ words) Strategy remains the final bastion of the once-booming Bitcoin treasury trade. Just last week, the company led by Bitcoin permabull Michael Saylor, picked up another $39 million in Bitcoin, taking its staggering stack to a new record of 717,722 coins worth about…...
Genius Trading CEO on fixing DeFi’s transparency bug and winning the terminal wars
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (1757+ words) Armaan Kalsi is the co-founder and CEO of Genius Trading, a privacy-first, high-speed onchain trading terminal for professional crypto traders. He is also a co-founder of Shuttle Labs, a New York-based software studio building non-custodial, cross-chain infrastructure. A Yale-educated builder,…...
Japanese securities giant to issue $65 million worth of XRP-paying blockchain bonds
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (428+ words) Ripple's closest Asian partner and long-term XRP bull SBI Holdings has announced a plan to issue around $65 million worth of onchain bonds. The bonds will pay their owners a fixed interest rate of between 1.85% and 2.45%, to be paid half-yearly. And…...
Sweet CEO on transforming sports NFTs from static collectables to programmable IP
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1630+ words) Tom Mizzone is the Founder and CEO of Sweet, the labs company behind the SCOR ecosystem. A veteran in building and scaling enterprise technology and a pioneer in bringing blockchain to major consumer brands, Tom has led Sweet to become…...
Police lose $2m in Bitcoin: Experts call on law enforcers to overhaul security
1+ week, 4+ day ago (367+ words) Security experts have called on South Korean law enforcement agencies to overhaul their crypto management routines after police say they "lost" just under $2 million worth of Bitcoin confiscated during a criminal investigation. Officers did not explain how the Bitcoin, kept…...
Crypto treasury execs grit their teeth amid Bitcoin price bloodbath
3+ week, 6+ hour ago (533+ words) Executives at digital asset treasury companies put on a brave face on Thursday as cryptocurrencies continued their monthslong slide. That slide has completely erased the industry's once-remarkable gains in the wake of Donald Trump's reelection in November 2024. Bitcoin on Thursday…...