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Strategy’s 847,666 Bitcoin Could Be Worth $161B on a BTC/Gold Reversal
Bitcoin advocate and Strive executive Adam Livingston has mapped out a path for Strategy’s 847,666 BTC to reach $161.8 billion, about $90 billion more than today. The Claim Strategy’s stack is worth about $71.6 billion at the…
Four Korean Banks Join Ripple on the XRP Seoul Stage
Four South Korean lenders shared one panel with Ripple at XRP Seoul 2026 earlier today, in front of a crowd of more than 5,000 people. One Panel, Many Chairs The session was titled “From Cross-Border Payments to Tokenized…
XRP ETF Investors Are Now $133M Under Water on Their Bets
Spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) logged a $3.28 million net outflow on Oct. 2, all from Bitwise, while their combined assets dropped about $37 million. The Breakdown According to Sosovalue data, U.S. spot XRP ETFs ended Oct. 2 with…
Ethereum Layer 2 Network Blast to Shut Down After Revenue Collapse
Blast, a once-buzzy Ethereum Layer 2 network, is set to shut down later this month after a dramatic decline in activity left the scaler too costly to maintain. Blast Heads for the Exits Launched in early 2024, Blast hailed from the founder…
Solana ETFs Overtake XRP Funds With $1.91 Billion in Assets
Solana ETFs have overtaken XRP products in total net assets after an eight-day inflow streak brought in nearly $254 million. The shift is notable because SOL still has a smaller market capitalization than XRP, yet its ETF complex now…
Bitcoin Price Taps $87K as SEC Moves to Unlock Institutional Custody
Driven by weak U.S. employment data and a major SEC regulatory proposal, bitcoin briefly reclaimed $87,000 for the first time since Sept. 23. Back near $85,000 as of this writing, bitcoin remains up over the last day. Bitcoin Reclaims…
Ex-NCA Officer Must Pay Back $2.4M After Stealing Seized Bitcoin
A former U.K. National Crime Agency officer, Paul Chowles, has been ordered to repay approximately $2.38 million for stealing 50 bitcoin seized during the investigation of the Silk Road 2.0 dark-web marketplace. Dark Web Theft and…
Ripple Partner SBI Completes Takeover of Japanese Exchange Bitbank
SBI Holdings has taken full ownership of Bitbank on Oct. 1, folding one of Japan’s busiest XRP markets into one of Ripple’s oldest partners in Asia. The Deal The final share transfer went through on Oct. 1, making Bitbank a…
South Korea Opens $5 Trillion Market to Tokenized Stocks, Bonds in 2027
South Korea is laying the regulatory groundwork to bring stocks, bonds, funds and fractional securities onto blockchain infrastructure from February 2027. New FSC Rules Aim to Move Stocks and Bonds Onchain South Korea is preparing to move a…
The Next Generation of Banking: W Group Connects Web2 and Web3
W Group is pleased to share the next stage in the development of hashbank, a fully licensed universal digital bank that combines traditional banking services with the infrastructure of the open Web3 economy in one app. This level of…