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SBI, Kyobo Complete Japan-Korea Stablecoin Test With No Dollar Leg
SBI Digital Practice and Kyobo Life completed a cross-border pilot that directly converted yen-linked test tokens into won-linked tokens. The trial examined whether stablecoin infrastructure could reduce delays, conversion steps, and costs…
XRP Open Interest Is Back Above Pre-CLARITY Levels
Binance traders now hold more XRP in futures contracts than they did before the Senate sank the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, even with XRP still about 65% below its all-time high. The Number That Came Back Open interest, i.e. the total amount…
500 Million XRP Worth $649M Left Uphold for Five Wallets Yesterday
Five XRP Ledger addresses that didn’t exist until about a day earlier now hold 100 million XRP each, and every one was created by the same Uphold wallet that filled it. The Alert That Lit up XRP Twitter A burst of posts on Sept. 17…
Tom Lee Sees Bullish 12 Months as Wall Street Embraces Crypto
Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee expects crypto to enter a powerful 12-month period as Wall Street embraces blockchain, leverage returns and the market approaches what he views as the bottom of its four-year cycle. Wall Street Turns to Blockchain…
Blackrock and Visa Now Validate Circle’s Arc; So Do Two XRP Ledger Partners
Circle has opened Arc’s public mainnet with 11 founding validators drawn almost entirely from traditional finance. At least two of them are also among Ripple’s closest commercial partners. The Validator List Reads Like a Bank…
Whale Sells 866 BTC for 26,924 ETH Hours Before Bitcoin Price Tanked
A trader sold 866 bitcoin and bought 26,924 ether on Sept. 15, hours before the U.S. Senate blocked the CLARITY Act, resulting in bitcoin’s price falling under $75,000 shortly afterward. The Trade Onchain analytics firm Lookonchain…
Kalshi Hits $40B+ Volume and 80% of US Prediction Market
Kalshi now moves $40B+ in monthly volume while handling roughly 80% of U.S. prediction market volume. The figures lie in stark contrast to recent developments, the most pertinent being the Senate’s decision to quash the highly awaited…
XRP Falls 10% as Ripple Insists It Stands on ‘Settled Ground’
XRP dropped about 10% to $1.29 after the U.S. Senate blocked the CLARITY Act, the steepest fall among major crypto assets. The Steepest Drop on the Board XRP seems to have bore the brunt of the recent market bloodbath the worst, with the…
$206M in XRP Just Left an Uphold Wallet. Here’s What Happened Next
A single 145,634,500 XRP transfer worth about $206 million emptied a labeled Uphold wallet on Sept. 14, but onchain records point to an internal custody reshuffle rather than a whale exit. The Alert That Started It Onchain trackers flagged…
Ethereum Whale From 2021 Moves $37M Worth of ETH to OKX at a Loss
Two wallets that had been quiet for more than a year moved 14,700 ETH, worth about $36.94 million, into OKX on Sept. 14, and onchain records show those coins landed in 2021 when they were worth nearly $57 million. The Transfers, Timestamped…