June 2025 – Page 39

Ripple Partners With Chipper Cash to Boost Payments in Africa Using XRP

Ripple today said it was partnering with Chipper Cash, a payments provider serving across Africa, to support cross-border payments into the continent using Ripple Payments. Ripple Payments uses XRP,...

Polymarket, UMA Communities Lock Horns After M Ukraine Bet Resolves

Polymarket, UMA Communities Lock Horns After $7M Ukraine Bet Resolves

A contentious $7 million bet on prediction platform Polymarket has sparked disagreement between the Polymarket and UMA communities. The bet, which speculated on whether Ukraine would agree to a...

Bitcoin Whales Bought B of BTC in Two Weeks as Confidence Grew, Glassnode Says

Bitcoin Whales Bought $11B of BTC in Two Weeks as Confidence Grew, Glassnode Says

While macroeconomic uncertainty and technical indicators raise doubts about bitcoin's (BTC) recent gains, purchasing activity by some of the largest investors indicates a more optimistic outlook. Since March 11,...

Like DOGE, XRP Going Vertical Is a Good Indicator of Market Froth, Bitcoin Peaks

Crypto traders are used to seeing a price surge in non-serious cryptocurrencies such as dogecoin (DOGE) as a sign of market froth. Now it looks as though XRP, the...

VARA Is Focused on Consumer Protection for Tokenization Efforts in Dubai, Senior Official Says

Crypto regulation has come a long way. No longer is it a pass-off game between various government bodies: Digital assets now have dedicated overseers in a lot of regions....

Northern Trust to Provide Custody, Cash Management Services for Stablecoin Issuer Haycen

TradFi giant Northern Trust (NTRS) will provide custody and cash management services for trade finance focused stablecoin issuer Haycen, the company said in a press release Thursday. Northern Trust...

Studio Ghibli Craze Inspires Memecoins on Ethereum, Solana After OpenAI’s 4o Release

A bizarre twist of AI tech and nostalgia is seeing memecoin enthusiasts issue, pump, and dump tokens themed after Studio Ghibli movies as a new AI arka trend went...

Dogecoin Gains, XRP Slumps as Trump Warns of ‘Far Larger’ Tariffs

Risk assets such as bitcoin (BTC), xrp (XRP), solana (SOL) are back in focus as President Donald Trump warned of even more reciprocal tariffs if other countries collude to...

Trump Suggests Bigger Tariffs on EU, Canada ‘If They Work To Harm U.S.’

President Donald Trump has threatened bigger import tariffs against the European Union (EU) and Canada if they worked together "to do economic harm" to the U.S. "If the European...

BlackRock Expands Digital Asset Team, Adds Four High-Level Roles

BlackRock is looking to add more people to its digital asset team as the industry grows in popularity among Wall Street firms. Since the inauguration of U.S. President Donald...