A $75 million loan backed by nearly half a billion dollars worth of a company’s own tokens is now at the center of a Senate push to get regulators involved in the Trump family’s crypto operations. The Loan That Raised Questions World Liberty Financial, the crypto project tied to US President Donald Trump and his…
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XRP Will Go ‘Higher, Much Higher,’ Analyst Says, Betting On Explosive Breakout
Tokenized US Treasury bonds sitting on the XRP Ledger have grown from $50 million to $418 million in roughly a year — an eightfold jump that is drawing fresh attention to Ripple’s blockchain network and renewing speculation about where XRP’s price could go next. Institutions Behind The Surge Platforms including OpenEden, Ondo Finance, and Zeconomy…
Is Zcash The Next Bitcoin? Investors Rush Into The Privacy Coin Narrative
Arthur Hayes has a new favorite coin — and it is not Bitcoin. The veteran crypto investor recently revealed that Zcash has become one of his largest crypto holdings outside of Bitcoin, a disclosure that has drawn fresh attention to a cryptocurrency that many had written off. Hayes said that as artificial intelligence, governments, and…
XRP Records Biggest Spike In Network Usage In 2 Months
Failed transactions on the XRP Ledger climbed sharply this week alongside a burst of new user activity, as on-chain data pointed to a wave of participation that accompanied the token’s latest price recovery. Wallets Running Toward 8 Million Total activated accounts on the XRP Ledger reached 7,856,080, putting the network within striking distance of a…
Strategy’s Main Bitcoin Acquisition Vehicle Sees Massive $1.5B Trading Explosion
Strategy now holds 818,869 Bitcoin, worth roughly $66 billion at current prices — a position that has become the largest corporate Bitcoin reserve anywhere in the world. That stockpile keeps growing, and the instrument fueling much of the buying just broke a record. A New Kind Of Funding Tool STRC, the company’s Variable Rate Series…
XRP Leads Massive Crypto Rally As Traders Bet Big On US Regulatory Shift
XRP became the most traded asset on South Korea’s Upbit exchange in the last seven days, pulling in $110 million in 24-hour volume and outpacing both top cryptos Bitcoin and Ethereum. The surge came alongside the biggest inflows into US XRP exchange-traded funds in four months, even as Bitcoin and Ethereum funds saw money flowing…
Bitcoin Miner MARA Stock Under Pressure Following $1.5 Billion Bitcoin Sell-Off
MARA Holdings still has in its coffers 35,303 Bitcoin valued at roughly $2.84 billion, making it the fourth largest corporate Bitcoin holder in the world. But that position comes after the company sold a significant chunk of its reserves — and investors took notice. A Rough Quarter By The Numbers MARA’s stock dropped 5% during…
Bitcoin Risk Appetite Has Crashed Since October 2025: Quantum Signal
Bitcoin’s dominance over the wider crypto market has grown noticeably stronger in 2026, and new data suggests the reason comes down to where institutional money is — and isn’t — going. Altcoin Season Loses Steam Analysts tracking market behavior say the expected rotation from Bitcoin into smaller altcoins has not materialized the way it did…
Bitcoin Faces Major Test As 37% Recovery Collides With Bear Resistance
Traders cashed out nearly $1.2 billion worth of Bitcoin in a single day last week — a sign that the recent recovery may be running out of steam. On May 4, investors sold 14,600 Bitcoin, pushing daily realized profits to their highest point since early December. According to CryptoQuant, that kind of selling spike during…
Crypto Firm Exodus Drains 63% Of Its Bitcoin Reserves As Q1 Loss Doubled Year Over Year
Exodus Movement sold more than 1,000 Bitcoin in the first three months of 2026 to fund a push into financial technology, raising $73 million in the process. The crypto wallet company cut its Bitcoin holdings from 1,704 to 628 coins by March 31 — a reduction of roughly 63% — with nearly all the proceeds…