According to a post by John Deaton, Ripple acquiring Hidden Road may be part of its plan to capture a share of the $16 trillion institutional finance market. Over the past few years, Ripple has poured billions into strengthening its custody services, picking up Metaco in 2023 and Standard Custody in June 2024. Chamath Palihapitiya,…
Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that can grow valuable materials in orbit that could be used in medicine, semiconductors, and more. Or, as she puts it, “We’re building a box that makes money in space.” Scientists have long suggested that the microgravity environment of…
Uniswap is now live on Soneium, Sony’s entertainment-focused Layer 2 platform, allowing users to swap, provide liquidity, and bridge across networks. This integration supports seamless value exchange for various digital assets, including collectibles and tokenized intellectual property. Launched in January 2025, Soneium aims to protect intellectual property and onboard new users to onchain experiences, with…
Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. In January 2025, DeepSeek’s R1 surpassed ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app on the US Apple App Store. Unlike proprietary models like ChatGPT, DeepSeek is open-source, meaning anyone can access the…
Flare’s three-phase plan includes launching the FAssets v1 mainnet, which bridges non-smart contract tokens like XRP, DOGE, and BTC into DeFi. XRPFi introduces FXRP, a tokenized version of XRP for smart contract interactions without relinquishing control of the original XRP. Tomorrow, April 29, a new decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem for the XRP holders known as…
It’s 2025, but business cards are still in vogue — just visit any conference or industry expo and you’ll end up with a pile that’s likely to be discarded sooner than later. But as smartphones have become our repositories of information and contacts, people are understandably keen to try out digital alternatives to business cards….
Bitcoin took a stumble this week, dropping just under the $95,000 mark as two big forces hit the financial world at once. On one side, Donald Trump made waves with a fresh round of tariff threats. On the other hand, everyone’s holding their breath ahead of the Federal Reserve’s next move on interest rates. Together,…
Ripple, the fourth-largest digital asset by market capitalization, has overtaken Ethereum to become the most traded altcoin in Japan. Just like in the United States, Japan is on the verge of a banking transformation, with nearly 80% of the country’s banks planning to adopt XRP in 2025. Recent data from SBI VC Trade, one of…
Oh hey there! If you’re here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we’re serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today’s answer. If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you’d…
In April, Solana network participants implemented an emergency upgrade to address a serious security vulnerability that could allow attackers to mint and steal tokens. Nonetheless, the coordinated effort to execute the mitigation measures and patch the vulnerability has raised concerns about the network’s level of decentralization. Solana’s Quiet Emergency Upgrade Raises Concerns Among Crypto Actors…
