Binance has seen the sharpest percentage drop in XRP reserves, while Upbit and Bithumb continue to hold the bulk of tracked supply. XRP’s struggle near $1 continues even as its peers display modest gains this week. The crypto asset is down by almost 10% over the past month. Despite the weakness, much more XRP…
A U.S. federal court has resolved the CFTC’s cases against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang by imposing five-year trading bans and registration bans of up to 10 years. Summary Ellison received a five-year trading ban and a 10-year CFTC registration ban. Wang received a five-year trading ban and an eight-year registration ban. Both sanctions date…
HYPE neared its all-time high marked just over two months ago. The cryptocurrency market was revived over the past several hours, with essentially all assets rocketing to new multi-month peaks. Some assets, though, performed better than others, including Hypeliquid’s native token. HYPE surged by nearly 10% from bottom to top, tapping $71 minutes ago….
Mantle price rebounded more than 6% on Aug. 19 as MNT tested a key resistance level near $0.46, while liquidation data pointed to a larger pool of leveraged positions above the market. Summary Mantle price rose 6.6% to approximately $0.455 during the latest daily session. The token is testing Fibonacci resistance at $0.4575 after rebounding…
Schwartz argues that AI regulations could determine not only what systems produce but also how they can be used. David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO emeritus, has warned that government rules around AI safety and copyright could give authorities unprecedented control over political and social speech. His argument centers on who gets to decide what AI…
Bitcoin price surged past $68,000 late Wednesday as a break above crowded liquidation levels forced short sellers to buy back positions, turning a gradual recovery into a one-minute price spike of roughly 4%. Summary Bitcoin price jumped from below $65,000 to a high near $69,500 before settling around $68,500. More than $1 billion in crypto…
Bitcoin’s long-term appeal remains intact, according to BlackRock, despite forced liquidations, weaker ETP flows and competition from AI-themed investments. BlackRock said Bitcoin’s more than 50% decline from its all-time highs in October 2025 to its mid-2026 lows has not changed its long-term investment case. In its latest report, the asset manager attributed the sell-off…
Geo founder Yaniv Tal has identified four weaknesses in online information that he says make AI answers unreliable: lost provenance, flattened authority, hidden disagreement, and repeated model-generated errors. Summary Geo separates claims, sources, and supporting evidence inside community-governed knowledge Spaces. Tal says human judgment can help rank credible reasoning without removing competing views. A Nature…
The SEC proposed a new framework that would let qualifying crypto projects raise up to $75 million in a single 12-month period without completing a full securities registration. Called Regulation Crypto Assets, the proposal marks the agency’s first attempt at building a purpose-built fundraising lane for token issuers. Here is the tension worth tracking: this…
The project would reward miners for supplying useful computing work to AI agents rather than conventional mining activity. Arthur Hayes has said that he is coming out of retirement to lead Flop Labs, a new project centered on a token called $FLOP that aims to work as a kind of currency for AI agents….
