The SEC just acknowledged another XRP ETF filing, this time from Bitwise. Last week, Cboe BZX Exchange filed applications to list several XRP ETFs, including the one from Bitwise. This isn’t the first XRP filing to get recognition from the SEC, and the underlying asset’s price has barely budged. Still, it’s a positive sign for
Story (IP) price has surged more than 10% in the last 24 hours as excitement builds around its newly launched mainnet. Story was one of the most anticipated crypto launches of the year, backed by $134 million in funding from investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital. With strong momentum driving its price action, technical
Reeve Collins, a co-founder of Tether, is creating a new stablecoin project called Pi Protocol. He hopes to democratize stablecoin minting and yield returns to incentivize new adoption. Impending US stablecoin regulations may give Pi Protocol a crucial chance to succeed. Its smart contracts will put a high valuation on Treasury bonds, helping it build
This is a segment from the Lightspeed newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . One thing to note about Argentine President Javier Milei’s disastrous memecoin launch is that nothing about it was that unprecedented. Every viral memecoin tends to pump before quickly losing value. So-called snipers have long been known to buy up new tokens
This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . One of the biggest Biden-era crypto enforcement actions may be on its way to resolution. The SEC last week said its new crypto task force “may affect and could facilitate the potential resolution” of the agency’s lawsuit against crypto exchange
This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . The “tariff trade,” or the market volatility we’ve seen the past couple of weeks as investors evaluate tariff risks, has overshadowed the tail end of earnings season. But many analysts still think US equities have room to go higher. President
This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . BTC was rather quiet again last week as various narratives seem to be pulling sentiment in different directions. We then saw the asset’s price sink below $94,000 around 1 pm ET Tuesday — down more than 3% from seven days
This is a segment from The Drop newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . The Open Network, aka TON, made a splash with Telegram games and crypto integrations built on top, like with NOTcoin, which has seen over $1 billion in total volume traded since its launch. A TON app page lists over 570 different
Bitcoin has been struggling, recently hitting a low of $95,000. Investors are now looking for the next major catalyst that could drive the cryptocurrency market forward. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen, in a conversation with Bloomberg, shared her insights on potential catalysts to reverse Bitcoin’s slumping price action. Chen pointed out that one major factor could
Coinbase has unveiled an expansion of its crypto derivatives products with the addition of futures contracts for Solana and Hedera. This launch, announced on Feb. 18, aims to deepen the company’s reach within the crypto derivatives space. The new contracts include Solana (SOL) Futures, with 100 SOL per contract, and nano Solana Futures, at 5 SOL