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Executives from MoonPay, Ripple and Paxos said at Consensus Miami 2026 that regulation has accelerated stablecoin adoption, but infrastructure, privacy and distribution remain major hurdles.

Analysts say Coinbase’s long-term growth may depend more on stablecoins and U.S. crypto legislation than a rebound in trading activity.

$XRP price might be falling under its $1.40 support, but a Swiss banking giant managing $7T in assets, has disclosed XRP exposure. The post XRP Price Could Start Another Rally: $7 Trillion Bank Announces Its Ripple Coin Investment appeared first on Cryptonews.

The privacy-focused cryptocurrency plans to launch a quantum-recoverable wallet within a month as it outlines its roadmap.

Ripple now appears alongside heavyweights like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Check out how.

ECB President Christine Lagarde said Europe should build tokenized settlement infrastructure anchored by central bank money rather than rely on private stablecoins. European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said stablecoins are not an efficient way to strengthen the euro’s international role, pushing back against calls for Europe to respond to US dollar-backed stablecoins with euro-denominated tokens. Speaking Friday at the Banco de España LatAm Economic Forum in Roda de Bará, Spain, Lagarde made several comments on the role of stablecoins in the European economy. “It is no longer about whether stablecoins should exist, but whether jurisdictions can afford to be without them,” she said, arguing that the case for promoting euro stablecoins becomes less clear once their two core functions are separated. “The benefits attributed to them [stablecoins] rest on two distinct functions — a monetary function and a technological function — that are systematically conflated in the current debate,” Lagarde ...

The data comes ahead of what's expected to be a new Federal Reserve chairman taking the reins at the U.S. central bank later this month.

The apparent pricing error was not reflected across broader crypto markets, suggesting a platform-specific data or display issue. Revolut users reported that the app briefly displayed Bitcoin prices plunging to around $39,900 on Friday, while some traders also received notifications suggesting extreme price moves, including that BTC had reached a 52-week low of 2 cents. Users further reported on X apparent simultaneous price drops across multiple cryptocurrencies, including XRP and Solana (SOL), as well as stablecoins such as USDt (USDT) and USDC (USDC). The anomalies, which quickly reversed, appear to have been confined to the Revolut app, with no matching price dislocation visible across aggregated multi-exchange data or derivatives markets during the same period. Read more

This Friday, we examine Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Binance Coin, and Hyperliquid in greater detail. Ethereum (ETH) Unfortunately, Ethereum was rejected at the $2,400 resistance this week. Bulls did not manage to break this key level, and now the price appears to be curving down towards the support at $2,000. While the price is in the […]

The European Union is racing against a self-imposed deadline to implement its side of the existing US-EU trade accord, with the next formal trilogue round set for May 19 in Strasbourg. President Donald Trump threatened on May 2 to lift tariffs on EU cars and trucks to 25% from 15%, a move the Kiel Institute […] The post Bitcoin faces new tariff risk as EU races to finalize US trade deal this month appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Coinbase missed earnings, but one of its newest businesses is scaling incredibly fast—and Tom Lee may finally be slowing his Ethereum buying.

Bitcoin drops 1.7% to $79,679 as US-Iran tensions in the Strait of Hormuz spark risk-off selling. Can BTC reclaim $85,000 before the weekly close? Key levels, analyst targets, and market scenarios inside. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Bitcoin Falls to $79.6k as US-Iran Escalation Dents Risk Set for 6th Weekly Gain appeared first on Cryptonews.

Here's everything most interesting around BTC, SHIB, and ETH.

Ethereum just fall below $2,300, and Fundstrat's Tom Lee called it cheap, making news publicly with a $22,000 price target attached. The post Ethereum News: Tom Lee Sets $22,000 Ethereum Target appeared first on Cryptonews.

Your day-ahead look for May 8, 2026

Several Ethereum metrics suggest the ETH price could see further downside due to reduced demand and weakening network fundamentals. Ether’s (ETH) price has retraced by over 5.6% to $2,275 after being rejected by resistance at $2,400. Now, multiple data points suggest ETH/USD may drop below $2,000. Key takeaways: Ethereum’s network fundamentals are weakening, with weekly average transactions dropping by 10% to 4.79 million, per data from Nansen. Active addresses dropped by 8% to 2.5 million over the same period.  Read more

Coinbase says the outage has been fully resolved but that it will investigate the incident fully.

The credit facility would help Aave address bad debt created after the April rsETH exploit strained its WETH market. Mantle tokenholders backed a proposal authorizing a credit facility of up to 30,000 Ether (ETH), worth about $68 million, for Aave DAO, advancing remediation tied to bad debt from the April rsETH exploit. The proposal, MIP-34, passed in a seven-day Snapshot vote that ended Friday, according to DAO governance platform Snapshot. The measure authorizes the Mantle Foundation to negotiate and execute definitive agreements with Aave DAO for a loan from the Mantle Treasury, though the facility remains subject to Aave implementing its recovery plan and the parties finalizing terms. The credit facility is intended to help address the impact of the rsETH incident on Aave V3. The proposal said the attacker deposited 89,567 unbacked rsETH on Aave and borrowed about $190 million in WETH, wstETH and stablecoins, creating potential bad debt estimated at between $123.7 million and $230.1 million. Read more

Arbitrum DAO voted to release the Kelp exploit funds, but a U.S. Court restraining notice has put the approved transfer in legal jeopardy.

Bitcoin retagged $80,000 after falling 3% on Iran concerns, while traders flagged important BTC price support levels to preserve next. Bitcoin (BTC) revisited $80,000 on Friday after US-Iran war nerves sparked 3% daily losses. Key points: Read more