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XRP’s latest decline is exposing a widening split between traders betting on more weakness and investors using the selloff to build exposure. Over the past few weeks, the digital asset has faced sustained downward pressure driven by capitulating short-term holders and aggressive short selling in futures markets. However, underlying spot demand has proved resilient, as […] The post Ripple is expanding institutional finance ambitions while XRP traders are losing confidence appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Base Launches Wallet-to-AI Agent Tool in New L2 Push The post Base Launches Wallet-to-AI Agent Crypto Tool in Layer-2 Product Expansion appeared first on Cryptonews.

XRP price is trading at $1.33, down just a fraction of a percent today, but the chart is coiling upward as a death cross is forming. The post XRP Price Chart Shows Incoming Violent Rebound: Next Leg Could Be Fast and Monstrous appeared first on Cryptonews.

Was BlackRock involved somehow in BTC's most recent price slip?

A pseudonymous plaintiff Noah Doe has filed a lawsuit in New York claiming ownership of dormant Bitcoin wallets tied to Mt.Gox collapse. The post LIVE – Crypto News, May 27: Noah Doe Lawsuit, Satoshi-Linked Wallet, Infamous Mt. Gox Hack, and $8 Million in Burned Bitcoin appeared first on Cryptonews.

The global stablecoin market has climbed to a record $322 billion valuation, cementing the rise of digital dollars as one of the cryptocurrency sector's most viable commercial products. The milestone reflects an accelerating demand for real-time settlement, borderless cross-border transfers, and reliable dollar access on blockchain rails. However, this expansion is also intensifying anxieties within […] The post Stablecoins just hit a record $322 billion – and the bank-run warnings are getting louder appeared first on CryptoSlate.

“Ethereum got the ETH price it deserves, and I don’t see ETH being rerated as an asset, higher or lower,” says David Hoffman. David Hoffman, an Ethereum advocate and the co-founder of the media company Bankless, said he sold the remainder of his Ether (ETH) holdings last week because the “ETH is Money” thesis has largely “played out.” Hoffman said in an X post on Tuesday that “Ethereum got the ETH price it deserves, and I don’t see ETH being rerated as an asset, higher or lower.” Hoffman said that Ethereum “has done incredibly well, and deserves the market cap that it has,” but the “window of opportunity for ETH to be ‘rerated’ by the market seems to be closing.” Read more

While Falcon’s new fUSD is built for institutional trading and collateral workflows, SoFiUSD targets consumer banking users through SoFi’s app. Falcon Finance has launched a dollar-backed stablecoin, fUSD, through Anchorage Digital Bank’s federally regulated issuance platform, according to a Wednesday announcement. The companies said the stablecoin is backed by short-dated US Treasurys, cash and Treasury-backed repurchase agreements. Read more

Bitmine and Galaxy Digital may also be eligible for the Russell 1000, an index tracking the largest 1,000 US companies that includes Nvidia, Microsoft and Apple. A range of crypto companies appears in a preliminary list for the Russell 3000 index, including treasury firms Sharplink and Forward Industries, along with crypto exchange Gemini and crypto services firm Galaxy Digital.  A preliminary index list for the Russell 3000 was published by the index’s provider, FTSE Russell, on Friday. The index tracks the 3,000 largest companies in the US and requires a market capitalization of at least $146.4 million. Sharplink has a market cap of $1.2 billion, and the company’s CEO, Joseph Chalom, said in a statement on Tuesday that it means the firm could make the Russell 2000, an index that tracks the largest 2,000 publicly traded US companies. Read more

Bitcoin’s price tumbled to nearly $75,000 earlier, marking a decline of about 2% for the day. The move was sudden, which raised more than a few eyebrows. Analysts have started speculating about what caused the cascading red candles, and many are pointing to the involvement of BlackRock’s spot BTC ETF, IBIT. Largest Dark Pool Block […]

A new proposal seeks to make XRPL's AMM more competitive with modern decentralized designs more suited to crypto's volatile nature.

Galaxy Digital’s Alex Thorn says a $1.3 billion sale of BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF was the largest he has seen on a dark pool, or private trading platform. An unknown trader’s $1.3 billion sale of shares in BlackRock’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund on Tuesday coincided with a steep fall in the price of Bitcoin, according to analysts. A trader sold 29.2 million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) at 2:30 p.m. UTC on a “dark pool,” a private trading platform that institutions often use to discreetly make large trades outside of public markets. The impact of the $1.3 billion trade was immediately felt in the crypto market, with TradingView data showing that Bitcoin (BTC) fell 1.5% from $77,875 to $76,720 in a short 10-minute window after 2:30 p.m. UTC. Read more

A closer look at some of the important Ripple news from the last few days and a price update on XRP.

The long-term prospects for Ethereum remain bullish, but short-term pain could come first, according to analysts.

Bitcoin’s rangebound trading carries on as bears defend $77,000 and bulls hold out near $74,000. Bitcoin’s (BTC) consolidation continued into a fourth week, with the price finding support at $74,000 and resistance in the $78,000 to $80,000 range. According to Hyblock analysts, the intra-day rally to $78,164 hit a pocket where “longs that had previously opened up (that are in a position) were underwater and likely exited here at breakeven.”  BTC/USDT net positions heatmap. Source: Hyblock Read more

Uniswap accounted for 41% of tracked malicious websites linked to crypto phishing campaigns uncovered by SEAL researchers in March.

HYPE reached new highs above $65 following record ETF inflows, futures participation and trading volumes at Hyperliquid exchange. Is $100 next? Hyperliquid’s native token HYPE continues to rally, possibly targeting $100 as its next all-time high, as inflows to its exchange-traded funds highlight investor demand.  Inflows into the HYPE ETFs reached $89 million over the past nine days, which is equivalent to nearly $9.2 million in daily buying pressure.  The combined assets under management (AUM) across Bitwise’s BHYP and 21Shares’s THYP climbed to $89 million within days of launch, giving HYPE one of the fastest ETF accumulation curves among crypto investment products. Read more

After Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren's claimed that the Comptroller may have violated US banking laws by approving crypto companies’ charters, The Digital Chamber urged the regulator to defend the applications. Update (May 26 at 9:30 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include statements from The Digital Chamber. The Digital Chamber, a cryptocurrency advocacy group that has been closely involved in negotiations with US lawmakers over digital asset-related legislation, questioned three-term Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s understanding of banking laws as applied to crypto companies. In a Tuesday letter to the US Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Jonathan Gould, Digital Chamber CEO Cody Carbone challenged many of the claims in the Massachusetts lawmaker’s May 18 letter. In that letter, Warren said that the OCC may have violated the National Bank Act by approving national trust charters for nine crypto companies “that intend to engage in activities that appear to go far beyond the narrow s...

Wall Street’s semiconductor-driven surge is fueling fresh momentum for crypto miners betting their power-heavy infrastructure can support the AI boom. Several Bitcoin mining stocks rallied Tuesday, reflecting a broader equity surge driven by optimism around artificial intelligence productivity gains as more miners pivot toward AI and high-performance computing workloads. In addition to TeraWulf (WULF), which rallied by as much as 17% on news of a Kentucky data center acquisition site, Hut 8 (HUT), IREN (IREN) and Riot Platforms (RIOT) closed more than 5% higher on the day. The rally underscores growing investor enthusiasm for Bitcoin miners that are repurposing parts of their energy infrastructure and data center capacity to support AI and high-performance computing applications — businesses viewed as potentially more stable and lucrative than crypto mining alone. Read more

The inaugural games produced a record-breaking swim, but several non-enhanced athletes still beat the enhanced competitors.