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An appellate court has granted a joint request from Ripple Labs and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to pause an appeal in a 2020 SEC case against Ripple amid settlement negotiations.In an April 16 filing in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the court approved a joint SEC-Ripple motion to hold the appeal in abeyance — temporarily pausing the case — for 60 days. As part of the order, the SEC is expected to file a status report by June 15.

Raydium is releasing LaunchLab, a new token launchpad to compete with Pump.fun. The exchange announced this platform last month, and its full release has sparked community enthusiasm.

The U.S. Secret Service teamed up with Canadian authorities in a cross-border crackdown on a sophisticated crypto scam that drained $4.3 million from victims' Ethereum wallets.

A Coinbase Research report suggests that the 41% drop in the cryptocurrency market capitalization (excluding bitcoin) from its December 2024 peak to mid-April 2025 may signal a new crypto winter. Uncertainty Stokes Indecision The 41% decline in the total cryptocurrency market capitalization, excluding bitcoin, from its December 2024 peak of $1.

Bloomberg's editorial board has warned of a potential financial crisis similar to what happened in 2008/9 happening this year as geopolitical risks rise.

Is Mantra's RWA-centered Layer-1 chain still poised for long-term growth despite the annihilated market value?

A senior official from Russia's Finance Ministry has called for the development of stablecoins linked to foreign currencies after wallets connected to Russian users and holding USDT were frozen last month.

Bitcoin (BTC) has risen above $85,000, signaling that the bulls are trying to form a higher low at $83,000. The short-term price action remains susceptible to news related to the US tariffs and the ongoing trade war with China.Gold has been a clear winner during the current bout of macroeconomic uncertainty.

Even after a sharp cooldown, the meme coin sector refuses to die quietly. With Fartcoin (CRYPTO: FARTCOIN) in the focus, traders say the meme coin mania might be entering a stronger, more refined phase.

Italy's Economy Minister warned that U.S. dollar stablecoins threaten euro stability more severely than trade tariffs. As stablecoins become popular for cross-border transactions, the ECB accelerated its digital euro project to counter fragmentation of the EU payment industry. Meanwhile, U.S. lawmakers advanced the STABLE Act to regulate stablecoin issuers. The post Bigger Threat Than Tariffs? Italy's Minister Warns US Stablecoins Could Destabilize the Euro appeared first on Cryptonews.

The Ethereum scaling-focused ZKsync team said one of their admin accounts was accessed and compromised, leading to the theft of over 100 million tokens.

Tokenization company Securitize has expanded its digital asset operations by acquiring MG Stover's fund administration business, in a move the company said has significantly grown its assets under management and ability to serve institutional clients.With the acquisition, MG Stover's fund administration business has been absorbed into Securitize Fund Services, Securitize's wholly owned subsidiary, the company disclosed. Securitize Fund Services now manages more than $38 billion in assets across 715 funds.

The settlement between the two is one step closer.

TL;DR Raydium launched LaunchLab to compete with Pump.fun, allowing token creation with immediate liquidity access and external fee configuration. 25% of the fees generated by LaunchLab are used to buy back RAY, boosting its price by 8% and pushing its market cap above $680 million. Pump.

Panama City Council has voted to become the first government institution to accept crypto payments.

Assessing whether BTC will continue to underperform gold in 2025.

Strive Asset Management's latest push to persuade major corporations to allocate portions of their balance sheet to Bitcoin has landed at the doorstep of Intuit, the $165 billion fintech firm behind TurboTax, Mailchimp, and other prominent software solutions.

Some cryptocurrency enthusiasts are making eye-catching predictions about XRP. They suggest that buying just 1,000 tokens could set investors up for life by the end of this decade.

Solana price could be heading toward a major drop, according to crypto analyst Ali. In a recent analysis, Ali suggested that SOL might be retesting the breakout zone from a right-angled ascending broadening pattern.

Strategy's Bitcoin playbook has seen it outperform tech giants like Apple, Google, and Tesla by a wide margin.

Apple has delisted 14 crypto apps in South Korea at the request of one of the country's regulators. South Korea's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), an anti-money laundering agency, issued the requests. The regulator claims the banned apps involved foreign virtual asset operators conducting “unreported business activities.

Athens Exchange Group, Greece's national stock exchange, has finalized the design of its zero-knowledge powered fundraising platform set to go live on the Sui blockchain. Sui Foundation announced the development in a blog post on April 16, noting the partnership between Athens Exchange Group and Mysten Labs.

Candidate Hong Joon-pyo promised to elevate virtual assets into a fully recognized industry and introduce the technology into public services.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz on Wednesday warned that the U.S. economy is starting to behave like an emerging market. Speaking with CNBC, Novogratz said that macroeconomic instability, including surging interest rates and tariff shocks, is rattling global investors and weakening market confidence.