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They call him “El Presidente.” But unlike the other President, Dave Portnoy draws a line at launching a memecoin.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has a new chairman, and many prominent figures in the industry are rushing to weigh in on the new sheriff in town. Paul Atkins, who officially took office on April 22, opened his speech with a message of direction and reform.

The National Hockey League has named Ndax, one of Canada's largest crypto exchanges, as the Official Crypto Exchange Partner for the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The maturation of DeFi technology has created a paradox: while battle-tested codebases and rising technical proficiency have lowered the barrier to entry for launching new protocols, securing sustainable liquidity has never been harder. As thousands of projects built on increasingly standardized infrastructure compete for a finite pool of capital, the ecosystem faces a systemic challenge that threatens genuine innovation and growth.

Trading-desk watchers received a fresh dose of long-term optimism for X on Tuesday after crypto analytics boutique Sistine Research published a multi-year XRP/US Dollar chart pointing to an eventual advance into the $33 to $50 region. The chart they circulated on X shows that the 2,500-day symmetrical triangle dating back to the January 2018 top actually resolved to the upside in mid-November 2024, when a single, outsized green candle catapulted XRP north.

An XRP Ledger (XRPL) validator has warned projects and developers that the network is compromised. He revealed some critical issues on the network, which put users and their funds at risk of an exploit.

If you're following developments in the cryptocurrency market, you've likely noticed that Coinbase Derivatives has introduced XRP futures contracts to its US derivatives exchange. This move is part of a broader trend where regulated platforms are expanding access to futures trading, giving investors new ways to engage with digital assets like XRP (XRP).But what exactly are XRP futures?

Bitcoin nears $94K and the crypto market hits $2.94T as Paul Atkins takes over SEC leadership.

DeFi token PumpBTC crashed without apparent reason, in line with major volatility since launch.

Opinion by: Sasha Shilina, PhD, founder of Episteme and researcher at Paradigm Research Institute Decentralized prediction markets are gaining ground in the scientific world, offering an intriguing answer to the field's ongoing reproducibility crisis. While a notable share of research findings fail to replicate in independent tests, supporters believe market-driven forecasting can speed up identifying robust studies.

Jeremy Cahen, a social media figure known online as Pauly0x, is facing legal pressure from Yuga Labs, a non-fungible token (NFT) company.

As many analysts on Crypto Twitter have discussed recently, Bitcoin tends to follow global M2 with a 12-week lag. This means Bitcoin goes up around 90 days after a global money supply increase.

XRP's network activity, a measure of unique wallet addresses involved in successful transactions, saw a sharp increase from April 11 to April 20.

The price of XRP has risen by 9.5% in the past 24 hours, as institutions pile into the coin and increase the chances of further gains. The post XRP Sees Biggest Fund Inflows – Ripple Primed for Breakout? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Although it took nearly 48 hours to catch up with Bitcoin (BTC), XRP entered a powerful rally on April 22, soaring 7.75% over the last seven days and, perhaps even more impressively, 6.52% over the last 24 hours.

El Salvador's National Commission on Digital Assets, in collaboration with U.S. law firm Perkin Law Firm and former Goldman Sachs partner Heather Shemilt, has proposed a cross-border crypto regulatory sandbox to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Binance requires sender and receiver details for all South African crypto transactions from April 30.

The crypto markets are healing after the trade war losses that wiped out billions from the space. While Bitcoin surged above $93,000, the Ethereum price made a more intense leap of over 10% in the past 24 hours and is trying to secure the newly gained support at $1800.

Twenty One, a Bitcoin-centric company, is being formed via SPAC merger with backing from Tether, Bitfinex, Cantor Fitzgerald, and SoftBank.

OP Labs Co-Founder Mark Tyneway discusses progress made in the Optimism ecosystem and how apps may bring the next wave of adoption.

TL;DR Polygon and Pyse launch a model that tokenizes electric delivery motorcycles and monetizes their environmental and urban data on blockchain. The system rewards users with tokens based on the value of the data generated, which is later commercialized for logistics and insurance.

XRP has just confirmed a golden cross on its hourly chart, signaling short-term bullish momentum. At the same time, XRP has surpassed the 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) on the daily chart — a crucial technical level that traders have been watching closely.