Ripple hires LME treasury chief for tokenization push
Ripple has hired London Metal Exchange treasury executive Joseph Thompson for its trading and markets team, according to an Aug. 28 report. Summary
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Ripple Swell 2026 names Matt Damon as keynote speaker
Ripple has named Academy Award winner and Water.org co-founder Matt Damon as a keynote speaker for Swell 2026, scheduled for Oct. 27–29 at
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Bitcoin Rally Builds on $2.8 Billion ETF Inflows
Bitcoin’s advance from approximately $63,500 to above $80,000 received substantial support from spot buying rather than new leveraged positions, QCP Capital said on
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Bitcoin hits $80K, Warsh turns hawkish, Solana ETF tops $1B
In this week’s edition of the weekly recap, Bitcoin returned to $80,000 after its strongest rally in more than three years, although traders
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Bitcoin ETF flows swing to $202M outflow as price holds near $77.5K
Bitcoin traded near $77,500 on Aug. 29 after US spot Bitcoin ETFs snapped a nine-session inflow streak, while weakening capital flows and short-term
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NFT sales fall 44.7% to $63.3M as Ethereum leads
NFT sales volume fell 44.70% to $63.33 million over the past seven days, even as the number of buyer and seller addresses increased
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SEC proposes $75M crypto token sale rule that the market has outgrown
Eight years after the ICO boom, the regulator is offering a path that the market already abandoned. The capital it is trying to
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Tokenized deposits could drain $580B from U.S. bank lending
A research paper published this week quantifies what happens when bank deposits move at blockchain speed. The number is large enough to reshape
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Russia blacklists 2,600 crypto wallets while using crypto to dodge sanctions
The Bank of Russia is building a surveillance apparatus for digital assets at the same time the Russian state relies on those assets
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XRP ETFs gain ground in two US fund filings
Two U.S. fund filings dated Aug. 27 and Aug. 28 have listed three XRP-linked ETFs, adding fresh evidence of the token’s growing presence