Ripple’s RLUSD has reached a circulating supply of about 2.49 billion tokens as the value of stablecoins on the XRP Ledger has risen roughly 6% in a week. Summary CoinMarketCap places RLUSD’s circulating supply near 2.49 billion tokens, up from the $2 billion milestone Ripple reported in August. DefiLlama data cited in the source report
Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade has reached its public developer network, letting application teams test a system designed to cut transaction finality from about 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds. Summary Alpenglow is active on Solana’s devnet and testnet, while mainnet still uses the current consensus system. The upgrade replaces onchain validator vote transactions with direct votes
Bitget has set a Sep. 28 restart for Bitcoin withdrawals after a Sep. 24 security incident, with Ether, USDT, and other withdrawal services scheduled to follow through Oct. 2. Summary Bitcoin withdrawals are scheduled to reopen at 08:00 UTC on Sep. 28. ETH and USDT withdrawals are set to return on selected networks over the
The Sixth Circuit ruled against Kalshi in Ohio and Tennessee a month after another appeals court sided with Nevada. New Jersey still has a conflicting ruling. The question for a national market is now practical as well as legal: can an exchange offer the same sports contract across state lines when its federal registration does
Bitcoin has gained about 3.8% over seven days as U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have drawn $2.39 billion this week, while Quant, Ethena and Bitway have led the 100 largest crypto assets by weekly price gain. Summary Quant rose 61.8% after The Clearing House selected it for a U.S. tokenized-deposit network. Ethena gained 54.1% as it
Backpack CEO Armani Ferrante has laid out a plan to expand tokenized stock access on Solana from about 200 symbols to 10,000, with shares moving between brokerage accounts and decentralized finance through one API. Summary Ferrante described 10,000 stock symbols as Backpack’s next target, without giving a rollout date. Backpack already lets eligible users convert
Bitget has launched a recovery bounty offering 5% for freezing stolen assets and another 5% for recovering them after an attack it initially valued at $351.6 million. Summary Bitget offers separate 5% rewards for eligible efforts that freeze or recover stolen funds. The exchange has raised its estimate of assets transferred to attacker addresses to
Bitwise has launched its first exchange traded product tracking Lighter’s LIT token on Deutsche Börse Xetra, giving European investors access to the asset through conventional brokerage accounts. Summary Bitwise has launched its Lighter Staking ETP on Deutsche Börse Xetra, giving European investors access to LIT through regular brokerage accounts. BLIT held roughly $4.74 million in
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz has compared a new Connecticut firearms lawsuit with Ripple’s former SEC battle, arguing that both disputes raise questions about businesses determining whether their conduct complies with unclear regulatory standards. Summary David Schwartz compared Connecticut’s Glock dispute with Ripple’s former SEC battle over regulatory clarity concerns. Glock filed its federal lawsuit
XRP Ledger has moved PermissionDelegationV1_1 into its 14 day activation period after 29 of the network’s 35 trusted validators backed the account permission upgrade. Summary PermissionDelegationV1_1 could activate on Oct. 5 if validator support remains above the required 80% threshold. The upgrade lets XRPL accounts delegate specific permissions without giving another account full control over
