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XRP traders watch April as open interest jumps 15%

XRP traded near $1.34 on March 28, with a 24-hour trading volume of about $2.24 billion and a market cap near $82.04 billion.  Summary XRP held near $1.34 as traders watched April seasonality and a key $1.80 resistance level. CryptoQuant data showed XRP returns still outpaced risk while Binance open interest climbed to 14.8%. Analysts

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Tether launches XAUt on BNB Chain as gold trading moves deeper into crypto

Tether has launched Tether Gold, XAUt, on BNB Chain, expanding access to its tokenized bullion product as traders continue looking for ways to hold and trade gold inside crypto markets. The rollout adds XAUt to one of the industry’s biggest exchange ecosystems and comes the same day Binance said it would list the token for

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Improving XRP Has Become Ripple’s North Star

Garlinghouse said the company is still mainly focused on making XRP more useful and trusted. Speaking to Fox Business at a recent conference in Miami, Ripple’s CEO praised the company’s progress over the past year, especially some of the high-end acquisitions, such as Hidden Road. He also spoke about the growing role of stablecoins

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Top crypto trends this week as markets turn risk-off

Top trending stories this week were centered on politics, market stress, geopolitics, memecoin chatter, and yield-focused positioning.  Summary David Sacks moved to a broader advisory role as crypto traders tracked shifting Washington influence. Risk-off selling, Circle worries and oil gains kept traders focused on market positioning this week. Memescope Monday and cash-yield strategies showed traders

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Nexo targets family offices with expanded crypto credit and OTC trading services

Nexo has expanded its private client division, scaling services for high-net-worth individuals and family offices as demand for tailored crypto strategies accelerates. The move follows a 136 percent increase in Nexo Private clients since 2025, reflecting a broader shift among wealthy investors toward more active digital asset management. The expansion comes as crypto’s integration into

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Elizabeth Warren presses Commerce over Bitmain security review

Senator Elizabeth Warren has asked the US Commerce Department to explain how it is handling reported security concerns tied to Bitmain, the Chinese company that makes much of the world’s Bitcoin mining equipment.  Summary Warren asked Commerce for records on Bitmain as federal security scrutiny of mining hardware continues. Earlier probes examined whether Bitmain machines

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Binance Australia hit with multimillion-dollar penalty after retail investor losses

Binance Australia Derivatives, operated by Oztures Trading, has been fined $6.9 million after a court found it incorrectly classified over 85% of its clients as wholesale investors between July 2022 and April 2023, according to a Friday press release published by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The misclassification exposed 524 retail investors to

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UK Sanctions $20B Crypto Marketplace Linked to Scam Hubs

Goods offered on Xinbi included stolen personal data, money laundering tools, and satellite equipment to contact fraud victims. Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has sanctioned the Chinese-language crypto marketplace Xinbi, which blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis says processed nearly $20 billion in volume between 2021 and 2025. The designation means that the UK

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Bitcoin hits three-week low as $14B options expiry shakes bulls

Bitcoin (BTC) extended its decline on Friday as traders reacted to the year’s largest options expiry and continued caution in crypto ETF flows.  Summary Bitcoin fell below $66,000 after $14 billion in options expired and ETF outflows persisted Friday. Whale and retail wallets added Bitcoin in March even as price dropped and sentiment weakened. Analyst

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Sam Altman’s World sells 239 million WLD through OTC deals with partial lockup

World Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the biometric identity verification protocol formerly known as Worldcoin, disclosed today that its subsidiary completed the sale of around $65 million in WLD tokens through a series of over-the-counter deals with four counterparties over the past week. Based on the disclosed average price, World Assets, Ltd., the unit responsible

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