XRP Ledger activity climbed to its strongest level in more than two months as bearish social commentary reached a three-month extreme. The divergence shows heavier network participation even as weak price action continues to pressure investor sentiment.

Galaxy Research now puts the CLARITY Act’s chance of passing this year at 10%, ahead of a possible Senate procedural vote in September. Unresolved ethics rules and bank lobbying have weakened the measure’s support.

Ripple has expanded its Swell 2026 speaker lineup with executives from Robinhood, BNY, and Intercontinental Exchange as the company prepares its largest conference for institutional finance and XRP Ledger development.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor argues bitcoin can preserve and transfer economic value more efficiently than gold or fiat currency, framing the cryptocurrency as a technological upgrade to money itself. His thesis places proof of work, fixed supply, digital ownership, and financial infrastructure at the center of bitcoin’s potential role as a long-term monetary foundation.

Two of Abu Dhabi’s biggest sovereign investment vehicles sat through a roughly $118 million hit to their Blackrock spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) positions in the second quarter and did not cut a single net share, leaving nearly $764 million riding on IBIT when June ended.

Edelman Financial Engines, which manages $326 billion in client assets, disclosed a $34 million position in spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in its latest regulatory filing, a stake that now exceeds the firm’s holding in Amazon.

Since Bitcoin split at block 961632 on Aug. 8, the tiny Roughnecks pool has burned scarce hashpower chasing a chain almost nobody can trade, grinding out just four blocks across seven days. Now, BIP-110 supporters are preparing an even bigger gamble: abandoning double SHA-256 for Blake2b, a proof-of-work (PoW) primitive used by only a handful of Nakamoto-consensus chains, most notably Sia.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones’ Tudor Investment Corp increased its stake in Blackrock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) to $22.9 million, according to a newly filed 13F.

Technical research firm Fairlead’s Katie Stockton says bitcoin is flashing a rare long-term oversold signal after its slide toward $60,000, and now argues ether’s chart may have already carved out its own major low too.

France’s 30-year government bond yield has surged near 4.85%, joining jumps in Germany, Japan, and the United States that expose a brutal reset in global borrowing costs.

President Donald Trump is expected to host Coinbase, Ripple and other crypto and prediction-market executives at the White House on Wednesday, August 19, kicking off a week of regulatory meetings in Washington.

Bank Leumi is preparing to put bitcoin, ether and solana inside its banking platforms, an Israeli first if regulators finally sign off on the service.

JPMorgan severed its links with Polymarket last year, citing regulatory concerns as the prediction market industry stood on shakier ground than it does today. The U.S. Department of Justice is currently probing major banks, including JPMorgan, for improperly closing customer accounts.

Crypto’s derivatives markets forcibly closed over $19 billion in positions held by 1.6 million traders on Oct. 10, 2025, and 2026 has already delivered three separate billion-dollar sequels.

Coinfello COO Minchi Park notes that plain-language AI eliminates Web3’s steep “tooling learning curve” and addresses post-onboarding user drop-off caused by manual maintenance fatigue.