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Coinbase has filed with the CFTC to activate Trade at Settlement for XRP futures on May 1, placing XRP alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, and crude oil as an asset institutional traders can execute at the official settlement price. Summary Coinbase will launch Trade at Settlement for XRP futures on May 1, covering both nano XRP and full-sized contracts. TAS lets institutions execute large block orders at the official closing price, eliminating intraday price exposure that makes high-volume execution costly and unpredictable. The launch completes XRP’s institutional execution pathway on Coinbase, following the SEC and CFTC’s joint March 2026 classification of…
BridgeTower Capital has officially deployed Chainlink’s full infrastructure stack to tokenize securities tied to the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project, an $11 billion US natural resource initiative, in what the companies describe as live production infrastructure rather than a pilot. Summary BridgeTower Capital is using Chainlink’s complete stack, including CCIP, Proof of Reserve, NAVLink, and CRE, to tokenize $11 billion in securities from the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project. The deployment is live production infrastructure, not a pilot, making it one of the largest single-asset tokenization builds ever brought to institutional scale. BridgeTower plans to expand the same platform to…
The modern financial system was never designed for machines. It was built around the constraints of human life: geography, sleep cycles, paperwork, and physical presence. But as AI agents begin to act as economic participants, that human-centric design is starting to look less like a feature, and more like a bottleneck, said the co-founder of crypto firm Alchemy.“You can argue that crypto was built for AI agents, not humans,” said Alchemy CEO and co-founder Nikil Viswanathan.The mismatch is everywhere. Banks have operating hours because humans do. Payments are tied to countries because people live in them. Credit cards assume physical…
Trump’s Treasury Department has kept a short-term waiver for Russia oil in place after the EU questioned why Washington was easing pressure on Moscow while the war in Ukraine is still draining lives, money, and fuel routes. European Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic said he raised the issue on Friday with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, after Washington allowed more deliveries and sales of sanctioned Russian crude already sitting on ships. The new Treasury license covers Russian oil and petroleum products loaded on vessels as of April 17. It runs until May 16 and replaces an earlier 30-day waiver that expired…
Russia State Duma has passed the first reading of a landmark crypto regulation bill that formally legalizes digital assets for international settlements, a direct legislative response to Western sanctions that have severed major Russian banks from global payment infrastructure, including SWIFT. The bill cleared its first reading with a framework built on the Central Bank of Russia’s regulatory concept published in late December 2025, accelerating years of fitful policy debate into concrete law.The scope is significant. Russian exporters and importers moving goods across an estimated $240 billion in trade volume facing payment friction now have a legal pathway to settle…
TLDR: Bitcoin long-term holder supply in profit has declined to 66.5%, nearing lower historical ranges Newly matured BTC holdings are entering long-term status at a loss due to past higher prices Six-month holding period creates a lag effect in Bitcoin long-term holder supply metrics Current data shows pressure on long-term holders, though conditions are not worsening further Bitcoin long-term holder supply is showing signs of stress despite the recent price recovery. Data indicates a shift in profitability dynamics, as coins aging into long-term status are entering at a loss, shaping current on-chain metrics. Long-term holder supply faces pressure Recent market…
A crypto pundit has shared a bold XRP price prediction, using AI analysis and outlining several market drivers and ongoing developments that could fuel the rally. In the analysis, the expert projects that in 2026, XRP could potentially skyrocket to $10 and by 2035, the cryptocurrency could reach historical highs above $500. Although the analyst maintains a broadly bullish outlook for XRP’s price, he urged investors and traders to take the forecast “with a grain of salt,” noting that it remains speculative. XRP Price Forecast From 2026 To 2030 In an X post shared on April 22, crypto market analyst…
BitMine Immersion Technologies has increased its Ethereum treasury again, extending the accumulation strategy championed by chairman Tom Lee and pushing the company further into a dominant position among corporate ETH holders. In its March 9 weekly update, BitMine said it had acquired 60,976 ETH over the prior week, lifting total holdings to 4,534,563 ETH as of March 8 at 4:00 p.m. ET. Using the company’s reference price of $1,965 per ETH, that treasury was worth about $8.9 billion at the time of the update, while total crypto, cash, and other holdings reached $10.3 billion. At current pricing near $2,058.39, the…
Tron (TRX) is the native asset of the Tron open-source blockchain network. Prior to its mainnet launch in June 2018, TRX was an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. Tron is primarily used for its high transaction speed of 2000 TPS, which makes it an ideal entertainment and content distribution platform. With a market cap of $13.85 billion at the time of writing, it’s the 8th biggest cryptocurrency overall. In this article, we will try to predict Tron’s future price in the years 2040 and 2050, taking into account the multiple factors that may affect its price in the…
Key Takeaways What’s driving Ondo Finance’s rapid growth in the RWA sector? Ondo’s tokenization of U.S. Treasury Bonds, ETFs, and stocks has fueled institutional adoption and global market expansion. What is the long-term price outlook for ONDO based on current growth trends? If RWA adoption accelerates to 100% annually, ONDO could reach $10 by 2028; otherwise, it may hit that mark by 2035. Tokenization of Real World Assets (RWAs) has become one of the most promising growth areas in the blockchain space. As Traditional Finance (TradFi) continues to merge with blockchain technology, the market for tokenized assets is set to…