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TLDR: Ethereum stablecoin supply reached $180B, up 150% in three years, holding 60% of the total market share. Token Terminal projects up to $850B in Ethereum inflows by 2030, even if its market share drops to 50%. Public crypto sales fell 93% in eight months, dropping from $698M in June 2025 to $46.8M in February 2026. Private fundraising remains strong, with December 2025 recording $14.5B raised across all crypto funding rounds. Ethereum stablecoin supply has crossed $180 billion, marking a new all-time high according to Token Terminal data. This figure represents a 150% increase over the past three years. Ethereum…
Bitcoin [BTC] has been the uncontested “store of value” in the crypto space for years. But in 2026, there may be a new player. Fractionalized NFTs tap into preferences in a way Bitcoin never really tried to. Whether that makes them a better store of value is still up for debate… but the fact that the conversation exists is saying more than it should. Beyond Bitcoin! In crypto, a store of value is an asset people trust to hold its worth over time. For most of the past decade, Bitcoin has dominated that role, built on fixed supply, decentralization, and…
XRP price is trading at above $1.35 as a landmark zero-knowledge proof deployment on XRPL shifts the institutional narrative and prediction. Meanwhile, BNB is circling the top-four market cap rankings with renewed momentum. Crypto Ranking by Market Cap, CoingeckoThis raises a question the XRP community hasn’t wanted to answer. Is Ripple’s position as secure as its holders believe? XRPL Commons and Boundless have jointly deployed the first ZK proof verifier natively on XRPL, a RISC-V verifier that makes zero-knowledge proofs a native ledger capability. The rollout happened in three phases: verifier deployment, collaborative design of Smart Escrow transaction types with…
Polygon Labs has launched sPOL, a native liquid staking token (LST) and it is designed to mobilize more than 3.6 billion staked POL into the network’s DeFi ecosystem. sPOL is the first liquid staking token built directly by Polygon Labs and it is backed by a 100 million sPOL treasury commitment to seed liquidity from day one. What gap is sPOL designed to close? According to Polygon, more than 3.6 billion POL tokens being staked across the network, however, only around 4 to 5%of that capital is liquid. This is a far cry to the roughly 30% of staked ETH…
$584 billion insurance giant MassMutual signals confidence in XRP, building new crypto positions beyond Bitcoin ETF holdings. MassMutual invested in Bitwise XRP ETF holdings via its subsidiary, joining other tradFi institutions. MassMutual Adds Bitwise XRP ETF to Crypto Holdings MassMutual Private Wealth & Trust, FSB expanded crypto exposure with the Bitwise XRP ETF, according to a SEC filing dated April 13. This indicates the company’s growing confidence in XRP amid increasing regulatory clarity. MassMutual Private Wealth & Trust holds 602 shares of Bitwise XRP ETF. The disclosure signals the company continues to build its crypto exposure beyond investments in Bitcoin…
Latest Market Updates: As of 14th April 2026.- Ethereum Near $2,400 Triggers Diverging Whale Bets Ethereum briefly approached the $2,400 mark before pulling back, setting off sharply contrasting moves among large investors. At the local peak, Billy Luedtke, CEO of Intuition, moved to lock in gains. He sold 3,285 ETH at $2,372.24, securing roughly $7.79 million, according to Arkham Intelligence. Meanwhile, this sale was part of a broader exit strategy that began on March 8, during which he offloaded 8,771 ETH worth $19.14 million at an average price of $2,182. At the same time, another large wallet (0x455…A433E) pivoted away…
Bitcoin jumped 6.5% past $75,000, while open interest climbed to $122.46 billion and liquidations surged to $497.40 million, showing traders are piling in fast. Ether rose 8% to $2,350, XRP gained 4% to $1.40, and Solana added 6% to $86.30, pointing to a broad crypto move rather than a Bitcoin-only spike. Crypto momentum is building with the RSI still at a neutral 57.74 and the Altcoin Season Index at 34, which suggests the rally is heating up but has not yet turned into full risk-on mania. Source link
XRP price is down by 2% in a week, with the Fear & Greed Index pinned at 16, but an analyst comes up with a prediction that creates an unusual tension right now. Technical signals suggest XRP may be approaching a structural bottom, but the longer-term debate on just how high this asset can realistically go has reignited in force.Financial commentator Jake Claver told the Paul Barron podcast that XRP could reach $1,000 by the end of 2026 if institutions, including BNY Mellon, Fidelity, Citi, Franklin Templeton, and JPMorgan, fully adopt Ripple’s settlement infrastructure. Ex-Goldman Sachs analyst Dom Kwok echoed…
The Iran escalation threat that legal experts have called a potential war crime is back on the table Monday as Trump’s naval blockade goes live and his earlier threats to destroy Iran’s power plants, bridges, and water desalination facilities remain publicly unretracted, with oil markets already pricing in the worst-case scenario for civilian infrastructure strikes. Summary Trump threatened in an expletive-laden April 5 Truth Social post to make “Tuesday Power Plant Day and Bridge Day” in Iran, warning that Iranians would be “living in Hell” if the Strait was not reopened by his deadline; the ceasefire announced April 7 temporarily…
The memecoin news shaking Washington this week is a formal Senate investigation into an April 25 conference at Mar-a-Lago where attendance is restricted to the top 297 TRUMP token holders and the top 29 receive VIP access to the president, with Senators Warren, Schiff, and Blumenthal sending a letter to Fight LLC demanding documents and answers by April 21. Summary The Senate Banking Committee Democrats sent their letter on April 8, raising concerns that event promoters are promising access to Trump on a day he may not actually attend because the White House Correspondents Association dinner is also scheduled for…