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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse stated on January 22 that XRP may serve as the best bridge asset for some cross-border payments while stablecoins could address other customer needs more effectively. The remarks, originally made during Faena Rose's program The Transformative Power of Crypto Assets,

Base tokenized equities are gaining traction on Uniswap, according to a development highlighted by crypto market commentator Brian Armstrong. Tokenized equities are designed to represent exposure to traditional stocks through blockchain-based instruments, allowing investors to interact with equity-r

0G introduced a Compute Finance framework designed to financialize access to AI compute. Its Ascend liquid-staking product is already live, while the iAI compute-focused asset is scheduled to launch on September 29. The model is designed to let users hold, earn and eventually spend claims linked to

ACI Worldwide is adding intelligent routing for Swift ledger transactions to ACI Connetic, its cloud-native payments hub, allowing banks to process tokenized deposit payments alongside traditional payment methods through the same operational framework. The integration is designed to reduce the

Oppenheimer analyst Brian Schwartz characterized Microsoft Corp.'s Copilot developments as transforming the product into an 'AI operating system' during a CNBC interview, following Microsoft's latest announcement. Schwartz said this shift strengthens the software giant's investment case by

Splendor Labs SA launched Splendor Quantum Chain on Sept. 25, 2026, introducing a Layer-1 blockchain with post-quantum cryptography integrated into its core architecture. The network combines ML-DSA-65 digital signatures, ML-KEM-768 network security, dual ML-DSA and SLH-DSA verification, and

Tether disclosed that assets it holds at EQIBank represent less than 0.034% of total group assets after U.S. prosecutors moved to forfeit approximately $84.2 million linked to the Dominica-licensed bank's payment processor. The civil forfeiture case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the

Oracle Corporation (ORCL) US stocks closed at $137.10 on 25 September 2026, down 56.2% from the $313.00 peak reached on 16 October 2025, according to stockanalysis.com daily closes. The decline occurred as the company reported negative $5.4 billion in free cash flow for Q1 FY27 on $28.5 billion of c

OpenZeppelin launched TRON-specific versions of its smart contract libraries, upgrade tooling and Contracts Wizard. The stack supports TRC-20 tokens, upgradeable contracts, role-based permissions and passkey authentication, with all tools undergoing security audits. The release addresses TRON's

Billionaire investor Mike Novogratz described Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's Bitcoin purchase as the most important cryptocurrency news of 2020. MassMutual bought $100 million in Bitcoin for its general investment fund and acquired a $5 million minority equity stake in New York

Bank of America analysts Alastair Ryan and Philip Middleton disclosed on Dec 09, 2020 that Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) pose significant risks to European banks. The analysts explained that CBDCs could damage already-depressed European financial institutions by displacing customer

OKB token price surged over 10% on Nov 19 following circulating rumors of OKEx exchange founder Mingxing 'Star' Xu's potential release from Chinese authorities' custody. Chinese crypto reporter Wu Blockchain posted on Twitter that Star Xu may be free on bail soon and that authorities are

XRP fell below the $0.50 level on Dec 22, 2020, declining by 10% as news emerged that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will file a lawsuit against Ripple for allegedly violating

Bitcoin reached a new all-time high at $49,125.11 at the time of writing, marking a 2.5% increase in the past 24 hours according to CoinMarketCap. The rally was driven by news that Counterpoint Global, a unit of Morgan Stanley Investment Management with $150 billion in assets under management, is co

Stellar network's native token XLM surged approximately 30 percent in a day following the announcement that Stellar will partner with Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation to develop central bank digital currencies (CBDC). The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) will work with the Ministry o

Hoban Group's stake in Hanjin KAL Korean stocks reached 20.15% through its subsidiaries, narrowing the gap with Hanjin Group Chairman Cho Won-tae and his special relations to just 0.42 percentage points as of September 26, according to the Financial Supervisory Service's electronic disclosure

Korea Zinc, a Korean stocks-listed non-ferrous metals company with an AA0 credit rating, plans to raise up to 3 trillion won through a corporate bond issuance, conducting an institutional investor demand forecast on October 1. The bond offering comes as the company remains embroiled in a

AMD closed at $630.63 on Friday 25 September 2026, its highest close of the trailing year, after the stock crossed the $1 trillion market capitalization threshold earlier in September. The semiconductor company's shares gained 291.0% over twelve months and 182.2% year to date, rising from a

Binance opened spot trading for Hyperliquid's HYPE token, with trading pairs available against USDT, USDC, and TRY. Withdrawals are scheduled to open on September 25. The listing expands access to HYPE beyond Hyperliquid's native onchain platform, where the token serves governance and economic

FormFactor, a US-listed semiconductor testing equipment manufacturer, jointly presented advanced HBM testing technology with SK Hynix in June at the SWTest conference in California. The Livermore, California-based company generates 30% of its revenue from SK Hynix and supplies probe cards to all