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Shareholders of Ripple and Arrington Capital’s XRP treasury stock Evernorth Holdings would have surely loved to know that hackers could have inflated the supply of XRP by trillions of new tokens before they decided last month whether to move forward with a plan to take an XRP crypto treasury company public. No one told them, while their share redemption window was open prior to September 28, that the XRP Ledger’s base layer payment engine had a bug allowing hackers to mint trillions of new XRP — trading today near $1.35 apiece — for almost nothing. That bug made the fixed-supply promises of countless XRP proponents, including Evernorth CEO Asheesh Birla’s claim that 100 billion XRP was a ceiling that would never move, unenforceable on the network itself. “All 100 billion XRP tokens were created at the time of the XRP Ledger’s launch in 2012,” Evernorth’s proxy filing read. In fact, hackers could have minted orders of magnitude more over the past decade. Ho...

A lawsuit filed by crypto payments firm Conduit has accused Tether of unlawfully freezing $2.76 million worth of its USDT and refusing to give it back for over a year.  Conduit filed the lawsuit in New York yesterday. It claims that Tether froze the funds in September 2025 and repeatedly referred Conduit to a contact in the Brazilian Federal Police with “no context” for said referral. The firm says Tether didn’t “substantively” respond to its requests to unfreeze the funds and eventually sought help from Brazilian police.  According to Conduit, police confirmed that they “did not identify Conduit’s wallet for freezing,” and that they also don’t know “what evaluation criteria (if any) led Tether to freeze the funds.” Frozen USDT linked to Brazilian police investigation The lawsuit notes that police did ask Tether to freeze a series of wallets linked to “Onix Intermediações Ltda” which had used Conduit’s platform.  Onix shares common ownershi...

Ripple’s XRP token is facing immediate resistance at the $1.50-$1.55 range. CoinGecko data shows that XRP has faced a 8.4% correction in the weekly charts and nearly 48% in the last year, but is trading in the green in the daily, 14-day, and monthly charts. In this price prediction article, let’s discuss why XRP is struggling, and when it can reclaim the $3 price level. XRP Price Prediction: When Will It Hit $3 Again? Source: TradingView XRP last traded above the $3 mark in early October 2025. The asset had quite a bullish year in 2025, climbing to an all-time high of $3.65 in July. However, the cryptocurrency market entered bear territory in late October, pulling most major assets down. XRP saw some positive price action in late August and early September amid a market-wide resurgence. However, the rally was short lived as the Federal Reserve decided to raise interest rates to combat rising inflation. There is a chance that XRP will rise once again towards the end of this y...

There has been a lot of talk about quantum computers potentially breaking Bitcoin’s (BTC) cryptographic security measures. Even Google released a paper earlier this year that highlighted the risk quantum computers pose to cryptocurrencies. However, these worries may be at an end as BTC’s Lightning Network got its first quantum-proof defense. Let’s discuss. HUGE: Bitcoin's Lightning Network gets its FIRST quantum-proof defense. East Texas A&M University researchers built PQLN, which stops attackers from recording Lightning payments today and decrypting them once quantum computers arrive. The fix works without changing Bitcoin… pic.twitter.com/eOOIcTqdiI — Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) September 22, 2026 Bitcoin Gets Its First Quantum-Proof Defense Source: Watcher.Guru Researchers from East Texas A&M University have published Post-Quantum Lightning Network (PQLN) that implements quantum-resistant cryptography onto BTC’s primary layer-2 scaling network. P...

Shiba Inu (SHIB) is following the market wide price crash, falling below the $0.000005 level once again. CoinGecko data shows that SHIB’s price has fallen by 5.5% in the last 24 hors, nearly 10% in the last week, and 5.4% in the 14-day charts. Despite the price dip, SHIB is still up by more than 10% over the previous month. Let’s discuss why Shiba Inu (SHIB) is down today, and if its price will recover soon. Source: CoinGecko Shiba Inu Crashes Again: Will It Recover? Source: Watcher.Guru SHIB’s latest price crash comes after the US Senate voted against the CLARITY Act. Bitcoin (BTC) fell to the $75,000 price level after its recent ascent to the $81,000 mark. Other assets are also following BTC’s trajectory. Risk appetite among investors is considerably low right now. SHIB is a memecoin and carries some of the highest risks in the market. It is unlikely that investors will put their capital in a memecoin given the larger market environment. There is also a high ch...

Russia hopes for a consensus declaration at the upcoming BRICS summit, with member nations agreeing to settle nearly 90% of trade in local currencies. “Use of national currencies is not a de-dollarisation policy. We’re simply doing what is better for national interests,” said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, speaking to Indian journalists. He also stressed that the summit must focus on deepening cooperation across politics, finances, and new technologies. “If they don’t let us use their money, we use our own money,” he said while lashing out at the US sanctions on Russia. He cautioned that BRICS must not fall under political pressure and keep local currencies above all at the upcoming summit. The group must show what a fair, multipolar world should look like, he said. Peskov also addressed the growing disagreements between member nations Iran and the UAE. “Understandably, there are contradictions in their (Iran and UAE) positions,” P...

The number of cryptocurrencies tracked globally has surged by more than 150% over the past year amid heightened market volatility. Data from CoinMarketCap shows the total climbed from 23.45 million on September 4, 2025, to 59.08 million on September 2, 2026, marking a 151.94% increase.  Growth accelerated sharply around March 2026, when the count jumped from about 39 million to more than 46 million before reaching 52.8 million by June and a record 59 million by early September. Total number of cryptocurrencies. Source: CoinMarketCap The boom has been driven by low-cost blockchain networks, no-code launchpads, and automated token-creation tools. Solana (SOL), Base, and BNB Chain have emerged as key hubs for crypto token launches, while the memecoin frenzy has fueled millions of speculative projects. Survival of newly created cryptocurrencies However, rapid growth has not translated into long-term success. Despite the rising number of cryptocurrencies, most ...

Although mainstream media covered insiders’ massive unlock of 911.5 million SpaceX shares worth $101 billion on August 6, very few people realize that an additional unlock on that date failed because SpaceX’s stock price had crashed so badly. That second, bonus tranche of 455.8 million shares required SpaceX to close at or above $175.50 per share, i.e. 30% above the formal $135 IPO price, for at least five of 10 trading days leading into its August 4 earnings report. SpaceX held nowhere close to that threshold in Nasdaq trading. The condition failed. The market capitalization of SpaceX was only able to reach its momentary, $3 trillion peak because Elon Musk floated only a tiny quantity of shares in the IPO. Artificially limiting supply far below demand for his popular company created a three-day surge from $150 to $225.64 per share .  That was the peak. A swift retracement followed once investors started to prepare for insiders to unlock and sell their alloca...

As the broader cryptocurrency market remains in a consolidation phase, BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management firm, has moved a significant amount of digital assets, signaling potential selling activity. According to data from Arkham , retrieved by Finbold on November 1, BlackRock transferred a total of $506 million in cryptocurrencies.  On-chain data shows that roughly 3,496 Bitcoin (BTC), valued at about $384 million, and 31,754 Ethereum (ETH), worth approximately $122 million, were moved to Coinbase Prime. The transactions were traced to wallets linked to BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) and iShares Ethereum ETF (ETHA). BlackRock crypto transactions. Source: Arkham Notably, when institutions transfer assets to Coinbase Prime, it often indicates preparation for selling, portfolio rebalancing, or investor redemptions, since the platform provides deep liquidity and secure settlement for large-volume transactions.  While the transfer does...

The Bitcoin price edged down 1.5% in the past 24 hours to trade at $113,980 as of 3:48 a.m. EST on trading volume that dropped 7% to $54.8 billion. The fall came as S&P Global Ratings slapped a junk rating on Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy because of  its ”speculative” exposure to BTC. The B- credit rating placed the firm six notches below investment grade.  “We view Strategy’s high bitcoin concentration, narrow business focus, weak risk-adjusted capitalization, and low U.S. dollar liquidity as weaknesses,” the agency said . But the rating marks the first time a Bitcoin-focused treasury company has received an official S&P rating, a significant milestone for the crypto industry’s growing overlap with traditional finance. S&P Rating ‘Hilarious’ Some analysts took issue with the rating. Adam Livingston, an analyst with 56k followers on X, called it “hilarious.” Everybody, pleas...

Ripple’s XRP token has one of the highest potentials for massive growth over the coming years. 2025 has been quite bullish for the asset, despite the current market storm. XRP breached the $3 mark for the first time earlier this year after nearly seven years. Let’s discuss why XRP hitting $10 could be a new floor for the asset, and not a ceiling. 3 Reasons Why XRP at $10 Could Be a Floor, Not a Ceiling Source: Shutterstock The SEC recently pushed back its date to November 2025 for announcing its decision on several XRP ETFs. There is a very high chance that the financial regulator will approve at least one XRP ETF sometime this year. An ETF approval will likely lead to a surge in institutional inflows for the asset. Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has hit multiple all-time highs after the SEC approved 11 spot ETFs last year. A similar pattern may emerge for XRP as well. Such a scenario could take XRP’s price well beyond the $10 mark. The second reason why XRP could go way ...

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A Bitcoin whale wallet from the Satoshi Nakamoto era has moved funds after over 14 years of dormancy as BTC options open interest (OI) reaches a record high of $63 billion. Investors have yet to react to the whale’s awakening, with the Bitcoin price recording a more than 1% gain in the past 24 hours. Following the uptick, BTC trades at $111,001.95 as of 4:24 a.m. EST, data from CoinMarketCap shows.  Bitcoin Whale Sends $16 Million In BTC  Data from the on-chain tracking platform Nansen shows that the whale address sent 150 BTC, worth more than $16 million, in a single transaction in the past 24 hours.  Meanwhile, data from the Bitcoin block explorer and analytics platform Memepool Space suggests the whale in question once held as much as 7,850 BTC. The address that made the transaction has also been inactive since June 2011. Back then, the whale had consolidated 4,000 BTC into one wallet.  According to the X account “MLM,” the whale earned ...