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Ripple’s XRP token once again fell to the $1.05 price level on June 24, 2026. The asset last traded at this price level on June 6, 2026. XRP seems to have some support at $1.05, having bounced from this point on two occasions this month. XRP’s current price levels, however, could prove to be a bargain. Let’s discuss why.Source: CoinGeckoXRP At $1 Is A Bargain: Here’s WhySource: TradingViewRipple’s XRP token had a few rough years after the SEC sued the fintech company for allegedly selling unregistered securities. The lawsuit eventually came to an end in 2025, with a US court…
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has openly challenged Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin buying model, stating that financial engineering cannot replace real-world utility. His comments come while Strategy continues to accumulate more bitcoin, even when Bitcoin continues to fall close to $58,000.Ripple CEO Says Saylor Is Focusing on the Wrong StrategySpeaking in a recent CNBC interview, Garlinghouse said that crypto companies should focus on building products people actually use instead of relying on financial engineering to boost Bitcoin holdings. “Financial engineering does not drive long-term value.” “The long-term value of any digital asset is going to be driven by utility.”According to Garlinghouse, assets…
Banks across the US, the UK, and Europe finally have a legal path to issue stablecoins, custody Bitcoin, and settle tokenized funds, yet the capital rulebook that governs it all still treats a Bitcoin position as something close to a guaranteed loss.Under the Basel Committee’s cryptoasset standard, which has been live in member jurisdictions since January 1, 2026, unbacked crypto is in the most punitive bucket in the whole framework, carrying a 1,250% risk weight. Once you push that through Basel’s 8% minimum, you end up with a bank holding capital equal to its full exposure, a dollar of equity set aside for…
As crypto markets mature, the lines between digital assets and traditional equities keep dissolving. BIT, a digital asset platform with seven years of institutional service experience, is pushing that boundary further. It has rolled out margin trading for US stocks, accompanied by a promotional offer of up to $2,000 cashback and a 30-day 0% interest margin loan, according to the original announcement. The move signals more than a product addition; it reflects a growing ambition among established crypto exchanges to capture retail equity traders by leveraging existing margin infrastructure. The Shift from Crypto to Equities BIT’s entry into US stock…
Solana’s price is no longer moving in lockstep with the broader crypto market. Social trends data from Santiment shows a clear divergence, with SOL gaining 15% since June 9 while other major assets traded sideways. The catalyst is not speculation about a new Solana protocol or a meme coin wave — it’s tokenized stocks. According to the Santiment update published on June 26, tokenized equities have quickly become one of crypto’s hottest narratives, and Solana has emerged as the blockchain of choice for much of that momentum. The offerings provide 24/5 trading, near-instant settlement, and DeFi compatibility — a combination…
Kalshi’s live U.S.-regulated crypto perpetual futures move the story out of the approval phase and into the order book.The company’s public perpetual futures page and individual product pages now present U.S.-regulated crypto perps as a broader trading category that extends past the first Bitcoin experiment.Kalshi’s own materials point to markets across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and other crypto assets, while a dedicated HYPE perpetual page shows the company has extended the product into one of the assets most closely associated with demand for crypto-native derivatives.The launch changes the test from permission to behavior. Traders will compare spreads, depth, funding, reference…
Hyperliquid has been added to Singapore’s Investor Alert List, putting DeFi’s permissionless pitch to a consumer-protection test: the network can keep settling trades, while the interface and public messaging around it draw regulatory scrutiny.Hyperliquid said in a June 26 statement that its appearance on the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s list was a warning-list event rather than a ban, enforcement action, or finding of wrongdoing.The project also said it had not claimed to be licensed by MAS, described itself as permissionless infrastructure, and said users retain self-custody while transactions settle transparently on-chain.The resulting pressure is applied to the user-facing layer. A…
Every cycle has a moment where the tape stops drifting and snaps into a new regime. Right now, Bitcoin feels like it is crouching. Not relaxed. Coiled. Quant desks I talk to keep circling the same fork in the road: either a clean break that runs into the low 80s, or an ugly slip that hunts liquidity in the high 40s. The path depends on four signals that tend to drive everything else when the market gets binary. This is not a forecast. It is a map. Read the signals, know the levels, and do not mistake noise for a…
Binance is set to miss Europe’s July 1 MiCA authorization deadline, moving the bloc’s exchange-access fight from a policy countdown into a live test of where users, assets, and trading liquidity move next.The exchange has told European customers it will be unable to meet the authorization deadline, according to Binance Square social media posts and a Financial Times report. The warning comes two days after Binance withdrew its MiCA license application in Greece and said it would pursue authorization in another EU Member State. Related ReadingMillions of EU crypto users face exchange cutoff as MiCA deadline hits in daysAround three…
