Year: 2026

Framework Ventures has closed a $400 million fourth fund that will finance startups developing crypto, artificial intelligence, robotics, and energy technologies as the venture capital firm broadens its investment mandate.…

Base has delayed its Beryl mainnet upgrade by one day to ensure the B20 Activation Registry is fully operational before the hard fork goes live. Summary Base postponed its Beryl…

A conditional national trust bank charter, a pending Federal Reserve master account, and a string of acquisitions in brokerage, payments, and treasury. Ripple is assembling a full regulated-finance stack. The…

XRP has fallen to its lowest level in months after a sharp selloff driven by a major derivatives flush and fresh pressure across the crypto market, while technical charts now…

Ripple CTO emeritus David Schwartz has pushed back on a fresh social media debate over whether XRP existed before Bitcoin.  Summary Schwartz said Fugger’s 2004 idea was a payment network,…

Ethereum has extended its weekly decline as a multi-billion-dollar options expiry, institutional selling, and a hawkish Federal Reserve outlook have driven the token back toward its key $1,500 support. Summary…

The CLARITY Act has the votes and the momentum to become law, having cleared the House and a key Senate committee. It is stuck anyway. The deepest reason is not…

Hyperliquid traded near $63 on June 26 after pulling back from its all-time high of $76.70 earlier this month.  Summary HYPE holds above $60 support while whales continue buying during…

Ripple built its identity on replacing SWIFT, the bank-messaging network that moves roughly $150 trillion a year, with XRP as the bridge that would kill slow correspondent banking. A decade…

Polymarket has confirmed that attackers compromised a third party vendor and used the access to inject malicious code into the platform’s frontend, leading to a phishing attack that drained an…