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Ripple’s XRP token had a few rough years after the SEC filed a lawsuit against the fintech company for allegedly selling unregistered securities. XRP struggled to gain momentum even during the 2021 bull market, while most other asset were climbing to new all-time highs. XRP turned bullish only by the end of 2024 when the lawsuit was nearing its close. The SEC vs. Ripple case finally reached a settlement in 2025, leading to XRP hitting a new all-time high of $3.65 in July of last year. Let’s discuss why XRP holders may be entering the best decade of the asset’s…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Pseudonymous crypto analyst Crazzyblockk has pointed to a developing structural shift in the crypto market, while also noting a divergence on the Binance exchange. Active Addresses Trends Reveal Changes In User Activity In a Quicktake post on CryptoQuant, Crazzyblockk highlights readings obtained from the 30-Day Change In Exchange Active Addresses metric. For context, this metric tracks how much the number of unique active addresses interacting with exchanges has increased or decreased over the past 30 days. By extension, it also helps to indicate whether exchange usage (and thus…

BNB Chain has told node operators to complete a required software update before the Osaka/Mendel hard fork reaches mainnet on April 28.  Summary BNB Chain told node operators to install BSC v1.7.2 before the Osaka/Mendel hard fork launches. The April 28 mainnet upgrade follows testnet activation and adds stability, gas limits, and finality. BNB Chain said outdated settings and poor binary replacement could cause nodes to lose sync. The network said operators should move to BSC v1.7.2 and remove outdated settings to keep nodes running normally. BNB Chain developers said node operators must complete the update before the Osaka/Mendel hard…

According to market analyst Darkfost, Bitcoin’s price-based supply distribution is revealing critical zones that could define the asset’s near-term trajectory. This latest piece of important on-chain data is offering a clearer picture of where the market may be headed next, following the positive price action observed in early April. 61% Of BTC Supply In Profit Despite Bear Season In an X post on April 11, Darkfost shares an insight into Bitcoin’s price structure based on its supply distribution pattern. At current prices, the renowned expert reports that approximately 61% of Bitcoin’s circulating supply was acquired below the spot price, leaving…

Blockchains are isolated environments that require oracles to access external real-world data. Decentralized oracles like Chainlink reduce manipulation risk and are essential for DeFi and prediction markets. The security of smart contracts heavily depends on the trustworthiness and decentralization of their oracle data sources. Many crypto investors assume blockchains are self-contained systems with access to everything happening in the world. They’re not. By design, blockchains are isolated environments that cannot reach outside their own network to fetch prices, verify events, or check weather data. That gap creates a serious limitation for any application that needs real-world information,…

Crypto in the last 24 hours just got a jolt that changes everything. Japan’s cabinet approved a landmark bill on April 10 reclassifying crypto as financial instrument on par with stocks and bonds, banning insider trading and requiring annual disclosures, according to CoinDesk. When the world’s third largest economy treats crypto like traditional securities, the capital that follows makes every early entry more valuable.Pepeto follows that same conviction at presale pricing, past $8.92 million raised with live tools shipped before the first wallet committed and a Binance listing on the horizon that makes the projected growth real. This crypto in…

Revolutions leave behind artifacts — not always weapons or flags, but the quieter objects that carried a message before anyone knew how far it would travel. A wheat-pasted broadside on a Los Angeles overpass. A hand-lettered cardboard sign held up in the snow outside a Tokyo office building. A newspaper headline, pulled from the front page of The Times of London and encoded permanently into a piece of software that would go on to challenge the architecture of global finance. The works gathered in Relics of a Revolution at the Bitcoin 2026 Conference in Las Vegas trace a specific lineage…

Justin Sun says World Liberty Financial secretly built a backdoor into its smart contract that lets the company freeze or seize any token holder’s funds without warning, and he is demanding answers.The Tron founder, who invested heavily in the Trump-backed DeFi project, published a lengthy public statement this week accusing WLFI of embedding a hidden blacklisting function that gives the company unilateral control over investor assets, directly contradicting its public promise of decentralisation.“What was never disclosed to me or to any investor is that World Liberty embedded a backdoor blacklisting function in the smart contract used to deploy WLFI tokens,”…

The Strait of Hormuz just became the most important place on Earth for your crypto portfolio.This morning, President Trump announced a full U.S. Navy blockade of the strait — effective immediately — after peace talks in Islamabad collapsed after 21 hours without a deal.Markets are moving. Fast.Here’s everything you need to know.What Just HappenedThe two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is effectively over.Talks in Pakistan ended with VP JD Vance boarding Air Force 2 and flying home empty-handed. Trump responded within hours — announcing the U.S. Navy would intercept every vessel entering or leaving the strait.This is a dramatic…

The XRP price target of $2.59 is right now sitting on the table after crypto analyst Dark Defender confirmed a breakout from a multi-month triangle pattern on the weekly chart. Several key technical developments have catalyzed the XRP breakout into focus for traders across various major market segments — and the XRP breakout analysis Dark Defender mapped is playing out almost exactly as outlined. For anyone also tracking XRP price prediction setups, the structure that has formed is about as clean as it gets on a higher timeframeAlso Read: XRP: Expert Says 7-Year Wait Comes Down to Next 3 MonthsXRP…