David Schwartz, who co-founded the XRP Ledger, has proposed a transaction reservation scheme as a potential fix for front-running on the network’s decentralized exchange and automated market maker. His proposal was in response to a post from the XRP-focused account XRPresso.io, which argued that validators and well-connected nodes can exploit pre-validation transaction visibility to extract […]
Crypto markets remained flat over the weekend following a week of heavy losses that saw a further $140 billion leave the space. Military action in the Middle East resumed with the US conducting strikes on Iranian military targets at multiple locations in response to Iran’s drone attack on a commercial ship. Meanwhile, the TradFi fear and […]
According to this week’s report from crypto market tracker CryptoRank, DeFi platforms suffered 121 hacks so far this year, resulting in approximately $942 million in losses. The second quarter accounted for 85 incidents and about $775 million stolen, placing it as the most active period ever for exploits in the crypto sector. The surge in […]
The past several months have not been kind to XRP. After it marked a new all-time high in mid-July 2025, it has been mostly downhill, losing over 70% of its value, dumping toward $1.00, being surpassed by BNB and USDC in terms of market cap, and registering six consecutive months in the red at one […]
Crypto venture activity continued to narrow in 2026 as the number of investors participating in the sector fell sharply from previous cycle highs. In its latest findings, CryptoRank revealed that the number of unique investors participating in crypto funding activity declined to 651 during the second quarter of 2026, down significantly from the record high […]
Michael Saylor and Strategy weren’t focused on the right features of bitcoin and how to build their own strategy around it, which is now hurting the overall cryptocurrency market, said Ripple’s CEO, Brad Garlinghouse. In a recent interview with CNBC, he doubled down that the long-term value of a certain asset is its utility, not […]
ZachXBT says AscendEX users are experiencing withdrawal delays, with some requests not being processed at all. Several individuals reported that the transactions have been stalled for days, sometimes even weeks. AscendEX Users Report Withdrawal Issues The on-chain sleuth issued a warning in his Telegram group, alerting members to potential liquidity challenges. “I have observed multiple reports that the […]
XRP is trading near the $1.00 level, down about 9% in the last seven days and more than 52% over the past year. But UK-based technical analyst ChartNerd is suggesting that the deeper the Ripple token falls from here, the better the potential risk-reward setup becomes, with a possible demand zone between $0.90 and $0.70 […]
Bitcoin’s price volatility around and just under $60,000 continued at the end of the business week, but the asset has managed to climb above this level as of Saturday morning. Most larger-cap alts are slightly in the green, with XRP trading above $1.05 and ETH standing close to $1,600. SOL has risen the most from […]
There has been a sharp increase in Chainlink tokens moving to exchanges just days before the project announced a major banking initiative. According to on-chain data from the Ethereum network, Binance recorded a net inflow of more than 10.2 million LINK on June 19. This pushed the exchange’s LINK reserves from 84.1 million to 94.3 […]