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XRP extended its rebound from recent lows on the strongest buying activity in weeks, with institutional flows and ETF demand supporting a push toward the $1.20 level.

A peace agreement that reopens the Strait of Hormuz pulled the geopolitical premium out of oil and put back into risk assets.

The price of crude oil is tumbling, and U.S. stock futures are moving higher.

Bitcoin has never escaped a particular Fibonacci pattern since it started trading in 2010. Here is what it suggests about where prices could go next.

Lawmakers are debating taxes, the CFTC put out a prediction market proposal and court cases are heating up.

The concept, called Predictive Allocation, will encourage participants to anticipate where liquidity will be needed next, instead of rewarding them for directing incentives toward pools that have already generated fees.

Former SEC lawyers say that using its power to grant tokenization "innovation" efforts an exemption from securities law isn't as strong as a full-fledged rule.

Not all crypto exchange executives agree, but the data does not lie: centralized exchange trading volumes dropped more than 11% to $4.61 trillion, their lowest since late 2024.

Anthropic’s new Claude Fable 5 puts powerful cyber tools behind safety filters. DeFi, already hit by more than $840 million in hacks this year, is one of the industries with the most to lose if the filters fail.

The largest company on public markets now holds bitcoin as a treasury reserve, not as a business model. Its first earnings cycles will test which version of corporate crypto survives a bear market.

O’Connor argues that crypto’s clearest success story has scaled as money but not as capital.

Bitcoin traded above $64,000 on Saturday, supported by its strongest ETF inflows in a month and growing optimism around geopolitical developments.

In an interview with CoinDesk, Etherealize cofounder Vivek Raman said Ethereum is currently in a transitional phase where the infrastructure has largely been built, but the scale of adoption has yet to be fully reflected in ETH itself.

Tokenization is laying the groundwork for autonomous investing and real-time portfolio management, Ondo's new head of portfolio products John Hoffman said.

John Palmer, head of derivatives at Kraken, said he expects sophisticated traders to lead adoption of newly approved U.S. perpetual futures, with broader institutional participation likely to follow over time.

Strategy chairman Michael Saylor congratulated Elon Musk on SpaceX's historic Nasdaq debut Friday, coining the term "Mag8" and noting that 25% of the group now holds bitcoin on the balance sheet.

As digital assets mature the industry should borrow more from traditional market infrastructure, especially credit, clearing and collateral systems, Mercer argues.

The XRPL AI Starter Kit gives developers tools for agent payments, but early x402 activity has clustered on Base and Solana. Ripple’s bet is that XRPL’s speed, low fees and RLUSD can win a piece of that flow.

A Coinbase-convened panel says Bitcoin should start preparing for quantum attacks now, but declines to take a position on whether millions of vulnerable coins, including many linked to Satoshi Nakamoto, should eventually be frozen.

A jailbreak report prompted Washington to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from all users. Anthropic complied but pushed back hard, saying the finding sets a standard that would halt the entire AI industry.

A tiny Strategy sale raised a bigger question about Saylor’s never-sell stance, while easing Iran fears and a strong SpaceX debut helped risk assets recover.

Crypto platforms promised early access to the blockbuster SpaceX IPO through tokenized shares. The problem wasn't technology, but getting the actual stock.

In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at where privacy is headed in the Ethereum ecosystem