Month: January 2025

A clawback amendment went live on XRP Ledger earlier Friday following a validator vote with more than 90% in favor. The amendment means Ripple’s dollar-pegged stablecoin RLUSD, a clawback token, can be floated and exchanged directly on XRP Ledger’s DEX, enhancing its liquidity and trading options and likely boosting...

Good news for the people who want to buy a car via crypto in South Africa! 6DOT50, a South African fintech startup, has recently partnered up with BTS and Seriti Solutions to facilitate crypto payments for car purchases. This partnership announced on 10 January 2025, will allow prospective buyers...

Thailand’s Finance Minister, Pichai Chunhavajira, from the Ruling Pheu Thai Party, proposed an initiative to streamline the licensing process for securities and cryptocurrency trading.  According to local media reports dated 31 January 2025, the Thai Finance Minister Chunhavajira’s comments promote the development of the digital asset business follow the...

The parents of Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, are reportedly exploring avenues to secure a presidential pardon for their son from President Donald Trump.  Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Seek Trump Pardon  According to Bloomberg, Stanford Law School professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara...

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Shiba Inu faces continued losses, prompting investors to explore new options; meanwhile, Remittix has gained attention as a rising PayFi project. #partnercontent...

The potential launch of a spot XRP ETF could significantly enhance institutional access to digital assets, fostering broader market adoption. The post Purpose Investments seeks approval to launch world’s first spot XRP ETF appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Capitalizing on Pump.fun’s unwavering success, a new Bitcoin meme launchpad dubbed Odin.fun was launched yesterday.  Pump.fun is one of the fastest-growing Web3 protocols, having attracted $100M in revenue in just seven months. Odin.fun, however, is solely focused on casting a light on Runes tokens, which are pretty much Bitcoin-based...

MicroStrategy’s recently-announced perpetual convertible preferred stock offering has been oversubscribed by nearly 3 times the expected volume of 2.5 million shares. An automated alert sent out by Fidelity Investments on January 30, 2025 revealed that $STRK raised at least $584…...

A new player in the AI arena, DeepSeek, has unveiled an open-source language model, R1, that experts say is a game-changer in efficiency, raising questions about the future of AI development. The DeepSeek Effect Developed for under $6 million, DeepSeek’s R1 has not only outperformed established competitors in several...