Month: May 2026

XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) remains stuck at $1.4 as new daily addresses crashed over 80% since December to 5,020. The Retail Exodus New daily XRP addresses fell while monthly active supply dropped 73% from 7.45 billion XRP to roughly 2 billion XRP per day, according to Glassnode. The data shows...

Recent on-chain reports show that Ethereum (ETH) has greatly surpassed Bitcoin (BTC) in a key metric, suggesting that the flagship cryptocurrency may not be as dominant as once thought. According to Santiment data, Ethereum’s holder count has exceeded Bitcoin’s by a staggering 320%, highlighting a surge in adoption and...

UBS, the financial giant that manages more than $5 trillion in assets, disclosed this week that it holds positions tied to XRP through XRP ETF vehicles and trust structures.  The filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows that UBS’s involvement with XRP did not begin this...

With the crypto market turning slightly bearish, the Ethereum price has lost the $2,300 mark, raising questions about the stability of its recent upswing. Amid this sideways price action, a report shows that a fading bullish sentiment among Ethereum whales is evidenced by a significant decline in their holdings....

Debates surrounding the XRP holdings of former Ripple Chief Technology Officer (CTO), David Schwartz, continue to emerge across the crypto market. New updates from an XRP researcher show just how many tokens Schwartz held and how much this would have been worth each year from 2012 to 2026 if...

ECB President Christine Lagarde has pushed back against the idea that Europe should answer dollar crypto stablecoin dominance by promoting euro-denominated stablecoins of its own, arguing instead that the region should build tokenised financial infrastructure anchored in central bank money. In a speech at the Banco de España LatAm...

XRP’s waning price performance seems to have finally influenced the network’s activity, which has seen a notable cooldown in the month of May. Just a few days into May, the network is struggling to attract new wallet addresses. After over a year, new addresses have fallen to one of...

Tether froze over $514 million USDT across 370 addresses in the past 30 days as its 2025 blacklist swelled to $1.26 billion, underscoring how centralized stablecoins now function as embedded enforcement rails for global regulators and law enforcement. Tether has…...

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Iran’s permanent Strait of Hormuz restrictions could escalate geopolitical tensions, risking oil supply disruptions and economic instability. The post Iran to make Strait of Hormuz restrictions permanent amid US tensions appeared first on Crypto Briefing....