A New York judge has rejected a joint request from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple Labs for her to approve a proposed settlement agreement that would slash Ripple’s civil penalty to $50 million and dissolve the permanent injunction against the firm. It is the proposed...

Ripple is pushing deeper into multichain interoperability with the integration of Wormhole, a leading cross-chain messaging protocol, with the XRP Ledger (XRPL) and its EVM-compatible sidechain. The move, announced Thursday, aims to support institutional demand for seamless movement of crypto assets, including stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets, across multiple...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Tim Scott, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, told a White House crypto adviser on Thursday that legislation establishing rules for the U.S. crypto markets will be finished by September 30 — later than President Donald Trump had in mind, but earlier than...

Hong Kong’s government released its second major policy statement on digital assets, underlining its pledge to set the region up as a global hub for the industry and saying it plans to establish a regulatory regime that puts risk management and investor protection center stage. The framework will be...

A spot dogecoin ETF DOGE may be coming closer to reality. ETF issuer Bitwise updated a regulatory filing for its dogecoin ETF on Thursday, suggesting approval chances could be growing, according to one expert. “Bitwise has filed amended S-1s for their spot dogecoin ETF and their spot aptos ETFs,”...

As well as being issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, USDT, Tether also owns more than 10% of Juventus FC and is now looking to play a more active role in the running of the Italian soccer powerhouse. Tether asked to participate in the club’s recent capital increase and...

USDT on TRON exceeds $80 billion in circulation, accounting for over half of global supply and leading active stablecoin network metrics. The post USDT on TRON surpasses $80 billion, strengthening TRON’s position as the leading stablecoin network appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Ripple’s latest blog post, published on 25 June under the title “Introducing Permissioned DEX on the XRP Ledger: Unlocking Institutional Access to DeFi,” sets out to solve what it calls the primary roadblock to institutional engagement with decentralized exchanges: regulatory compliance. The company contends that banks, payment processors and...

World Liberty Financial, a DeFi platform with ties to Donald Trump’s financial vision, has secured a $100 million vote of confidence from Aqua 1. The UAE fund’s investment underscores the growing institutional appetite for governance rights in blockchain-based finance. According…...

UAE-based Web3 fund Aqua 1 has acquired $100 million worth of governance tokens from World Liberty Financial (WLFI) as part of a strategic effort to expand decentralized finance (DeFi) adoption and governance participation. The purchase aims to support WLFI’s decentralized platform, which focuses on blockchain development, tokenizing real-world assets...