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Coinbase has officially lodged a request with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to launch XRP futures. The XRP futures contract is expected to go live on April 21, 2025, pending regulatory clearance. Coinbase’s Latest Offering “We’re excited to announce that Coinbase Derivatives has filed with the CFTC...

This week, we examine Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Solana, and Shiba Inu in greater detail. Ethereum (ETH) Ethereum and most of the market closed March in red and April opened with a tariff war which crashed prices this week. ETH fell by 8% and made a new low against Bitcoin...

Solana’s SOL token is poised for a potential price swing of almost 6% after some large investors, or whales, dumped their holdings ahead of the U.S. non-farm payroll (NFP) report due later Friday. This estimate comes from Volmex’s one-day implied volatility index (IV) for SOL. At press time, the...

Filecoin’s FIL token spiked by 30% after South Korean exchange Upbit started listing FIL trading pairs. The token rose to as high as $3.49 from $2.71 on Coinbase and was recently trading around $3.00. Daily trading volume increased by 68% to $303 million, according to CoinMarketCap. Upbit said in...

Ethereum developers have locked in May 7, 2025, as the launch date for the network’s next major upgrade, Pectra.  The decision was made during a core developer call on Apr. 3, following a successful test on the Hoodi testnet, Pectra…...

AMP crypto surged by as much as 20% today, ahead of its listing on South Korea’s Bithumb exchange. AMP (AMP) rose to an intraday high of $0.0041 on April 4, Morning Asian time, while bringing its market cap to over…...

Police Scotland says serious and organized crime groups are increasingly turning to cryptocurrency, contributing to a 2,000% rise in related cases since 2019. Police Scotland says it has seen a roughly 2,000% increase in cryptocurrency-related criminality since 2019, as more…...

U.S. crypto giant Coinbase Institutional said on Friday it had submitted a filing to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to roll out futures contracts tied to Ripple’s closely related XRP token. “We’re excited to announce that Coinbase Derivatives has filed with the CFTC to self-certify $XRP futures –...

Lawmakers in the United States have advanced a bill opposing the creation of a central bank digital currency. On April 2, the US House Financial Services Committee passed the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act (H.R. 1919) in a 27-22 vote.  The…...

Online battle royale shooter Fortnite has just added a new secret “Dill Bits” server mine location to its latest map update — prompting a small spike in an otherwise obscure memecoin. Videos on social media show a new “Dill Bit” server farm location in the game — made to...