Ripple Ledger’s EVM sidechain is live, enabling XRP to tap into Ethereum’s ecosystem....

Wall Street heavyweight JPMorgan (JPM) initiated coverage of stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL) with an underweight rating and an underwhelming $80 price target. The shares were trading 4.5% higher at around $189 at publication time. Circle is well positioned, the bank said, and its USDC stablecoin has an “early-mover advantage,”...

Prominent financial advisor Ric Edelman says investors should consider putting as much as 40% of their wealth into cryptocurrency, a bold recommendation that reflects how far digital assets have come in recent years. “Today I am saying 40%, that’s astonishing,” Edelman told CNBC’s Crypto World on Friday. “No one...

BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) has secured $250 million via a private placement of common stock and will use the funds to launch an ether (ETH) treasury. When the deal closes, expected July 3, the Las Vegas-based miner said it will rank among the largest publicly traded holders of ETH....

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3017.9, up 2.5% (+75.0) since 4 p.m. ET on Friday. Eighteen of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: FIL (+7.3%) and SOL...

Barclays (NYSE:BCS) and its former CEO Jes Staley will have to defend themselves in a U.S. court over accusations that they misled shareholders about Staley’s relationship with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that there was sufficient ground for the case to proceed,...

Binance Coin price has rebounded in recent days and may be on the verge of further gains as a bullish technical pattern takes shape and key on-chain metrics improve. Binance Coin (BNB) rose to $655, its highest point since June…...

The Spark Protocol token has bounced back in the past few days as investors buy the dip and as the total value locked in the network nears its highest point on record.  Spark (SPK) rose to $0.045 today, June 30,…...

With its latest purchase, Strategy now holds a staggering $64 billion worth of BTC, making it by far the world’s most aggressive corporate holder. But the real story isn’t just the size of its hoard, it’s the Russell Top 200…...

According to an update from Ripple, the long-awaited XRPL EVM Sidechain is now live on mainnet. A few highlights of what this entails include: Full EVM compatibility with Solidity, MetaMask, Hardhat, and more PoA consensus and more than 25 validators 3.4 seconds block time and over 1,000 TPS XRP...