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- Trump Crypto Firm Plans Launch of Public Company That Will Hold Family Token The Trump family business World Liberty Financial is planning to announce a crypto treasury company, say three investors who have seen parts of the deal. The plan, according to details shopped around to investors and viewed by Fortune, revolves around a publicly traded company that would hold a combination of World Liberty’s proprietary token WLFI and cash. The proposal also calls for Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. to serve on the board, and hopes to raise $1.5 billion to fund the new company. If the plan goes forward, it would be the latest addition to the Trump family’s fast-growing crypto empire. The Trump family first announced the World Liberty...

- A day after the SEC vs. Ripple case came to an end, the securities regulator took another dramatic decision on Aug. 8 and waived the disqualification for the crypto firm following the injunction against it. To put it simply, Ripple can now raise funds via institutions, something the court's final judgment in August 2024 warned against. Understanding the Matter In December 2020, the SEC sued Ripple for raising over $1.3 billion via the sale of allegedly unregistered XRP securities. Ripple argued that XRP is not a security; instead, it's a digital currency. In July 2023, Judge Analisa Torres ruled that Ripple's programmatic sale of XRP to retail traders didn't constitute securities law violations, but its sale of XRP to...

- Key Points Solana's price has risen approximately 15% since late April, increasing from about $146 to roughly $167. Despite the modest increase, the growth prompts important questions about allocating $1,000 to Solana and its potential for continued appreciation. A Platform That's Hitting Its Stride Solana's story is about aligning its blockchain's features with market demand, notably with speed and cost efficiency. The chain averaged 2.2 million daily active wallet addresses and approximately 98 million daily transactions recently, maintaining low transaction fees and fast average transaction times. These factors make it attractive for developers of consumer-scale decentralized apps (dApps). Institutional interest is growing...

- After Skyrocketing Over 3,000% in 5 Years, Can MicroStrategy Stock Continue to Rise Higher? Key Points Did you know that in five years, Bitcoin has risen more than 870% in value? It's a staggering return given that the S&P 500 is up just 91% over that same period. That's still a solid return, but it pales in comparison to Bitcoin. But what may be even more surprising is that a company that has simply been loading up on Bitcoins has been a far better buy than the cryptocurrency itself. MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), which now goes by just "Strategy," has climbed a remarkable 3,000% in five years. It hasn't been experiencing huge sales growth or become a top artificial intelligence (AI) company. Instead, it has just been accumulating...

James Howells, a computer engineer from Newport, Wales, has finally given up on retrieving a hard drive he claims contains 8,000 Bitcoin — now worth around $890 million — after a 12-year battle with his local council. In 2013, his ex-girlfriend accidentally threw the drive into a landfill. Since then, he’s spent years trying to convince Newport City Council to let him search the site, once describing the hunt as his “9 to 5.” Earlier this year, the council announced the landfill would close in the 2025–26 financial year. Howells offered to buy the site in July, making what he called a “multi-million dollar offer,” but says the council never responded. Instead, they told him he owes nearly $149,000 in legal costs from his failed court...

- Key Points XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is gaining on Friday. From 4 p.m. ET yesterday, the cryptocurrency is up 5.1% as of 3:52 p.m. ET. The move comes as Bitcoin was mostly flat. Ripple, the company behind XRP, announced a major acquisition that could help boost XRP demand. Ripple is betting on stablecoins Ripple announced yesterday that it has agreed to purchase Rail, a stablecoin platform, for $200 million. Ripple says that the acquisition will deliver the "most comprehensive stable coin payment solution on the market." Ripple is trying to take advantage of the excitement around stablecoin adoption. With the recent passage of the Genius Act, stablecoins could become a substantial part of the traditional financial system. Ripple...

- Swiss Bank Sygnum Launches Regulated SUI Custody and Trading for Institutions Sygnum, a Swiss digital asset bank, is expanding regulated institutional access to the Sui blockchain with new custody, trading, and lending products for its professional clients. The Zurich- and Singapore-headquartered firm announced it will now offer institutional-grade custody, spot and derivatives trading for SUI, alongside upcoming staking and SUI collateral-backed Lombard loans. Staking is expected to launch in the coming weeks, with loans scheduled for the fourth quarter. All SUI holdings will be kept off the bank’s balance sheet and set up to be bankruptcy remote. The move builds on Sygnum’s July 2025 integration of SUI into its platform, which...

- Ethereum pops above $4,000 to make new 2025 high as Ripple, Chainlink lead altcoin rally Ethereum (ETH-USD) surged north of $4,000 on Friday, setting a new high price for the year, to pick up from a broader altcoin rally that had been led by Ripple and Chainlink earlier in the trading day. Altcoins were rallying early Friday following news that Ripple would buy a stablecoin payments platform and Chainlink will launch a funded reserve for its own tokens. Ethereum (ETH-USD) and Solana (SOL-USD) were up as much as 5% and 3%, respectively, as the stock market closed at 4:00 p.m. ET on Friday. Ripple's XRP (XRP-USD) was up as much as 8% on Friday. Chainlink's LINK (LINK-USD) rose as much as 11%. Ripple (RIPL.PVT), the company behind...

- Former Googlers’ AI Startup OpenArt Now Creates ‘Brain Rot’ Videos in Just One Click AI-generated “brain rot” videos are gaining traction among younger users, featuring whimsical characters like a shark wearing sneakers and a ballerina with a cappuccino for a head. One startup at the forefront of this trend is OpenArt, founded by two former Google employees in 2022. The company boasts approximately 3 million monthly active users. OpenArt recently introduced a new “one-click story” feature in open beta, enabling users to input a sentence, script, or song to create a one-minute video with a story arc. This can include light-hearted content for TikTok or more serious videos like explainers or music videos for YouTube. OpenArt even...

- President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 7 that could result in significant changes for Americans with retirement accounts. This order aims to facilitate easier access for 401(k) investors to non-traditional assets, including cryptocurrency and private equity. The Trump administration has been advancing crypto-friendly policies, potentially accelerating crypto adoption and impacting crypto markets with bitcoin at the forefront. However, as Business Insider mentions, the move to incorporate alternative assets into 401(k)s initially caused concern for many in asset management and financial advisory circles. These changes pose a potential risk by altering the traditionally low-risk nature of 401(k)s, though they...

- Artificial intelligence is no longer just a buzzword in financial markets—it’s becoming a tool traders actively use to gain an edge. In the fast-moving world of cryptocurrency, where prices can swing 10% in minutes, the ability to analyze trends, process news instantly, and create adaptable trading strategies can mean the difference between profit and loss. GPT-5, the latest AI model from OpenAI, is emerging as a valuable assistant for both retail and professional crypto traders. While it can’t “predict the future” or replace the need for sound risk management, GPT-5 can rapidly synthesize market data, identify opportunities, and help traders plan more disciplined, informed moves. Here’s a deep dive into how you can trade crypto...

- Is the BNB Crypto a Buy Near Record Highs? BNB (BNBUSD) is the native utility token of the Binance ecosystem, which includes the Binance exchange. It is the biggest crypto exchange worldwide, so BNB is heavily used, and it is one of the only few cryptos that have bona fide utility. The crypto is also used to pay fees for other tokens and smart contracts on the Binance Smart Chain. Still, the price action has been muted since the first few months of 2024. It only delivered low double-digit upside if you bought during those 2024 highs and barely eeked out new highs as Bitcoin (BTCUSD) raced ahead. More recently, even Ethereum (ETHUSD) has started delivering significant gains, with BNB remaining behind. Bitcoin is up 25% in the year...

- Kraken Exec Says Tokenized Stocks Will Let You ‘Buy Coffee with Tesla’ Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is taking a big swing at the emerging market for tokenized equities, launching a product called xStocks — 24/7, permissionless, and non-custodial tokenized stocks available worldwide. “First, so xStocks are tokenized stocks. They're 24-7, non-custodial, permissionless, available anywhere. And we've launched a few months ago the first 60 of them, offering them on the Kraken platform through much of the world and hopefully in Europe soon,” said Mark Greenberg, Vice President and General Manager, Consumer Product and Business at Kraken. Currently, the product is available in Kraken’s “rest of world” markets, spanning Latin America...

- Fartcoin creator missed out on $168m. Here’s how they are rushing to make it all back Fartcoin may have soared to a $2.5 billion market value, but its creator only made off with $600. Now, they are in a race to make it back by launching hundreds of memecoins across various Solana launchpads, often with names associated with once-buzzy memecoin. Since launching Fartcoin in September, the creator has made over $1.8 million in profits across 446 token launches, including Fartcoin, according to DL News calculations and data from the trading bot Axiom. But is there enough hot air left in the memecoin bubble? The Fartcoin creator launched the memecoin last October at a time when memecoins – tokens based on nothing other than jokes or...

- OpenAI Priced GPT-5 So Low, It May Spark a Price War OpenAI astounded the tech industry for the second time this week by launching its newest flagship model, GPT-5, just days after releasing two new freely available models under an open-source license. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went so far as to call GPT-5 “the best model in the world.” Despite this claim, reports suggest that GPT-5 only slightly outperforms other leading AI models from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI on certain benchmarks and slightly lags on others. Still, it’s a model that performs well for a wide variety of uses, particularly coding. One area where it competes well is price. Altman tweeted about being pleased with the pricing they managed to deliver. The...

- The cryptocurrency market rallied sharply Friday after President Donald Trump signed an executive order allowing 401(k) retirement plans to include a wider range of investments, including digital assets. The move, paired with the resolution of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s long-running case against Ripple, sent XRP to the top of the performance charts. As per Kraken’s price feeds, Bitcoin rose a modest 1.3% to about $116,500, while Ethereum gained 4.6% to nearly $3,900. XRP, however, surged more than 12%, leading major altcoins. The policy shift could reshape retirement investing. The order directs the Department of Labor and the SEC to issue new guidance, effectively clearing a path for retirement savers to...

- How Fidelity Just Made It Easier for the Average American To Invest In Bitcoin Many people are curious about investing in bitcoin, but hesitant to open a crypto wallet or navigate the foreign landscape of digital exchanges. While cryptocurrencies are still relatively new and unproven over longer time horizons, there’s a third path that many investors might not even know is an option — investing in bitcoin without ever touching the coin itself. Fidelity brokerage clients recently became the largest shareholders in Metaplanet (through National Financial Services LLC, a clearing and custody broker-dealer of Fidelity), a Tokyo investment firm. This shift may signal a growing trend where traditional finance companies make it easier for...

- Major Bitcoin Whale Makes a Shocking Move After 10 Years A long-dormant Bitcoin whale has moved 3,000 BTC, worth roughly $349 million — after a decade of complete inactivity. Blockchain data shows the transfer took place Thursday, with 100 BTC moved from each of 30 legacy addresses to a series of modern wallets. The coins had sat untouched since 2015, when Bitcoin traded for just a fraction of today’s price. The identity of the whale remains unknown. In crypto slang, a “whale” is an entity either an individual, a fund, or a company that holds at least 1,000 BTC, valued at over $116 million at current levels. Many whales are early adopters, miners, or institutions that accumulated massive holdings before Bitcoin’s mainstream...

- SEC Ends Lawsuit Against Ripple, Company to Pay $125 Million Fine NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it ended its case accusing Ripple Labs of selling unregistered securities, leaving a $125 million fine intact and concluding one of the cryptocurrency industry's highest-profile lawsuits. Ripple and the SEC agreed on Thursday to dismiss their appeals of the fine imposed by U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan and her injunction against the sale of Ripple's XRP token to institutional investors. XRP is the third-largest cryptocurrency by market value, trailing bitcoin and Ethereum, according to the market service CoinMarketCap. The SEC sued Ripple in December 2020, near the end of U.S...

- Can Gold Reach Another New High in Q3 2025? The gold bull market began in 1999, when the Bank of England auctioned half its reserves, pushing the price to a low of $252.50 per ounce. At above $3,440 per ounce in August 2025, gold’s bullish long-term trend remains firmly intact, and it has already reached another record peak in Q3. The long-term trend remains bullish Gold’s long-term path of least resistance remains higher in early August 2025. The quarterly continuous contract chart highlights the COMEX gold futures' bullish technical trend after posting seven consecutive quarterly record highs. The latest peak of $3,534.10 on August 8, 2025, saw the precious metal achieve another new peak, extending the streak to eight...