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In brief Circle is launching cirBTC, a wrapped Bitcoin alternative designed to unlock Bitcoin utility for institutions and investors. The token will first launch on Ethereum mainnet and Arc, Circle’s stablecoin focused blockchain. cirBTC will join notable wrapped Bitcoin products like BitGo’s WBTC and Coinbase’s cbBTC. Publicly traded stablecoin issuer Circle wants to unlock utility for the world’s largest crypto asset. Its solution? A new wrapped Bitcoin token—cirBTC—backed 1:1 with native on-chain Bitcoin reserves. “Bitcoin is sitting on the sidelines of DeFi. Not because people don’t want yield or liquidity—it’s because they don’t trust the wrapper,” Rachel Mayer, VP of product…

XRP is in its deepest losing streak in more than a decade, even as Ripple aggressively expands into corporate finance and institutional infrastructure. The disconnect is forcing a key market question: why isn’t that momentum showing up in price?XRP price is in its longest losing streak since 2014, a slide that has left one of the market’s oldest large-cap tokens searching for a fresh catalyst even as Ripple accelerates its push into corporate treasury, institutional trading, and cross-border payments.Why this matters: Ripple is moving XRP closer to real financial workflows rather than speculative use. If treasury systems, trading desks, and…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure XRP is struggling to hold current support levels. The market is uncertain. And beneath the price, the structure that would normally cushion a sell-off has quietly thinned to one of its weakest readings in recent memory. An Arab Chain report tracking market depth on Binance has identified a condition that makes the current support test more precarious than it appears on the surface: XRP’s 30-day liquidity index has dropped to approximately 0.062 — one of its lowest readings in recent periods. That number describes a market where…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure For the past few days, the price of Bitcoin has been hovering between the $70,000 and $64,000 range, with no definite trajectory within the period. Despite the lack of direction in price, selling activity has continued across the market, effectively putting robust pressure on the leading cryptocurrency asset. Persistent Selling Activity Weighs on Bitcoin While the Bitcoin price is moving sideways, investors are steadily reacting negatively to the performance. During the period of indecision, selling pressure is persistently building underneath the surface, suggesting growing uncertainty among investors.…

In brief Social media platform X is working on new changes to combat crypto scams on the platform. The platform will attempt to lock down accounts that are posting about crypto for the first time, particularly those with large followings. The change comes as financial scams continue to affect users on the platform. Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), is making changes to address the feasibility of crypto scams that have long proliferated on the platform, according to posts from X Head of Product Nikita Bier. “We are in the process of implementing auto-locking and verification if a user…

In brief Google dropped Gemma 4, a family of open models under the Apache 2.0 license. The four-model lineup spans phones to data centers with the 31B model ranking #3 globally already. U.S. open-source AI gets a needed boost, as Gemma 4—backed by DeepMind—positions itself as the strongest American contender against DeepSeek, Qwen, and other Chinese leaders. Google’s open AI ambitions got a lot more serious today. The company released Gemma 4, a family of four open-weight models built on the same research as Gemini 3, and licensed under Apache 2.0—a significant departure from the more restrictive terms on previous…

In brief Researchers and experts are poring over Drift’s design, questioning whether certain design features or procedures could’ve thwarted its $285 million exploit. The incident shows how many DeFi projects prioritize technical security over cybersecurity hygiene, according to SVRN COO David Schwed. Onlookers have argued that a “time lock” would’ve given Drift the opportunity to potentially step in and prevent the attacker from siphoning the funds. When millions of dollars in crypto are swiped from a decentralized finance protocol, tough questions often follow—and Drift Protocol’s $285 million exploit on Wednesday is no different.The Solana-based project has been thrust into the…

In brief Coinbase is joining with the Linux Foundation to launch the x402 Foundation. The group will steward the x402 payments standard under an open governance model. Companies including Google, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, Shopify, and Cloudflare are participating. Coinbase is joining with the Linux Foundation to launch the x402 Foundation, an industry group created to oversee the development of a new internet payments standard.The foundation will steward the x402 protocol, which lets websites request and receive payments as part of normal web traffic, after Coinbase contributed the technology to the Linux Foundation to place it under neutral governance.“The internet was…

A recent paper by the Bitcoin Policy Institute on Taiwan opens with a familiar argument that the country’s reserves are overconcentrated in dollars. Gold underperforms its potential, and Bitcoin could complement both.Readers who stop there miss the more consequential claim buried in the blockade-and-invasion framework on pages 5 through 7, where the paper is trying to redefine what makes a reserve asset fail.Traditional reserve analysis judges assets on liquidity, price stability, and credit quality. The BPI paper adds a fourth test: can the asset still be moved, spent, or mobilized when shipping lanes are blocked, the host state withdraws custodial…

In brief A new chip inspired by the mechanics of the brain could make AI far more efficient in specific tasks, researchers from Loughborough University found. This could be instrumental in reducing energy drain in weather systems, biological processes and more, where AI is involved. The team focused on physical processes over hardware when designing this AI, suggesting the possibility of reworking how AI is built. AI systems, like ChatGPT or Claude, are known for their intensive energy usage. They need to store data in one place and then process it elsewhere, constantly moving it back and forth. It’s a…

Coinbase has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish Coinbase National Trust Company, according to a statement from the company.  The approval marks a regulatory milestone for Coinbase as it expands its federally supervised custody and market infrastructure operations. The company emphasized that the approval does not authorize it to operate as a commercial bank. Coinbase stated it will not take retail deposits or engage in fractional reserve banking. Instead, the charter is intended to provide federal oversight for its custody business, which the firm says has been a core part of its…

Coinbase signaled on Thursday that it plans to refine its services after receiving conditional approval for a national trust bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).In a blog post, the San Francisco-based crypto exchange said that it is not becoming a commercial bank. Rather, the charter will provide the firm with “federal regulatory uniformity” when it comes to custodying various types of assets on behalf of customers, it said.The development underscores how crypto-native companies are becoming increasingly tied to the traditional financial system. Coinbase said that the shift will enable the exchange to create new…

In brief Vitalik Buterin runs AI entirely on local hardware using the open-source Qwen3.5:35B model, avoiding cloud-based tools he considers a privacy risk. He built a messaging daemon that blocks his AI agent from contacting third-parties without manual human approval, and advises Ethereum wallet teams to do the same. Buterin cited research finding that roughly 15% of community-built tools for OpenClaw, the fastest-growing GitHub repo in history, contained malicious instructions. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin detailed his personal AI setup in a new blog post, describing the configuration as both “private” and “secure.” Buterin said he runs his artificial intelligence setup…

XRP enters an identity crisis as oil, inflation fears, and dollar strength hit the market all at onceXRP has reached the hardest phase of the cycle. The asset spent much of the year carrying a cleaner institutional narrative than most large-cap altcoins.CryptoSlate has already tracked institutional migration into Ripple-linked products, ETF resilience tied to Ripple’s expanding footprint, and the growing tension between XRPL adoption and token value capture. The setup has now tightened.A sharp overnight jump in oil, stronger dollar conditions, and renewed inflation anxiety have pulled XRP into a macro test that feels more direct than the themes that…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Global credit rating agency Kroll has assigned an inaugural investment‑grade issuer rating of BBB to Ripple Prime, marking a notable endorsement from a traditional credit agency for a firm rooted in the crypto sector.  Ripple Prime was formed after Ripple acquired Hidden Road for around $1.2 billion late last year and operates as the clearing and intermediation arm for exchange‑traded derivatives (ETD) and related financing activities.  Reasons Behind Ripple Prime’s BBB Score  Kroll’s analysis emphasizes that Ripple Prime is in a scaling phase. The company’s ETD platform,…