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Hex Trust launched wrapped XRP across Ethereum, Solana, Optimism, and HyperEVM on Dec. 12 with $100 million in initial liquidity, positioning the token as a trading pair for Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin.This latest move to make XRP available across multiple ecosystems adds to Coinbase’s cbXRP on Base and Axelar’s eXRP on the XRPL EVM sidechain.Within months, XRP will exist in at least four distinct wrapped formats across a dozen networks, each with different custody arrangements and bridge infrastructure.Additionally, RLUSD has over $1 billion in circulation, mostly on Ethereum, and deep XRP/RLUSD pairs on chains where capital already sits, expanding XRP’s addressable…

Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller is increasing his asset management firm’s exposure to a bet on the future of American healthcare. Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office boosted its stake in Natera Inc. (NTRA) by 4.19% in the third quarter of 2025. The firm now holds 3,214,532 shares, valued at $517.4 million. The position accounts for 12.74% of the $4.06 billion portfolio, making it the largest holding. The increase added 129,342 shares, as reported in the firm’s latest 13F-HR filing with the SEC for the quarter ended September 30, 2025. Druckenmiller initially bought the stock when Natera traded sideways from late 2022 to early…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure According to Itaú Asset Management, Brazil’s largest private bank, investors should consider holding 1%–3% of their portfolios in Bitcoin starting in 2026. The recommendation came in a research outlook released this week and frames Bitcoin as a small, complementary holding rather than a main bet. Itaú Backs Small Bitcoin Positions The bank’s note points to Bitcoin’s low correlation with many traditional assets and to currency risks that hit local investors hard this year. Itaú also moved to build the infrastructure behind that view: in September 2025 it…

Morgan Stanley’s chief investment officer says weak job data may force the Federal Reserve into a more aggressive rate-cutting phase, boosting the stock market once again. In a new interview on CNBC, Mike Wilson says once the Fed looks into the revisions of the previous months’ employment numbers, the central bank will lower rates despite an already-hot equities market. “They’re going to realize that the data itself is very lagged. I’m not blaming the Fed, this is tricky. I mean, it’s hard. In real time, the data has not been weak enough to justify cutting more, but when they actually…

A US bank employee is being banned from working in the financial industry after he allegedly forged customer signatures to steal tens of thousands of dollars. According to the Board of Governors of The Federal Reserve System, Julio Gonzalez, a former employee of Synovus Bank, has been barred from the financial industry for misappropriating $38,000 from customer accounts. Authorities say that between December 2023 and January 2024, while employed at the Georgia-based bank, Gonzalez misappropriated the funds from three different customers – including forging their signatures – for his own personal gain. “From December 21, 2023, through January 10, 2024, while…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin is heading into a critical window as the Bank of Japan prepares what could be its most consequential policy move in decades. The central bank is widely expected to raise interest rates by 25 basis points to 0.75% at its December 18-19 meeting, a level not seen since 1995 and a clear signal that Japan is continuing its exit from ultra-loose monetary policy.  This upcoming event is causing a few conversations among crypto traders because similar policy moves from Japan have repeatedly coincided with the start…

After three years of development, Firedancer went live on Solana mainnet in December 2024, having already produced 50,000 blocks across 100 days of testing on a handful of validators.The milestone, announced Dec. 12 by Solana’s official account, marks more than a performance upgrade. It represents the network’s first real attempt to eliminate the architectural bottleneck that has underpinned its most damaging outages: near-total reliance on a single validator client.Solana has spent years marketing sub-second finality and four-figure transaction-per-second throughput, but speed means little when 70% to 90% of the network’s consensus power runs the same software.A critical bug in that…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure While the XRP price displays a clear bearish structure, momentum pushing the price downwards appears to be cooling. A recent analysis into underlying on-chain activity has revealed a shift in investor behavior, providing context to the recently slowed momentum seen. XRP Holdings Decline To 2024 Low Of 2.6 Billion In a QuickTake post on CryptoQuant, the on-chain analytics group Arab Chain explains how the XRP market is experiencing certain shifts in liquidity dynamics. The analysis revolved around data obtained from the XRP Ledger: Exchange Reserve metric, which…

December 14th, 2025 – Willemstad, Curaçao class=”ql-align-justify”>Whale.io has officially launched the WHALE NFT collection on Solana, introducing the next phase of the platform’s native token rollout and bringing the community one step closer to the upcoming Token Generation Event (TGE). The WHALE NFTs – presented as fully tradable digital cards – represent a new value layer within the Whale ecosystem. Each card holds a fixed amount of WHALE tokens locked on-chain and backed 1:1, making them redeemable at any time for the underlying tokens. Minting is now live exclusively at mintwhale.io, where users can acquire these asset-backed cards and begin…