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Something unusual is happening with a small Hyperliquid-linked token, and traders who ignored it yesterday are paying attention now. $BASED jumped hard in a single day, and the chart tells a
XRP News: How Ripple Open USD Partnership Shake Up the Crypto Market Big XRP news today. Ripple just signed on as a day-one partner for a new stablecoin called Open USD, or OUSD. The move tie
Binance announced that its equity assets under management have surpassed $1 billion, marking a significant milestone for the exchange's stock-trading product line. The company shared the mile
Arc Plugs Into Chainlink's Enterprise Oracle Stack Arc, the Layer-1 blockchain backed by Circle, has joined the Chainlink Scale program, opening up a suite of enterprise-grade oracle and inte
The XRP Ledger added 4,941 new wallets in a single day on June 30, its strongest network growth spike in over three months, even as $XRP struggles to hold the psychologically important $1 mar
Chainlink's $LINK is fast approaching a symbolic milestone on Ethereum. According to fresh on-chain data from Santiment, the number of non-empty LINK wallets on Ethereum has climbed to 895,16
Kaspa Crosses Into Programmable Territory Kaspa's Toccata hard fork went live on mainnet on June 30, 2026, marking what the project describes as the biggest upgrade in its history. The hard f
SharpLink Adds 10,000 ETH, Pushes Treasury to 886,725 Ether SharpLink Gaming ($SBET) has purchased another 10,000 $ETH for its corporate treasury, lifting total holdings to 886,725 ETH. The c
On-Chain Activity Picks Up Sharply Activity on the XRP Ledger has climbed at a notable pace over the past two weeks. $XRP daily active addresses rose from around 23,000 on June 14 to nearly 3
Ripple-backed Evernorth says RLUSD has become a growth engine for XRP Ledger activity, not a replacement for XRP. Summary RLUSD trading has routed over $2.5 billion through XRP Ledger pairs s
Open USD (OUSD) stablecoin has emerged as one of the crypto market’s biggest trending topics after the project drew attention with the announcement of a consortium-backed stablecoin initiativ
July 1 was supposed to be the day. TikCoin Network launch day arrived with three things scheduled to go live together: internal transfers, TikWallet, and the CEX listing itself. Two of those