XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is down 48% from its $3.65 peak in July peak, despite Ripple Labs spending $2.7 billion in 2025 on acquiring a prime brokerage, treasury management, and stablecoin infrastructure.SEC Settlement Ended Four-Year BattleRipple's transformation began after it settled its four-year legal battle with the U.S. SEC.In August, both sides dropped their appeals, reinforcing a 2023 ruling that separated institutional XRP sales from retail activity.The move lifted a long-standing regulatory overhang tha ...

The European Union (EU) is ready to implement DAC8 for crypto tax transparency. What is DAC8, you ask? The Directive on Administrative Cooperation is a comprehensive directive that will fundamentally change how crypto transactions are monitored and taxed. DAC8 was adopted by the council of EU in October 2023. Now, starting 1 January 2026, crypto exchanges will be required to collect and report detailed user and transaction data to national tax authorities. However, companies have been granted six months, ...

The digital asset market recorded an exceptional performance in 2025, broadly validating forecasts made the previous year, according to CoinShares. Bitcoin reached new all-time highs while crypto returned to daily institutional and media discourse—this time in a far more constructive light than during the downturn of 2022–2023. The year was not without turbulence. Periods of volatility and liquidation events served as reminders that crypto remains a young asset class. CoinShares argues that focusing exc ...

Crypto’s biggest wins are often tightly connected to the rise in asset prices, but Ripple’s 2025 successes extend far beyond the price of XRP—the Ripple-linked asset that sits inside the top five crypto assets by market capitalization.  Instead, most of the biggest headlines attached to the financial services organization were irrelevant to trading screens, most notably the conclusion to its years-long battle with the SEC, major acquisitions to propel its future growth, and the launch of a billion-dollar st ...

Binance’s launchpad ecosystem has delivered some of the strongest headline returns in the market over the past year. However, recent data shows a widening gap between early exits and long-term holders, raising questions about how value is actually distributed across token launches. As Public Token Sales Return, Binance Wallet Emerges as the Clear Leader Data compiled by DeFi Oasis and CryptoRank shows Binance Wallet leading all major ICO, IDO, and IEO platforms by a wide margin. Over the past year, Bin ...

Macro conditions also look supportive. The Federal Reserve began cutting rates in late 2025, and markets expect more easing in 2026. Lower yields push capital into risk assets, including crypto. If these conditions persist, the idea of AI XRP prediction models assuming $10 billion in ETF inflows by late 2026 suddenly looks possible.However, there are reasons to think inflows could accelerate. By late 2025, more than a dozen asset managers have filed for spot XRP ETFs, suggesting a competitive race for marke ...

USD1 stablecoin has crossed the $3 billion mark — Source: CoinGape USD1 has seen an increase of almost 6% in its market cap in the last 24 hours. This follows Binance's launch of a 20% yield program for holders of the stablecoin. The World Liberty Financial team described this milestone as a big moment, including for the WLFI community. The USD1 stablecoin, issued by World Liberty Financial (WLFI), has hit a new milestone following a significant increase in its market cap in the last 24 hours. Thi ...

The U.S. stock market is closed today, Thursday, December 25, 2025, in observance of the Christmas Day holiday. This brings a pause to what has been a remarkable week for Wall Street, with major indices closing at or near all-time highs in a holiday-shortened session on Christmas Eve. Normal trading operations on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq will resume on Friday, December 26, 2025.Premarket Activity and Futures MovementsWhile the main equity markets are shut, investors are reflecting on th ...

Hong Kong regulators are moving to legislate new licensing regimes for virtual asset (VA) dealers and custodians, cementing the city’s strategy to build a comprehensive digital asset framework. The Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) confirmed the plan after a public consultation period. The proposed rules will bring over-the-counter (OTC) desks, brokers, and asset custodians under the same regulatory umbrella as licensed trading platforms. De ...

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