This story was originally published on Banking Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Banking Dive newsletter. To say that crypto is having a bull-market year may not be the deepest insight. But let’s quantify it through comparison. On Thursday alone, both Ripple and Kraken announced acquisitions. Ripple’s $1 billion proposed purchase of treasury management software provider GTreasury marked its third nine-figure-or-higher deal of 2025. Kraken’s $100 million acquisition of Sm ...