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Story: Stellar Crushes Ripple in Asset Race as Binance Adds Apple Futures

By Evie Vavasseur

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Why Stellar Beat Ripple. Ripple's regulatory nightmare basically handed Stellar the win.

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Binance Makes Bold Stock Move. Binance threw everyone a curveball by launching Apple futures trading.

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Stellar just beat Ripple. The blockchain network's making serious moves in real-world asset tokenization while XRP struggles with regulatory mess and Shiba Inu crashes to yearly…

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Over 32 billion SHIB tokens got pulled from exchanges recently, hitting the meme coin's lowest levels since 2023 started.

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The network landed several major tokenization deals that put it ahead of Ripple in the race to digitize physical assets.

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Ripple's regulatory nightmare basically handed Stellar the win. The SEC lawsuit that's been dragging on forever made banks and big companies nervous about picking XRP for their…

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And Stellar capitalized fast. On March 30, a group of European banks said they're using Stellar's network for a real estate tokenization pilot.

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"We chose Stellar because of its regulatory clarity and technical capabilities," said one bank executive involved in the pilot.

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Stellar's partnerships keep growing. Three more tokenization projects launched this month alone, covering everything from art collections to commodity futures.

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Binance threw everyone a curveball by launching Apple futures trading. The exchange wants to pull in traditional traders who might not care about Bitcoin but definitely want…

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CEO Changpeng Zhao said the Apple futures launch is just the beginning. "We're bridging crypto and traditional finance," he told reporters on April 1.

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The timing seems smart. Apple's stock has been volatile lately and traders love volatility. Binance probably figures it can grab market share from traditional brokerages by…

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But regulatory approval remains unclear. Binance didn't specify which jurisdictions approved the Apple futures or how they'll handle compliance across different countries.

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The move fits Binance's bigger strategy of becoming more than just a crypto exchange. They want to compete with traditional brokers and banks by offering everything from stock…

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Meanwhile, Shiba Inu holders are getting crushed. The token hit its lowest exchange balances in over a year as 32 billion SHIB got withdrawn.

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