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By Julie Binoche
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Senate Vote Could Reshape XRP's Regulatory Status. The Senate's upcoming decision carries weight well beyond XRP itself.
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Grayscale Pushes Back on Bitcoin's Four-Year Cycle. Separate from the XRP story, Grayscale — one of the biggest names in digital asset management —…
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Three DeFi Protocols Lose $35.56 Million in Back-to-Back Hacks. Then there's the DeFi mess. Three decentralized finance protocols got hit by security breaches in…
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XRP exchange-traded funds just hit a record. ETFs specializing in the token now hold 1.47% of its entire circulating supply — an all-time high that's arriving at a pretty loaded…
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The timing isn't accidental. The Senate is moving toward a vote that could fundamentally reshape how U.S.
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The Senate's upcoming decision carries weight well beyond XRP itself. A favorable outcome could open the door for clearer regulatory treatment of digital assets broadly, which…
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Market participants are watching closely. The intersection of ETF accumulation and pending legislation is basically the story of 2026 crypto in miniature: institutional money…
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It's also worth noting that XRP's ETF holdings reaching 1.47% of supply is notable precisely because supply concentration matters in crypto.
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Separate from the XRP story, Grayscale — one of the biggest names in digital asset management — came out and publicly dismissed the Bitcoin four-year halving cycle theory.
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The basic idea behind the cycle theory is simple: Bitcoin's price moves in roughly four-year waves tied to its halving events, when the mining reward gets cut in half.
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Related: Bitcoin ETFs See Six-Day Streak of Positive Inflows, Collecting $930 Million
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Hard to say whether they're right. The cycle theory has been around long enough to accumulate both true believers and serious critics.
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It's a nuanced position. And nuance doesn't always travel well in crypto markets, where narratives tend to be sticky.
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Then there's the DeFi mess. Three decentralized finance protocols got hit by security breaches in quick succession, with combined losses landing at $35.56 million.
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DeFi security has been a persistent problem. The sector's architecture — open source code, permissionless access, complex interdependencies between protocols — creates attack…
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