XRP price news: Ripple-linked token up 4% as traders watch breakout toward $1.35

• Volume increased during the breakout attempt, with CoinGecko showing 24-hour trading volume of about $1.27 billion. • XRP held above the $1.08-$1.10 area through the session, keeping the short-term recovery structure intact. Technical Analysis • The key short-term level is $1.13. A sustained break above it would confirm the triangle breakout watched by traders…

Celsius Co-Founders Leon, Goldstein to Pay FTC Over $6M

Celsius co-founders Shlomi Daniel Leon and Hanoch “Nuke” Goldstein have been ordered to pay over $6 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges alleging they misrepresented the safety of the Celsius platform before the company collapsed.  Goldstein, Celsius’ former chief technology officer, was ordered to pay $2.014 million under an order signed Monday by US…

Peter Brandt Predicts Exact Day Bitcoin’ Bear Market Will Be Over

Veteran trader Peter Brandt says he has pinpointed the exact day in 2026 when he expects Bitcoin to hit the bottom of this market cycle. “I’ll go out on a limb and say we bottom on October 4th. So we’ll see,” Brandt tells Cointelegraph during an interview for Trade Secrets.  Of course, picking the exact…

Cardano activates van Rossem hard fork

The upgrade reduces smart contract execution costs while laying the groundwork for Ouroboros Leios, a major scalability upgrade expected later this year. Source link

Democrats Added Certain Consumer Protection Rules to CLARITY: Coinbase Exec

As lawmakers in the US Senate are likely to vote soon on the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act, representatives from advocacy organizations and companies are providing details of closed-door negotiations over the bill, which is expected to be the most comprehensive piece of legislation affecting the crypto industry. In a Monday CNBC interview, Coinbase…

Bitcoin Holds $65K Amid Tech Sell-Off. Cautious Bulls Eye $70K Rally.

Key takeaways: Bitcoin futures and options show whales still prefer hedging downside risks as socio-economic risks mount. Rising Treasury yields and declines in AI stocks fuel risk aversion, yet BTC’s strength signals continued decoupling. Bitcoin (BTC) showed relative strength over the past week, despite failing to break above $65,500. More importantly, the cryptocurrency has decoupled…

Inside Cardano’s ‘Van Rossum’ hard fork, and how it matters for users

It adds new capabilities to Plutus, the platform developers use to write Cardano’s smart contracts, unifying the built-in functions available across the platform’s three versions so older applications gain newer features. The upgrade also tightens several of the ledger’s validation rules, including one guaranteeing that no two stake pools can reuse the same cryptographic identity…

Institutions Rethink Crypto Security Beyond Audits: Hacken

Institutional investors are looking beyond smart contract audits after traditional trust signals such as prior audits and operating history failed to predict which crypto projects would be exploited, according to Hacken. In its Q2 2026 Security & Compliance Report, Hacken said that only 9% of 1,427 tracked projects had third-party monitoring, while 4% combined monitoring…

Nigerian President Signs Order on Approach to Crypto Regulation, Taxes

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria has moved to address what his office called the fragmentation of digital asset regulation. The Nigerian president’s special adviser Bayo Onanuga said that an executive order signed on Friday would “harmonize the regulation of virtual assets, strengthen cooperation among the nation’s financial, revenue and capital markets agencies, protect citizens…

Bitcoin Struggles At $65,000 Amid US-Iran War, Tech-Stock Selling Hurdles

Traders balked on Bitcoin (BTC) at $65,000 on Monday as crypto and risk-assets remained under pressure. Key points: Bitcoin staged several unsuccessful attempts to break and hold $65,000. US stocks face pressure from both the Iran war and an ongoing institutional tech sell-off. Bitcoin traders stay positive on the odds of BTC/USD heading closer to…