Ethereum Whale Opens $11M Leveraged Bet Amid ETH Price’s 30% Rise Potential

Key takeaways: An Ethereum whale opened a $11.15M leveraged long position just as ETH broke out of a bull flag. ETH’s price surged above $2,850, pushing the whale’s trade into a $366K unrealized profit. Ethereum options skew turned sharply negative, indicating growing bullish trader positioning. A high-stakes Ether (ETH) long trade is making waves just…

Donald Trump Addresses Coinbase Conference To Discuss Crypto Plans

US President Donald Trump released a prerecorded message for attendees of Coinbase’s State of Crypto Summit as Congress considers legislation to regulate payment stablecoins and establish a digital asset market structure framework. In his second message directly addressing a crypto conference since becoming president in January, Trump said he was “not done” implementing crypto policies…

Bitcoin May Shine If US Debt Climbs And Inflation Spikes

Key takeaways: President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill could add over $2.4 trillion to the US debt, accelerating a looming debt crisis and spiking inflation. Inflation and dollar devaluation remain the path of least resistance in the US economy, eroding the real value of cash and bonds. Bitcoin can offer a hedge, but only if…

Circle’s USDC Stablecoin Debuts on Ripple’s XRPL

Circle’s USDC stablecoin (USDC) launched on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) on Thursday, bringing the overcollateralized dollar-pegged token to users of the layer-1 blockchain network. According to an announcement from Ripple, the launch of USDC on the platform will enable investors to use XRP as a bridge currency to transfer their stablecoins between decentralized exchanges (DEXs)…

Tether Buys $89 Million In Elemental Altus Royalties Shares

Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin by market capitalization, continues its buying spree with its 32% stake acquisition in Canada’s public gold royalty firm Elemental Altus Royalties. Tether Investments on Thursday announced the acquisition of 78,421,780 common shares of Elemental (ELE) from La Mancha Investments, representing 31.9% of Elemental’s issued and outstanding shares….

Nillion Launches Enterprise Cluster for Blockchain Privacy

Several technology companies have joined Nillion’s newly launched Enterprise Cluster — an initiative aimed at extending decentralized applications beyond cryptocurrencies into privacy-focused use cases such as healthcare, financial management and enterprise data sharing. As part of the partnership, Deutsche Telekom, Alibaba Cloud, STC Bahrain and Pairpoint by Vodafone are operating infrastructure nodes on Nillion’s decentralized…

Here’s hy Ether Price May Hit $4,000 in June

Key takeaways: Ether’s price has rallied 108% to $2,880 since April 9.  ETH futures open interest hit all-time highs of $20 billion, signaling bullish sentiment. Ether’s bullish cup-and-handle pattern targets $4,200. Ether (ETH) price gained 108% between April 9 and Wednesday, reaching $2,880 for the first time since Feb. 8. This significantly outperformed the broader…

Bitcoin Adoption Soars Amid Tariff ‘Deglobalization’ Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

Bitcoin’s institutional adoption is seeing a new wave of corporate investments, which stand to benefit from more global uncertainty before a trade agreement is finalized or a controversial US spending bill is passed. US President Donald Trump is pushing forward the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which he says would cut as much as $1.6…

Here’s hy Ether Price May Hit $4,000 in June

Key takeaways: Ether’s price has rallied 108% to $2,880 since April 9.  ETH futures open interest hit all-time highs of $20 billion, signaling bullish sentiment. Ether’s bullish cup-and-handle pattern targets $4,200. Ether (ETH) price gained 108% between April 9 and Wednesday, reaching $2,880 for the first time since Feb. 8. This significantly outperformed the broader…

Conduit, Braza Group Debut Stablecoin FX for Payments in Brazil

Conduit, a stablecoin-focused cross-border payments provider, said on Thursday it has teamed up with Brazil’s Braza Group for real-time foreign exchange (FX) swaps between the Brazilian real and major foreign currencies using stablecoins. The service allows users to convert Brazilian real to U.S. dollars or euros and settle transactions in minutes with stablecoins —a sharp…