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The rising buzz about Ripple (XRP) ETFs is getting pretty real as time passes by. Ripple is currently charting its own destiny, exploring new domains and horizons, be it the stablecoin arena or the ETF domain. XRP ETFs have long been a phenomenon, a creative force to reckon with in the cryptocurrency domain that investors and enthusiasts have long been waiting for. With the SEC approving ProShares Futures XRP ETF, the domain is now keenly awaiting a new surge, the possibility of the leadership approving XRP ETFs before the end of Q2. If this development gains steam, how high can XRP surge, banking on the aforementioned possibility? Let’s find out. Also Read: Putin Gifts Trump Painting & Proposes Ceasefire—Could a US-Russia Axis Trigger Re-Dollarization or De-Dollarization? XRP: What’s New? Source: The Market Periodical The US SEC has approved the highly anticipated ProShares Futures XRP ETF. This new feat is now being heralded as a new era for the cryptocurrency domain, enab...

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) surged as an open, permissionless alternative to traditional finance, challenging the SEC—a long-standing U.S. financial regulator. At its heart, the clash is philosophical: centralized regulation versus decentralized autonomy through smart contracts and DAOs. The SEC’s Position: “Investor Protection Above All” The SEC has one job: protect investors, maintain fair markets, and enforce securities laws. Traditionally, this meant regulating companies that issue stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments. But in the past decade, as crypto went from niche to mainstream, the SEC expanded its scope. Under Chair Gary Gensler, the SEC has taken a firm stance that many digital assets—especially those involved in staking, yield farming, or offering returns—are unregistered securities . The reasoning? If investors are led to expect profits from the efforts of others, it likely falls under the Howey Test, the decades-old benchmark for identifying securities. So wha...

The fight for the top spot among non-fungible token marketplaces has heated up this month, with OpenSea, a non-fungible token marketplace once known as the market leader in the non-fungible token market, returning to the top spot. In the previous NFT bull market of late 2024, OpenSea lost its dominance over Magic Eden, which saw billions of dollars in daily volume. OpenSea Tops In NFT Sales In April 2025 Data compiled by tiexo.com, a multi-chain non-fungible token collections explorer, indicates that OpenSea has been the most-traded non-fungible token marketplace in April. From April 01 to April 29, the OpenSea NFT marketplace amassed a trading sales volume of $98 million, taking down the leading non-fungible token marketplaces, such as Magic Eden and Blur, in the NFT market. Launched in 2017, OpenSea is a non-fungible token market platform that allows crypto users to buy, sell, create, and trade NFTs. This platform has rapidly become one of the largest NFT trading platforms, w...

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The cryptocurrency market has witnessed several ups and downs over the years. 2025, so far, has been a perfect example of the industry’s volatile nature. Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s largest cryptocurrency, went from rising to its all-time high of $109,114.88 to a low of $74,436.68. Meanwhile, assets like Ethereum (ETH) barely saw any major changes in price during the past month. But with the new month around the corner, the community is eager to see how things unravel for both these cryptocurrencies. Also Read: Grayscale Warns: $61M Lost as SEC Delays Ethereum ETF Staking! How Are Bitcoin and Ethereum Faring Today? Source: Watcher Guru Bitcoin, after a long stay above $80,000, was back over $90,000. The king was trading at $94,781.90 at the time of writing. This comes after a 0.61% rise over the past 24 hours. The highest that BTC has surged this month is $95,768.39. Source: CoinMarketCap Meanwhile, Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency, was priced at $1,810.55 at press...

Summary ⚈Trader nets $670K in a day by swapping Fartcoin for TRUMP tokens amid dinner invite hype. ⚈ Top 25 TRUMP holders promised exclusive dinner with Trump, fueling whale activity. ⚈ TRUMP token is volatile but remains up 82% on the week, trading above key support. A cryptocurrency trader has netted almost $670,000 through a trade involving the Official Trump (TRUMP), amid a rush by the coin’s top holders to secure an exclusive dinner with President Donald Trump. Details of the trade indicate that the investor began by swapping their entire 1.18 million Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) position, valued at $1.22 million, into 78,671 TRUMP tokens, according to the latest on-chain data retrieved by Finbold from Lookonchain on April 27. This transaction saw the trader move funds from Jupiter Aggregator Authority 14 to a wallet. The TRUMP token, launched by President Trump, surged in value, resulting in a portfolio worth $1.96 million and a profit of $669,000 in...

Cryptocurrency analyst Benjamin Cowen is saying Bitcoin (BTC) is primed to continue outperforming altcoins over the near term. Cowen tells his 894,000 YouTube subscribers that, based on the social risk metric, which gauges crypto market sentiment based on the social media activity of market participants, altcoins could continue underperforming the crypto king. “I have often said Ethereum is sort of like the index of the altcoin market. If it’s doing poorly, interest in crypto is not that high and altcoins aren’t really doing that great. And you can see that as Ethereum has collapsed, so too did the social risk. So when we talk about the social interest in crypto and it being low, what it means is that altcoins will likely keep bleeding to Bitcoin.” Source: Benjamin Cowen/YouTube According to the widely followed analyst, the loosening of the US monetary policy could turn the tide in favor of altcoins. “Despite what people say, they truly w...

A March 31 Finbold report found that Elon Musk’s tenure with the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.) coincided with a 40% decline in the number of Dogecoin (DOGE) millionaire addresses, with the billionaire’s historical influence on the meme coin hinting at causation rather than mere correlation. However, on April 8, a process was initiated that culminated in the businessman announcing the winding down of D.O.G.E. involvement, due to a tariff spat with Pete Navarro, President Donald Trump’s trade advisor. By April 25, Finbold Research had found that Musk’s anticipated exit led to the emergence of 183 new DOGE millionaires – a 14.33% increase compared to April 8, the starting date of mounting tensions between Elon Musk, the Trump administration, and their joint government efforts via D.O.G.E. Specifically, the number of addresses holding between $1 million and $9.99 million worth of Dogecoin increased from 1,082 to 1,223 since the initial reported disput...

BRICS member China officially rolled out a plan to promote its own payment system to replace SWIFT. The Communist country aims to reduce US dollar dependency to confront Washington’s aggressive stance on trade and tariffs. The new plan was jointly released by the Shanghai municipal government and the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank. Also Read: BRICS: India Plays ‘Double Game’ With the US Dollar? The new payment system from BRICS member China will incorporate the Chinese yuan through the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS). China wants to leverage its dominance in the manufacturing and trade sector and push the Chinese yuan for settlements. Also Read: Illinois Analyst Predicts If BRICS Currency Can Replace the US Dollar BRICS: China Will Take on SWIFT Through CIPS Payment System Source: silkroadbriefing.com The BRICS country China revealed that it will “enhance the functionality” of CIPS and challenge the Western-dominated SWIFT payment system. “...

Crypto firms are now waiting to hear back on 72 active applications for new crypto-related exchange-traded funds (ETFs). James Seyffart, an ETF analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, compiled the list of submissions to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). ETFs awaiting approval include funds tied to Solana (SOL), XRP (XRP), Sui (SUI), Litecoin (LTC), Axelar (AXL) Hedera (HBAR), BNB, Cardano (ADA), Avalanche (AVAX), Dogecoin (DOGE), Polkadot (DOT), Aptos (APT), Chainlink (LINK), Pudgy Penguins (PENGU), Official Trump (TRUMP), Melania (MELANIA) and Bonk (BONK). Other potential new ETFs are tied to a basket of currencies, and a few are based on Bitcoin (BTC) and/or Ethereum (ETH), assets that have already been approved for inclusion in other spot ETFs. Eric Balchunas, a senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, predicts that BTC ETFs will remain dominant regardless of the number of altcoin funds that are approved. “No Second Best? Bitcoin ETFs c...

Summary ⚈ Bitcoin open interest surged to a two-month high of $33.84 billion on April 23, reflecting a 39.68% increase from earlier in the month, following President Trump’s 90-day tariff pause. ⚈ BTC’s price rose by 19.65% from $78,210 on April 7 to $93,580 on April 23, supported by a rise in long positions and growing derivatives activity. ⚈ Analysts, including Tom Lee and Standard Chartered, are increasingly bullish, with projections suggesting Bitcoin could reach $100,000 soon and potentially rally to $200,000 by year-end. The leading digital asset, Bitcoin (BTC), has seen a sharp increase in derivatives trading since President Trump announced a 90-day tariff pause on April 20. To be more precise, Bitcoin open interest reached a 2-month high on April 23, with over 33.84 billion open positions, representing a 39.68% surge from a local low of approximately 24.23 billion on April 7, according to data retrieved by Finbold from cryptocurrency market intelligence platf...

Yuga Labs, the firm behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), is chasing down the crypto assets of Jermey Cahen, aka Pauly0x, while claiming that the disgraced crypto influencer is deliberately avoiding a $9 million judgment against him. The firm claims that Cahen is employing “dilatory tactics” and has tried to “sidestep his financial responsibilities” by moving bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), and pepecoin (PEPE), together worth almost $400,000, into four separate wallets.  Attorneys for Yuga Labs requested that a California court issue a “Turnover Order.” This, if granted, requires Cahen to hand over the keys to these wallets to the US Marshals Service so that his funds can be transferred and fulfill the court judgment that was decided in February 2024.  Cahen was found liable for disgorgement of profits in relation to a series of copycat BAYC NFTs that he sold. However, Yuga Labs says Cahen made “ a mockery of this court’s final judgement ” by refusing to pay the h...

Former Goldman Sachs executive Raoul Pal believes that one Solana (SOL) competitor looks to be in a position for a massive breakout. Pal tells his 1.1 million followers on the social media platform X that the Tom DeMark (TD) Sequential Indicator is flashing bullish for the layer-1 platform Sui (SUI). Traders use the TD Sequential Indicator to predict potential trend reversals for tokens based on the closing prices of their previous nine or 13 bars or candles. He also suggests that SUI is on the verge of breaking out of a downward channel, a bearish pattern indicating that the asset is forming lower highs and lower lows. “Sui: knock, knocking, knocking on heaven’s door.” Source: Raoul Pal/X Other analysts are also suggesting SUI may be gearing up for an explosive move. Pseudonymous trader Cheds says if SUI can break through its immediate resistance, it may start printing significant rallies. “$2.50 overhead is a long trigger.” Me...

The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) was in the news again this weekend for all the wrong reasons. Critiques of their decadent expenditures, delayed metaverse, and gullible members earned hundreds of thousands of views. First, a new critique of the innumerable thefts of Bored Ape holders went viral. Laughing at the thought of an obvious phishing website convincing a Bored Ape holder to enter their private key, the claptrap earned thousands of likes. This critique hearkened to many successful thefts of Bored Apes by even moderately sophisticated black hat coders. For many years, gullible BAYC members have voluntarily clicked buttons in their wallets, visited malicious websites, fallen for Ponzi schemes, and believed inauthentic messages about airdrops or migrations. It has become something of a running joke in the crypto community to poke fun at BAYC members for poor operational security (OpSec) and inexperienced crypto safekeeping. Here’s what’s behind the fall ...

Crypto investor and billionaire Barry Silbert says there’s one digital asset play that he thinks will be the “next big investment theme” for the asset class. In a new interview with Raoul Pal on the Real Vision YouTube channel, Silbert says that he’s created a new venture called Yuma, which exclusively focuses on Bittensor (TAO), a decentralized blockchain-based network built for a global, collaborative marketplace for artificial intelligence (AI). Says the Digital Currency Group (DCG) CEO, “I started looking across the whole decentralized AI space and started digging in on Bittensor, and I very quickly came to the conclusion that from a theme or era perspective, this was the next big era for crypto. You had the Bitcoin and the Ethereum and the NFTs (non-fungible tokens), and you had the layer 2s and DeFi (decentralized finance)… I think this is the next big investment theme for crypto, and there are a number of projects that ...

In what is a major development for the company, Ford has announced that it is halting shipments of certain vehicles to China amid a brewing trade war with the US. Indeed, the automaker is suspending shipments of its F-150 and other models to the country as tensions between both nations rise. The arrival of the United States’ Liberation Day tariff plan has seen concerns of a trade war persist in recent weeks. Moreover, Ford’s decision to cease its shipments came just a day after the company issued a memo warning that it would consider raising prices if both nations’ import duty increases remained. JUST IN: Ford suspends shipments of F-150 trucks and other cars to China. pic.twitter.com/WvZcasq6xZ — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) April 18, 2025 Also Read: China Imports Record Amounts of Canadian Oil, Cuts US Purchases Ford Halting Shipments of F-150s, Other Vehicles to China Amid Retaliatory Tariffs In recent weeks, tension between the United States and China has reached a...