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Crypto · past 14 days

Digital assets beyond the price chart: protocols and upgrades, stablecoins and the money layer, exploits and their root causes, and the regulation shaping where the industry can operate.

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Ripple-Backed XRP Treasury Company Clears the SEC and Sets a September 30 Shareholder Vote

Evernorth's merger with a listed shell company would put a token-holding balance sheet on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN.

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Bitcoin Holds Near $79,000 After a 23% Week as Sentiment Gauge Reaches 74

The same measure sat at 27 less than two weeks ago, and spot exchange-traded funds took in $1.92 billion over the past week.

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Bitcoin Holds Above $77,000 After Its Largest Weekly Gain in Two Years

XRP rose 46 percent over the same week as traders positioned for Kevin Warsh's first Jackson Hole address on Friday, while Russia's central bank told households to stay out of mining.

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A Second Crypto Executive Vanishes in Europe as Bitcoin Posts a 22 Percent Week

Four years after the founder of a European exchange disappeared, his successor has too, and the unresolved collapse illustrates why custody risk keeps returning during price rallies.

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Bitcoin Tops $69,000 and Ether Gains 18% After the Treasury Enlarges Its Bond Buybacks

Traders who had bet against digital assets lost about $2.74 billion in a single day, the largest short-side liquidation CoinDesk records outside the October 2025 crash.

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Bitcoin Holds Above $64,000 as Miners Divert a Fifth of Their Computing Power to AI

Listed miners outside one expanding operator cut realised hashrate 21 percent in six months, while Moscow banned mining outright from August 15.

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Bitcoin Recovers Above $64,000 in Asian Trading After Every Major Token Fell Over the Week

XRP slipped to about $1 while futures open interest in the token reached $2.78 billion, with traders on Binance and OKX positioned long against social sentiment at a three-month low.

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Bitcoin Trades Below 63,000 Dollars While Gold Sits Near Its Highs

The digital asset has fallen roughly a third from about 93,000 dollars at the start of the year, and it declined again in the week that inflation data cooled.

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Bitcoin Slips Below $63,000 While Gold Holds Near Records, Separating the Two Hard-Money Trades

The largest cryptocurrency fell about 0.9 per cent on Friday as regulatory work on tokenisation stalled, even as a war-driven energy shock lifted commodity prices.

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