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ETH Smashes $4.1K: Fueling the Next Ethereum Rally

Crypto News — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:15:03 +0000

ETH Smashes $4.1K: Fueling the Next Ethereum Rally - Forex News by FX Leaders

Ethereum (ETH) is at a turning point in its price trend for this year.

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Ripple and SEC Agree to Dismiss Appeals Ending XRP Lawsuit

Crypto News — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:06:34 +0000

Ripple and SEC Agree to Dismiss Appeals Ending XRP Lawsuit

Ripple and the SEC have agreed to dismiss their appeals, ending the nearly five-year-long legal battle in the XRP Lawsuit.

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TL;DR

Ripple and the SEC have officially dropped their appeals, ending a five-year legal showdown over whether XRP is a security. With the court drama behind them, XRP’s price is looking bullish—analysts reckon it could spike toward $4.80 if institutional backing and friendly regulations keep rolling in.

Globally, Ripple’s momentum is heating up: Japan’s SBI Holdings is gearing up to launch the country’s first Bitcoin/XRP ETF (and eyeing a $1 billion XRP buy), while South Korea’s BDACS has added XRP custody and exchange access. Meanwhile, Ripple’s shooting for a National Trust Bank in New York to weave XRP straight into U.S. financial rails.

Hacker still holds $14 billion in stolen Bitcoin from massive 2020 LuBian attack: Arkham

Crypto News — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:01:36 +0000

Hacker still holds $14 billion in stolen Bitcoin from massive 2020 LuBian attack: Arkham

LuBian Bitcoin theft remains unresolved as $14.5 billion in stolen Bitcoin from a 2020 hack continues to sit in the hacker's wallet.

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A hat-trick of distrust: back in December 2020, an unknown hacker drained 127,426 BTC—about $3.5 billion at the time—from Chinese mining pool LuBian and has sat on the entire stash ever since a July 2024 wallet consolidation. Arkham Intelligence’s deep dive pegs today’s value north of $14 billion and points to a weak key-generation algorithm as the likely exploit, making it both the biggest and one of the most stealthy crypto heists in history.

LuBian quietly quit mining by March 2021 without ever owning up to the breach, quietly moving its remaining 11,886 BTC (~$1.3 billion) into so-called recovery wallets. Meanwhile, the mystery thief now ranks 13th among the world’s largest Bitcoin holders—outranking even the infamous Mt. Gox hacker—yet hasn’t budged a single Satoshi since last summer.

Ethereum: "The Biggest Macro Trade of the Next Decade"

Crypto News — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:01:05 +0000

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Ethereum Unveils 10 Year Plan, Aiming for 10,000 TPS, Quantum Resistance, and more ‣ BlockNews

Crypto News — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:00:45 +0000

Ethereum Unveils 10 Year Plan, Aiming for 10,000 TPS, Quantum Resistance, and more ‣ BlockNews

Justin Drake unveiled “lean Ethereum,” a 10-year vision to scale Ethereum to 10,000 TPS on Layer 1 and 1 million TPS on Layer 2 while maintaining full decentralization and 100% uptime. The plan includes bold upgrades like Beacon Chain 2.0, EVM 2.0 (possibly using RISC-V), and quantum-resistant cryptography using hash-native zk-VMs and hash-based signatures. Drake

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Ethereum’s own Justin Drake just dropped a “lean Ethereum” manifesto for the next decade: push the base layer to 10,000 TPS (that’s not a typo) and Layer 2 networks to 1 million TPS, all while staying fully decentralized and up 100% of the time. He’s talking Beacon Chain 2.0, an RISC-V-powered EVM 2.0, post-quantum blobs, hash-native zk-VMs and hash-based signatures—basically a full tech facelift to future-proof Ethereum against quantum threats and data bloat.

But it’s not just code; it’s a vibe. Drake’s minimalism-meets-modularity approach (think “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”) champions simplicity, encapsulated complexity and a healthy diversity of views across the community. With new EF co-directors steering the ship, this lean vision could be the rallying cry—or just one of many wild ideas—as Ethereum sails into its second decade.

Strategy Reports $10 Billion Q2 Profit, Plans to Raise $4.2 Billion to Buy More Bitcoin - Decrypt

Crypto News — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:38:09 +0000

Strategy Reports $10 Billion Q2 Profit, Plans to Raise $4.2 Billion to Buy More Bitcoin - Decrypt

Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, reported profit of $10 billion after its Bitcoin holdings rebounded during the second quarter.

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Crypto markets are chill but mostly in the green today: Bitcoin’s hanging around $114,167 (down 0.09%), Ethereum’s at $3,633 (+1.85%), Solana at $167 (+2.11%), and BNB sits near $759 (+0.21%). Litecoin steals the show with a 5.5% bump to $123, while Uniswap (+3.9%), Avalanche (+2.3%) and Bitcoin Cash (+3.3%) also flex.

Stablecoins like USDC, USDT and USDS cling to the $1 peg, but a few coins are slipping—Stellar’s down 1%, Monero’s off by 3.5%, TON drops almost 3%, and Shiba Inu dips about 0.5%. Overall, it’s a mixed bag but mostly up for the alts.

XRP plunges below $3 erasing billions overnight

Crypto News — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:37:32 +0000

XRP plunges below $3 erasing billions overnight

XRP price plunged below the critical $3 threshold early Friday as the broader cryptocurrency market reacted sharply to newly imposed tariffs.

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Strategy Closes $2.52B STRC IPO, Acquires 21,021 Bitcoin At $117K Each

Crypto News — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:37:03 +0000

Strategy Closes $2.52B STRC IPO, Acquires 21,021 Bitcoin At $117K Each

Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), formerly known as MicroStrategy, has completed a $2.52 billion initial public offering (IPO) of its STRC preferred stock and used the proceeds to purchase 21,021 Bitcoin at an average price of $117,256 per BTC, the company announced July 29. The STRC stock offering, the largest U.S. IPO of 2025 to date, involved 28,011,111 shares of Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock, priced at $90 per share. The stock is set to begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Sel

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Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) just pulled off a $2.52 billion IPO of 28 million STRC preferred shares at $90 each—2025’s biggest U.S. IPO so far—and immediately plowed the $2.474 billion net proceeds into 21,021 BTC (avg. ~$117,256 apiece). That haul lifts its total Bitcoin stash to 628,791 BTC (avg. cost ~$73,227, $46.8 billion spent) and STRC starts trading on Nasdaq July 30 under the ticker “STRC.”

This STRC deal is a first-of-its-kind U.S. perpetual preferred security from a Bitcoin treasury company, offering monthly board-set dividends and a short-duration, income-oriented structure for yield hunters. Led by Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Moelis & Company and TD Securities, Strategy now sports four Nasdaq tickers (MSTR, STRK, STRF, STRD) as it keeps issuing equity, debt and structured products to fund its Bitcoin buys.

Crypto market wipes out $150 billion in a day amid new tariffs

Crypto News — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:36:35 +0000

Crypto market wipes out $150 billion in a day amid new tariffs

The crypto market saw over $150 billion in market value wiped out in a day, falling from $3.89 trillion to $3.74 trillion.

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Ripple Founder dumps 50 million XRP

Crypto News — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:36:06 +0000

Ripple Founder dumps 50 million XRP - Forex News by FX Leaders

Chris Larsen, a co-founder of Ripple, transferred 50 million XRP to exchanges, prompting claims of "insider dumping"

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The Ethereum network turns 10y.o. with ZERO downtime and without missing a single block

Crypto News — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:35:38 +0000

Ethereum Celebrates 10 Years of Uptime With Vitalik Buterin and Global Livestream

The Ethereum Foundation will host a global livestream celebration on July 30 featuring Vitalik Buterin and prominent ecosystem builders to commemorate

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TL;DR

Ethereum just hit a massive milestone—10 years of perfect, uninterrupted uptime without missing a single block—and the community is throwing a global livestream party on July 30 to celebrate. Co-founders Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Lubin will be joined by ecosystem heavyweights like Timothy Beiko, Tomasz Stanczak, Hww and more to toast a decade of decentralized resilience that’s consistently outperformed traditional, centralized systems.

Tune in at 2:30 pm UTC for the live event hosted by the Ethereum Foundation, where developers, researchers and builders will reflect on past upgrades, share insights and kick off the next chapter of the network’s evolution.

Fed Chair Powell: “Bitcoin is like digital gold”

Crypto News — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:32:29 +0000

Fed Chair Powell: Bitcoin Is 'Like Gold, It's Just Virtual And Digital'

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell addressed the perception of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) at the DealBook Summit on Wednesday, asserting that the cryptocurrency is more akin to gold than the U.S. dollar. “People use Bitcoin as a speculative asset. It’s ...

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At the DealBook Summit, Fed Chair Jerome Powell shrugged off Bitcoin as “just virtual and digital”—more like gold than a real cash contender. He called it a speculative toy, too wild to use for payments or as a stable store of value, and stressed it doesn’t undermine the Fed or the dollar. Crypto shouldn’t shake the banking system, he said, regulation isn’t the Fed’s gig, and by the way, he’s personally not allowed to own Bitcoin.

Powell also gave props to the U.S. economy, calling it in “remarkably good shape” with around 2.5% growth, inflation cooling from over 7% to about 2.3%, and unemployment holding steady. That healthy backdrop, he argued, gives the Fed room to tiptoe toward a neutral rate without blowing up inflation wins or labor-market gains.