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View More NewsIn brief Ripple struck a multi-year deal with the University of Florida to feature the XRP logo on the field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, plus digital properties and signage, alongside a commitment to fund financial and technology education for student-athletes. It’s Ripple’s latest college-sports play, following a deal earlier this year to put the XRP logo on Kansas Jayhawks basketball jerseys. The branding push comes as XRP trades around $1.41—up 34.9% over 30 days but down 49.8% on the year. Ripple is taking its crypto-in-college-sports playbook to the Swamp, striking a multi-year marketing deal with the University of Florida…
US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have recorded their strongest three-week inflow stretch of 2026 as Bitcoin traded around $80,000.The funds attracted $986.9 million in the week ending Friday, bringing net inflows over the past three weeks to $3.8 billion, according to SoSoValue data.Total net assets across the funds stood at $101.3 billion on Friday after briefly rising to $103.3 billion a day earlier, while cumulative net inflows reached $55.6 billion.ETF demand marks a sharp turnaround from heavy outflows earlier in 2026, though year-to-date net flows remain roughly $1 billion negative.Bitcoin ETF inflows cool after Thursday surgeUS spot Bitcoin ETFs…
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Post-quantum infrastructure company QuFi Network has launched a verification platform designed to protect digital assets against future quantum computing threats without requiring changes to…
In brief Researchers identified more than 18,000 posts and 15,000 edits by AI agents on a German programming wiki. OpenAI disputed an expert’s hacking…
If your legal status in this country isn’t dependent on keeping your job, you might want to run out the clock this Friday afternoon…
BTC pushed through the level that capped it in late August, while zcash gained 16% and dash 19%. Read the full article here
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In brief Bitcoin briefly displayed a price of $0.019 on Revolut overnight—a 99.99% drop from its actual trading level near $79,000. The glitch didn’t…
U.S. and Iran exchange fire, but the official line is that it’s not a resumption of the war. This is obviously in the eye…
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading…
European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said stablecoins are not Europe’s best route to strengthening the euro’s international role, pushing back against calls…
In brief New daily XRP addresses fell 85% from 18,000 in December 2024 to 5,020, with monthly active supply down 73% over the same…
from the this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things dept In late 2023, I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring the FCC’s attempt to stop race and class discrimination in broadband…
I recently wrote about the latest campus disruption at UCLA. As you might have predicted, the students who interrupted the event faced no consequences.…