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View More NewsThe launch delivers on a memorandum of understanding the two firms signed in August 2025 and builds on a relationship dating to 2016, when Ripple and SBI began working together on cross-border payments and blockchain infrastructure in Asia.RLUSD will “serve as a bridge for payments, tokenization and collateral management,” connecting Japanese businesses to global dollar liquidity, said Jack McDonald, Ripple’s senior vice president of stablecoins, in a statement.RLUSD is Ripple’s bet on the regulated end of the stablecoin market, and it is separate from XRP, the closely-linked token the company is best known for. Ripple has long pitched RLUSD as…
In brief Meme stock traders on Reddit have put their efforts behind fast-food chain Wendy’s. Shares in the firm have bounced over 25% on Wednesday amid a surge of posts seeking to “save” the franchise. Even after the daily spike, WEN shares have fallen 66% in the last five years. Bitcoin is sinking Wednesday, but retail investors have their eye on a different risk asset, helping shares in fast-food chain Wendy’s (WEN) surge nearly 26%.The McDonald’s and Burger King rival sank as low as $6.08 per share in early week trading, but finished Wednesday trading at $7.86, a more than…
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The latest and most fearsome round of fighting in the long shadow war with the Islamic Republic of Iran is not ending well for the United States and Israel. The ceasefire agreement signed by President Trump in Versailles on 17 June is not a full peace treaty, but Iran’s leaders have nonetheless greeted it as an unalloyed triumph. They had, they boasted, “through the imposition of their divine and iron will upon the humiliated American and Zionist enemies, demonstrated with strength that the enemy has no path other than accepting defeat and surrender.”Though salient details of the “memorandum of understanding”…
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In brief Bitcoin fell to its lowest point in 21 months, dragging down leading altcoins and crypto stocks with it. The weakness appears to…
There’s a certain detachment you might feel when conversing with a chatbot. You type a question into a box and seconds later, a polished…
from the an-actual-political-prisoner dept In Trump’s America, the First Amendment is a dead letter. If you’re seen as anti-Trump, you apparently no longer have…
Yakovenko’s comments stood out because they came from one of Ethereum’s most prominent competitors. While debates between Ethereum and Solana supporters have often been…
Deprecated Aztec infrastructure has suffered a second exploit within days, adding to concerns about the security of abandoned smart contract infrastructure.Aztec’s private rollup bridge…
In brief Ireland’s government launched a new National Risk Assessment and 30-point action plan Thursday, naming the misuse of crypto-assets among the country’s evolving…
From yesterday’s Complaint in Spatz v. Stewart & TheaterMania (S.D.N.Y.): This is an action for libel per se, and false statements causing special damages.…
The biggest winners from the rotation have been memory and semiconductor stocks. Memory-chip maker Sandisk (SNDK) has surged roughly 800% this year and the…
G7 leaders broadened their warning over North Korean crypto theft to include wider cybercrime as researchers link DPRK-affiliated actors to billions of dollars in…
In brief CME Group, the world’s largest futures exchange operator, plans to sue the CFTC over its approval of crypto perpetual futures, outgoing CEO…
The U.S. Supreme Court just added a new case to its upcoming 2026–27 docket that should interest fans of early American history. At issue…
Malta’s financial regulator is exploring how decentralized finance (DeFi) could fit within the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework, focusing on governance, accountability…