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After momentarily surpassing one of its strongest usage milestones in recent months, on-chain payment activity on the XRP Ledger has seen a sharp reversal. At the beginning of August, the daily payment volume between accounts surged above one billion XRP, but within a day, it fell by about 90%, demonstrating how erratic network activity still is.
Crypto
Another lower high and lower low means that Bitcoin is on the verge of a fall to lower levels. $60K is the target.
XRP coin sits near $1.06 with the 200 EMA far overhead and the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate. Here is what the daily chart says about buying now.
BNB Chain accuses a former employee of secretly controlling a tutorial wallet used to launch the ASTEROID token, netting an estimated $628,000.
Ripple said the deals are set to bring regulated transfer agency, issuance, and collateral mobility to its infrastructure on the XRP Ledger.
After enjoying a substantial recovery through most of July, Bitcoin (BTC) began reversing later in the month, and Finbold's artificial intelligence (AI) predictive machine learning algorithm estimates that the latest downtrend will persist by August 31.
The crypto market is becoming increasingly selective. Instead of chasing speculative tokens, institutional investors are focusing on projects with real revenue, tokenization infrastructure, AI, decentralized trading, enterprise adoption, and payment networks. While Bitcoin continues to dominate market sentiment, several altcoins are quietly strengthening their fundamentals through major partnerships, protocol upgrades, and growing on-chain activity.
A misconfigured macro in Coldcard firmware silently weakened seed entropy for five years, resulting in 1,367 BTC stolen across 4,585 addresses.
Almost everyone learns to make money the same way: buy something, wait for it to rise, sell it for more. But crypto falls at least as often as it rises, and shorting is how traders profit when it does.
XRP trades below resistance as institutional accumulation continues beneath the surface.
Rollups process 41x more activity than Ethereum L1, yet ETH captures just 4.9% of app-layer fees — here's why value accrual has stalled.
Circle (NYSE: CRCL) stock price dropped by 2.54% on July 31 to close trading at $62. The drop marked the end of a bearish month for Circle shares, after the stock posted its biggest monthly decline in history.
Ripple is continuing its tokenization approach with strategic investments in two companies that are dedicated to digital capital markets infrastructure (CMI): ZILO and Licuido. This deal boosts Ripple's push to introduce regulated transfer agency, token issuance and collateral mobility features to institutional finance on the XRP Ledger.
The Coldcard exploit is not a hack in the way most people understand the word. Nobody broke into anything.
Coldcard halts shipments after a firmware bug tied to $90M in Bitcoin thefts across four attack waves. Here's what happened and what users must do.
Bitcoin started the week under pressure, falling to the $62,229 level after seeing a liquidation of $146.66 million. This came even after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he had canceled a planned military strike on Iran to give diplomacy another chance.
One of the ripple effects of the Coldcard wallet hack has been a debate over the best ways to store cryptocurrency. Against this backdrop, Ripple CTO and XRP Ledger co-creator David Schwartz presented an original solution for secure Bitcoin cold storage, proposing a household control-splitting scheme based on the "nuclear briefcase" principle.
Ripple invested in ZILO and Licuido to add transfer agency, token issuance and collateral trading tools to its XRP Ledger infrastructure.
South Korea's benchmark KOSPI volatility has hit a historic milestone. The index's year-to-date return swings have surged to 63%, officially surpassing Bitcoin's 48% reading, according to Bloomberg data published July 31, 2026.
Ripple invests in ZILO and Licuido to expand XRPL's capital markets infrastructure with regulated issuance, collateral mobility, and tokenized assets.
