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Kalshi is now officially offering U.S. traders the ability to trade XRP perpetual contracts.
The move adds to a burgeoning list of regulated crypto perpetual products it’s running.
Demand for U.S.-based trading of perpetuals is building on Kalshi’s record-breaking launch.
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CFTC Chairman Michael Selig stated that crypto perps are appropriate for digital assets, but not agricultural products.
The agency will encourage innovation in crypto, while maintaining the traditional market structures in commodities.
Selig also backed prediction markets and

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Cody Carbone, CEO of Digital Chamber, told the United States Senate that digital assets can help reduce payments, remittance and asset ownership costs.
Stablecoins and payment rails built on blockchain could cut costs of cross-border payments and merchant transactions.

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Certain Cardano wallets have been compromised in a wallet-level incident, said SecondFi.
The staff of the team advised users to not enter recovery phrases into other Cardano wallets as there is still a risk at the address level.
Security researchers believe the losses could

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The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has announced that it has fired 54, or about 20%, of employees following a weeks-long restructuring.
EF has restructured into five clusters of core functional responsibilities: protocol, access, user, community and institutional development.
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T54 introduced a new agentic finance stack on the XRP Ledger combining payments, credit, and risk tools.
Access to risk checks and credit services enables AI agents to also perform transactions with x402.
The development paves the way for XRPL to serve as an infrastructure layer f

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Ripple received preliminary MiCA CASP approval from Luxembourg’s CSSF.
The license could allow Ripple Payments to operate across all 30 EEA countries.
Ripple’s combined CASP and EMI licenses strengthen its regulated stablecoin and payments business.
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Ripple has invested strategically in the Series E funding round of Flutterwave for $3.2 billion, valuing the African fintech firm at that amount.
RLUSD, Ripple Payments and XRP Ledger will be integrated by Flutterwave to broaden the use of stablecoins for cross-border payments.

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The shares of Strategy’s share price were also down to a record low, all while trading well below a $100 target value.
The falling price continued to close STRC’s effective yield near 13%, indicating increased risk awareness among investors.
Market participants are increasingly