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Stuart Alderoty, Ripple Labs’s Chief Legal Officer, took to Twitter to voice concerns over potential conflicts of interest involving former SEC official, Bill Hinman. Alderoty tweeted, “Crypto critic/x-SEC official John Reed Stark says there should be an investigation into Bill Hinman. This is broader than Ripple – there could potentially be serious conflicts of interest

MakerDAO, one of the early pioneers of decentralized finance, has sparked criticism over its decision to block virtual private network (VPN) users from accessing its recently launched lending platform, Spark Protocol. At the time of writing, VPN users that attempt to access the Spark Protocol website will be met with an error: “Accessing this website

CoinGecko launched a new index tracking the biggest crypto tokens viewed as likely securities by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  The ‘Top Alleged Securities Coins’ page sorts the selection of crypto assets by market capitalization, placing Binance Coin (BNB) at the top of the list — followed by Cardano (ADA), Solana (SOL)

Bad news for Ripple and XRP? The U.S crypto regulation landscape, already mired in uncertainty, has been thrown into further turmoil yesterday following diverging judicial opinions about the classification of cryptocurrencies as securities. However, Ripple Labs’ Chief Legal Officer (CLO) Stuart Alderoty has held firm, insisting that a recent controversial ruling against Terraform Labs has

Bitcoin (BTC) continued its boring price action over the weekend, indicating that the bulls and the bears are not waging large bets as they are uncertain about the next directional move. Nevertheless, traders should continue to keep a close watch because a period of consolidation is usually followed by an increase in volatility.  Although it

AAVE, the governance token of the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave, experienced a 17% decline between July 30 and August 1, reaching the $62 level.  While the $62 support has demonstrated its resilience, the current price of $64.40 is still 12% below the daily close on July 30. Investors are now questioning whether this movement

Members of the XRP community were left shocked due to a mysterious memo on a recent escrow transaction involving 400 million tokens valued at $275 million, leaving users perplexed about the origin and individual behind the memo.  The Mystery Memo In An XRP Transaction As part of its monthly escrow transaction exercise, Ripple unlocked XRP

A miner extractable value (MEV) bot that drained 6,106 Ether from the Curve Finance pETH-ETH pool has returned most of the funds to the JPEG’d deployer, which represents nearly all of the drained funds. This event occurred after the bot’s address sent a message on the Ethereum blockchain seeking to prove that their email address was associated with the

Last month, a team of South Korean scientists claimed they engineered a superconducting material, dubbed LK-99, that works under ambient temperature and pressure. In layman’s terms, the team allegedly created a material allowing electrical currents to flow without resistance or energy loss. Previously, such types of materials were only thought to have functioned at absolute

Following the landmark court ruling in Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) case, Ripple has cleared up some widespread misconceptions regarding the ruling. The company provided a detailed Q2 2023 XRP markets report today, where it underscored the verdict’s implications and presented key statistics about its XRP holdings. On July 13, 2023, a significant milestone was

Bitcoin (BTC) continues to frustrate traders who have been predicting a breakout on either side but investors should keep a close watch because the longer the time spent inside the range, the stronger is the eventual breakout from it. The July jobs report released on Aug. 4 was a mixed bag, hence it could not

Optimism (OP) is a Layer 2 scaling solution, which operates as a separate blockchain built on top of Ethereum. Despite having a smaller total value locked (TVL) than its rivals, Optimism may still have the potential to thrive in the increasingly competitive DeFi landscape.  Being one of the pioneers in the DeF space, Optimism initially

In a recent CNBC interview, Ripple President Monica Long announced the firm’s intentions to re-engage with the US market. This development follows the major court ruling clarifying that XRP, Ripple’s affiliated digital currency, is not considered a security in US. Long expressed her enthusiasm for the clarity the ruling provides. She explained, “It’s been a

Unibot (UNIBOT) token was among the top crypto gainers in July as its price rallied by 400% in a month to reach an all-time high of $199.90 on July 28. The project defied the market’s negative trend as both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) dropped by nearly 4%. However, by August 3, 2023, the token’s

Crypto-spouting Twitter bots could be playing a much larger role in artificially inflating the price of altcoins than previously understood, a new study has suggested. Using a sample of various FTX-listed cryptocurrencies in a study published Aug. 2, the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) said it analyzed over 3 million tweets posted between Jan. 1, 2019, to

Popular blockchain technology company, Ripple, has recently announced it was returning 800 million XRP tokens to its escrow wallet just after unlocking 1 billion tokens for this month. News of the event was reported by the prominent blockchain analytics and tracking platform Whale Alert.  Ripple’s Commitment To Preserve Its Ecosystem In a series of tweets