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The token's fully diluted valuation briefly topped $200 billion before insider allocation concerns triggered a steep sell-off. A meme coin trading under the ticker LAPTOP, a reference to Hunter Biden, has lost over 90% of its value from its peak, according to CoinGape.

Cathie Wood's firm asks regulators to let it issue a blockchain-based share class for its venture fund. ARK Investment Management has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to create a tokenized share class for its venture fund.

The exchange can now offer regulated crypto and cross-border payment services in the city-state. Gemini has received a Major Payment Institution license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, according to reports from Cointelegraph, Fintech News Singapore, crypto.news and Coinfomania.

Validator support for the BatchV1_1 amendment has stalled short of the supermajority required to bring it live, as XRP trades near $1.41. The XRP Ledger's proposed Batch upgrade has not reached the validator support required to go live.

The company added 28,086 ETH, pushing its treasury to 5.93 million coins worth roughly $14.8 billion. Bitmine has added 28,086 ETH to its balance sheet, a purchase valued at roughly $70 million, according to multiple reports. The acquisition lifts the company's total Ethereum holdings to approximately 5.93 million coins.

The brokerage's move into prediction markets sent Crypto.com's native CRO token sharply higher. Robinhood has taken equity stakes in Crypto.com and in OG.com, a prediction market spinout, according to reports published Monday. The arrangement links two major players in crypto and betting-adjacent finance to Robinhood’s growing prediction markets push.

The Ethereum Foundation has made quantum resistance a top priority, aligning its timeline with Google and Microsoft. The Ethereum Foundation has confirmed that quantum resistance is now among its highest-priority engineering goals. The organization has set a target deadline of December 2029 to complete the transition.

The plan calls for Ethereum's Layer 1 to withstand quantum computing attacks by the end of 2029. The Ethereum Foundation has set a target date of December 2029 for making Ethereum's Layer 1 network quantum-resistant, according to reports from crypto.news, CoinGape, U.Today, Unchained and CryptoPotato.

Two reports carried by AltcoinGordon this week each contain accounts that cannot both be true, and neither conflict resolves on the evidence at hand. Two reports carried by AltcoinGordon this week each contain accounts that cannot both be true, and neither conflict resolves on the evidence at hand.

The new token is said to include an airdrop for holders who lost money on the TRUMP memecoin. Hunter Biden is reportedly set to launch a cryptocurrency memecoin called LAPTOP, according to crypto news outlets. The name directly references the widely publicized laptop controversy that dominated headlines during the 2020 U.S. presidential election cycle.

A new proposal would allow network transaction costs to be settled in other assets, reducing a long-standing barrier for new users. Ethereum's development community has committed to a proposal allowing gas fees to be paid without requiring users to hold ETH directly, according to CoinDesk and Decrypt.

A new Ethereum Improvement Proposal aims to let transaction fees be covered in other assets, potentially including stablecoins. Ethereum developers are discussing a proposal, designated EIP-8141, that could change how users pay for transactions on the network.

The token's price action around its long-term moving average has renewed debate over its next move. XRP's price has remained above its 200-day exponential moving average, a widely watched technical indicator that traders use to gauge long-term trend direction. Coinspeaker reported that this structure defense keeps the possibility of a move toward $2 in play.

No exchange-traded fund tracking SHIB exists yet, but a longtime community voice points to gradual progress alongside new access for the token in Japan. A longtime Shiba Inu community figure has addressed speculation around a potential exchange-traded fund for the token, stating that while no SHIB ETF currently exists, the project remains on a positive…

Despite the large token unlock, XRP's price shows little movement as trading activity stays subdued. Ripple released one billion XRP from its escrow wallets, continuing a supply mechanism the company has used for years. The unlock is part of a scheduled process designed to control how new tokens enter circulation over time.

A sustained climb toward $1,200 for ZEC has turned a large leveraged bet against the privacy coin into a heavy paper loss. Zcash has been climbing toward the $1,200 mark in recent trading, a level that has significantly pressured traders positioned against the token.

The project has outlined a plan to sunset its network and move ONE token holders onto Ethereum-based tokens. Harmony, a layer-1 blockchain network that once positioned itself as a low-cost alternative to Ethereum, has proposed shutting down its own chain.

The XRP logo will appear on the Florida Gators' field as part of a new multi-year sponsorship agreement with Ripple. Ripple has agreed to a multi-year sponsorship arrangement that will put XRP branding on the football field used by the University of Florida Gators.