In XRP news today, Coinbase Wrapped XRP (cbXRP) just became significantly more useful. Doppler Finance, an institutional-grade yield infrastructure protocol, has expanded to Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer-2 chain, with cbXRP as its first supported asset. XRP holders who have been sitting on the sidelines of EVM-compatible DeFi now have a regulated, exchange-backed route into lending,…
TL;DR: Lego is livestreaming a demo of its new Pokémon Smart Play sets on July 31 at 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT, just ahead of the collection’s official Aug. 1 launch. If you’re the kind of person who still gets excited seeing Pikachu, Lego’s new Pokémon Smart Play sets are about to make…
Bitcoin has historically struggled before US midterms, with past recoveries beginning once election uncertainty faded. Bitcoin’s market cycles could be more closely linked to the US political calendar than many investors think, according to a new analysis shared by Alphractal founder Joao Wedson. In a July 30 post on X, he showed that the…
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Key Takeaways Robinhood posted $1.31B in Q2 revenue on July 29, driven by strong trading volume. Event contracts on Robinhood surged over 10x to $156M, signaling a retail shift in trading trends. CEO Vlad Tenev aims to expand Robinhood using Trump Accounts and 13 business lines topping $100M revenue. Trading Revenue and Product Growth Financial…
The Bank of Korea has successfully completed live cross-border payment tests using tokenized central bank reserves under the Bank for International Settlements-led Project Agora, processing transactions across six currencies and multiple payment scenarios. Summary Bank of Korea completed live Project Agora payment tests using tokenized reserve funds across six currencies. South Korean banks tested cross…
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing. For the quarter, it recorded its investment in Anthropic as a $3.2 billion gain, boosting diluted earnings per share…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. New Prontera Technologies Corp. announced July 29 the public rollout of “Hacker House,” a build-in-public docu-reality series following the developers and founders behind disaster-resilience platform Bagyo.app and the Autonomous Emergency Reporting Intel System (Agent AERIS)….
In crypto news today (July 30), Bitcoin climbed -0.5% overnight, dropping below $64,000 following yesterday’s FOMC meeting, in which a rate hike wasn’t announced but SEC Chair Paul Atkins hinted at hikes to come, causing a slight sell-off across crypto. However, crypto held up well in comparison to the US stock market, which saw $1Bn…
When an AI agent completes a task inside your enterprise systems, can you say with certainty which agent did it, on whose authority, and under what constraint? For most organizations, the honest answer is no. I’ve sat through enough incident reviews to know exactly what that uncertainty costs once something goes wrong. That gap just…
