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XRP Bucks Bitcoin-Led Slide in Majors as SEC Case Tilts in Ripple’s Favor

Ripple has historically maintained a distance from XRP, the token that powers some of its products and the XRP Ledger network.

Frax Ether promises above-average ether staking yields. (ClaudiaWollesen/Pixabay)

Markets

Litecoin Is Undervalued, Onchain Indicator Suggests

Litecoin has rallied nearly 31% so far this year, but is still trading at discounted prices, according to an onchain metric called the MVRV Z-score.

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Tech

NFT Marketplace DIBA Goes Live on ‘Really Good for Bitcoin’ Smart Contracts

DIBA also released a Bitcoin-only wallet in partnership with mining company Hut 8 Mining.

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Bitcoin Drops Below $27K as Investors Continue to Weigh Debt Ceiling Talks, Regulatory Actions

Early morning gains for the crypto were quickly erased in Thursday afternoon trading.

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Markets

Galaxy Executed Its First OTC Options Trade as Demand for On-Chain Options Ramps Up

In 2022, “DeFi performed exceedingly well while CeFi and some traditional methodologies for transacting had some challenges,” Jason Urban, Galaxy’s global head of trading, told CoinDesk TV.

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Absence of Retail Investors Could Stand in the Way of Pepecoin's Rise to Top Meme Coin: Santiment

A Santiment report said that pepecoin (PEPE) could face challenges amid a generally bleak trading environment.

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Finance

Crypto Perpetuals Exchange DYdX Considering the Launch of More SubDAOs

The conversation was initiated to promote more decentralization within the dYdX ecosystem ahead of its v4 upgrade.

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Tech

Dogecoin's Daily Transaction Reached Lifetime Highs After ‘DRC-20’ Tokens Introduced

Transactional volumes on Dogecoin briefly surpassed Litecoin and Bitcoin earlier this week.

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Markets

Bitcoin Slides Below $27K as Investors Eye Debt Ceiling Negotiations

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned the U.S. could breach its debt limit by June 1, potentially setting off a recession in the event of default.

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 06: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (C) listens to President Joe Biden during a hybrid meeting with corporate chief executives and members of his cabinet to discuss the looming federal debt limit in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on October 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Each of the meeting participants spoke in dire terms about the negative national and global economic reaction to Congress failing to raise the limit and the U.S. defaulting on its debt. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tech

One Million Individual Wallets Now Hold a Whole Bitcoin

A major bump in such wallets came after the implosion of crypto exchange FTX between November and January.

Wallet lying on the ground (Getty Images)