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Ripple said Monday that Luxembourg upgraded its preliminary Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization under the European Union’s (EU) Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulations to a full license. The approval clears Ripple to provide cryptoasset services throughout the European Economic Area (EEA).“This CASP authorisation means Ripple enters the post-transitional MiCA era fully compliant and ready to scale,” said Cassie Craddock, the company’s managing director for Europe and the U.K., in a statement.The CASP license Ripple announced Monday makes the company one of a small number of digital asset firms to have full authorization under MiCA, which became law three years ago…

A dormant Bitcoin address transferred 30 BTC worth about $1.88 million for the first time in almost 15 years.Bitcoin address “1KV47” made its first outgoing transfer on Saturday since receiving 30 BTC in August 2011, blockchain data shared by Galaxy Research shows.The address is among 39,069 listed in a New York lawsuit filed by “Noah Doe” and two Wyoming-based companies seeking ownership of dormant Bitcoin holdings. The case could test how inactive cryptocurrency holdings are treated under the state’s lost-property law.The listed addresses include those widely associated with Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and collectively hold an estimated 3.7 million BTC…

Panama City, Panama, July 6th, 2026, Chainwire Deribit by Coinbase, via its broker-dealer DRB Panama Inc., and SignalPlus, a leading provider of software and infrastructure solutions for crypto derivatives, today announced the launch of The Island, their fifth trading competition and biggest edition to date. Running for 35 days, the competition features up to $600,000 USDC in prizes across solo and team competition, daily and weekly reward rounds, Mystery Box deposit mechanics, short-dated options challenges, and a Private Island jackpot. Registration for The Island opens on June 29 at 08:00 UTC, with the competition running from July 6 at 08:00…

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said this week that he will hold his bitcoin BTC$62,728.82 all the way down to zero if necessary, while admitting his struggle with timing the market.”I’m holding. I’ll hold this thing down to zero,” Portnoy told FOX Business’ Stuart Varney on Varney & Co. “I know if I sell it, it’s going to go nuclear again. I’d rather go down with the ship this time.”Portnoy said he snapped up bitcoin at $100,000 and is now sitting on millions of losses. BTC peaked above $126,000 in October last year, and has since halved to $63,000, CoinDesk…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has named quantum resistance, scalability and privacy as three of Ethereum’s top priorities under a new “Lean Ethereum” strawmap, which lays out the network’s technical direction for the remainder of the decade. In a post to X on Saturday, Buterin said the collection of upgrades will roll out over the next three to four years, touching nearly every layer of Ethereum in a transformation he compared in scale to the September 2022 Merge, which shifted the network away from energy-intensive mining. “Quantum safety has shifted up a LOT in priority,” he said, adding that finalizing a quantum-safe solution…

“We truly don’t think there is large-scale, authentic usage of A7A5 outside of A7,” Keegan said in an email, referring to the token’s issuer. He added that transaction volumes routinely collapse on weekends because much of the activity appears tied to business-to-business transfers involving the Russia-linked exchange Grinex.Meanwhile, Tom Robinson, co-founder of another blockchain analytics firm, Elliptic, also said the token has lost momentum. He said that monthly transaction volumes have fallen by more than 90% since January and are down 96% from their peak last year, following sanctions imposed by the U.S., the European Union and the United Kingdom,…

Key takeaways:Solana’s tokenized assets and memecoin revival drove SOL to a 30-day high at $83.Bullish leveraged appetite cooled sharply, suggesting traders are hesitant to bet on further gains to $90.Solana’s SOL token jumped to its highest mark in over 30 days on Friday at $83, marking a decoupling from the altcoin market. SOL’s rally gained steam from a surge in tokenized trading volume on Solana, inflows of stablecoin liquidity, and an unexpected comeback in memecoin activity. Can SOL reclaim the $90 level?Total altcoin market capitalization, USD (left) vs. SOL/USD (right). Source: TradingViewSOL’s bullish momentum ignited on June 23, coinciding with…

The server memory market in 2026 is in turmoil, with AMD stepping in to address escalating costs and supply shortages. In a new blog post, AMD experts detail how their EPYC processors can help IT teams optimize memory usage, potentially mitigating the impact of soaring DDR5 prices and constrained supplies fueled by surging AI-driven demand. Server memory is no longer a secondary expense. According to AMD, memory now represents one of the largest components of overall server costs, with pricing increases making procurement decisions increasingly complex. Between late 2025 and mid-2026, server configurations that once cost $25,000 are now being…

Victoria, Seychelles, July 3rd, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, announced key highlights for June 2026. The platform recorded $437 billion in monthly trading volume and expanded user investment options through the launch of the “RealStocks” product. The new product gives users real ownership of over 7,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs—complete with dividend eligibility—breaking down traditional market barriers and connecting users to global assets, all within their existing MEXC account. In June, MEXC continued to expand access to emerging assets, listing 153 new tokens across spot and futures markets and driving $1.03 billion in new listing…

The opportunity has drawn growing interest across Wall Street. Citi projected that tokenized securities could reach $5.5 trillion by 2030, while Boston Consulting Group and Ripple estimated the market could grow to $18.9 trillion by 2033.”We have long said that public equities are moving onchain, and there is no stronger validation of that belief than tokenizing our own public stock on day one,” CEO Carlos Domingo said in a statement.Issuer-sponsored tokenizationUnlike many existing tokenized stock products, which are issued by third parties or offered outside the United States, Securitize said SECZ is an issuer-sponsored tokenization of the company’s own shares.…