Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is championing a breakthrough year marked by record growth, a $500 million strategic investment, and surging XRP momentum, underscoring crypto’s rapid ascent as a driving force in global finance. Ripple Builds Its Future on XRP as the Next Crypto Epoch Takes Form Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has voiced a strongly bullish
Key Takeaways Chainlink is collaborating with SBI Digital Markets (SBIDM), part of Japan’s major SBI Group, to develop digital asset solutions using cross-chain technology. The partnership centers around Chainlink’s CCIP protocol, enabling secure and interoperable operations for tokenized funds across multiple blockchains. Chainlink, a decentralized oracle network, announced today it has partnered with SBI Digital
The Deribit-listed bitcoin BTC$102,019.12 options market is revealing growing caution among traders, with some prepping for a slide to $80,000, as spot prices show signs of weakness. Notional open interest in BTC options, or the dollar value of the active contracts, remains elevated above $40 billion on Deribit, with activity concentrated in November and December
Key Highlights U.S. President Donald Trump said that cryptocurrency takes a lot of pressure off the dollar He also repeated his vision to make the country the Bitcoin superpower, the crypto capital of the world, and the undisputed leader in artificial intelligence Trump’s statement comes amid a downward trend in the cryptocurrency market On November
Ripple is not planning to go public anytime soon, even as other crypto companies have moved toward public markets this year. This was confirmed by Monica Long, the president of Ripple, during the company’s Swell conference in New York, in an interview reported by Bloomberg. Monica said, “We do not have an IPO timeline. No
Investors have cashed out a combined $2.6 billion from U.S. Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds over the past week, marking one of the largest redemption periods in the funds’ history. The more than $1.9 billion that left the Bitcoin funds and $718.9 million pulled out of their Ethereum counterparts since October 29, according to data
Though last night’s U.S. election results proved surprising to many political pundits—given the extent and scale of Democrats’ victories across the country—prediction markets proclaimed they’d known the outcome for months. Indeed, prediction markets including Polymarket and Kalshi correctly called the New York City mayor’s race, plus governor races in both New Jersey and Virginia, by
The Venom Foundation, the organization behind the high-performance Venom blockchain, has announced it will integrate the x402 protocol, an open-source standard that lets machines pay machines, positioning Venom as one of the first major Layer-1 platforms to support autonomous payments between AI agents and decentralized services. The foundation says the rollout is planned for the
MetaMars has made a significant move with its industry-breaking collaboration with XDGAI, the move to create a decentralized AI ecosystem, which combines intelligence, blockchain, and creation of the metaverse. The partnership unites the immersive Web3 metaverse of MetaMars, and the token-based Neuronal Economic System of XDGAI, which aims at transforming the way AI functions within
Table of Contents New Product Launches and FeaturesInstitutional Partnerships and IntegrationsHackathons and Widespread IntegrationsConclusionFrequently Asked Questions Decentralized Oracle Network Chainlink introduced several updates and partnerships in early November 2025, focusing on enhancements to its infrastructure for blockchain interoperability, privacy, and compliance. These developments, covered in this article, include the launch of the Chainlink Runtime Environment