Stablecoins Go Institutional As Morgan Stanley Rolls Out New Portfolio
With a minimum buy-in of $10 million, Morgan Stanley has made clear this is not a product built for small players. The Wall Street giant quietly unveiled its Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio on Thursday, a new offering that lets stablecoin issuers deposit the cash backing their digital tokens into one of the bank’s money market funds…
Tether Moves To Freeze $344 Million In Crypto Amid US Probe
A wave of crypto hacks hitting decentralized finance platforms in April has renewed an old argument: should stablecoin companies step in when stolen money passes through their systems? That question is now front and center again after Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, revealed it froze over $340 million in dollar-pegged tokens at the direct…
Shariah-Compliant Stablecoin PUSD Moves Into MidEast Institutional Arena
A dollar-linked stablecoin built to meet Islamic finance standards is now operating on a new blockchain network anchored in the Middle East, adding a second digital currency to a settlement platform backed by some of Abu Dhabi’s biggest financial names. Backed By Gulf Currencies, Not Just The Dollar PUSD, issued by Palm Azgar Finance, holds…
$80K Bitcoin Target Back In Play As Trump Suggests US-Iran Talks Could Restart
Bitcoin futures markets lit up within an hour of US President Donald Trump hinting that diplomatic talks with Iran could resume as early as Friday. Open interest on Binance climbed nearly 2%, while CME recorded a 0.5% rise, reflecting a quick surge in bullish bets from derivatives traders. Derivatives Market Responds Fast Total Bitcoin futures…
Bitcoin And XRP Need Relief From Capital Drain, Says John Bollinger
John Bollinger, the creator of Bollinger Bands, used a sharply worded post on X on April 21 to argue that Bitcoin, XRP and the broader crypto market need a break from what he sees as capital being pulled out of the sector by Washington. Bollinger did not cite a dataset or name a specific policy…
Consistent XRP Buys Could Deliver Outsized Gains By 2030: Finance Expert
A community analyst known as Daphne recently pushed back on the idea that buying coffee and investing in crypto are mutually exclusive. “You can sip your coffee while making the purchase,” she wrote on social media. Her comment came in response to a growing conversation sparked by finance coach John Vasquez, about what small, daily…
Shiba Inu Nears Explosive Setup As 1,660% Rally Zone Reappears
A return to all-time highs would put Shiba Inu near $0.000088 — a price level the token has not touched since 2021. That target is back in focus after an analyst flagged that SHIB is trading inside the same accumulation zone that previously sent the meme coin surging by four digits. Analyst Pins Target At…
Alibaba AI Model Puts XRP Price Between $7 And $42 By Year-End
An artificial intelligence model developed by Alibaba has projected that XRP could surpass $7 this year, with an upper estimate reaching as high as $42 — a range that would push the cryptocurrency’s total market value somewhere between $400 billion and $2.52 trillion. The projection lines up with forecasts made by several human analysts who…
Ethereum Flips Key Resistance, ETF Demand Returns, Analysts Eye Next Leg Higher
Ethereum is flashing a combination of technical and on-chain signals that analysts say could be the beginning of a meaningful recovery. For the first time in months, the structure of Ethereum’s price action appears to be shifting in the favor of bulls. The latest price action has brought the ETH price back above $2,300, setting…
Strategy Raises $1.76B War Chest As Saylor Signals Bigger Bitcoin Buy
Michael Saylor’s company has already lined up the money. Now the question is how much Bitcoin it plans to buy with it. Saylor’s Signal Fires Up The Market Strategy’s executive chairman posted his well-known “Orange Dots” chart on X over the weekend, adding just three words: “Think even Bigger.” The chart maps every Bitcoin purchase…