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Grayscale’s two new crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) will go live on NYSE Arca on Monday, offering U.S. investors simplified access to DOGE$0.1399 and XRP for the first time through regulated public markets.The Grayscale Dogecoin Trust ETF (GDOG) and Grayscale XRP Trust ETF (GXRP) are each structured as spot ETPs that hold their respective underlying assets.Dogecoin, once viewed mainly as a joke cryptocurrency, has become one of the most actively traded digital assets by volume.Meanwhile, the launch of GXRP comes as the XRP Ledger (XRPL), a blockchain tailored for cross-border payments, nears its fourteenth year. The ledger has processed over 4…

Key takeaways:XRP (XRP) extended its downtrend on Friday, dropping 3% over the last 24 hours to trade at $1.93. The inability to hold above $2 now puts the altcoin’s recovery possibilities in question, with traders asking how much further it can fall. XRP/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewClassic XRP pattern targets $0.88The XRP/USD pair has formed a megaphone pattern in the weekly time frame, suggesting that a deeper correction was in store for the altcoin. A megaphone pattern, also known as a broadening wedge, forms when the price creates a series of higher highs and lower lows. As a technical rule, a…

Bitcoin’s latest sell-off is being driven by mid-cycle holders rather than long-term whales, according to VanEck’s “Mid-November 2025 Bitcoin ChainCheck” report.The asset management firm said wallets whose coins last moved within the past five years account for most of the recent selling, while the oldest cohorts have remained “remarkably steady” despite weakening sentiment. VanEck also noted that coins that were last moved more than five years ago continue aging into the cohort, adding roughly +278,000 BTC over the past two years, which the firm said signals that long-term conviction remains intact.The report lands as bitcoin trades near multi-month lows. BTC…

Investment bank Jefferies said the recent surge in gold prices can’t be explained by traditional drivers alone and points instead to Tether as a major new buyer. Attestation data and on-chain activity show that the stablecoin issuer has accumulated substantial bullion in recent months, tightening supply and helping fuel the sharp rally, the bank said in the Thursday report.The precious metal has risen more than 50% this year and is currently trading around $4,080 per ounce.Jefferies first flagged Tether’s interest after the company met with miners and royalty firms in Denver last fall, with investors telling the bank Tether aimed…

Unnamed staffer stole $724,620, says bank.Bank will write off most of the losses.Police set to investigate.A loans manager at the South Korean financial institution Kwangju Bank embezzled $724,620 from the bank and spent it on crypto investments.The lender says the unnamed manager stole the money between May and November 2023, but only realised the funds were gone in the second half of this year, wrote KBC News.“We discovered this embezzlement case during a recent review of project financing loan interest history data,” a Kwangju Bank spokesperson said. “We will decide on the level of disciplinary action we will take once…

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The Solana price has rise over 1% in the last 24 hours to trade at $139 as of 4:00 a.m. EST on a 38% decrease in the daily trading volume to $5.7 billion. That slight jump in the SOL price comes as 21Shares, one of the top asset managers in cryptocurrency, officially filed its prospectus for a new spot Solana ETF in the United States. Additionally, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) has already approved the registration and listing of this fund as well. 🚨JUST IN: The…

Danielle Sassoon, one of the US attorneys behind the prosecution of former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, took the stand in an evidentiary hearing involving a deal with one of the company’s executives. In a Thursday hearing in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, Sassoon testified about the guilty plea of Ryan Salame, the former co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, which resulted in his sentencing to more than seven years in prison. According to reporting from Inner City Press, Sassoon said that her team would “probably not continue to investigate [Salame’s] conduct” if he agreed to plead…

Michael Selig’s nomination to chair the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is headed for a vote on the Senate floor after clearing a committee hurdle. In a Thursday notice, Republican leaders with the Senate Agriculture Committee said they had advanced Selig’s nomination following a Wednesday hearing. The vote was reportedly along party lines, with no Democrats supporting Selig as US President Donald Trump’s pick to replace acting Chair Caroline Pham. Source: Senate Agriculture Committee RepublicansThe prospective CFTC chair answered questions from senators on Wednesday regarding potential conflicts of interest, his policy positions on DeFi and digital assets and the dearth of…

Yesterday’s (November 18) Cloudflare outage caused billions of dollars in losses as the internet seemingly came to a standstill. The disruption affected many users trying to access  X, Truth Social, Reddit, ChatGPT, Coinbase, Ledger, BitMEX, DefiLlama, and many more. Ironically, many of the affected platforms and websites were crypto-related, a sector that promotes decentralization. However, a single cloud hosting protocol going down in Cloudflare subsequently brought the internet to a standstill, highlighting just how centralized much of the World Wide Web still is. The Cloudflare (NET) share price tumbled -1.09% on the day as investors began selling off the stock…

NEW YORK — William “Bill” Hill, 67, one of the co-founders of Bitcoin mixer Samourai Wallet, was sentenced to four years in prison on Wednesday for his role in creating the privacy tool prosecutors say was used to launder at least $237 million in criminal proceeds.District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York (SDNY), who recently sentenced Hill’s fellow Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez to the statutory maximum of five years in prison for the same crime — conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, which both men pleaded guilty to in July — said she was “varying” Hill’s…