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XRP’s price has surged by 50% this week, the best performance since November 2024. Here’s what’s driving the rally.

Unlike the BTC and ETH ETF inflows, Friday was actually the best day for the XRP ETFs. The winds have changed in the cryptocurrency markets, and this is particularly evident in the exchange-traded funds tracking several assets, such as Ripple’s native token. Although they were mostly in the green, the spot XRP ETFs struggled for months with little to no actual demand, especially in August. However, this changed for the better last week. XRP ETFs See Local High Monday began on a similar dull note for the funds, as SoSoValue shows $0.00 in actual flows. This continued a painful streak…

The SEC published its Reg Crypto proposal last week, giving the public 60 days to comment.

Cathie Wood has kept buying Circle as the stock fell 42% in a year. On Sunday she said why. Wall Street analysts who built their careers on Visa and Mastercard, she argued, cannot understand the company. Circle issues USDC, a digital dollar backed by cash and short-term US government debt. Wood runs ARK Invest, and Circle is now the biggest crypto bet in her flagship fund. Wood’s Case Against the Analysts Wood was replying to a chart built from Artemis data, where analyst Alex Obchakevich indicated that the market was changing its mind about who actually earns money on stablecoins.…

Ethereum’s explosive breakout has shifted the broader structure decisively in favor of buyers, but the rally has now encountered a major resistance zone. With ETH pulling back after reaching roughly $2.55K, the market appears to be entering a corrective phase following the highly impulsive advance. ETH Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, Ethereum has completed a major structural breakout. The asset initially consolidated around the $1.83K-$1.97K decision-point zone before launching higher and decisively breaking the long-standing descending trendline that had capped the market for months. The rally subsequently cleared the $2.07K-$2.15K breaker-block zone without much hesitation and…

Bitwise CIO warned that crypto investors may be focusing too narrowly on today’s market while missing where the industry could go next. Crypto investors may be underestimating where the industry is heading, according to Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan, who has pointed to three mistakes he sees in the market right now. In a recent post, Hougan said that investors are using today’s market size, established brands, and current activity to judge crypto’s future. Those are normally reasonable approaches, but the space is evolving so quickly that these assumptions are becoming outdated. Investors Missing the Bigger Market His first…

Montevideo, Uruguay, August 20th, 2026, Chainwire Aligned allows fintechs and institutions to build financial products on Ethereum, with one-click solutions for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services. Today, Aligned, a full-stack Ethereum infrastructure project, has launched $ALIGN*, the native token of its ecosystem, with listings on major exchanges. Aligned is working to turn Ethereum into the world’s financial backend, and its ecosystem is the single integration fintechs, institutions, and enterprises use to build financial products on Ethereum. Less than one percent of the world’s assets are onchain, and most of what has moved sits on Ethereum as stablecoins, tokenized treasuries,…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 21st, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has listed the MRNAON/USDT trading pair on Spot, giving users a new opportunity to access U.S. stock markets as part of its expanding lineup of Ondo tokenized stock offerings. Moderna, Inc., a U.S.-based biotechnology company known for its mRNA vaccine platform, has seen its shares rally sharply in recent trading. On August 19, 2026, Moderna and Merck announced that their investigational personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, used in combination with Keytruda, met the primary endpoint of a late-stage melanoma trial, with the combination regimen meeting the main…

In brief CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara clashed during a CFTC roundtable in Washington, D.C. Duffy singled out Kalshi while questioning whether prediction markets face the same regulatory scrutiny as established exchanges. The clash comes amid a fight between federal and state regulators over prediction markets. A CFTC roundtable on prediction markets turned heated Thursday when CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara traded insults over market manipulation and regulation.The confrontation unfolded during a Commodity Futures Trading Commission meeting in Washington, D.C., as executives from traditional finance, crypto, and prediction…

Michael Selig, who chairs the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), signaled that the agency would not be idle while Congress continued to debate provisions in a cryptocurrency market structure bill.In prepared remarks for the inaugural meeting of the CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee on Thursday, Selig said that the commission would move forward on crypto regulations even in the absence of the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act being passed by lawmakers, adding it would “help [Donald Trump] deliver if Congress will not.” According to the chair, he had already directed staff to allow registered and non-registered entities to offer…