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Ripple Prime Brokerage Platform Adds Support for Hyperliquid Decentralized Exchange

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Ripple announced that its institutional prime brokerage platform, Ripple Prime, now supports the decentralized derivatives trading protocol Hyperliquide. The integration allows Ripple Prime customers to access Hyperliquid’s on-chain perpetual liquidity while keeping margin and risk managed within Ripple Prime. The company said clients will be able to cross-reference exposures to decentralized financial derivatives, as well […]

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Bitcoin slides towards $70,000 as on-chain data signals bear market and traders bet Fed will hold in April: Asia Morning Briefing

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Hello, Asia. Here’s what’s making news on the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of the top news stories during U.S. business hours and insight into market movements and analysis. For a detailed overview of US markets, see Crypto Daybook Americas from CoinDesk. Bitcoin enters the Asian trading day with on-chain data

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Spanish lender BBVA joins European banks’ stablecoin project to challenge digital dollars

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BBVA, Spain’s second-largest bank by assets, said it has joined Qivalis, a group of lenders aiming to introduce a regulated euro stablecoin and challenge the dominance of digital dollars. By adding BBVA, which has $800 billion in assets, the group now includes a dozen major European Union banks, including BNP Paribas, ING and UniCredit. The

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Nomura pushes back on crypto withdrawal concerns by tightening risk controls

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Nomura Holdings has pushed back against suggestions that it is losing confidence in crypto, saying tighter risk controls at its Laser Digital unit are designed to limit short-term profit fluctuations while focusing on longer-term strategies, the bank told CoinDesk in emailed comments on Wednesday. “Given the nature of the crypto-asset business, we recognize that a

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US regulator declares overhaul of prediction markets, ending Biden era ‘frolics’

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The U.S. government is officially reversing its previous position of banning certain activities by prediction market firms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, with Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig deciding on Wednesday to withdraw a proposed rule on event-driven contracts starting in 2024 and abandon an earlier opinion that he said had caused confusion

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Crypto Networks React After Vitalik Buterin Tells Them They “No Longer Make Sense” for Ethereum

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For years, Ethereum’s Layer 2 networks presented themselves as extensions of Ethereum itself. “Arbitrum is Ethereum,” Steven Goldfeder, co-founder of Offchain Labs, wrote on X in March 2024. “Base is Ethereum,” the Coinbase layer 2 team posted in April 2025. But following recent comments from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin questioning whether Ethereum still needs a

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Wall Street Giant CME Group Considering Its Own ‘CME Coin,’ CEO Says

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CME Group CEO Terry Duffy has suggested that the derivatives giant is considering launching its own cryptocurrency. In response to a question from Morgan Stanley’s Michael Cyprys during the company’s latest earnings call, Duffy confirmed that the company was exploring “initiatives with our own coin that we could potentially put on a decentralized network.” The

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DOJ emails show Coinbase co-founder discussed meeting Jeffrey Epstein during 2014 investment negotiations

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Newly disclosed Justice Department documents reveal that Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam was involved in emails regarding a $3 million investment from Jeffrey Epstein in 2014, well after Epstein’s initial conviction. While Epstein’s stake was less than 1% and he held no governance role, records show Ehrsam expressed interest in a meeting during the funding round.

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