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Revolut's 2024 Stablecoin Volume Reaches $4.1 Billion, Up 156%
Odaily Planet News: Cryptocurrency researcher Alex posted on the X platform, stating that fintech giant Revolut's stablecoin business is experiencing exponential growth, with a 156% growth rate in stablecoin trading volume. This is four times faster than the growth rate of total payment transactions...
ZEC's Largest Short Position Partially Profit-Taken, Worth $1.465M
BlockBeats News, January 13, according to... HyperInsight Monitoring It is shown that in the past 30 minutes, the "largest ZEC short whale" partially took profits from its ZEC short position, reducing its short position by 3,776.39 ZEC (approximately $1.465 million). Its current ZEC short position i...
Ripple Submits 9-Page Letter to SEC, Proposes Framework to End XRP's Securities Status
Ripple calls for a framework separating securities status from trading assets.Ripple argues for XRP to be treated as a commodity post-fundraising.Ripple wants to end the “zombie promise” problem affecting secondary buyers.Ripple Urges SEC to Adopt Lifespan Framework for XRP’s StatusRipple has made a...
KuCoin Launches RARI Trading Competition with 35,000 RARI Prize Pool
Citing Announcement, KuCoin has launched a RARI trading competition from January 13 to January 27, 2026, offering a total prize pool of 35,000 RARI. The competition includes two pools: the top 50 traders by volume will share 17,000 RARI, while all participants meeting a 18,000 RARI trading volume wi...
Whale Adds $2.3M BTC Long Position, Total BTC Exposure Reaches $14.3M
BlockBeats News, January 13, according to... Hyperinsight Monitoring According to the data, in the past 30 minutes, a whale address starting with 0x10a added 25 BTC (approximately $2.3 million) at a price level of around $92,074. The current long BTC position with 7x leverage has increased to 155 BT...
U.S. Digital Asset Market Transparency Act May Grant XRP, SOL Equal Status to BTC, ETH
According to ChainCatcher, Cointelegraph reported that, according to Eleanor Terrett, the Digital Asset Market Transparency Act would treat XRP, SOL, LTC, HBAR, DOGE, and LINK as equivalent to BTC and ETH. This bill would apply if these digital assets become underlying assets of exchange-traded prod...
Developer Claims Base Failed to Deliver Promised Support Over Three Years
Original Title: Base Stole 3 Years of My LifeOriginal Author: @weretunaTranslated by: Peggy, BlockBeatsEditor's Note: Base once used the slogan "Build on Base. We will support you." to attract countless developers, but there is often a silent gap between promises and reality.The author of this artic...
XRP Price Hits $2.03 Support, Analyst Predicts Upcoming Bullish Move
Popular altcoin XRP hits $2.03 support perfectly.Reputed analyst expects next wave up to play out soon.XRP could set new ATH prices in the coming weeks ahead.The New Year seems to have sparked hope for a bullish altseason to arrive within the first half of 2026. At the moment, Bitcoin and Ethereum a...
21Shares Files Dogecoin ETF, Sparking Institutional Demand and Price Surge Potential
Key Insights:21Shares joins Grayscale and Bitwise in launching Dogecoin spot ETFsTrading volume rose more than 100% without major price disruptionPrice structure has declining bearish momentum near historical supportAnalysts closely track Dogecoin price with new U.S. spot ETF products. Institutions ...
Whale Closes $6.5M ETH Long Position, Re-Enters with $3.65M 20x Leverage
According to a ChainCatcher report, HyperInsight monitoring shows that within the past 30 minutes, a whale with the address starting with "0x717" closed a long ETH position of $6.5 million that it previously held near the price of $3,137. Immediately afterward, the whale quickly opened a new long ET...
Global Liquidations Reach $208M in 24 Hours, Bitcoin and Ethereum Dominate
According to ChainCatcher, data from Coinglass shows that $208 million in liquidations occurred across the entire crypto market in the past 24 hours, with $136 million in long positions and $71.5259 million in short positions being liquidated. Specifically, long BTC positions were liquidated for $35...
7 Blockchain Projects Raise $332M in Funding (Jan 5-11)
According to incomplete statistics from Odaily Planet Daily, from January 5 to January 11, 2025, a total of 7 financing events were disclosed globally in the blockchain sector, a slight increase from 4 events in the previous week. The total amount raised reached $33.2 million, a significant increase...
RootData Transparency Alert: Only Layer, Reltime, and APX Lending Lack Core Information
According to a ChainCatcher report, RootData, a Web3 asset data platform, has issued a daily transparency alert on Twitter (X), highlighting that key information is missing for several projects, including Only Layer, LITAS.IO, Reltime, Lithosphere, and APX Lending. RootData urged these project teams...
Hong Kong Steps Back from Gold-Backed Stablecoin Plans
Hong Kong signals no current plans for gold-backed stablecoinsSouth Korea’s leading STO platform risks closureRegulatory caution continues to shape Asia’s crypto futureHong Kong Steps Back from Gold-Backed Stablecoin PlansHong Kong, a rising crypto hub in Asia, has made it clear that it’s not rushin...
PancakeSwap Proposes Reducing CAKE Max Supply to 400M from 450M
According to a ChainCatcher report, the PancakeSwap governance forum shows that the PancakeSwap team has proposed a plan to reduce the maximum supply of the CAKE token from 450 million to 400 million.
The team stated that since September 2023, CAKE has remained in a deflationary state, and this tre...
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