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Cardano’s Midnight privacy layer has officially launched on mainnet, bringing full programmable confidential transactions to $ADA users, though it seems no one got the memo.

According to WonderFi’s proclamation on Monday, the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization, in a fit of bureaucratic whimsy, approved WonderFi’s offspring, Coinsquare Capital Markets, on May 20, thus removing the final obstacle to this grand alliance.

On May 5th, Multicoin Capital revealed they had been steadily investing in Zcash (ZEC) since February 2024. Currently, about 30% of all ZEC is held in privacy-focused pools, a significant increase from 8% at the beginning of the year. The network’s halving event in November 2024 reduced the rate at which new ZEC is created, cutting it from 4% to 2% per year. A major upgrade, called FCMP++, is planned for 2026 and is expected to dramatically speed up transaction processing. There’s a growing understanding that privacy coins like ZEC aren’t just for anonymous transactions, but are crucial for businesses needing secure and confidential communications. ZEC is currently trading around $522, slightly down from its recent high in May.

Bitwise’s product, traded as BWCC (ISIN DE000A4ARTH9), follows the Kaiko CANTO Reference Rate LDNLF index. Bitwise announced on Tuesday that the annual expense ratio for BWCC is 0.85%.

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The reported gains don’t fully reflect the strength of the recent recovery. We saw a solid foundation forming, with prices making higher lows instead of continuing to fall. For the first time since July 2025, buying pressure consistently outweighed selling pressure across all major exchanges, and investors started shifting their money into a wider range of alternative cryptocurrencies. This wasn’t just a temporary price spike driven by short covering; it was a sustained increase fueled by confidence from institutional investors and a healthier market environment.

#Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says “I think $XRP as a Web2.5 product is better than Tether or Circle. I like it a lot more.”

As of today, XRP is trading at $1.3475. The price chart shows a recent dip, which began after XRP failed to break past $1.41 in mid-May. This decline has temporarily halted around the $1.336 level, a key point identified using Fibonacci retracement analysis.

The popular decentralized exchange is now letting users bet on real-world events, not just cryptocurrency prices. This built-in prediction market allows people to trade contracts based on things like inflation rates and interest rate changes, all within the same account they use for regular crypto trading.

Over the last 24 hours, Zcash (ZEC) experienced a 5.2% price decrease, falling to $619. This was the largest drop among the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, though it remains up 8.2% over the past week, according to CoinDesk. Monero (XMR) also saw a decline, falling 4% to $378.