And yet, despite XRP suffering more than a 4% decline in the same hour of the opera, it managed to steal a march on BNB. Its market capitalization now stands at $82.79 billion, a sum more amiably disposed than Binance Coin by over $2.3 billion.
In the peculiar theater of contemporary finance, the firm Ripple, ever eager to polish its brass, has clasped hands with Aviva Investors to transplant conventional funds onto the XRP Ledger-an enterprise that sounds like persuading a stern aunt to accept a new pastry at the family table.
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JUST IN: Founder of SafeMoon, Braden Karony, has just been sentenced to 100 months in prison.
If there’s a tech hype cycle for tokenization – you know, where every asset gets a virtual makeover on blockchains like Ethereum – we’re still in the “just getting warmed up” phase.
Goldman Sachs, that bastion of financial gravitas, has unveiled a $2.3 billion exposure to the crypto markets via the sanctified vessel of regulated spot ETFs. How quaint! The firm, ever the paragon of compliance, avoids the vulgarity of direct token ownership, opting instead for the genteel embrace of investment vehicles that whisper sweet nothings to regulators. How utterly civilized.
Just the other day, the Financial Times, that oracle of economic whispers, hinted at the European Commission’s (EC) intentions. It seems they are on a crusade to snip the strings of any crypto transactions tethered to Russia, aiming to thwart the crafty maneuvers of those who would dare to elude sanctions.
On this splendid day, February 11, our hero Hayden Adams, the founder of Uniswap, piped up on X (yes, the social media formerly known as Twitter) to announce that the gavel had struck in their favor. This case challenged the very magic that fuels automated token trading on Uniswap, like a wizard’s spell gone awry!
Industry leaders, those self-proclaimed prophets of finance, gathered to discuss the soaring demand for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) during a panel at Consensus Hong Kong 2026. The esteemed Evan Auyang (group president at Animoca Brands), Christian Rau (senior vice president, digital assets and blockchain at Mastercard), and Nicola White (VP of crypto institutions at Robinhood) joined moderator Marcin Kazmierczak (co-founder, RedStone). A gathering you might mistake for a secret society if it weren’t for the suits and tech jargon.
To put the cherry on top, that number for Hyperliquid is nearly double what Coinbase managed to rustle up. Imagine the look on Coinbase’s face-like a dog who just found out his favorite bone was buried under a mountain of dirt!