In a world where scammers are getting smarter, one case involved a 90-year-old man from Gujarat who lost ₹1.25 crore after being falsely told he was in legal trouble. In another case, a young jobseeker was lured to Nepal with a fake job offer and forced to move ₹49 lakh through crypto wallets. 😱
Comrades, Brian is no stranger to the factory floor of financial despair. His journey winds through dimly lit corridors of Yahoo Finance, the bureaucratic trenches of The Block, whispers in the gulag that is Decrypt, the echo chamber of The Independent, and even the samurai-flavored smoke break at Fuji Television. All this, capped nicely by The Daily Express, probably over tea so bitter it could power a Soviet locomotive. 🚂
Picture this: Qatar National Bank—the Colossus of Middle Eastern ledgers and sworn enemy of stuffed mattresses—partners with DMZ Finance, a sorcerer of tokenization, to conjure a money market fund so thoroughly modern, even Silicon Valley hipsters might spill their matcha lattes in surprise. It’s the inaugural tokenized fund planted within the verdant, artificially irrigated gardens of the Dubai International Financial Centre—an oasis for number crunchers who prefer their liquidity as crisp as freshly laundered linen.
XRP, a perennial guest at the cryptocurrency dinner table, was devised with a noble mission: to speed up cross-border transfers and relieve harried bankers of exorbitant fees—and possibly their boredom. Ripple, in its relentless quest for legitimacy, has spent years amassing partnerships with banks, almost as if gathering character references for a courtship.
Apparently, they’ve gathered over $540 million in action across a whopping 175,000 launches, which comes with about $34 million in fees. That’s a cozy 55.2% slice of the meme launchpad pie. Meanwhile, Pump.fun is clutching its dwindling 34.9% slice like it’s the last cookie at a networking event. 🍪
According to a July 7 update from Patrick Hansen, the Director of EU Strategy & Policy at Circle, the list now includes 14 licensed stablecoin issuers from seven countries and 39 MiCA-authorized crypto-asset service providers. Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, and N26 are among the lucky ones that can now “passport” their services throughout the EU without needing additional local approvals. 🤑
One might suppose that the institutional and retail investors, those great gamblers of the modern age, would be chastened by the volatile macroeconomic conditions and the looming specter of price resistance levels for the likes of Bitcoin and Ethereum. But no, they press on, undaunted by the prospect of financial calamity 😱.
$XRP looks to be forming an inverse head and shoulders pattern, setting the stage for a potential breakout toward $2.60!
Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we? Back in 2017, XRP had one of its biggest moments. In just about two weeks, the token went from a measly $0.15 to over $3, a 20x rally that left everyone in the crypto world gasping for breath. But then, something unexpected happened. CoinMarketCap, the data aggregator, removed pricing data from several Asian exchanges, causing XRP’s displayed price to drop and panic selling to ensue.
At the time of our current observations, the price of XRP inhabits the charming realm of $2.33. Over a mere span of 24 hours, this digital asset has pranced about with a delightful gain of 2.5%, and in the past week, it has gallantly surged nearly 7%, as per the estimable figures provided by CoinGecko, that bastion of cryptocurrency wisdom.