Author: Kryptonews

Ripple has secured regulatory approval in the United Kingdom, marking a further step in the company’s push to expand its presence in tightly regulated financial markets. Key Takeaways: Ripple secured FCA registration and EMI authorization, expanding its regulated crypto and payments operations in the UK. The approvals position Ripple to scale payment services as the UK advances a clearer regulatory framework for digital assets. XRP rose modestly following the news, while Ripple also moves forward with US trust bank plans. According to an update published Friday on the regulator’s register, Ripple’s UK subsidiary, Ripple Markets UK Ltd., has been registered…

Key takeaways from the Abu Dhabi Finance Week panel conversation in December. At Abu Dhabi Finance Week 2025, conversations on capital efficiency consistently returned to the same question – whether today’s market infrastructure is actually built to support it. On a panel focused on building the rails for tokenized leverage, Redwan Meslem, Executive Director of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, joined leaders from insurance, clearing, custody, and trading to unpack what’s really standing between tokenized collateral and institutional-scale adoption. The conversation quickly moved past whether tokenization matters, and instead focused on how, where, and under what constraints it could be integrated…

Viewership of crypto content on YouTube has declined to its lowest level since January 2021 following a sharp retreat over the past three months.On Sunday, ITC Crypto founder Benjamin Cowen shared a 30-day moving average of views across various crypto YouTube channels, highlighting the drop. “So it’s not just X and an algorithm change,” he said regarding a similar fall in engagement across crypto channels on microblogging platform X.It has “collapsed across all platforms, and has had a noticeable local decline since just October,” commented crypto YouTuber Tom Crown. “In reality, it’s been in a ‘bear market’ since 2021, having never reached…

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has blasted the Trump administration over a new criminal probe, arguing it’s the latest attempt to destroy the central bank’s independence on interest rates.Powell said on Sunday that the charges are “a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.”The US attorney for Washington, DC, opened a criminal investigation into Powell on Friday over the agency’s renovation of its headquarters and whether Powell lied to Congress about the size of the project, The New York Times reported…

Crypto market turbulence decimated memecoins in particular last year, driving the number of crypto project failures to over 11.6 million in 2025, the highest level recorded for a single year. The fourth quarter of 2025 was among the worst, with 7.7 million tokens listed on GeckoTerminal ceasing active trading during the period, according to a report by CoinGecko research analyst Shaun Paul Lee released on Friday. Lee said the Oct. 10 market crash, which saw over $19 billion of crypto leverage liquidated in a day, was a key catalyst.“This sharp decline in token survivability may be linked to the broader market…

The Wyoming Stable Token Commission announced that the Frontier Stable Token, known as FRNT, is now available for public purchase through Kraken, a Wyoming domiciled crypto exchange. The launch marks the first time a public entity in the United States has issued a fiat backed and fully reserved stable token, placing Wyoming at the center of a fast growing global market estimated at around $300 billion. A Public Stable Token With Real World Impact Stable tokens are digital assets designed to hold a steady value, usually tied to the US dollar. FRNT follows this model and is fully backed by…

US crypto exchange Coinbase is reportedly ramping up pressure on US lawmakers to resist a push to ban certain decentralized finance provisions in a major crypto bill known as the CLARITY Act. A report from Bloomberg on Sunday, citing “a person familiar with the firm’s thinking,” said Coinbase “may reconsider its support” for the bill should it restrict stablecoin issuers from offering rewards on crypto exchanges and other platforms.Cointelegraph reached out to Coinbase for comment but didn’t receive an immediate response.Banking groups have been concerned that stablecoin rewards and income-generating products could siphon trillions of dollars from the traditional banking system.An…

The opening panel at Sibos 2025 brought forward a clear message: public and permissioned blockchain networks are converging, and this convergence is beginning to shape the future of financial infrastructure. Hosted by Adi Ben Ari of Applied Blockchain, the discussion featured leaders from Citi, the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust, Ubyx Inc., and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. The panel examined how institutions are approaching open networks and why adoption is accelerating. Below is a streamlined summary of the core insights. 1. Public Blockchains Are Now Active MarketsTony McLaughlin began by reframing the conversation. Public networks such as Ethereum and Solana are…

Elon Musk’s social media platform is building a “Smart Cashtags” feature for release next month, giving users access to real-time price movements of cryptocurrencies and stocks. One of the concept screenshots has also teased a highly-anticipated in-app trading feature.In a post to X on Sunday, head of product Nikita Bier said users would be able to access smart contract information linked to crypto tokens, while all assets would have “mentions” showing recent discussion about the asset and news related to the companies and teams behind them.“X is the best source for financial news — and hundreds of billions of dollars…

LunarCrush, a platform that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, has unveiled the list of Top 10 Gaming Projects based on social activity. Social Activity consists of Engaged Posts and Interactions. These two measures are used to check the Social activity of cryptocurrencies. Chainlink ($LINK) leads the Top 10 Gaming Projects by social activity. TOP #GAMING PROJECTS BY SOCIAL ACTIVITY$LINK $APE $RENDER $VRA $BABYDOGE $FLOKI $GMT $EGLD $IMX $FORM pic.twitter.com/MqRlw62Zkt— PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) January 11, 2026 In this ranking list, Chainlink ($LINK) dominates the market with 6.2K Engaged posts and 1.3M…