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Ripple has launched a new share buyback programme that could increase its valuation to about $50 billion, representing a roughly 20% jump from its previous funding round.

Bybit marked International Women’s Day with a livestream discussion featuring senior executives who outlined the company’s shift from a cryptocurrency exchange toward a broader digital financial platform.

Bybit EU will serve as lead sponsor of Paris Blockchain Week 2026 as the company expands its presence in Europe’s regulated digital asset market under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation framework.

Cryptio has raised $45 million in a Series B funding round as rising institutional adoption of tokenised finance drives demand for tools that reconcile blockchain transactions with traditional accounting systems.

An Ethereum trader appears to have executed a catastrophic on-chain swap, exchanging roughly $50 million worth of assets for only about $36,000 in AAVE tokens in a single transaction.

The cryptocurrency downturn in 2026 is unfolding very differently from the 2022 crash, with markets experiencing a slow structural reset rather than panic-driven collapses or large-scale insolvencies.

Playnance said it will launch G Coin on March 18, introducing a utility token designed to power transactions across its blockchain-based gaming and prediction market ecosystem.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has launched a rulemaking process on prediction markets, asking the public to comment on how federal derivatives law should apply to event-based contracts.

US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins signaled support for streamlined disclosure rules and limited tokenised equity pilots during remarks to the agency’s Investor Advisory Committee.

A US federal court in Alabama dismissed significant portions of a lawsuit accusing Binance, Binance.US and former CEO Changpeng Zhao of facilitating crypto transfers to terrorist groups.

Wall Street analysts are increasingly focusing on “agentic finance,” a model where autonomous AI programs manage trading, payments, and financial activity on blockchain networks.

Donald Trump’s Solana-based meme coin TRUMP briefly surged more than 10% after organisers announced an exclusive event for top token holders at the president’s Mar-a-Lago estate on April 25.