Ripple buys into Flutterwave Series E at $3.2 billion valuation, backs RLUSD integration

For sophisticated crypto desks, the bottleneck has rarely been finding liquidity, but rather moving capital fast enough to use it. A fund running active books across the largest CEXs operates multiple separate balance sheets that don’t talk to each other. Every account must be funded to meet worst-case requirements. Collateral can’t be netted across venues. ...

The XRP Ledger (XRPL) drew more new tokenized real-world asset capital than Ethereum, Solana, and other major blockchains over the past three months, giving XRP bulls a fresh network-growth argument as traders rebuild exposure to the token. XRPL recorded $1.9 billion in net real-world asset inflows over the last 90 days, ahead of Ethereum’s $1.6 […] The post...

Efforts to suppress stablecoin use are “likely to be only partly effective,” the International Monetary Fund’s researchers said....