The XRP Ledger Foundation announced that over 60% of network nodes have upgraded to the latest v3.3.0 release, moving closer to the mainnet activation of this upgrade. Validators are urged to finalize voting on six key amendments to proceed. The upgrade promises performance improvements like reduced memory usage and better synchronization. Concurrently, XRP's price surged over 2% today, boosted by strong institutional inflows into XRP ETFs and increased futures interest, signaling growing market confidence ahead of the upgrade.
Lawyer Bill Morgan criticized Ripple's XRP escrow practice, arguing that instead of returning unused monthly token releases to escrow, Ripple could have distributed them. Ripple set up 55 billion XRP in 55 contracts in December 2017, each holding 1 b...
Crypto commentator Zach Rector suggests that current complaints about XRP's price could be a contrarian indicator, meaning frustration might precede a price increase. XRP was noted at $1.25 as of Nov. 2 in a daily price table, but this is not a trade...
In the past 24 hours, Bitcoin (BTC) and Solana (SOL) experienced net inflows of $52.31 million and $34.23 million respectively, indicating increased investor interest. Meanwhile, Ethereum (ETH) saw the largest net outflow of $39.61 million, suggestin...
Dogecoin (DOGE) saw the largest 24-hour increase in futures open interest, rising 2.43% to $197.2 million, with a high funding rate of 0.0100% per eight hours, indicating strong long position dominance at 71.6%. In contrast, Bitcoin and Ether experie...
In October, the RLUSD stablecoin supply on the XRP Ledger sharply declined by $284 million, dropping about 28.7% to 707 million tokens. This reduction was due to large transactions returning RLUSD to its issuer, though the exact reasons remain unclea...
