The Bitcoin sell-off by BlackRock clients highlights the cryptocurrency's vulnerability to geopolitical shifts, impacting its role as a risk hedge. BlackRock clients sell $54.7M Bitcoin amid Middle East ceasefire.
Ripple's XRP is hovering just below a closely watched technical floor around $1.39, as traders weigh near-term macro uncertainty against a fresh push to expand the Ripple ecosystem through an OKX partnership and wider distribution of its RLUSD stablecoin. As of 2:58 a.m.
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz has pushed back against a resurfaced 2017 post in which he said XRP could not stay “dirt cheap,” rejecting the community's reading of it as a price guarantee and separately dismissing claims that Ripple holds