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Coinbase’s rebrand of its Wallet into the Base App has kicked off a SocialFi surge, sending Zora's (ZORA) activity into overdrive and leading to a massive rally for its token.Zora, which lets users mint tradable tokens tied to individual social posts, saw a dramatic rise in use following the app’s July 16 rebrand. The Base app’s features include posting, chatting and one-tap token minting, integrated with Zora and Farcaster.The result, according to Dune data, were daily Zora token creations jumping from about 4,000 to more than 15,000, with a peak of 38,000 mints on July 24.Daily trades rose from 30,000 to over 150,000, while trading volume crossed $6 million a day, up from just $1 million before the launch. The...

Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder of the crypto exchange Gemini, claimed that JPMorgan Chase halted its onboarding process for Gemini after he criticized the bank’s new fee structure for fintech companies.Last week, Winklevoss publicly criticized JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon after Bloomberg reported the bank would start charging fintech platforms for access to customer banking data. Many of these platforms serve as bridges between traditional banks and crypto services.“This will bankrupt fintechs that help you link your bank accounts to crypto companies,” Winklevoss posted on X. “ This is the kind of egregious regulatory capture that kills innovation, hurts the American consumer, and is bad for America.”JPMorgan didn’t address Gemini directly but defended its decision, telling Forbes that nearly 2 billion monthly requests...

Hedera’s HBAR token surged nearly 12% on Friday, climbing to $0.2657 and outperforming every other top-20 cryptocurrency by daily percentage gain, according to CoinDesk Data. The rally followed an announcement by popular trading platform Robinhood that it had added support for the asset, increasing its exposure to a broad base of U.S. retail investors.The listing sent HBAR trading volumes sharply higher, with a mid-day breakout around 12:00 UTC on July 25 pushing prices through the $0.26 mark amid more than 713 million tokens traded in a single hour. That move established the $0.26 zone as near-term resistance, though the token continued to show strong upward momentum into Saturday.Hedera, unlike traditional blockchains, operates on a unique hashgraph consensus model that allows...

XRP is regaining investor attention as a wave of ETF-driven optimism and post-lawsuit momentum builds around the token — even amid price turbulence and large-scale liquidations earlier this week.According to Bitget Wallet CMO Jamie Elkaleh, institutional confidence has improved since Ripple’s partial legal win in March, paving the way for futures products like ProShares’ UXRP and fueling speculation around a potential spot ETF.“XRP is regaining market momentum as renewed ETF speculation intersects with increasing legal clarity,” Elkaleh said. “This shift is boosting market depth and signaling a structural step forward for XRP’s legitimacy in U.S. markets.”That narrative helped XRP briefly break above $3.60 before retracing to around $3.09, following $105M in long liquidations and a controversial $175M wallet transfer linked...

NEW YORK — Prosecutors told a federal judge in open court on Friday that they were considering criminally charging certain employees of crypto venture capital firm Dragonfly Capital, including general partner Tom Schmidt, for their 2020 investment into privacy tool Tornado Cash.The discussion between prosecutor Nathan Rehn and District Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the Southern District of New York (SDNY) came amid a break in the ongoing trial of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, who has been charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and conspiracy to violate international sanctions for his work with the privacy tool — charges for which, if found guilty, he faces up to 45 years in prison.During...