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  SEC Punts on Dogecoin and XRP ETF Approvals

  The Securities and Exchange Commission has delayed making decisions on whether to allow the trading of altcoin spot ETFs giving investors exposure to Dogecoin and XRP.  Wall Street’s biggest regulator said Tuesday that it would wait until mid-June to decide next steps for Bitwise’s proposed Dogecoin ETF and Franklin Templeton’s potential XRP product. Several others, including Franklin Templeton's Solana ETF and Grayscale's HBAR ETF, as well as proposed rule changes involving staking for Franklin...

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  Public Keys: Twenty One’s Bitcoin Play, XRP Futures Competition, and Investors Love Solana Treasury Companies

  Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies. This week: Twenty One Capital makes a huge Bitcoin operating company splash, CME is entering the XRP futures chat, and investors show love for a little-known company that’s started buying Solana. Nineteen, Twenty, … There’s a lot of fuss being made over Twenty One Capital, a new Bitcoin treasury company involving $146 billion stablecoin issuer Tether, crypto exchange Bitfinex, and Wall Street giant...

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  Which Crypto ETFs Are Next? Dogecoin, XRP, and Solana Lead the List

  The cryptocurrency industry notched two major victories last year when several fund issuers secured long-awaited approvals to offer spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds and their Ethereum-based counterparts in the U.S. But that doesn't mean issuers are ready to rest on their laurels just yet.  In recent months, fund managers have proposed new investment offerings directly tracking the prices of a variety of cryptocurrencies, from Dogecoin to XRP, Solana, and even Donald Trump’s meme coin.  Here ar...

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  Coinbase Releases Treasure Trove of SEC Docs on Ethereum, XRP and More

  New York prosecutors tried and failed to solicit the Securities and Exchange Commission’s opinion on Ethereum to bolster their case against KuCoin in 2023, according to newly released SEC records acquired by Coinbase. The exchange is one of many private conversations unearthed by a Coinbase FOIA request, offering a glimpse at the behind-the-scenes politicking that has shaped U.S. authorities’ approach toward the crypto industry over the past few years. In an email dated June 2023, the New York A...

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  Ripple an Early Investor in HashKey Capital's New XRP Tracker Fund in Asia

  Asset manager HashKey Capital has introduced a fund tracking the performance of XRP in Asia, with the aim of fostering institutional adoption in the region for the token that is used for transactions in the Ripple network.  The HashKey XRP Tracker Fund became available on Friday to institutional investors in Asia. The fund marks the first of several planned collaborations between HashKey Capital and Ripple Labs. XRP is the fourth largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, with a total valu...

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  XRP ETFs Likely Next to Get SEC Approval, Beating DOGE and Solana: Kaiko

  An XRP-focused exchange-traded fund is more likely to receive approval than other recently proposed spot funds tracking other major altcoins, market research firm Kaiko said in a report released Monday.  XRP's front-runner position comes because of the underlying token's high liquidity, said Kaiko. Spot volume for XRP on American exchanges recently hit its highest level since before a long-running lawsuit in 2020 led to delistings, Kaiko noted in its report. XRP is the fourth-largest cryptocurre...

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  XRP a Bright Spot as Investors Yank $789 Million from Bitcoin, Ethereum Funds: CoinShares

  Since a “wave of negative sentiment” formed in February, digital asset products have shed $7.2 billion worth of assets, the most dramatic stretch of outflows on record, CoinShares Head of Research James Butterfill wrote in a report on Monday. But he cautioned against substantial concern over last week's outflows of $795 million across tracked crypto funds, including $751 million from Bitcoin ETFs and nearly $38 million from Ethereum funds. “I don’t see this as anything particularly ominous or al...

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  CME Group to Debut XRP Futures Following Solana Launch

  CME Group on Thursday said it would introduce XRP futures on its derivatives marketplace for clients on May 19, the company announced Thursday. The new product will allow clients to trade both a micro-sized contract of 2,500 XRP, and a larger-sized contract of 50,000 XRP. "As innovation in the digital asset landscape continues to evolve, market participants continue to look to regulated derivatives products to manage risks across a wider range of tokens," Giovanni Vicioso, CME Group's global hea...

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  XRP Could Soar 200% by Year’s End: Standard Chartered

  XRP could rise about 200% from its current level by year’s end, according to Standard Chartered, which initiated coverage of the asset on Tuesday.   The native token of the XRP Ledger and fourth-largest crypto by market value could hit $5.50 a piece by the end of 2025, the bank’s digital assets researcher Geoff Kendrick said in a note. XRP is a decentralized open-source blockchain created by the founders of Ripple Labs.  XRP was recently trading for $1.80, according to CoinGecko, after dropping...

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  Near ETF Next? Bitwise Seeks Approval Alongside Solana, XRP and Dogecoin Filings

  Another day, another crypto ETF filing. This time, a crypto asset manager is trying its luck with a fund that, if approved, would give investors exposure to Near Protocol.  A Thursday filing in the State of Delaware shows that paperwork to launch a NEAR ETF has been filed by Bitwise.  Filing with the State of Delaware is the first step in getting such a product approved. The asset manager still has to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission to get the process officially moving.  Near Pr...

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