In the colorful tapestry of this digital agora, we find some familiar characters: the likes of Base and Arbitrum. What’s that? Base is now the aristocrat of L2 transactions? Well, one could say the Ethereum mainnet, dear reader, remains the venerable yet humble base from which all value doth spring forth. It still processes a monumental 85% of transactions; perhaps it has learned the value of intrusion by delegation? 🤔
Ah, but pay attention, dear reader! In the cacophony of social media chatter, analyst Dom declared the rise, revealing that Upbit, that bustling Korean exchange, accounted for a staggering 70% of net spot XRP purchases. Imagine, if you will, a train made of 32 million tokens barreling down the tracks in just 24 hours—reminiscent of the Great Depression, but with fancier gadgets. ⚡🚂
On July 14, Sui (SUI) experienced a jaw-dropping 10% increase in just 24 hours, rising from a daily low of $3.44 to as high as $3.99 before settling at $3.84 at the time of writing, according to crypto.news data.
According to Bloomberg, Bailey said that stablecoins are dangerous unless they obey strict regulations. According to him, stablecoins have to be secure and reliable as people treat them as ordinary money. There is a concern that, without any regulations, stablecoins will provide an opportunity to conduct illegal operations like money laundering. This is why Bailey favors robust rules like those applicable in conventional banking. Because, you know, we don’t want to be the bad guys here. 😏
By some stroke of luck—or perhaps sheer determination—Solana’s robust rise has more than doubled the pace of its more demure competitors in the wider world of real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, which merely pranced along with a 62.4% uptick in the same disparaging time frame.
As of July 14, 2025, Metaplanet has racked up a whopping 16,352 Bitcoin, catapulting them into the “Who’s Who of Bitcoin Holders” list! They’ve even shoved past Galaxy Digital to snag that fifth spot! Talk about a digital treasure hunt gone right! 🏴☠️💰
But here’s the kicker: despite dismissing the very idea of Bitcoin, the firm is happily holding a staggering 20 million shares of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy). Yes, the same company that is, in essence, a Bitcoin proxy. Vanguard, the great Bitcoin critic, is actually the largest shareholder in the top corporate Bitcoin hoarder. It’s like watching someone shout “I hate seafood!” while slurping down oysters on the half-shell.
Brandt’s analysis reveals a complex base formation, a mix of minor designs, breakdown failures, and minor ranges, which typically filters out the weak hands and accumulates the strong ones. As long as XRP doesn’t dip below the crucial support level of 1.80, the upward trend is likely to continue, much to the relief of its holders. 🌊🚀
It’s been nearly 3 years and 11 months since the Ethereum blockchain rolled out the London hard fork on Aug. 5, 2021, at block height 12,965,000. That upgrade introduced a key tweak: a portion of transaction fees—aka gas—started getting burned, permanently removing ether from circulation. Oh, the irony of burning money to save it, isn’t it?
This giddy milestone means that the crypto market cap is now within spitting distance of surpassing the UK’s GDP – a prospect that must surely be giving the good people at the Bank of England a collective case of the vapors.
