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XRP remains below its 2017-cycle high while bitcoin, ether and other major tokens have surged, enriching their holders. Holding is widely touted as a great way to build wealth in the crypto market, but it hasn't worked for every coin. Take XRP (XRP), the payments-focused cryptocurrency native to the XRP Ledger and the world’s fifth-largest digital asset by market value. The token is still trading well below its 2017 cycle.

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Bitcoin tore back to $82,500 within two hours of dipping under $80,000, and chipmakers in Seoul recovered from their worst close since April. Bitcoin rose 1.3% to nearly $82,000 as of Friday Asian morning hours after buyers pounced on a brief drop below $80,000, with Asian chip stocks bouncing back from Thursday’s rout. ZEC was the standout among the majors, jumping 8% to about $1,190. SOL, ether, XRP and TRX.

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The departure of President Donald Trump's crypto adviser, Patrick Witt, leaves the digital assets office vacant and its policy aims uncertain. When President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, he not only shed his earlier resistance to crypto technology but embraced the industry with the hiring of a high-profile crypto czar and the establishment of his President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets. Almost two years later,.

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You’re reading Crypto for Advisors, CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter that unpacks digital assets for financial advisors. Subscribe here to get it every Thursday. In today’s newsletter, Eric Soufer of Tusk Strategies looks at what financial firms are building while Congress stalls on a crypto framework. Then, in “Ask an Expert,” Diego Grassano explains what advisors should check before trusting a tokenized platform. Without a federal framework, financial firms are standardizing compliance.

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The scheme allegedly stole tens of millions through Russian-language Facebook ads and fake advisers, then went after victims again with fake recovery offers. Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI have seized or disrupted 241 websites and 112 servers tied to a crypto investment scam that allegedly stole tens of millions of dollars from Russian-speaking victims in the U.S. The operation, carried out last week, came after a three-year investigation into a.

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Ledger’s Atom will run apps like WhatsApp and Instragram and let users switch between smartphone functions and a protected mode for managing digital assets. Cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Ledger said it is developing a new device that looks and functions more like a smartphone than a traditional wallet. The Ledger Atom, scheduled for release in mid-2027, marks a departure from the industry’s emphasis on safeguarding digital assets on minimalist devices.