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Ripple previously gave LMAX $150 million in financing to integrate RLUSD into its institutional infrastructure. Global bank giant Standard Chartered now offers institutional custody of Ripple’s USD-pegged stablecoin RLUSD on the XRP Ledger through its Dubai branch, giving eligible clients a regulated bank to hold the dollar-pegged stablecoin. The bank, with nearly $450 billion in assets under management, also plans to work with Ripple and LMAX Group, an institutional trading.

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Ledger said every confirmed case involves devices sold by the Southeast Asian reseller, but critics say the hardware-wallet maker must answer for an authorized sales channel. As much as $93.2 million in crypto was siphoned from wallets linked to the Ledger devices sold by the reseller CryptoBilis, according to several blockchain analytical and intelligence firms. Tether has frozen $10 million in USDT tied to the theft, while Ledger said Sunday.

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Bitcoin and gold hold steady as a firm dollar and rising bond yields weigh on sentiment, while IREN secures a multiyear cloud services deal with Anthropic. Bitcoin and gold hold steady as a firm dollar and rising bond yields weigh on sentiment, while IREN secures a multiyear cloud services deal with Anthropic. Markets are making a cautious start to the week, with bitcoin trading just above $83,000 and gold around.

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Loans use third-party custodians for bitcoin holdings and rely on court-ordered sales if borrowers default. Jeonbuk Bank has started offering bitcoin-backed loans to corporate clients, becoming the country's first bank to let firms borrow cash against their crypto holdings. The South Korean bank, a unit of JB Financial Group, will issue loans in the country’s fiat currency, the Korean won, with proceeds limited to business operating costs, according to local.

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SWI Group said it would use the proceeds from an 800 million-euro ($894 million) fundraise to transform Genesis Digital Assets, acquired from the FTX bankruptcy, from a bitcoin miner to an AI-focused data center. SWI Group (SWICH), which controls the former FTX-owned bitcoin BTC$84,155.39 miner Genesis Digital Assets, said it raised 800 million euros ($894 million) from institutional investors to expand its data center and artificial intelligence (AI) computing data-center.

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The CoinDesk 80 has risen around 3% in 24 hours, more than double the CoinDesk 5, while spot bitcoin ETFs lost $681 million last week. Small tokens are outpacing the major cryptocurrencies on Monday, with the CoinDesk 80 up around 3% over the past 24 hours, more than double the 1.2% gain in the CoinDesk 5. Bitcoin BTC$84,155.39 is trading below $83,500, after hitting a high above $84,000 on Sunday,.