Evernorth — the Nasdaq-listed vehicle ($XRPN) that began trading this week after merging with Armada Acquisition Corp. II — plans to begin deploying its 473 million XRP treasury (~$648M) in Q4. It named Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase and BitGo as its first institutional partners, with lending and DeFi on the XRP Ledger planned later
A 2027 budget amendment would tax crypto swapped into MiCA stablecoins — critics warn it just pushes traders to non-MiCA coins and offshore venues.
Developers can now spin up XRPL wallets inside Privy — signing XRP, RLUSD and x402 AI-agent payments — putting Stripe’s wallet rails on the XRP Ledger.
Richard Heart (Richard Schueler), founder of HEX and PulseChain, was detained in a dawn police raid in Istanbul, with luxury watches reportedly seized. He had been on Interpol’s wanted list, sought over fraud and violent-crime allegations
Eligible UAE clients can now buy BTC and ETH straight from their Standard Chartered accounts — a global systemic bank putting spot crypto on its own rails.
DEX spot trading reached ~25% of centralized-exchange volume in September, up from ~18% a year earlier. Source: The Block (DefiLlama data)
$IBKR adds ETH staking through its Client Portal — rewards paid in staked ETH that compound — another TradFi venue folding crypto yield into the stack.
