The golfing analogy was not lost as Facebook gets buried deeper in the digital rough while its crypto project partners run for the hills. In an interview with CNBC yesterday, US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said they may have feared heavy regulatory pressure.

Ripple price is rising steadily against the US Dollar, bitcoin and Ethereum. XRP price is likely to surpass $0.3000 and gain strength above $0.3020 in the near term.

While Binance Singapore launched in April this year users were underwhelmed to find they could only purchase Bitcoin at fixed prices. Recently, however, it was announced they are launching the option to buy XRP with local Singapore dollars allowing access to the revolutionary digital asset.

Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency when ranked by its market capitalization. It made headlines on Monday when its co-founder was spotted in the company of several Chinese investors and internet moguls. This could have been the reason for a nearly 10 percent increase in the price of the altcoin.

Brian Kelly, the CEO of the crypto investment firm BKCM and CNBC’s analyst recently gave his comments on CFTC’s decision on classifying Ethereum as a commodity rather than a security. The decision alone might prove a big step ahead for the crypto space according to Brian. He stated:

Two major transfers—one with 185,997 ETH and the other with 300,000 ETH—have been made just minutes apart from each other. They also appear to be mysteriously linked. Are whales accumulating?

At Devcon 5, the Ethereum developers conference that took place in Osaka from October 8 to11, Ethereum’s founder Vitalik Buterin stated that after the implementation of PoS on Ethereum blockchain, it would be more difficult for the attackers to make a breach as it would be a lot more costly than any PoW backed currency.

Digital asset manager CoinShares is putting gold on the bitcoin blockchain. Working with wallet provider Blockchain and precious medal trader MKS (Switzerland) SA, the U.K.-based firm announced Tuesday a gold-backed network for trading tokens representing digitized physical gold, a project two years in the making.

Ethereum is currently the leading smart contracts platform, and Avalanche is a powerful consensus mechanism among the new Snow-Avalanche family of protocols unveiled by the anonymous Team Rocket team last year.

The exchange’s groundbreaking plans merge traditional financial markets and stablecoins, says its CEO Bob Ras.

2019 has been the year of Bitcoin, while altcoins like Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, and others have continued to suffer and fall further from their all-time high prices set back at the height of the crypto hype bubble in late 2017 and early 2018.

The Ethereum (ETH) leadership is showing signs of becoming a force to be reckoned with, commented bitcoin pioneer Nick Szabo. While Ethereum was inherently democratic, the need to perform a series of hard forks and upgrades has put the developer team in charge.

Some crypto assets have had a worse 2019 that others and XRP is one of them. At the moment the Ripple token is still down 15% this year but that could be about to...

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says a lack of crypto clarity from US regulators may have kept the price of XRP from rising this year. When asked why XRP is lagging compared to the rest of the crypto market, Garlinghouse tells Fox Business that regulators could be playing a role.

At Devcon 5 last week, CoinDesk’s Leigh Cuen sat down with MyCrypto CEO Taylor Monahan to chat about user adoption and the state of ethereum.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group recently tweeted that, despite the Bitcoin (BTC) price pullback, customer interest in CME Bitcoin futures remained strong during Q3 2019.

From the identity of a massive crypto whale to a new proposal on the future of the XRP Ledger, here’s a look at some of the stories breaking in the world of crypto.

London-based Finastra — the third-largest financial services technology firm in the world — has partnered with Ripple to grant its customers access to the RippleNet blockchain network. As reported by the Fintech Times on Oct. 16, the cooperation between the two firms will see Ripple’s over 200 existing clients reciprocally access Finastra’s extensive banking network, which includes 48 of the top 50 banks globally.

Towo Labs software producer receives a strategic investment from Xpring to enable XRP Ledger’s integration in top cold wallets – the Ledger Nano series, Trezor T

The launch of CoinField's "Sologenic" platform that will allow trading major stocks on the XRP Ledger is expected to happen in 2020