The XRP price remains range-bound as it has been over the past couple of weeks. As of the time of writing, the XRP price has appreciated by 1.86% over the past day, yet it has been unable to break above the $1.60 resistance. However, despite this apparent inertia, a notable shift is occurring on Binance, […]
Trump’s public confrontations may influence market perceptions, highlighting the impact of political rhetoric on prediction markets. The post Trump calls Comey ‘dirty cop’ in Truth Social post amid market uncertainty appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
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With bitcoin trading above the $80,000 threshold, bitcoin prices in South Korea have carried premiums approaching 2%, marking their highest level since late February. The move follows a choppy stretch since that period, during which both notable discounts and elevated premiums emerged across the past nine weeks. South Korea’s Kimchi Premium Returns as Bitcoin Climbs […]
Finance CEO Raoul Pal has expressed a clear preference for Solana over Bitcoin for reasons deeper than a simple asset comparison. The reasons for his latest crypto call go back to one of the crypto market’s biggest talking points: whether the next phase of the crypto industry will be led by Bitcoin’s store-of-value role or […]
The CLARITY Act’s yield restrictions could reshape stablecoin competition, impacting both traditional banks and emerging DeFi protocols. The post Senate panel considers CLARITY Act as banking groups propose stablecoin yield changes appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said he was not very confident he would be pardoned by US President Donald Trump after serving a four-month prison sentence in 2024 for violating US anti-money-laundering laws.“You never know because we actually had very strong anti-lobbying from some of our perceived competitors in the US,” Zhao told Ran Neuner on the Crypto Banter podcast published to YouTube on Saturday.“The other crypto exchanges in the US don’t want me to get a pardon,” Zhao said, arguing they were concerned about Binance re-entering the US market after its exit in November 2023. The departure followed a $4.3 billion settlement with Binance and the US government over violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), as well as failure to register as a money transmitting business.Binance.US resumed operations roughly four months after pardon“I’m pretty confident it happened to some extent. I don’t have concrete evidence of any of it, but I’m pretty confident there was push back,” Zhao said, referring to crypto exchange competitors in the US.Zhao spoke to Ran Neuner on the Crypto Banter podcast. Source: Crypto BanterUS President Donald Trump pardoned Zhao in October 2025, just over a year after Zhao completed his four-month prison term in September 2024.During an interview with 60 Minutes in November 2025, Trump said he had “no idea who he is” but was told that he was a victim of a “witch hunt” by the administration of former US President Joe Biden.Binance.US resumed operations for eligible US users in February 2025, months before Zhao’s pardon was granted.Zhao cleared of recent allegationsZhao’s comments came just months after a federal court in Alabama granted a motion in March to dismiss a 2024 complaint filed against Binance, its separate US entity Binance.US, and Zhao over allegations that the crypto exchange facilitated transferring funds to terrorist groups.Related: US CLARITY Act sees ‘big step forward’ as markup set for May 14Looking ahead, Zhao said in April that he hopes cryptocurrencies and blockchain will simply become an invisible part of daily infrastructure by 2031, much like the internet today.“I’m hoping that we don’t talk about crypto as crypto in five years, just like we don’t talk about the internet anymore, we don’t talk about TCP/IP, we don’t talk about HTML, JavaScript, etc,” Zhao told Scott Melker on the Wolf of All Streets podcast.Magazine: XRP ‘probably going to $12,’ Bitcoin ETFs add $1B: Market Moves
Bitcoin’s price recovery is not a new beginning: it is a familiar ending. That is the warning from a crypto analyst, who is of the notion that the current Bitcoin price action is playing out a bull trap the market has seen before and that the setup is pointing to a destination that sees the […]
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