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Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz has pushed back against a resurfaced 2017 post in which he said XRP could not stay “dirt cheap,” rejecting the community's reading of it as a price guarantee and separately dismissing claims that Ripple holds

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XRP jumped 2.1% on May 1st. That's pretty much all of April's growth packed into one day.

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Stablecoins accounted for 40% of all crypto purchases in Latin America, and USDC purchases surpassed Bitcoin, according to Bitso's Crypto Landscape in Latin America 2025 report. The findings point to a notable shift in how buyers across the region are allocating capital within crypto markets.

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Solana (SOL) traded in a tight range around the mid-$80s on Thursday ET, buoyed by a string of payment-related integration announcements that investors see as strengthening the blockchain's real-world utility. The token hovered between $83.50 and $84.50 and was last changing hands near $84.01, with 24-hour trading volume of about $3.48 billion and a market capitalization of roughly $48.41 billion, according to figures cited in the report.