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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestVote to help HTX win & share 300 USDT!'XRP Keeps Growing,' Ripple CEO Says Amid Solana Milestone Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse 

'XRP Keeps Growing,' Ripple CEO Says Amid Solana Milestone


Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has reacted to $XRP's recent interoperability milestone on Solana. Wrapped $XRP (wXRP) went live on Solana, enabled by Hex Trust and Layer Zero.

"Growing demand for $XRP is driving liquidity cross-chain, opening new paths across ecosystems and expanding the overall market," Garlinghouse wrote in a tweet in reaction to the milestone.

Demand for $XRP keeps growing. More access, more ecosystems, more utility. https://t.co/zEqt5C3mmJ

— Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) April 17, 2026

$XRP utility has expanded on Solana with wXRP, allowing individual users and institutions alike to gain access to the token through the wrapped token issued by Hex Trust.

Authorized users can send native $XRP to Hex Trust, which then mints wXRP tokens on Solana or supported Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchains such as the Ethereum mainnet, Optimism or HyperEVM.

First announced in December, the move opens up the use of $XRP beyond $XRP Ledger, increasing its use in market-making and decentralized finance (DeFi) on Solana.

What comes next as $XRP's institutional era arrives

In a tweet, Ripple stated that $XRP's institutional era is now, supported by ETFs. For years, legal uncertainty kept institutional capital away from $XRP, but regulatory clarity has arrived now. Futures markets have launched, with the path to institutional access now opened.

Ripple believes that the $XRP ETF market is still young. While seven U.S. spot ETFs with $1.53 billion in AUM and 773 million $XRP tokens in custody represent meaningful progress, there is still plenty of room to grow. The JPMorgan prediction of $4 to 8.4 billion in first-year inflows has not yet been tested by a full bull cycle.

It is believed that the product landscape will also continue to evolve. ARK Invest has allocated nearly

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The Ethereum Foundation exposed 100 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)‐linked IT workers embedded across roughly 53 crypto projects. Ethereum Foundation Levels Up Its Security With A Detecti

The Ethereum Foundation exposed 100 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)‐linked IT workers embedded across roughly 53 crypto projects.

Ethereum Foundation Levels Up Its Security With A Detective Program
The North Korean secret crypto-agents don’t rest, so the Ethereum Foundation decided it was time they put on the detective’s hat to track them before they too fell victims to them, just as Drift Protocol was at the beginning of the month. And so, yesterday afternoon the Foundation announced on an official blog post the starking results yielded by the ETH Rangers Program (and yes, everything related to North Korean hackers inevitably sounds straight out of an RPG or action movie).

The ETH Rangers Program has wrapped up and the results speak for themselves: $5.8M+ recovered, 785+ vulnerabilities reported, 100+ DPRK operatives identified, and so much more.

A decentralized defence for a decentralized network.

Read the full recap 👇

— EF Ecosystem Support Program (@EF_ESP) April 16, 2026

According to the blog post, the Ethereum Foundation teamed up with Secureum, The Red Guild, and Security Alliance (SEAL) in late 2024 to roll out said program. The initiative offered stipends to people carrying out public‐goods security work across the Ethereum ecosystem.

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The program’s mission consisted in backing independent security initiatives that strengthen Ethereum’s overall robustness, while spotlighting and rewarding contributors with a proven history of delivering high‐impact security work for the broader network.

After six months, the results of the program speak for itself.

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Cardano Is Already Running Behind 200 German Companies, Foundation CEO SaysCardano is already being used by roughly 200 large companies in Germany through agentic AI deployments, even if those firms d

Cardano Is Already Running Behind 200 German Companies, Foundation CEO SaysCardano is already being used by roughly 200 large companies in Germany through agentic AI deployments, even if those firms do not realize the blockchain is sitting underneath their stack, according to Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard. The claim, made during an interview with Jane King on GBBC’s Markets on Chain series from the New York Stock Exchange published April 16, points to a version of blockchain adoption that is less visible to end users but potentially more embedded in enterprise infrastructure.



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President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration's review of classified UFO-related materials has uncovered a number of "interesting" documents, with the first batch expected to be made public very soon. Speaking at a Turning Point USA event, Trump told supporters, "We found many very interesting documents, I must say, and the first releases will begin very, very soon so you can go out and see if that phenomena is correct."The announcement has reignited widespread public curiosity surrounding unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Trump's disclosure comes after he signed a directive in February ordering federal agencies to begin declassifying and releasing government files related to UFOs, UAPs, and potential alien activity — a move driven by growing public demand for transparency on the subject.The push for disclosure was further fueled by comments made by former President Barack Obama, who acknowledged during a podcast interview that unidentified flying objects are "real." Trump accused Obama of improperly sharing classified information through those remarks, which ultimately accelerated the current administration's efforts to bring these long-hidden government records into the public domain.The upcoming release of UFO files is expected to draw enormous attention from both mainstream audiences and dedicated UFO researchers who have long called on the government to be more open about what it knows. While the exact contents of the documents remain unknown, Trump's characterization of them as "interesting" has only deepened speculation about what the files might reveal.With the first wave of declassified UAP records set to drop imminently, the world will soon have access to information that has been shrouded in government secrecy for decades. This marks a significant step toward greater tr

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Polkadot recovers 17% after Hyperbridge exploit: Will DOT’s gains continue? y the team after the exploit assured users of security, as the core network had not been affected. It’s the bridged DOT toke

Polkadot recovers 17% after Hyperbridge exploit: Will DOT’s gains continue?

y the team after the exploit assured users of security, as the core network had not been affected. It’s the bridged DOT tokens on Ethereum.

As a result, the community sentiment returned to 82% bullish from 954.1K voters, as per CoinMarketCap. Consequently, the price of the altcoin rallied from $1.146 to $1.354.

The relief brought about a rebound in network activity. As per Artemis data, the number of transactions increased by 1,400, from 10.5K to 11.9K, in just a day.

Additionally, daily active users (DAU) increased by 1.67x even though the figures remained relatively low. DAU rose from 3,000 to 5,000, indicating users were gradually returning to the network.


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