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Rakuten Expands Ripple XRP Utility for 44M Users: Mass Adoption or Incremental Update?

Japan’s largest e-commerce platform is bringing Ripple XRP into its payments stack on April 15, 2026, listing it on Rakuten Wallet for spot trading and wiring it into Rakuten Pay, the app that 44 million users already use to buy coffee, groceries, and bullet train tickets.

The headline number is large enough to matter.

The analytical question is harder: does XRP utility inside a closed loyalty ecosystem constitute retail adoption, or is this a product feature update that happens to use crypto infrastructure most users will never see?



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The XRP price continues to trade within an abnormally tight range, according to the Bollinger Bands technical indicator as per TradingView, which has recorded a compression down to 6%. This marks the lowest volatility level since the beginning of the year and signals that a major move is expected for the XRP market. Advertisement For comparison, in January 2026, volatility reached 10%, after which the price increased by 28% by mid-March. A similar style compression to 7.7% led to a 17% impulse within five days. Today’s 6% stands as a zone of extreme compression, where any large market order could trigger a chain reaction for XRP.XRP/USD daily chart with Bollinger Bands, Source: TradingVIewBullish path to $2 vs. bearish liquidity hunt at $1.15Declining trading volumes during such compressions often indicate the dominance of market makers and the absence of strong market drivers, keeping the price within the $1.30-$1.38 range. Market makers may attempt to shake out retail participants, creating an illusion of stability that can disappear once liquidity breaks beyond one of the bands. HOT Stories Krueger Predicts Imminent Bitcoin All-Time High Will Shiba Inu (SHIB) Return to Bottom Again? Bitcoin's $70,000 Position Gets Complicated, Dogecoin (DOGE) Has Never Been This Calm: Crypto Market Review At the same time, this current calm can be interpreted not as a loss of interest but as a transition of the asset from speculative hands to long-term holders. In particular, according to analyst Ali Martinez, citing Santiment data, whales accumulated over 20 million XRP over the past week, supporting this thesis. Advertisement You Might Also Like Mon, 04/13/2026 - 15:52 XRP Six-Month OI Plunges 96% as Derivatives Market Struggles ByCaroline Amosun Upon a breakout from consolidation, two scenarios can be outlined: Bull case: Consolidation above the upper band at $1.40, ope

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On April 14, Businesswire reported that Strategy Inc, known as the 'Bitcoin Treasury Company,' announced it will release its financial results for the first quarter of 2026 after the close of the US f

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Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation ChallengeBitcoin has surged close to the $75,000 level, reaching its highest price in nearly a month, as renewed hopes of a potential deal between the United St

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Bitcoin has surged close to the $75,000 level, reaching its highest price in nearly a month, as renewed hopes of a potential deal between the United States and Iran boosted investor confidence across global markets.

The rally triggered a massive short squeeze in the crypto market, with over $530 million in liquidations recorded within 24 hours. Around 80 percent of these liquidations were short positions, primarily in Bitcoin and Ether, indicating that many traders betting on price declines were forced to exit their positions.

According to market data, nearly 177,000 traders were liquidated during this period, highlighting the strength of the sudden upward move. Analysts suggest that this surge is largely driven by derivatives trading activity rather than strong spot market demand.

Despite the price jump, some experts caution that this may not represent a true breakout. Instead, they describe it as a short squeeze pushing prices into resistance levels, where strong selling pressure still exists.

Bitcoin briefly touched levels just below $75,000 but faced immediate resistance and pulled back slightly. Meanwhile, Ether outperformed with a stronger daily gain, reaching multi-week highs.

The rally is also being supported by broader macro factors, including optimism surrounding a possible easing of geopolitical tensions between the US and Iran. Such developments tend to increase investor appetite for risk assets like cryptocurrencies.

While the short-term momentum appears bullish, analysts remain cautious, suggesting that the market could still face volatility and potential corrections in the near term.

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A major regulatory breakthrough may be on the horizon in the U.S. crypto policy debate, as lawmakers work to settle one of the most divisive issues in digital assets: whether stablecoin holders should

A major regulatory breakthrough may be on the horizon in the U.S. crypto policy debate, as lawmakers work to settle one of the most divisive issues in digital assets: whether stablecoin holders should be allowed to earn yield.
According to recent reports, Senator Thom Tillis and Senator Angela Alsobrooks are preparing a draft amendment to the Clarity Act that could be released this week. The goal is to bridge the growing divide between traditional banks and crypto firms over stablecoin interest payments.
At the center of the debate is a key question: Should crypto platforms be allowed to offer rewards or yield on stablecoin balances?
Banks argue that allowing such incentives could drain deposits from the traditional financial system and create structural risks.
Crypto companies, including major exchanges like Coinbase, argue that restricting yield would limit innovation and reduce consumer choice.
While the earlier GENIUS Act already prohibited stablecoin issuers from directly paying interest, it left a loophole allowing third-party platforms to potentially offer rewards—fueling the current policy clash.
Despite months of negotiations and White House-led discussions, no final agreement has been reached. However, lawmakers now say the draft language is “coming together well,” with further revisions still possible as industry feedback continues.
There is even discussion of a proposed “crypto-palooza” event on Capitol Hill, where banking and crypto leaders could sit down together to find common ground.
The Clarity Act still faces a long legislative path, but this latest development signals that Washington may finally be moving toward a clearer regulatory framework for stablecoins and digital asset yield products.


U.S. Lawmakers Move Closer to Resolving Stablecoin

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Hyperliquid recently introduced priority fees on Hypercore (testnet for now, mainnet soon).

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Right now, onchain trading is an infra game. The fastest server wins, not the best strategy. MMs spend on colocation, private RPCs, and custom engineering just to be a few ms faster.

Priority fees let you pay HYPE for execution priority instead. The HYPE gets burned, not pocketed by some infra provider.

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• Cancels always go before executions regardless of priority paid, so MMs can pull stale quotes during fast moves without getting picked off.

• Everyone uses the same public API and the same rate limits. No private endpoints, no backdoors.

Smaller MMs with better pricing but worse hardware can now compete. More MMs, tighter spreads, better fills.

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Mastercard launches new Crypto Partner Program Global initiative brings together more than 100 industry leaders, ensuring that what’s next works with what already does. Digital assets are entering a n

Mastercard launches new Crypto Partner Program

Global initiative brings together more than 100 industry leaders, ensuring that what’s next works with what already does.
Digital assets are entering a new phase.

What once ran in parallel to existing financial systems is increasingly being applied to solve practical, real-world needs — often behind the scenes – from cross-border remittances to B2B money transfers. Enterprise and institutional use cases such as payouts, settlement, and cross‑border money movement are beginning to take hold, creating new opportunities to add value to how money moves globally.

That’s why we’re introducing the Mastercard Crypto Partner Program, a new global initiative that brings together more than 100 crypto‑native companies, payments providers, and financial institutions to create a forum for meaningful dialogue and collaboration as this space continues to mature.

Recognizing how much there is to learn from the innovators building on chain every day, the program will allow expertise and insights to flow both ways as we shape the future together.



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Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Nears Half-Year High on U.S. Buying Signal

The Coinbase Bitcoin premium has rebounded to what one report describes as a near half-year high, a move that market participants are reading as a possible pickup in U.S. spot buying demand for Bitcoin at a time when broader sentiment remains fragile.

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Crypto Market Update: CME Bitcoin Futures Hit a 14-Month Low as Fear and Greed Index Drops to 12

Bitcoin futures open interest on the CME has fallen to a 14-month low of approximately $7.2 billion in early April, extending a five-month decline as the basis trade that drove institutional demand unwinds and the Crypto Fear and Greed Index sits at 12, deep inside extreme fear territory for the 46th consecutive day.

As KuCoin’s daily market report noted, the basis trade was the central engine of institutional Bitcoin exposure after US spot ETFs launched in 2024. For much of 2024 and 2025, the strategy offered a relatively low-risk yield from the spread between futures and spot prices. As bitcoin fell from its high of $120,000 to below $70,000, that spread compressed sharply, making the trade uneconomical against the current risk-free rate. The result is a sustained institutional pullback from CME that shows up directly in both open interest and monthly volume figures.

The Fear and Greed Index reading of 12 reflects a market where retail sentiment has been suppressed for longer than at any comparable point since late 2022.

Bitcoin Futures: What the CME Decline Signals About Institutional Positioning

The CME open interest decline is not just a technical number. It represents a withdrawal of the leveraged institutional layer that was added when spot Bitcoin ETFs launched. That layer bought spot and shorted futures simultaneously, creating a stabilizing force in the market. As it unwinds, the market loses a source of structural demand at the spot level and a source of short pressure in futures, leaving price action more exposed to sentiment swings and geopolitical headlines. The five consecutive months of CME open interest decline also mean that any institutional re-entry will require the basis to widen again, which typically requires bitcoin price appreciation first.

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