The number of transactions waiting in Bitcoin’s mempool has been thin since mid-May, a rare event in bull markets. This prolonged quiet spell has pushed median fee rates down to 1 sat/vB or less, left many blocks underfilled, and revived long-term questions about the health of Bitcoin’s fee market. Some reports showed that the 7-day
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XRP is trading between $2.246 to $2.26 over the last hour with a total market capitalization of $133 billion and a 24-hour trading volume of $2.34 billion. The intraday price range for June 9, 2025, has fluctuated between $2.23 and $2.29, indicating restrained volatility amidst broader market consolidation. XRP On the 1-hour chart, XRP exhibited

The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based firm announced a Bitcoin purchase for the ninth week in a row.

Could Marathon Digital Holdings be in exploratory talks with Exxon Mobil and Saudi Aramco to colocate Bitcoin mining units at oilfields, directly tapping flare-gas for power? Crypto Twitter thinks it’s possible, and if confirmed, the partnership could turbocharge the scale and legitimacy of gas-to-Bitcoin operations, turning waste methane into a monetized digital asset while addressing
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Traders have bridged to Avalanche to start trading meme coins, as SocialFi app The Arena sees activity explode.

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KULR Technology Joins Bitcoin for Corporations, Increases Holdings to 920 BTC
KULR Technology announced today that it has joined the Bitcoin for Corporations initiative and its recent purchase of $13 million more Bitcoin.
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Public PoW blockchain Kadena makes its first capital deployment from a $50 million grants program, backing UK startup CurveBlock in the Bank of England’s Digital Securities Sandbox. Kadena has awarded the first grant from its new $50 million ecosystem fund, allocating $400,000 to CurveBlock, a UK-based startup building tokenized real estate inside a regulated financial
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Llyodstern.com, a financial solutions company with a strong focus on client fund protection, has reinforced its infrastructure with upgraded security protocols, establishing deeper safeguards around all its digital and operational systems. In an increasingly financial environment, the company has shown a clear intent to prioritize internal integrity and client data

IT solutions provider Oblong has unveiled plans to raise $7.5 million through a private stock sale to support its new Bittensor-driven AI and digital asset treasury initiative, according to a June 6 statement. Shares in the Nasdaq-listed firm are up 12% over the past 24 hours following the announcement. Oblong revealed that it entered a
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The Central African Republic (CAR) is pushing ahead this month with a plan to tokenize over 1,700 hectares of land on Solana, an initiative now deeply entangled with a controversial memecoin, opaque governance, and accusations of deepfakes. What began as a state-led “crypto-powered development” experiment has morphed into one of the year’s most confounding blockchain
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