5 Key Factors Behind Its Growing Value

Key takeaways: XRP eliminates pre-funding and speeds up cross-border remittances, making it useful in emerging markets. Loyalty and travel programs are bringing XRP into daily life, turning it from an investment asset into a practical payment option. Institutions like SBI and Santander add credibility by holding XRP reserves and exploring settlement use cases. With the SEC case resolved and global clarity growing, XRP now has the legal certainty and network reach to expand adoption. XRP (XRP), the native digital asset of the XRP Ledger (XRPL), has often been discussed in…

Flood of Major Altcoin ETFs Await SEC Approval in October

The crypto industry could be set for a flood of new crypto exchange-traded funds in October, with the US Securities and Exchange Commission set to make their final decisions on 16 crypto ETFs next month.  The ETFs are connected to a variety of major altcoins, including Solana (SOL), XRP (XRP), Litecoin (LTC) and memecoin Dogecoin (DOGE), which have final deadlines scattered throughout October. Up for approval first is decentralized exchange Canary’s Litecoin ETF, with a deadline of Oct. 2, followed by asset manager Grayscale’s Solana and Litecoin trust conversion on…

Solana (SOL) Shows Signs Of Rebound – Will Bears Step In Again Soon?

Solana started a fresh decline below the $225 zone. SOL price is now attempting to recover from $192 and faces hurdles near $215. SOL price started a fresh decline below $225 and $220 against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above $200 and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There was a break above a key bearish trend line with resistance at $200 on the hourly chart of the SOL/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The price could start another decline if it stays below $215 and $220. Solana…

Devs Propose Removing Solana’s Block Limit to Optimize Performance

Web3 infrastructure company Jump Crypto has proposed removing Solana’s fixed compute block limit to strengthen network performance and incentivize validators with suboptimal hardware to upgrade. Jump, which is building a high-performance Firedancer validator client for Solana, is pushing for the SIMD-0370 proposal to be implemented sometime after the Alpenglow upgrade, Solana research company Anza said on Saturday.  Alpenglow passed in a near-unanimous vote earlier this month and is set to be deployed on a testnet in December. By removing static block caps, slower validators would skip more complex blocks, leaving…

Pi Network’s Big Event Reaches Halfway Point: Key Updates for Pioneers

The optional midpoint check-in took place last week. TL;DR Pi Network’s big hackathon event, which began officially in late August, has reached its midway point, and the team has published a dedicated video to update its community about the progress. In the meantime, the project’s native token continues to be deep in the red on multiple scales and is close to charting another all-time low. Hackathon Halfway There CryptoPotato reported in August that the Pi Network Core Team had come up with a new way to engage with its Pioneers…