Coinbase Ventures bought ENA as Coinbase expanded its Ethena partnership 
across custody, wallets, perps, and USDe access.
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Coinbase buys ENA stake as Ethena token jumps 15% on expanded partnership

The immense AI token consumption highlights escalating costs and resource 
demands, prompting urgent need for sustainable usage strategies.
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monthly appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The immense AI token consumption highlights escalating costs and resource demands, prompting urgent need for sustainable usage strategies. The post OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reveals top token user consumes 100B tokens monthly appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reveals top token user consumes 100B tokens monthly

Bitcoin has drawn a new valuation argument from Bitwise, as rising sovereign 
debt pressures keep bond markets under strain and strengthen the case for BTC 
as a macro hedge. Bitwise said in a new report that deeper investor concern 
over…

Bitcoin has drawn a new valuation argument from Bitwise, as rising sovereign debt pressures keep bond markets under strain and strengthen the case for BTC as a macro hedge. Bitwise said in a new report that deeper investor concern over…

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XRP bull Jake Claver argues that Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin does not weaken the 
case for XRP, but may instead reinforce it by bringing more institution- 
friendly dollar liquidity onto the XRP Ledger. In a thread on X, Claver said 
the two assets are built for different roles: RLUSD as a compliant digital 
dollar, and XRP as the neutral bridge asset that allows value to move between 
otherwise fragmented markets. The argument responds to a recurring question in 
the XRP community: if RLUSD can move money in seconds, why does XRP still need 
to exist? Claver said that framing misses the distinction between a settlement 
asset and a routing asset. “RLUSD is not the finish line. It is the front 
door,” Claver wrote. “Institutions come for a compliant digital dollar. Once 
they are on the ledger they start asking bigger questions. Can we tokenize 
securities here? Settle trades instantly? Drop the 3 day wait.” XRP As The 
Ledger’s “Money Changer” To explain the point, Claver used the analogy of an 
old trading port where merchants arrive with silk, spices, wool, salt and 
gold, but rarely hold exactly what another trader wants. A silk trader looking 
for pepper may first need to trade into wool before finally reaching the spice 
seller. With only ten goods, he noted, that creates 45 possible trading pairs; 
with a hundred goods, the number rises to almost 5,000. Related Reading: 
Pundit Shares Why Most People Will Miss The XRP Run His conclusion is that 
markets need a neutral asset in the middle to reduce friction. On the XRP 
Ledger, Claver said, that role is played by XRP. “On the surface that looks 
like one trade. Underneath it is two. He buys your silk and sells you silver, 
both at once. Remove that money changer and the whole port slows to a crawl. 
On the XRP Ledger, XRP plays that exact role,” he wrote. Claver gave the 
example of someone swapping a tokenized Treasury bill for a euro stablecoin. 
In his framing, the user may only see one asset going in and another coming 
out, but the routing path can move through XRP in between. “The trader never 
sees the XRP step. Asset goes in, the one they want comes out. XRP sits 
quietly in the middle making it work,” he said. Why RLUSD Does Not Replace XRP 
Claver described RLUSD as a digital dollar designed to remain stable at one 
dollar and backed by real reserves in a bank. That makes it useful when both 
sides of a transaction want dollar exposure. But he argued that many future 
XRP Ledger use cases may not end in dollars at all, including tokenized 
Treasuries moving into euro funds, lending markets in non-dollar currencies, 
or other asset-to-asset transactions. Related Reading: XRP Ledger Targets 
Flash Loan Attacks With New DeFi Security Proposal “RLUSD is perfect anytime 
both sides of a trade want dollars at the end. Plenty of trades do,” Claver 
wrote. “But plenty do not. Tokenized Treasuries swapping into euro funds. 
Lending in other currencies. Any trade where neither side is USD. There, a 
dollar coin cannot sit in the middle.” He then pointed to three limitations 
that, in his view, prevent RLUSD from becoming the ledger’s universal bridge 
asset. First, RLUSD has an issuer and therefore carries issuer-specific risk. 
If the company behind it faces legal, banking, or operational problems, the 
stablecoin could be affected. XRP, by contrast, is not minted by an issuer and 
cannot be switched off by a single company, he argued. Second, Claver said a 
global routing asset needs to be neutral. Regulated stablecoins must comply 
with sanctions, blacklists and regional rules, and can freeze tokens or block 
certain users. That may be appropriate for a regulated dollar product, but 
Claver argued it is less suitable for a base-level bridge asset. Third, 
liquidity pools need two different assets. RLUSD can sit in pools against euro 
stablecoins, tokenized Treasuries or other instruments, but it cannot be both 
sides of the market. Claver said the asset most likely to become the primary 
routing layer is one that is liquid, neutral, free of issuer risk and already 
proven over time. His answer was XRP. At press time, XRP traded at $1.2628. 
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standards evolve. The fund uses short-term U.S. Treasurys, cash, and cash 
equivalents, giving issuers another compliance-focused option for backing 
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on June 2 that […]

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Brazil’s central bank has added mandatory independent audits to the licensing 
approval process for crypto service providers in the country. According to the 
published rules cited in the report, crypto firms applying for authorization, 
or renewing an existing license, must…

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Coinbase buys ENA stake as Ethena token jumps 15% on expanded partnership

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