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Who actually trades XRP? Korea and Japan order books
Set aside the ETF headlines and the courtroom drama, and the price of XRP gets made somewhere specific: on won and yen order books.
Summary
- XRP’s marginal price is heavily shaped by Korean and Japanese order books, not just Western ETF flows or Ripple headlines.
- South Korea’s spot-only crypto rules make XRP a high-beta leverage proxy for retail traders unable to use local derivatives.
- Japan’s XRP base is steadier, supported by SBI, stricter regulation, tax policy, and long-term retail familiarity.
- Traders should watch XRP/KRW volume share, won premiums, netflows, KOSPI stress, and ETF flows to read the real market.
On May 13, 2026, XRP did something on South Korean exchanges that no major Western venue has ever shown: it out-traded Bitcoin and Ethereum by combined margins of attention. Upbit, the country’s largest exchange, printed about $110.9 million in 24-hour XRP volume against Bitcoin’s $88.6 million and Ethereum’s $67 million, making the XRP/KRW pair the single busiest market on the platform. Bithumb, the second venue, showed the same pattern, with XRP behind only Tether’s stablecoin pair. The price barely moved, grinding between $1.44 and $1.46 beneath a resistance zone it had failed to break since February.
That single day was not an anomaly. It was the XRP market showing its true face. For all the attention paid to American ETF flows, SEC litigation, and Ripple’s corporate maneuvering, the marginal price of XRP gets set to a remarkable degree on Korean and Japanese order books. Understanding who actually trades this token, and why, explains more about its chart than any partnership announcement ever has.
It explains the violence of its drawdowns, the speed of its squeezes, the strange way it shrugs off news that should move it and erupts on news that should not. What follows is a tour of that market: the Korean machine, the Japanese base, the mechanics connecting them to the global price, and what any of it would take to change. The story is not only about XRP liquidity. It is about the traders whose incentives quietly write the chart most of the world reads too late.
Korea by the numbers
Start with the scale, because the scale is the story. Dunamu, the operator of Upbit, listed XRP as the platform’s most traded asset for the full year, ranking it ahead of Bitcoin and Ethereum across twelve months of order flow, not one viral afternoon. During a volume surge in July 2025, Upbit alone printed $269 million of XRP in 24 hours, the highest figure on any exchange in the world that day, with $161 million of it compressed into a single hour. In the March 2025 episode that doubled global XRP spot volume to $1.84 billion in a day, Upbit’s $452 million led every venue on earth.
Korean trading does not just favor XRP; it favors everything that moves. Altcoins make up 70% to 80% of volume on the country’s domestic exchanges, against a global average near 50%. The market runs on rotation: capital sweeps from one mid-cap name to another in days, chasing whatever is trending on the country’s hyperactive trading communities, then sweeps out again. XRP holds a special place inside that rotation as the permanent fixture, the asset Korean retail returns to in every cycle, familiar enough to be a default and volatile enough to be interesting.
The May episode showed the rotation’s other trigger: the local stock market. XRP’s surge to the top of the Korean books came as the KOSPI index slumped, and reporting at the time was blunt about the mechanism: middle-aged retail traders rotating out of weak equities and into the most familiar high-beta crypto asset available. When Korean stocks disappoint, a measurable slice of that frustration arrives on the XRP order book within days. No Ripple press release is involved at any point in the process.
The spot-only rule that explains everything
Why XRP, though? Why does a payments token with a corporate parent in San Francisco function as the national trading vehicle of South Korean retail? The deepest answer sits in Korean regulation, and it is the single most underappreciated fact in XRP market analysis. South Korea prohibits domestic crypto derivatives for retail, which means no futures, no options, and no leveraged tokens on local venues.
Access to offshore derivatives platforms is legally restricted, so Korean traders who want amplified exposure have exactly one tool available: volatility itself. A spot-only trader replicates leverage by choosing assets that move twice or three times as hard as Bitcoin, and XRP, with its deep liquidity, household familiarity, and high beta, is the closest thing the Korean rulebook allows to a leveraged Bitcoin position. Read the order book through that lens and its strangeness becomes rational. The preference for XRP over Bitcoin is not a belief about cross-border payments or a vote on Ripple’s lawsuit.
It is a structural workaround: the most liquid lottery ticket in a market where the casino only sells spot. The same logic explains the 70% to 80% altcoin share, the days-long rotation cycles, and the short holding periods that local analysis describes as a market optimized for short-horizon decisions over conviction. None of this flow is reading Ripple’s quarterly reports. Most of it would rotate into a different ticker tomorrow if a different ticker moved better.
For XRP’s global price, the consequence is a permanent, structural layer of demand that is enormous, loyal in aggregate, and utterly mercenary in the particulars. Korea will always trade XRP. Korea will not always be buying it. That distinction is why Korean volume can be bullish for liquidity and bearish for price at the same time.
The kimchi premium and the plumbing
Korean crypto markets carry a famous quirk with real consequences for XRP: prices on won pairs regularly detach from global levels, trading at a premium in manic phases and occasionally at a discount in fearful ones. It exists because Korean liquidity is partially sealed off, with capital controls and strict banking rules making arbitrage between won markets and global markets slow and legally fraught. When Korean demand surges, prices on Upbit can run several % above Binance for hours or days before the gap closes. For a token as Korea-weighted as XRP, the premium mechanics work like a feedback amplifier.
A global uptick draws Korean momentum buying, the won price runs ahead, premium-watching traders worldwide read the gap as a bullish signal and front-run the arbitrage, and the global price chases the Korean one upward. The loop runs equally well in reverse: Korean capitulation drags won pairs to a discount, the discount reads as a death signal, and global selling accelerates. Twice in the past decade, broad altcoin manias have effectively been Korean premium events exported worldwide, and XRP sat near the center both times. The kimchi premium is not a curiosity around the XRP market; it is part of the market’s transmission mechanism.
The netflow data adds a final wrinkle that volume numbers hide. During the July 2025 surge, even as Upbit led the planet in XRP volume, the exchange showed a negative net XRP flow of more than $100 million in a day, meaning tokens were leaving the venue even as trading exploded. Volume measures excitement, while netflow measures direction. Korean XRP data routinely shows the two pointing opposite ways, which is just what a rotation-driven, fast-money market should produce, and why headlines celebrating Korean volume as adoption get the story wrong.
How XRP became Korea’s coin in the first place
Korean retail’s marriage to XRP predates everything in today’s data, and the history explains the loyalty better than any present-day incentive. During the 2017 mania, South Korea briefly became the center of the crypto universe, and XRP was its favorite child. Korean won volume drove a staggering share of global XRP trading through that winter, the kimchi premium blew out to double digits, and the token’s vertical January 2018 top, the all-time high that still anchors every long-term chart, was to a remarkable degree a Korean event. Won pairs led the world up and then led it down when regulators threatened exchange closures.
An entire generation of Korean traders made and lost fortunes on XRP specifically, and markets remember their first loves. The asset that minted a country’s defining boom-and-bust story became permanent furniture in its trading culture. Entrenchment deepened through the quiet years, because while Western exchanges delisted or sidelined XRP during the SEC lawsuit, Korean venues never did. The token kept its premier placement on Upbit’s screens through the entire legal winter.
By the time American institutions returned to the asset in 2024 and 2025, Korean retail had simply never left. That is why the country’s order books today carry the depth, familiarity, and reflexes that a decade of continuous trading builds. The Korean XRP market is not a recent enthusiasm. It is an institution with a longer unbroken history than most of the asset’s Western infrastructure.
The concentration nobody prices: Upbit itself
One more fact shapes the map, because it concentrates an uncomfortable amount of XRP’s market structure in a single point of failure: Upbit’s dominance of Korean trading. Upbit handles the overwhelming majority of Korean crypto volume, operating through a real-name banking partnership that gives it privileged access to the won on-ramp. Korean regulators have spent recent years openly examining that concentration, from anti-monopoly scrutiny of the exchange’s market share to reviews of its banking arrangement. For most assets, a Korean policy shock would be a regional story.
For XRP, whose single busiest global trading pair has repeatedly been Upbit’s won market, it would be a direct hit to the token’s primary price discovery venue. A suspension, a banking partner change, or a forced market share remedy in Seoul would do more to XRP’s daily liquidity than any plausible action by the SEC. Risk runs the other direction too, and traders should hold both. Korean policy has been drifting toward expansion, not restriction, with institutional access and ETF frameworks under discussion, and Upbit’s parent has been positioning for that bigger market.
The point is not that Seoul threatens XRP. The point is that a token whose price formation leans this heavily on one venue in one jurisdiction carries a concentration risk that appears in no Western risk model, and it costs nothing to know it. Upbit is not just another exchange in XRP’s market structure. It is one of the places where the market’s center of gravity actually sits.
Japan: the other pillar, built differently
Cross the strait and the XRP market changes character completely. Japan holds one of the world’s oldest and deepest XRP retail bases, but it trades nothing like Korea, and the difference between the two books is a lesson in how regulation shapes behavior. Japanese crypto runs through exchanges licensed by the Financial Services Agency under some of the strictest consumer rules anywhere: segregated customer assets, cold storage mandates, and listing reviews that can take years. Inside that conservative perimeter, XRP achieved something unusual: institutional sponsorship.
SBI Holdings, one of Japan’s largest financial groups, has been Ripple’s most committed corporate ally for nearly a decade, running a joint venture for Asian payments, holding XRP on its own balance sheet, championing the token through the public statements of its chief executive Yoshitaka Kitao, and wiring XRP into live remittance corridors through SBI Remit. These include the Japan-to-Southeast-Asia routes where the token actually performs its original bridge function. Japanese retail absorbed that sponsorship years ago. XRP became, for a generation of Japanese savers, the respectable altcoin, the one a major financial institution had publicly blessed.
Japanese policy quietly reinforces the holding culture. Crypto gains in Japan are taxed as miscellaneous income at progressive rates that can approach the mid-fifties for high earners, a regime that punishes active trading and rewards sitting still, the exact inverse of Korea’s flat-rate deferrals and rotation-friendly structure. SBI has layered its own incentives on top over the years, at times offering XRP itself as a shareholder benefit, an arrangement with no real parallel anywhere in crypto: a blue-chip financial conglomerate handing its registered shareholders the token as a perk. Between the tax code and the corporate sponsorship, Japanese XRP sits where it lands.
The result is a holder base with the opposite metabolism to Korea’s. Japanese XRP money skews toward accumulation and long holding, moves less day to day, and shows up in the data as a stabilizing floor rather than a momentum engine. Korea supplies XRP’s velocity; Japan supplies a meaningful share of its patience. Both books are retail, both are enormous, and they pull the token in different directions: one amplifying every swing, the other quietly absorbing supply through them.
What this microstructure does to the chart
Put the pieces together and several chronic mysteries of XRP price behavior dissolve. Take the drawdown violence first. XRP routinely falls harder than its market cap peers in broad selloffs, and this spring was no exception, with the token losing roughly 17% in a single week of the June slide while breaking supports that had held for months. A market whose marginal trader is a spot-only momentum player has no natural buyer during declines.
The Korean book that supplies the bid in uptrends rotates elsewhere the moment momentum dies, taking its 70%-of-volume firepower with it, while the patient Japanese bid sits far below the action by design. Between the momentum layer and the accumulation layer lies an air pocket, and XRP falls through it with regularity. Then comes the news immunity. Corporate announcements that thrill Western holders routinely fail to move the price, while obscure local catalysts, a KOSPI slump, a Korean community rumor, or an exchange promotion, produce hundred-million-dollar volume days.
The marginal buyer does not read Ripple press releases, so Ripple press releases do not move the margin. The flow responds to what its actual drivers respond to: momentum, rotation, local market conditions, and the premium signal. The squeeze behavior follows the same logic. When XRP does catch a genuine uptrend, the same machinery that amplifies declines turns around and amplifies the rally, with Korean rotation capital piling into the most familiar name on the board and the premium loop exporting the move globally.
The token’s history of violent, late-cycle vertical rallies, the kind that triple the price in weeks after months of stagnation, is the signature of this structure. The spot-only leverage proxy works in both directions. It punishes the token when momentum disappears and rewards it when rotation comes back. That is why XRP’s chart can look dead for months and then move like a small cap when the right book wakes up.
Reading the signals correctly
For a trader or a journalist, the practical payoff of all this is a different dashboard. The standard XRP analysis toolkit, ETF flow tables, whale wallets, legal calendars, misses the market’s actual engine, and a Korea-aware toolkit looks different. Watch the XRP/KRW volume share on Upbit, not just the global total: a rising Korean share during a rally signals rotation money, the kind that leaves, while a rally on flat Korean share suggests something rarer and more durable is bidding. Watch netflow against volume, because volume spikes with negative netflows mark distribution dressed as enthusiasm.
Watch the premium: won pairs trading rich against global levels is a real-time gauge of Korean retail temperature, and its collapses have led global XRP downturns more reliably than any moving average. Watch the KOSPI too, absurd as it sounds, because the strongest single-day XRP volume event of the spring was triggered by a Korean equity selloff, not by anything that happened to Ripple. The signals also clarify what Korean volume cannot tell you. It cannot confirm institutional adoption, which lives on entirely different rails.
It cannot validate the payments thesis, since the flow is expressly speculative. It cannot anchor a long-term price target, because rotation capital prices nothing beyond the next move. This is where the full XRP price outlook must separate microstructure from fundamentals, because the book can explain the next swing without answering the long-term valuation question. The Korean book is a magnificent amplifier and a terrible oracle.
A worked example: reading one week of tape
Theory earns its keep in practice, so take the early-June slide as a worked example of the Korea-aware dashboard against the standard one. A standard reading of that week was straightforward and mostly useless: XRP fell roughly 17%, whales were selling, and support broke. A microstructure reading saw more. Korean volume share in XRP had been climbing for weeks while global price stalled under resistance, the classic signature of rotation money carrying the bid alone.
Netflows on the won venues had turned negative even on green days, meaning the loudest book in the market was distributing into its own enthusiasm. When the broad selloff arrived, the momentum layer did what the structure predicts, vanishing rather than defending. The token fell through the air pocket between the Korean bid and the Japanese one until it found the deeper levels where patience lives. Nothing about the move required whale conspiracies or news catalysts.
The order books had been describing it in advance to anyone reading the right columns. The example generalizes into the simplest possible rule for this asset: when Korean share rises and netflow falls, treat strength as borrowed. When Korean share falls while price holds, something sturdier than rotation is bidding, and that is the rarer and more valuable signal. The rule will not call tops and bottoms, but it will tell you who is on the other side of your trade, which is most of what microstructure can ever offer.
What would change the structure
Market structures this entrenched change through regulation, and two live regulatory tracks could redraw the XRP map within a couple of years. The Korean track runs toward liberalization. Seoul has spent 2025 and 2026 inching toward institutional participation in crypto, debating corporate trading accounts, spot ETF frameworks, and eventually derivatives access. Every step in that direction dilutes the spot-only distortion that makes XRP the national leverage proxy.
A Korean retail trader with access to regulated Bitcoin futures has less structural reason to express risk appetite through XRP, while Korean institutions entering spot markets would add exactly the slower, conviction-weighted flow the book currently lacks. Liberalization would likely shrink XRP’s share of Korean volume and deepen its quality at the same time, a trade long-term holders should welcome and momentum traders will mourn. The American track runs through the CLARITY Act and the ETF era. If U.S. market structure law settles XRP’s status permanently, the institutional flows that today tiptoe through ETF wrappers gain room to grow into something that rivals the Asian retail base at the margin.
The token’s price formation would then have three real engines: Korean momentum, Japanese patience, and American allocation, instead of two and a rounding error. The institutional flows that today tiptoe through ETF wrappers are still modest compared with the Asian retail base, but they are the one Western channel capable of changing the marginal buyer over time. If they deepen, XRP stops being priced mainly by Asian retail rotation and starts being priced by allocation mandates too. That would not erase Korea or Japan, but it would reduce their dominance.
Japan is also moving toward a more formal ETF regime, and XRP sits close to that conversation because of SBI’s long relationship with Ripple. A Japan ETF track would not look like Korea’s rotation market, because Japanese investors are slower-moving and more regulation-sensitive. But an approved XRP ETF in Japan would reinforce the country’s role as the patience layer rather than the momentum layer. That would deepen the book in the direction XRP has historically lacked.
Other fundamentals can still matter, but they need to create demand that survives the trading cycle. The on-chain credit system in validator voting would matter for XRP if it turns ledger activity into locked supply, yield demand, and practical use rather than another announcement cycle. That kind of utility would not replace the Korea-Japan structure immediately. It would, however, give non-speculative buyers a reason to exist beside it.
Nothing about the current chart guarantees that future. But it is the only visible path to an XRP market where the marginal price-setter holds for reasons connected to what the asset is supposed to do. Until then, the book remains the map. The first sign of change will not be a headline; it will be a shift in volume share, netflow, premium behavior, and ETF persistence.
The book does not lie
Every asset’s chart is a referendum on who owns it, and XRP’s chart has been telling the same story for years to anyone willing to look past the headlines and into the order flow. The token’s price gets made by a Korean retail machine that loves its volatility and owes it nothing, steadied by a Japanese base that bought a story its institutions endorsed a decade ago, and increasingly orbited by Western institutional money that has so far committed only modestly. The chart’s character, explosive, treacherous, indifferent to news, loyal to momentum, is not a mystery or a manipulation. It is the faithful signature of that ownership.
That means the question that matters for XRP’s next act is not the one usually asked. Not what will Ripple announce, but who will the next marginal buyer be. If the answer stays the Upbit rotation trader, the chart will keep behaving exactly as it always has, in both directions. If the regulatory tracks in Seoul and Washington deliver new kinds of buyers, the chart will start telling a new story.
The first place that change will show is not in the price at all. It will show in the books, in the share columns and the netflow tables, weeks before the headlines catch up, the way everything about this token always has. For now, XRP remains a token whose global story is often written in English but whose price is frequently negotiated in Korean won and Japanese yen. The book does not lie; the mistake is reading the wrong one.
As of June 11, 2026. Volume figures and market shares shift daily; verify current data before trading. This article is information, not investment advice.
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Bitget enters Argentina’s regulated crypto market through PSAV registration
Bitget has secured registration in Argentina as a Virtual Asset Service Provider, adding another regulated market to its Latin American footprint as crypto adoption in the country approaches 20% of the population.
Summary
- Bitget has secured Virtual Asset Service Provider registration in Argentina, extending its regulated presence across Latin America.
- Argentina’s crypto market now includes nearly 20% of the population and more than 15,000 businesses that accept digital asset payments.
- The approval comes as Bitget continues expanding tokenized stock and real world asset products across its exchange and wallet ecosystem.
According to a press release shared with crypto.news, Bitget has been added to Argentina’s Virtual Asset Service Provider registry maintained by the National Securities Commission, known locally as the CNV.
The registration allows the exchange to operate within the country’s existing framework for crypto service providers while complying with oversight requirements tied to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing rules.
As part of the registration, Bitget will be subject to reporting and compliance obligations before Argentina’s Financial Information Unit and other relevant authorities. The approval comes as policymakers across Latin America continue building formal rules for digital asset businesses operating in their jurisdictions.
Argentina has emerged as one of the region’s busiest crypto markets, with company data indicating that nearly 20% of the population uses digital assets and more than 15,000 businesses accept crypto payments. Growing participation has turned the country into a key destination for exchanges seeking expansion opportunities across Latin America.
“Regulatory frameworks for digital assets continue developing across Latin America, making compliance and registration increasingly important for platforms operating in the region,” said Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget.
“Argentina represents an important market within Latin America’s broader digital asset landscape, and Bitget remains focused on supporting sustainable growth by aligning with local regulatory requirements.”
Argentina adds to Bitget’s regional expansion
Coming shortly after regulatory progress in Mexico, the Argentina registration extends Bitget’s presence in markets where crypto adoption and regulatory development are advancing at the same time.
Recent months have also seen the company deepen its focus on products that connect digital assets with traditional finance. Earlier in June, Bitget enabled 15 tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds, including Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft and Amazon-linked assets, to be used as collateral for USDT-margined futures trading through its Unified Trading Account system.
At the time, Chen said users were looking for more ways to put tokenized assets to work across different trading activities as demand for blockchain-based financial products continued to grow.
A separate announcement from Bitget Wallet on June 9 expanded the company’s tokenized asset infrastructure further. The wallet introduced support for direct trading of tokenized real-world assets through its DEX Aggregator API, allowing partner platforms to route trades from cryptocurrencies into tokenized stocks without requiring separate trading systems.
According to Bitget Wallet, the upgrade introduced an RFQ-based routing model designed to secure liquidity before transactions reach the blockchain. Initial integrations included Ondo Finance and xStocks, two of the largest participants in the tokenized asset sector.
Bitget Wallet also reported that its ecosystem now offers access to more than 300 tokenized products spanning equities, commodities, precious metals and other financial instruments. Company figures further show that Bitget’s tokenized equity products have generated more than $30 billion in trading volume since 2025.
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XRP price rally tests $1.20 as sentiment hits an 8-month low
XRP traded near $1.15 on June 12 after a volume-backed rebound from the $1.10 area, but traders still watched whether the move could break the wider downtrend.
Summary
- XRP rose near $1.15 after buyers defended $1.10 and pushed through short-term resistance.
- Weak sentiment and zero ETF outflows kept XRP in focus despite its broader monthly downtrend.
- Ripple’s MXNB launch on XRPL added enterprise payments context as traders watched the $1.20 area.
XRP price rebounds from $1.10
XRP traded at $1.15, up nearly 3% over 24 hours, according to crypto.news market data. The token recorded about $1.68 billion in daily trading volume, while market capitalization stood near $71.24 billion.

The 24-hour trading range stayed between $1.10 and $1.15. That shows buyers defended the lower end of the range and pushed price back toward short-term resistance.
The rebound followed a weak period for XRP. The token remained down 21.48% over 30 days and 48.73% over the past year, showing that the latest move has not erased the broader decline.
XRP still ranks sixth by market value. Its fully diluted valuation stood near $114.79 billion, with about 62.05 billion tokens in circulation from a maximum supply of 100 billion.
Volume-backed move tests resistance
XRP rose from about $1.1080 to $1.1442 during the earlier 24-hour session, gaining more than 3%. The strongest move came when buyers pushed through resistance near $1.1220.
Volume surged to about 120.2 million XRP during the June 11 17:00 UTC session. That was more than 160% above average and helped confirm the short-term breakout.
The move was notable because recent XRP rebounds had faded quickly. This time, buyers kept bidding into the close and pushed price above $1.14.
The next test sits around $1.20 to $1.25. Every major XRP recovery this year has struggled before that zone, so a clean break above it would be needed to improve the larger structure.
Sentiment stays weak despite rebound
Santiment said XRP’s weighted sentiment has fallen to its lowest level since October 2025. The metric tracks social volume and the ratio of positive to negative commentary.
“XRP’s sentiment at 8-month lows, but this level of FUD tends to spark bull rallies,” said Santiment.
That signal does not confirm a price rally. It shows that crowd interest has weakened while negative commentary has increased, which can sometimes appear near rebound zones.
Santiment also noted that XRP has seen strong rebounds in the past when traders became disinterested. That makes sentiment a useful secondary signal, but not a full trading signal on its own.
ChartNerd also pointed to XRP returning to the lower regression band of the Gaussian Channel on the two-week timeframe near $1.04. The analyst described that zone as a macro opportunity area based on prior cycles.
“One of our XRP signals just fired,” said ChartNerd.
XRP ETF flows and technical levels matter
According to SoSoValue data, XRP spot ETFs recorded zero outflows on June 11, while Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana ETFs saw redemptions. XRP ETF net assets were reported near $984.77 million, close to the $1 billion mark.
That matters because steady ETF demand can support price during weak market conditions. It does not guarantee a breakout, but it can reduce the pressure that comes from spot selling.
Technically, XRP is trapped between a short-term rebound and a longer-term downtrend. Price has reclaimed $1.14, but it still trades below the larger descending trendline that has guided the market since early 2026.
Immediate support sits near $1.10. A loss of that area could expose $1.04, where analysts are watching the lower regression band and recent support.
On the upside, XRP needs to clear $1.15 first, then build momentum toward $1.20. A daily close above $1.20 would shift focus to $1.25, where earlier recoveries have failed.
MXNB launch adds XRPL context
Ripple and Bitso expanded their partnership by bringing the MXN-backed stablecoin MXNB to the XRP Ledger. The stablecoin will also integrate with Ripple’s Payments on Decentralized Exchange infrastructure.
The setup is designed to support enterprise settlement between the United States and Mexico. Ripple’s RLUSD and Bitso’s MXNB are expected to provide on-chain dollar and peso liquidity for payment flows.
The launch adds another institutional use case for XRPL. Still, XRP price must confirm strength through the chart, because network growth does not always lead to immediate token demand.
As previously reported by crypto.news, the XRPL 3.2.0 upgrade is also expected on June 15. The upgrade will rename the core software from “rippled” to “xrpld” and may reduce server memory use by around 40%.
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Major Crypto Exchanges Revoke SpaceX IPO Allotments, Offer Refunds
Several major crypto trading and wallet platforms have canceled their tokenized SpaceX IPO campaigns after SpaceX began trading publicly on the Nasdaq. Bybit, Binance, Bitget Wallet and MEXC all pointed to problems in securing underlying allocations, leaving subscribers without the expected access and triggering refunds in some cases.
SpaceX’s IPO, reported as more than four times oversubscribed, raised $75 billion and valued the company at more than $2 trillion on its first day. Shares opened at $150, rose from the $135 IPO price, and closed at $161.11 on Friday.
Key takeaways
- Bybit, Binance, Bitget Wallet and MEXC canceled their tokenized SpaceX IPO offerings once allocations could not be fulfilled.
- Multiple platforms blamed xStocks’ inability to deliver the underlying assets needed to distribute SpaceX tokenized IPO allocations.
- Binance’s campaign had reportedly attracted more than $557 million in USDC deposits before being halted.
- Bitget Wallet and MEXC stated they would refund affected users.
Tokenized IPO campaigns lose the allocation race
As SpaceX transitioned from private markets to public trading, crypto platforms offering tokenized access attempted to translate that demand into participation for their users. But once the IPO went live, these campaigns ran into a practical bottleneck: they could not obtain SpaceX allocations through xStocks, the entity involved in distributing the tokenized exposure.
According to Bybit’s announcement, the firm did not receive any SpaceX allocations due to xStocks’ failure to deliver the underlying assets. In that situation, Bybit said subscribed users would not receive SpaceX allocations despite the earlier subscription process.
Bybit says xStocks delivery issues stopped allocations
Bybit was among the earliest platforms to market tokenized IPO participation with its Bybit IPO Express, which included a SpaceX debut. In its cancellation message, Bybit directly tied the outcome to xStocks’ inability to deliver the underlying assets required for the allocation.
Bybit’s statement indicated that because no allocations were received, the campaign could not proceed as advertised. For users, that meant the tokenized IPO access did not materialize in the form of SpaceX allocations tied to the public listing.
Binance’s deposits were not enough to proceed
Binance also reported that it could not move forward with its tokenized SpaceX IPO campaign after citing circumstances outside its control. Earlier coverage described the initiative as attracting more than $557 million in USDC deposits, reflecting significant interest from Binance users.
Binance Wallet was also described as relying on xStocks for allocation delivery. With xStocks unable to provide the underlying assets, Binance said it was unable to proceed with the campaign, despite the apparent scale of deposits recorded before the IPO date.
Bitget Wallet and MEXC move to refund users
While some platforms framed their cancellation around delivery constraints, others emphasized remediation. Bitget Wallet and MEXC both stated that they would refund users who were affected after they were unable to secure an allocation of xStocks’ tokenized SPCX exposure.
In an X post, Bitget Wallet chief operating officer Alvin Kan said it was “disappointing that this didn’t work out in the end,” adding that the company was sending refunds. Kan also acknowledged that the episode had shaken trust within the industry, while arguing that the platform would continue and “come out of this stronger.”
MEXC similarly indicated that refunds were the next step, aligning with the broader pattern of tokenized IPO campaigns encountering execution risk when upstream allocation mechanics fail.
What this setback signals for tokenized IPO access
This episode highlights a recurring challenge for tokenized access products: they may package participation in high-demand public events for retail or crypto-native audiences, but they still depend on traditional allocation and settlement flows. When the party responsible for sourcing and distributing the underlying exposure cannot deliver, platforms can only cancel or unwind the offering.
That dependency matters now because the market conditions were unusually favorable for such products. SpaceX’s IPO drew massive interest, and reports said it was more than four times oversubscribed. Yet even with demand concentrated around a single, widely watched listing, crypto platforms were still unable to convert subscriptions into allocations.
For investors and traders, the practical takeaway is that tokenized IPO participation should be viewed as an execution-sensitive service—not only a market product. Users should watch for clarity around allocation guarantees, the identity of the upstream allocation provider, and how refunds are handled when delivery fails.
Going forward, the key question is whether platforms and allocation intermediaries can align incentives and operational readiness ahead of the next major high-profile IPO. Until then, users should expect that tokenized IPO offerings may carry additional counterparty and process risk—especially when demand is at the level seen during SpaceX’s public launch.
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Anthropic’s pre-IPO shares fall as US government shuts down Fable, Mythos models
The government told Anthropic it had become aware of a method to bypass, or jailbreak, Fable 5. Anthropic reviewed the technique and said what it saw was narrow, not a universal jailbreak, and involved identifying a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities. It said other publicly available models, including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, can find the same vulnerabilities without any bypass at all.
The company said the government has so far provided only verbal evidence of a potential narrow jailbreak, which it described as essentially asking the model to read a codebase and fix software flaws, a task defenders use every day.
It said applying this standard across the industry “would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers.”
Anthropic built its entire brand around safety-first AI development, and it is now publicly disputing a national security directive on the grounds that the government’s evidence does not clear its own stated bar.
The company will share more details about the specific jailbreak within 24 hours.
The crypto market is now pricing the shutdown as a negative for the IPO case, and the Anthropic perp’s drop from its post-launch highs reflects that. The first question for the company’s public listing ambitions is whether the government’s order gets reversed, narrowed, or extended to other model classes once Anthropic publishes its technical rebuttal.
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What happens to Satoshi’s BTC when Bitcoin’s quantum problem is fixed?
Many are assumed to belong to Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto and other owners who lost their keys, which means they can never be moved to safety. Another 5 million or so are exposed through address reuse, according to Project11, a research group tracking the issue, though most of those are thought to be active holdings in exchange wallets.
Swapping in quantum-resistant signatures is the easy part, but the fight is over the coins nobody moves. One camp argues for a hard deadline, after which the signature schemes Bitcoin uses today, ECDSA and Schnorr, stop being accepted and any unmigrated coins become unspendable. Leaving them live, this side says, hands a future attacker, potentially a sanctioned state like North Korea, a stash of bitcoin large enough to crash the price and taint the network’s legitimacy.
The other camp calls that confiscation, a violation of the absolute property rights Bitcoin was built on, and warns it sets a precedent for freezing coins under government pressure later.
Between them sit the several proposals CoinDesk has tracked over the past two months.
Hourglass would cap how many vulnerable coins can be spent per block to prevent a supply flood. BIP-361, from developer Jameson Lopp and others, would let migrated holders prove ownership after the cutoff with a quantum-resistant proof that exposes no key. PACTs, from Paradigm’s Dan Robinson, would let owners timestamp a private claim now and move funds later without revealing anything today.
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CoreWeave joins Nasdaq 100 as AI boom redraws market leaders
CoreWeave and Nebius have secured places in the Nasdaq 100 after Nasdaq announced that both companies will be added to the index before trading begins on June 22.
Summary
- CoreWeave and Nebius will join the Nasdaq 100 on June 22 following Nasdaq’s quarterly rebalance.
- CoreWeave’s inclusion follows its transformation from a crypto miner into a major AI infrastructure provider.
- While AI firms gain index representation, some crypto miners continue facing financial and listing challenges.
According to Nasdaq’s quarterly index rebalance announcement, CoreWeave and Nebius will join the Nasdaq 100 alongside Astera Labs, Rocket Lab, and Teradyne.
Investors welcomed the news, sending CoreWeave shares up about 7.3% to roughly $102 and lifting Nebius shares about 6.3% to around $233 in Friday trading.
The additions come as companies tied to artificial intelligence infrastructure continue attracting capital and market attention. Membership in the Nasdaq 100 often increases exposure to institutional investors and can generate buying activity from exchange-traded funds and other passive investment products that track the benchmark.
For CoreWeave, the milestone follows a rapid transformation from cryptocurrency mining into one of the most closely watched AI infrastructure providers in public markets.
As previously reported by crypto.news, the company exited crypto mining and rebranded as an AI infrastructure business in 2019 after weakening mining economics following the 2018 crypto market downturn.
AI infrastructure companies gain ground in major indexes
Recent business developments have strengthened CoreWeave’s position within the AI sector. As reported by crypto.news in April, the company signed a multi-year agreement with Anthropic to support workloads for the Claude family of AI models.
Under the agreement, Anthropic will use CoreWeave’s cloud data centers to run AI workloads, with deployment expected to expand over time as demand increases.
The Anthropic partnership followed an $8.5 billion capital raise led by Meta Platforms. According to crypto.news, the financing was backed by deployed computing capacity and projected cash flows rather than graphics processing unit hardware, a structure that differed from financing models commonly used by crypto mining firms.
Meanwhile, Nebius has built its business around AI cloud services and has attracted investors seeking alternatives to larger cloud providers. The company markets itself as a full-stack AI cloud platform and has benefited from rising demand for computing power used to train and operate advanced AI systems.
CoreWeave’s latest expansion plans highlight the scale of that demand. The company recently raised the lower end of its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to $31 billion, citing higher component costs as it continues adding computing capacity.
Crypto miners face pressure while AI spending accelerates
While AI-focused companies move into one of the world’s most closely followed technology indexes, several firms tied to cryptocurrency mining continue dealing with operational and financial challenges.
Canaan offers a contrasting example. As reported by crypto.news, the Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin miner achieved a record fleet efficiency of 17.9 joules per terahash in May and improved efficiency by 11% from a year earlier. The company mined 90 Bitcoin during the month and increased its treasury holdings to approximately 1,867 BTC and 3,952 ETH.
Despite those operational gains, Canaan reported first-quarter revenue of $62.7 million, down from $196.3 million in the previous quarter, while posting a net loss of $88.7 million. Crypto.news previously reported that the company also received a second Nasdaq non-compliance notice after its share price remained below the exchange’s $1 minimum bid requirement, giving it until July 13, 2026, to regain compliance.
Industry projections cited by crypto.news suggest publicly listed miners could generate as much as 70% of revenue from AI-related activities by the end of 2026, up from roughly 30% today. As companies invest in data centers and high-performance computing infrastructure, some miners have sold portions of their Bitcoin holdings to finance that transition.
Against that backdrop, the Nasdaq 100 additions underscore how investor interest has increasingly concentrated around companies supplying cloud capacity, AI data centers, and computing infrastructure, even as parts of the cryptocurrency mining sector continue searching for new growth models.
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only.
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Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation completes world’s largest digital bond issuance
Hong Kong has priced its largest-ever digital bond sale at around HK$12 billion (approximately $1.5 billion), extending the city’s push to bring traditional fixed-income markets onto blockchain-based infrastructure.
Summary
- Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation priced a HK$12 billion digital bond sale, which it described as the largest tokenized bond issuance completed globally.
- Investor demand reached about HK$24 billion equivalent, with orders from more than 100 institutional accounts across Hong Kong, mainland China, and overseas markets.
- The blockchain based issuance reduced settlement time from five business days to three and set a new maturity record for a Hong Kong dollar digital bond.
The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation (HKMC) said on June 11 that it had completed pricing for the inaugural public digital bond issuance under its $30 billion Medium Term Note Programme. Bookbuilding and pricing were finalized in Hong Kong on June 10 following investor roadshows and pre-marketing activities.
According to HKMC, the transaction consists of three tranches, including a HK$6 billion two-year bond, a HK$2.5 billion five-year bond, and a three-year bond worth RMB3 billion.
Investor demand reached about HK$24 billion equivalent at its peak, with orders coming from more than 100 accounts. HKMC said participants included local investors, Southbound Bond Connect investors, and international institutions such as central banks, multilateral development banks, insurers, private banks, commercial banks, and asset managers.
The issuance surpasses previous tokenized bond transactions completed in Hong Kong and, according to HKMC, is the largest digital bond sale completed globally so far.
Hong Kong expands tokenized bond market
Built using distributed ledger technology, the bonds were issued natively on a blockchain platform operated by Hong Kong’s Central Moneymarkets Unit, which also handled settlement and custody functions.
Beyond the size of the deal, HKMC said the issuance reduced the settlement cycle from five business days to three. Investors were able to access the bonds through existing Central Moneymarkets Unit infrastructure and linked accounts with Euroclear and Clearstream.
Among the three tranches, the five-year Hong Kong dollar bond establishes a new maturity record for a digital bond denominated in Hong Kong dollars, according to the corporation.
Lee Wai Man, deputy chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and executive director of HKMC, said the transaction demonstrates support for the Hong Kong government’s strategy of strengthening the city’s role as an international fixed-income and financial center. Lee said the issuance could encourage more issuers, investors, intermediaries, and market participants to adopt tokenized fixed-income products.
HKMC chief executive Raymond Li said strong investor participation during the marketing process helped the institution complete pricing successfully and showed rising interest from both underwriters and investors entering the digital bond market.
Recent developments indicate that Hong Kong is continuing to build infrastructure around tokenized debt markets. Earlier this month, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced the formation of a tokenized bond expert group that includes institutions such as JPMorgan Securities, HSBC, Standard Chartered, UBS, Ant Digital, and HashKey Group.
According to the HKMA, the group is examining market practices, regulatory considerations, and infrastructure requirements that could support wider use of tokenized bonds across the financial system.
Government-backed issuance has already played a key role in Hong Kong’s tokenization efforts. Authorities issued HK$800 million of tokenized green bonds in 2023, followed by a HK$6 billion multi-currency digital green bond sale in 2024 that Hong Kong officials previously described as the largest digital bond issuance at the time.
The latest HKMC transaction also arrives one day after South Korea’s KB Kookmin Bank announced a $100 million blockchain-based digital bond sale in Hong Kong. Kookmin Bank said blockchain technology was used throughout issuance, registration, trading, and settlement, reducing settlement times from five business days to three and highlighting growing institutional use of tokenized debt instruments across Asia.
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Bitcoin’s worst week in months got a late macro rescue
Strategy also sold about 800,000 shares for $128 million through its at-the-market program in the same week. If the bitcoin sale did not matter, traders were left asking why it needed to happen at all.
One possible answer is the S&P 500.
Strategy met the technical requirements for index inclusion in September 2025 but was passed over. Some market commentators have argued that the company’s refusal to sell bitcoin could make it look more like an investment vehicle than a treasury company, which would hurt its chances. Selling a small amount of bitcoin may help Strategy show it can use BTC as a corporate treasury asset, not just hold it forever.
The market reaction was real, however, as bitcoin was already trading into weak risk appetite. Iran tensions had pushed oil higher and revived higher-for-longer rate worries. Tech stocks were under pressure. Bitcoin traded more like a high-beta Nasdaq proxy than an independent store-of-value trade.
But the rebound came from the same macro channel.
President Donald Trump said the U.S. had effectively ended the war with Iran, while officials pointed to progress toward a signed accord. Brent crude fell toward $85. Stocks rallied. SpaceX listed on Nasdaq on Friday and closed at $161, up 19% from its $135 offer price, giving risk traders another reason to step back in.
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Can Solana price reclaim its January high as a giant falling wedge comes at play?
Solana price has rebounded more than 10% from its June low after a 36% correction from its May peak, with a giant falling wedge now putting the January high back on traders’ radar.
Summary
- Solana price has stabilized above key support after a steep correction erased roughly one-third of its value in less than two weeks.
- A multi-month falling wedge and a 4-hour ascending triangle point to a potential move toward $76 if $68 resistance breaks.
- Analysts remain cautious, saying a bullish reversal requires a break above $72.57 and a confirmed five-wave advance.
According to data from crypto.news, Solana (SOL) price was trading near $67 on June 12 after rebounding more than 10% from its June 6 low around $61.
SOL’s price recovery follows a steep decline that saw the token plunge roughly 36% from its May high near $96 to its recent bottom, as heavy liquidations, whale selling, and a broader cryptocurrency market sell-off weighed on sentiment.
Data from major exchanges showed retail traders entered June with a strong bullish bias, leaving the market vulnerable when SOL broke below the former support zone around $76. The breakdown triggered more than $89 million in long liquidations, accelerating losses as leveraged positions were forced to close.
Large holders added to the pressure by reducing exposure during the decline. At the same time, weakening decentralized application revenues and softer network activity contributed to the selling pressure, according to market observers.
A falling wedge points to a possible recovery path
The daily chart shows Solana is trading within a large falling wedge that has been developing since its January peak near $145. The pattern formed through a series of lower highs and lower lows, with converging trendlines compressing price action over several months.

Technical analysts generally view falling wedges as bullish reversal structures when price begins stabilizing near the lower boundary. Solana recently found support around the $60 to $62 region, where buyers stepped in after the liquidation-driven decline.
While the daily trend remains under pressure, the first major hurdle sits near $76. That level previously acted as support before the June breakdown and now represents a significant resistance area. A successful recovery above that zone would place attention back on the upper boundary of the wedge and eventually the January high.
Momentum indicators show early signs of improvement. The daily RSI has recovered from oversold territory, while downside momentum on the MACD has started to ease after weeks of persistent selling.
Short-term breakout signals emerge near $68
On the four-hour chart, Solana has formed an ascending triangle beneath resistance around $68. The structure developed after the June low as buyers continued defending higher lows while sellers repeatedly capped advances near the same price level.

Liquidation data from CoinGlass adds another layer to the setup. The platform’s weekly liquidation heatmap shows the largest concentration of short-side liquidity sitting around the $68 area, directly above current price levels.

If buyers force a breakout through that resistance, the resulting short liquidations could accelerate upside momentum toward the next liquidity cluster near $70. The measured move from the ascending triangle also projects a target close to $76, aligning with the former support zone that failed earlier this month.
However, not all analysts are convinced the rebound has developed into a full trend reversal. Commenting on the recent price action, MCO Global said on X that Solana is still testing support and has yet to produce a bullish confirmation signal. The analyst noted that the larger decline remains the preferred outlook unless SOL breaks above $72.57.
“Bullish reversal requires a 5-wave advance and a break above $72.57. The chart hasn’t shown that yet. Until it does, this is just support being tested.”
Bitcoin’s recent weakness continues to influence the altcoin market, including SOL, after the largest crypto suffered its sharpest weekly decline since the FTX collapse. Market sentiment also remains tied to U.S. economic data after May nonfarm payrolls increased by 172,000, exceeding expectations of 85,000 and reducing expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts.
For now, Solana’s recovery attempt depends on whether buyers can clear the $68 resistance zone. A breakout could open the door to $70 and potentially $76, while failure at current levels may leave the $60 support area exposed once again.
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only.
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Anthropic Halts Access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 After US Order
Anthropic has suspended access to its newly released Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after receiving a U.S. government export control directive, citing national security concerns. The company disabled the models for all users immediately to comply with the order, while saying its other offerings—including Opus 4.8—remain available.
In a statement posted Friday, Anthropic said the directive arrived at 5:21 pm ET and instructed it to suspend “all access” to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States. This restriction reportedly includes foreign national Anthropic employees, and the company said it took broad action to ensure compliance.
Key takeaways
- Anthropic suspended access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 immediately after receiving a U.S. government export control directive.
- The order reportedly targets access by foreign nationals, including Anthropic employees who are foreign nationals.
- Other Anthropic models, such as Opus 4.8, are not affected according to the company.
- Anthropic said authorities raised concerns about a potential “jailbreak” method that could bypass safeguards on Fable 5.
- The firm described the government’s evidence as “verbal” and suggested the issue involves a narrow, non-universal jailbreak rather than a broad one.
Export control directive triggers immediate model shutdown
Anthropic’s action follows an abrupt interruption to access for the public. According to the company, it received the directive late Friday and was told to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national. To meet the requirement without exception, Anthropic said it removed access for all users rather than attempting to segment access by nationality.
The company framed the move as a straightforward compliance step: it is “removing access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users” to comply with the government’s legal directive.
Why Anthropic says the concern is limited
While Anthropic did not provide specific details about the alleged threat, it said it believes the government is concerned about a possible jailbreak technique capable of bypassing safeguards built into Fable 5.
In its statement, Anthropic noted that, to date, the government has provided only verbal evidence of a potential “narrow, non-universal jailbreak.” The company described this as essentially asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix software flaws—an approach it argued is materially different from a “universal jailbreak,” which would broadly undermine protections across scenarios.
Anthropic also pushed back on the severity of the response implied by the order. The firm said it “disagree[s]” that a narrow potential jailbreak should lead to the recall of a commercial model deployed at large scale. It added that applying that standard across the industry would effectively stop new frontier model deployments for all providers.
Recent release raises questions for AI users and operators
Anthropic’s suspension comes only days after it released both Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The releases were notable not just for their capabilities, but for the underlying context around Mythos Preview, which Anthropic previously said had helped uncover thousands of vulnerabilities in critical software.
Earlier coverage around these releases highlighted the scale and intensity of the safety research and testing that can surround frontier model rollouts—particularly when models are capable of complex reasoning and code-related tasks. In that setting, the sudden reversal underscores how quickly external compliance actions can override product continuity.
Anthropic also indicated that it believes the government order is the result of a misunderstanding and that it is working to restore access for users “as soon as possible.” For model users—especially those outside the U.S.—the key near-term issue is whether access can return in a way that matches the directive’s scope without requiring a full shutdown.
What to watch next
Until Anthropic receives clearer guidance or the government narrows the directive’s implementation, users should expect continuing uncertainty around when Fable 5 and Mythos 5 will be available again and under what geographic or eligibility conditions. Investors and builders in the AI sector will likely watch closely for how regulators distinguish between narrow jailbreak techniques and broader safeguard failures—and whether the incident prompts tighter deployment controls across the industry.
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