At the Ondo Summit in New York on Tuesday, WisdomTree CEO Jonathan Steinberg said the firm's crypto and tokenization initiatives have shifted from experimentation to a central business focus as the unit approaches profitability. He noted that tokenized assets under management have climbed from about $30 million to roughly $770 million over the past year, with expansion beyond Ethereum into networks such as Solana and wider distribution via the WisdomTree Connect platform.

On a Tuesday post on X, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said his earlier view of layer-2 networks as the main path for scaling “no longer makes sense,” citing their limited decentralization and growing base-layer capacity. He now favors expanding Ethereum’s mainnet through gas-limit increases and native rollups, while suggesting L2s focus on specialized use cases instead of serving as the core scaling engine. Developers are already discussing raising the gas limit from 60 million to 80 million, and researcher Justin Drake has outlined a roadmap targeting 10,000 transactions per second on Ethereum over the next decade.

Based on XRP USD hourly data from Kraken, the price slid below $1.5320 and $1.5250 before tagging $1.50, then attempted a rebound above $1.550. It now trades under $1.6220 and the 100-hour Simple Moving Average, with resistance at $1.6250 and $1.650 and supports at $1.550 and $1.5250.

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Hyperliquid’s HYPE token rallied even as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana stayed in the red after a February push into tokenized silver boosted platform activity. The token also weathered a $300 million unlock during 2–8 February while new HIP-3 tools and a Kraken listing helped absorb supply. Continued rollout of outcome-based trading on HyperCore aims to keep the momentum.

According to Axel Adler, Bitcoin entered a bear cycle in October 2025 and is now in a corrective phase after a local peak near $125,000. Percent unrealized losses have climbed from roughly 7% to around 22% since January, LTH/STH SOPR has compressed to about 1.13 after a ~40% drop, and BTC has failed to reclaim $80,000 amid weak rebounds near $78,000.

In a 2025 report, crypto exchange Kraken's parent company Payward disclosed that annual revenue climbed 33% to $2.2 billion from $1.6 billion in 2024, supported by higher transaction volumes and recent acquisitions. Co-CEO Arjun Sethi said income was roughly evenly distributed between trading-based and asset-based streams, while assets on the platform rose 11% to $48.2 billion and funded accounts increased 50% to 5.7 million.

On Wednesday, Bitcoin fell about 3% to $76,000 as a tech-driven selloff on Wall Street spilled into Asia, weighing on risk appetite. Early trading saw weaker openings in Japan and Australia, with Hong Kong futures pointing to declines, while traders rotated toward more cyclical exposures.