Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz said XRP utility is expanding as the XRP Ledger supports issued assets, tokenized real-world assets, and a growing range of financial products such as securities, funds, repos, and loans.
Key Takeaways
XRP Ledger is expanding beyond payments to support tokenized assets and financial products.
Tokenized securities, funds, repos, and loans could broaden XRP…
After a judge halted a default judgment Friday in the New York Supreme Court case Noah Doe v. John Does 1-39,069, several onchain wallets linked to the litigation have sprung into motion. On Sunday, Galaxy Research identified a wallet dormant since 2019 that transferred…
SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) will launch the company into rarefied financial air.
The company revealed this week that it plans to sell shares at $135 apiece during the IPO, which will occur June 12 when SpaceX begins trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol…
One of the sky's rarest phenomena is back: How to see rare night-shining clouds this summer
June 8, 2026
Rare noctilucent clouds shine above the city of Kennewick in Washington State June 2. (Image credit: John Clement.)
Noctilucent cloud season has officially begun!
One of the earliest sightings was captured by photographer John Clement, glowing in the skies over the city of Kennewick, Washington, on June 2, who had set out to capture a striking conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, which had…
Methane has been seen spewing from comet 3I/ATLAS, marking the first time that the gas has been identified on an interstellar object. The amount of methane, relative to water, is also larger than is typically seen in comets from our solar system, further highlighting how…
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 key specifications have been tipped in a new leak along witha rumour which says Samsung will be adopting the dual-chip strategy, same as it did with this year’s Galaxy S26 and S26+. Here’s everything we know about the upcoming Clamshell foldable…
SpaceX has lined up another compute deal ahead of its historic IPO, this time with Google. The company announced the deal in a regulatory filing on Friday.
Under the terms of the deal, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to “approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, memory, and other related components.”
The deal is similar in length and…
Across the industry, companies are starting to balk at the price of AI. Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licenses months after enabling them. A Priceline employee told TechCrunch that a routine…
Blackstone-backed data center operator AirTrunk said on Friday it would invest $30 billion in India by 2030, adding to a wave of commitments from technology and infrastructure groups seeking to expand computing capacity in the country.
The Australian company said it would…
Disputed historic Kodacolor photo of John F. Kennedy's final motorcade belongs to museum, court rules
June 8, 2026
Over the years, the assassination of John F. Kennedy (JFK) has raised all sorts of questions, from who fired the fatal shots to the ownership of various photos and films of the president on that infamous day in Dallas, Texas, 1963.
Now, the latest of these disputes, between The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (SFMDP) – the official JFK museum in Dallas, Texas – and a private photo collector…
