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RLUSD Adoption Builds as Ripple’s Stablecoin Exceeds $100M in Circulation

Metrics reveal Ripple’s newly minted stablecoin, RLUSD, has eclipsed the $100 million threshold mere weeks after its mid-December 2024 debut. RLUSD Supply Climbs to 108M As of Feb. 12, 2025, the broader stablecoin arena boasts a valuation of $224.367 billion. While RLUSD’s slice of this financial pie remains extremely modest, its trajectory shows steady momentum, now claiming 108.66 million…
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Rivian will now sell its commercial van to any fleet, starting at $79,900

Rumors leaked last week, and now it’s official: the Rivian Commercial Van is now available to order for fleets of any size, even down to a single van – but still only for businesses, not individuals. Rivian first announced it would make electric delivery vans in 2019, as part of a partnership with Amazon, who ordered 100,000 of the vehicles. The company has delivered around 20,000 of the vans…
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Litecoin ETF Approval Odds at 90%, Analysts Say

Bloomberg ETF analysts Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart have compiled a list of crypto ETF applications that they believe will have shot at being approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) this year, and assigned a probability of approval to each filing.
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Ripple Expands in Europe—Its Payments Solution Hits Portugal for the First Time

Ripple expands in Europe, bringing instant, low-cost blockchain payments to Portugal and revolutionizing transfers on the Portugal-Brazil corridor. Ripple’s European Footprint Grows—First Ever Launch of Its Payments Solution in Portugal Ripple announced a partnership with Unicâmbio, a Portuguese currency exchange provider, on Feb. 10 “to support instant cross-border payments between…
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns: AI will match ‘country of geniuses’ by 2026

Artificial intelligence will match the collective intelligence of “a country of geniuses” within two years, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned today in a sharp critique of this week’s AI Action Summit in Paris. His timeline — targeting 2026 or 2027 — marks one of the most specific predictions yet from a major AI leader about the technology’s advancement toward superintelligence. Amodei…
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