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A $75 million loan backed by nearly half a billion dollars worth of a company’s own tokens is now at the center of a Senate push to get regulators involved in the Trump family’s crypto operations. The Loan That Raised Questions World Liberty Financial, the crypto project tied to US President Donald Trump and his family, reportedly used around $440 million worth of its WLFI governance tokens as collateral to borrow money through Dolomite, a decentralized lending platform. Related Reading: XRP Records Biggest Spike In Network Usage In 2 Months The transaction produced roughly $65 million in the company’s own USD1 stablecoin and another $10 million in USDC. What made the deal stand out was the timing. Regular investors who held WLFI tokens were still locked in — blocked from selling — while the transaction went through. Shortly after, the token’s price dropped nearly 10% to a record low. Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to SEC Chair Paul Atkins on May 14 asking the agency to look in
Read full articleThe Massachusetts lawmaker asked the US Comptroller of the Currency to provide all communications between the agency and Donald Trump potentially related to the charter approvals.
XRP is trading below $1.40 as the market faces selling pressure and uncertainty that has compressed the price into a range that offers little clarity on what comes next. The decline is uncomfortable — but a CryptoQuant report tracking both on-chain activity and derivatives behavior has identified a structural condition beneath the price action that reframes the current weakness in a way that changes how it should be read. Related Reading: Massive HYPE Accumulation Continues: Whale-Linked Wallet Adds $90M In Weeks The report examines two independent data streams simultaneously, and both are telling the same story. On-chain, XRP’s total daily transaction count has dropped 20% compared to three months ago, settling at approximately 1.78 million daily transactions. Network activity — the measure of real, organic utility flowing through the XRP ledger — has cooled meaningfully from its recent baseline. Derivatives markets show equally subdued activity. Funding rates on Binance have slipped
Spot XRP ETFs record net inflows for nine days, absorbing sell pressure and potentially supporting an XRP price recovery over time.
Market expert CharuSan has provided an updated roadmap on how XRP will rally to $300 once the CLARITY Act boosts its utility. He cited how banks will begin to adopt the altcoin via Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), which will, in turn, boost its price. Pundit Provides Updated Roadmap Of How XRP Will Rally To $300 […]
Bitcoin funds posted their third-largest daily outflow of 2026, signaling a sharp deterioration in institutional sentiment. Ether ETFs extended their losing streak to six straight sessions, while XRP and solana products managed only modest inflows amid the broader selloff. Solana ETFs Stay Positive as Bitcoin and Ether Funds Face Heavy Selling A wave of risk […]
A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force. But experts warn the policy could do little to help victims - and at worst could facilitate censorship online. Last May, President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a law addressing nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII). The law immediately criminalized distributing NCII, whether in the form of real or AI-generated material, something many states at least partially do already. But its namesake takedown provision is more sweeping. Taking effect a year after the law's passage - on May 19th of 2026 - it requires on … Read the full story at The Verge.
AI Financial Corp., the Nevada-based fintech company holding 7.28 billion World Liberty Financial tokens, disclosed in its Q1 2026 SEC filing that substantial doubt exists about its ability to continue as a going concern within the next 12 months. AI Financial Corp Files Going Concern Warning Tied to $1.46B WLFI Token Buy AI Financial Corp. […]
Flare's integration and XRP Alliance could significantly enhance XRP's DeFi utility, attracting new users and fostering ecosystem growth. The post Flare integrates D’CENT hardware wallets with XRP yield vaults, launches XRP Alliance appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
