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Ripple’s institutional expansion is accelerating even as its flagship token trades at its weakest level since 2024.
n Aug. 18, Ripple deepened its push into traditional finance, securing a South Korean banking deal as its prime brokerage raised $275 million.
The crypto payment company revealed that South Korea's Jeonbuk Bank became the country's first regional lender to deploy Ripple Payments for cross-border business transfers, replacing SWIFT-based correspondent-bank transfers that can take days to reach recipients.
Hours later, Ripple Prime closed an upsized $275 million private placement of senior unsecured notes to support its expanding US business.
Together, the announcements show Ripple pushing deeper into two parts of financial infrastructure: cross-border payments for banks and the clearing, financing and brokerage services used by institutional investors.
The bank will use Ripple Payments to provide near real-time, around-the-clock settlement for customers including import-export companies, technology startups and online content creators. Ripple said the service can complete transfers in seconds to minutes, compared with cross-border correspondent-bank transactions that can take longer to reach recipients.
Notably, the deal follows two other Korean partnerships this year. Kyobo Life Insurance, the country's largest life insurer, is exploring on-chain settlement of South Korean government bonds with Ripple, while internet-only lender Kbank is deploying wallet infrastructure through Ripple Custody.
The price action reflects a distinction between growth in Ripple's businesses and direct demand for the cryptocurrency associated with the company.
Ripple has not disclosed which settlement assets Jeonbuk will use. Ripple Payments can process transactions using fiat currencies and multiple stablecoins, so the bank's deployment does not mean XRP will be bought or used for those transfers.
Ripple Prime creates a similar distinction. The brokerage provides exposure to digital assets including XRP and is expected to use the XRPL for parts of its post-trade infrastructure, but the $275 million financing was raised for working capital and general corporate purposes rather than purchases of XRP.
CryptoQuant data shows XRP open interest on Binance has climbed to about $461.3 million from about $360 million at the beginning of August, reaching its highest level in two months.
The increase indicates that more capital is tied up in outstanding XRP derivatives contracts, but open interest alone does not reveal whether those positions are predominantly bullish or bearish.
That leaves the buildup increasingly sensitive to what XRP does around $1. A sustained recovery accompanied by rising open interest could signal fresh positions entering alongside higher prices.
However, continued weakness while open interest remains elevated would raise liquidation risk for leveraged positions and could trigger sharper price swings.
The setup leaves Ripple and XRP moving on increasingly separate tracks. Ripple is adding banks, institutional products and conventional financing, while XRP traders are committing more leveraged capital around one of the token's most closely watched price levels.
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Strategy has gone nearly two months without adding Bitcoin as the STRC preferred-stock support absorbs capital.
trategy (formerly MicroStrategy) directed all $333.7 million raised from common-stock sales last week toward preferred-stock obligations and cash reserves, extending a two-month shift that has prioritized STRC support over additional Bitcoin purchases
According to an Aug. 17 SEC filing, the company sold 3.45 million MSTR shares from Aug. 10 through Aug. 16, using $52.4 million of the proceeds for dividends on STRC, its Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch preferred stock.
The firm further revealed that it used $132.2 million to repurchase STRC shares, and $149.1 million to increase its US dollar reserve to $4.8 billion.
Strategy bought or sold no Bitcoin during the period, leaving its holdings unchanged at 840,447 BTC. The firm acquired these holdings for $63.36 billion at an average price of $75,385 per coin.
This move extends a broader reversal in the financing cycle that helped make Strategy the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder.
The company has not increased its BTC holdings since June 21 and has sold nearly 7,000 Bitcoin over the past two months, while accumulating billions of dollars in cash and repurchasing about $347 million of STRC.
The company also has $1 billion remaining under its MSTR repurchase authorization, giving management another option if the common stock comes under heavier pressure.
Saylor said Strategy would consider buying back MSTR if it traded at a sufficiently deep discount to net asset value. At current levels, however, management has not viewed that as the best use of capital.
Cash already being used for STRC dividends, preferred-stock repurchases and reserve growth could also be needed for MSTR buybacks, debt obligations or renewed Bitcoin purchases.
If STRC remains below management’s target while index-related selling adds pressure to MSTR, Strategy could face simultaneous demands from both sides of its capital structure.
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Additionally, a Saturday N12 News report stated that Israel’s security establishment had located missile launchers aimed at Israel, poised to strike if a ceasefire wasn't reached with Lebanon.
Iran claimed it is replenishing its missile and drone launchers at a higher speed than it did prior to the war with the US and Israel, the Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force commander, Majid Mousavi, said in a video shared on social media on Sunday, according to Nournews.
They have lost this phase of the war! They have lost the Strait, Lebanon, and the region," Mousavi said.
Mousavi's statement was shared alongside an edited video of him inspecting an unspecified underground missile facility. The video also included footage of drones, missiles, and launchers inside underground facilities as well as ground missile launches.
Mousavi also claimed that "Unlike Iran, the enemy has been unable to replenish its ammunition during the ceasefire."
While neither the US nor Israel has officially responded to these claims, a Saturday N12 News report stated that Israel’s security establishment had located missile launchers aimed at Israel, poised to strike if a ceasefire wasn't reached between Israel and Lebanon
The threat from Iran was the motivation for US President Donald Trump's increased pressure on Israel to come to an agreement with Lebanon, and hisFriday announcement that Israel is prohibited from “bombing Lebanon any longer,” according to the N12 report.
Israel and the US are also preparing for the possibility that war will resume with Iran, as tensions over the Strait of Hormuz threaten peace negotiations, a source told the Israeli news outlet. The IDF has reportedly approved a list of targets for attack, focusing on national infrastructure and energy. The military is also planning operations that, if implemented, would continue toward the goals from the previous round of fighting.
Israel was surprised by Trump’s announcement that the IDF is “prohibited” from continuing strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to a Saturday Axios report
The report noted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “personally stunned and alarmed” by the post, and that Israeli officials sought clarification from the White House
This comes after Trump posted on Truth Social that Israel was prohibited from “bombing Lebanon any longer,” and that the US will work with Lebanon separately and “deal with the Hezbollah situation in an appropriate manner.”
The language implied that Trump was directly issuing an order to Israel, which would be unimaginable under other presidential administrations, Axios noted.
Notably, according to the ceasefire agreement, Israel still has the right to take military action during the ceasefire, “in self-defense, at any time, against planned, imminent, or ongoing attacks.”
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LONDON/MILAN, April 24 (Reuters) - (This April 24 story was refiled to remove an extra word from the advisory)
French automotive group Cosmobilis is in talks to buy the commercial rights to the World ​Rally Championship (WRC), two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Cosmobilis moved ahead ‌after an auction for Munich-based WRC Promoter was held by existing rights holders Red Bull and German investment firm KW25 earlier this year, the people said.
If negotiations and financing are concluded successfully, ​a deal could be announced in the summer, one person said.
The sources, ​who asked not to be named because the matter is confidential, ⁠said there remained a chance of no deal.
A Cosmobilis spokesperson declined to comment. ​WRC, Red Bull and KW25 did not reply to requests for comment
The likely price ​for WRC Promoter is expected to be less than 500 million euros ($585 million), one person said.
Eric Boullier, co-founder and CEO of Cosmobilis' Circle unit, is leading the bid, the people said. Boullier, ​who did not respond to requests for comment, was previously Lotus Formula One -- now ​Renault-owned Alpine -- principal and was racing director of McLaren from 2014 to 2018.
Motorsport's governing body, the ‌International ⁠Automobile Federation (FIA), announced last year a tender process to replace Red Bull and German investment company KW25 as commercial rights holders of the World Rally Championship after Reuters reported preparations for a sale.
The FIA is committed to ensuring ​the WRC continues to grow as one of the world's premier ​motor sport ⁠disciplines, and we are confident the outcome of this process will reflect that ambition.”
The WRC races on four different continents with 14 rounds this year. Its reigning champion ⁠is France's ​Sebastien Ogier. Since 2022, WRC Promoter has also ​organised the European Championship and the Rallycross Championship.
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Binance has always been talking about a grand goal: scaling from 300 million users to 3 billion users.
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Maybe many people think this is just pie in the sky.
But after I recently finished reading Mr. Zhao's (CZ) new book 'Freedom of Money' (Life at Binance), my personal understanding has definitely been refreshed.
In July 2017, Binance officially launched. Back then, BNB had already faced a significant dip. Who would have thought that 9 years later, Binance would boast 300 million users, becoming one of the world's top exchanges?
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Especially recently, I've been seeing the one and only He Yi pushing Binance's new features: AI Agent (AI trading), batch transfers (financial payments), and Binance Chat (private social networking), among others.