Whales appear to leverage the stagnant price action of XRP to secure discounted purchases. The most recent acquisition of over 360 million tokens coincides with amplified censure aimed at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by Ripple executives. Over...

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Traditional institutions have generally not been able to take advantage of any of the incredible gains in crypto over 2023. However, those who added Coinbase and Microstrategy to their portfolios would have done pretty well. The focus at the end...

NEAR, the native token of the NEAR blockchain protocol, has seen impressive gains so far in 2023. As of today, the coin price is up over 150% on the year and recently surged 15% in a single day to...

Over the past few weeks in The Protocol, we've documented how Ordinals inscriptions, colloquially known as "NFTs on bitcoin," are adored by fans, appreciated by fee-hungry miners, and hated by some blockchain purists. A big hit earlier in the...