
Ripple's university strategy is evolving from blockchain labs to XRP logos in packed stadiums
The 69-day rollout spans Kansas uniforms, Florida's football field and Louisville basketball, but stops short of token adoption.
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The 69-day rollout spans Kansas uniforms, Florida's football field and Louisville basketball, but stops short of token adoption.

Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP hit fresh selling pressure following the failure of the U.S. Senate to pass CLARITY Act. A process vote on the bill was unsuccessful with fewer than 60 votes.

Ripple has signed a multi-year partnership with the University of Louisville athletics program that will place XRP branding on the school's basketball court. The XRP logo will appear permanently on Denny Crum Court at the KFC Yum! Center, where Louisville's men's and women's basketball teams play home games.

Ripple and MicroStrategy told investors nothing legal changed for XRP and Bitcoin (BTC) after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act on Tuesday. The bill would have written crypto's US market rules into federal law.

The bug could have let a malformed signer setup pass validation without requiring the private keys of every other account involved.

Ethiopia has cut electricity deliveries to bitcoin miners by 75%, leaving them with just 23% of contracted power after El Niño reduced reservoir inflows by roughly 20%. The twist is that miners had become one of Ethiopian Electric Power's biggest customers, consuming roughly a third of its electricity and supplying about 35% of revenue.

Ethereum holders are withdrawing ETH from exchanges at an unprecedented pace. According to Santiment data, the supply available on trading platforms dropped 73% from its June 2020 peak, when 22.9 million ETH were circulating in those environments. Today, only 6.

Nearly every major bank now expects the Fed to raise rates for the first time in three years. Markets have mostly priced it in, but the political fallout could run deeper than one hike.

Ethereum (ETH) and Base developers have ended a months-long attempt to merge two competing account abstraction designs into a single standard. The talks, which sought to reconcile Base-led EIP-8130 with Ethereum's EIP-8141, known as Frame Transactions, collapsed last week.

BlackRock accumulated over $1.08 billion in Bitcoin over the last 20 days, according to data from Arkham Intelligence, consolidating its position as one of the corporations with the largest BTC holdings globally.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse criticized Senate Democrats on September 15 after the CLARITY Act failed to advance in a key procedural vote. Garlinghouse argued that political opposition had taken priority over clearer crypto policy for U.S. consumers and the digital-asset industry. 1/ This one stings.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has reacted to the Senate's failure to invoke cloture on the CLARITY Act, blaming the Democrats for the setback. He also promised to release the post-mortem in the coming days and expressed optimism about crypto regulation in the country.

The teams behind rival plans to build account abstraction into the base layer, Ethereum's EIP-8141 and Base's EIP-8130, have given up trying to converge, so wallet developers may end up supporting two transaction formats across the two networks.

A new v1 transaction format lifts the ceiling on a single Solana transaction from 1,232 bytes to 4,096, letting operations that once had to be split across several transactions, including zero-knowledge proofs and large multisigs, fit in one.

Tight congressional calendar ahead of November mid-terms could derail the BTC reserve push