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👉- Edge Computing Platform Supported by Smart Contract Enabled Blockchain Network with Off-Chain Solution Verification

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📚 Ripple's University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) 📚

Championing blockchain research and development in academia is at the heart of Ripple's University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI).

With a mission to inspire and educate the next generation of blockchain builders, UBRI has supported:

⭐️ 1200+ research projects
📚 850+ courses
📍900 on-campus events
🔗 90 projects on the XRP Ledger
✅ 60 students hired

UBRI is empowering students and faculty to shape the future of blockchain technology. And we’re just getting started: https://ripple.com/impact/ubri/

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🇷🇺 Russian President Putin says, "Who can ban Bitcoin?.. Nobody"

Liquidity Liquidity Liquidity or should I say, lack of.

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Xrp ETF's &ETPs

🚨There are a lot more XRP ETF’s and ETP’s than you may be aware of‼️🫡

@OpenFIGI house global instrument identifiers.

openfigi.com/search#!?simpleSearchString=Xrp&page=2&pageSize=100

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👉 Coinbase just launched an AI agent for Crypto Trading

Custom AI assistants that print money in your sleep? 🔜

The future of Crypto x AI is about to go crazy.

👉 Here’s what you need to know:

💠 'Based Agent' enables creation of custom AI agents
💠 Users set up personalized agents in < 3 minutes
💠 Equipped w/ crypto wallet and on-chain functions
💠 Capable of completing trades, swaps, and staking
💠 Integrates with Coinbase’s SDK, OpenAI, & Replit

👉 What this means for the future of Crypto:

1. Open Access: Democratized access to advanced trading
2. Automated Txns: Complex trades + streamlined on-chain activity
3. AI Dominance: Est ~80% of crypto 👉txns done by AI agents by 2025

🚨 I personally wouldn't bet against Brian Armstrong and Jesse Pollak.

👉 Coinbase just launched an AI agent for Crypto Trading
🎮💬 FlyQuest + Theta Labs = AI Esports Chatbot Revolution! 🌟🤖

FlyQuest, NA’s top League of Legends team, teams up with Theta Labs to launch a.PHiD – an AI-driven chatbot for esports fans!

💡 What it does:

Answers inquiries about rosters, matches, results, and stats.
Powered by Theta EdgeCloud, ensuring seamless AI operations.

📲 Discord-ready: a.PHiD comes with specialized integration for fan engagement.

Proud to bring next-gen tech to esports! 🚀

https://x.com/esportsinsider/status/1864672526959272313

⚠️ An Issue Using Ledger Hardware Devices ⚠️

🔹For those that aren't aware, an issue arose using Ledger hardware devices with the Theta web wallet recently.

🔹This might affect a subset of Ledger users who have updated their Ledger Ethereum app to version 1.13

🔹Our devs are continuing the effort of working though this towards a resolution, just know that your assets are safe.

👉If you haven't updated to the current Ethereum Ledger app, hold off on doing so.

👉If needed for an emergency or other, funds can still be accessed via the Theta web wallet using the Ledger private recovery phrase key.

👉We'll announce when a resolution has been reached.

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💥Grayscale XRP Trust is open💥

Grayscale XRP Trust is open to eligible accredited investors seeking exposure to $XRP, which powers the XRP ledger, a distributed network used for cross-border payments.

Learn more about Grayscale XRP Trust, see important disclosures, or reach out to us: https://www.grayscale.com/crypto-products/grayscale-xrp-trust

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Bitcoin Price Unfazed as Mt. Gox Shifts Another $352 Million Worth of BTC
Now that repayment has been postponed until 2025, a transfer of $352 million "does not affect the market volatility much anymore," a source told Decrypt.

An address containing a large amount of Bitcoin owned by long-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox just moved funds.

About seven hours before press time, nearly 6,620 BTC worth about $352.7 million were transferred from a Mt. Gox address to an unknown wallet, according to data provided by blockchain intelligence service Arkham Intelligence. The data shows that the exchange is in a heightened level of activity after yesterday’s reports of another Bitcoin transaction worth $2.8 billion.

Market data shows the Bitcoin price has not reacted to the transfer in any evident way, trading laterally mostly between $97,000 and $98,000 after it occurred. At the time of writing, BTC is trading 4.8% lower than it was this time yesterday, according to CoinGecko data.

"Typically, announcements from Mt. Gox have a negative impact on the market, often causing Bitcoin's price to decline," notes Min Jung, an analyst and researcher from Presto Labs, told Decrypt earlier this week about the much larger transfer.

The reduced impact of Mt. Gox transactions is likely to be attributed to the bullish market sentiment and a recent announcement by the Mt. Gox redistribution team that it’s postponing creditor repayment by one year. This means that until then, no transaction on Mt. Gox’s part will result in an immediate increase in sell pressure on Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash.

Founder of Obchakevich Research Alex Obchakevich told Decrypt that another reason may be that “the market is becoming more mature every year and the capitalization and trading volumes are increasing by billions with the liquidity “growing incredibly fast.”

Therefore, he reasoned, “$353 million does not affect the market volatility much anymore.”

Mt. Gox is shorthand for “Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange,” a name given to the exchange when it still dealt in trading cards at launch in 2010, before Bitcoin was introduced on the platform. After the service pivoted to Bitcoin it captured the almost totality of the market and became the most popular way to buy and sell the world’s first cryptocurrency online.

As a result of a 2014 hack, Mt. Gox lost almost 750,000 BTC owned by its customers and 100,000 of its own. This amount of Bitcoin was equivalent to around 7% of all Bitcoin in circulation at the time.

That’s why in the past, news surrounding Mt. Gox creditor repayment has held a lot of sway over market sentiment. Arkham Intelligence data shows that as of press time the exchange’s wallets still contain 39,705 BTC worth nearly $3.9 billion.

 

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DZ Bank starts piloting retail crypto offering with first community bank

In March we reported that DZ Bank had partnered with Börse Stuttgart to provide retail cryptocurrency trading and custody services to the clients of German co-operative banks. DZ Bank provides services to a network of 737 community banks, so called Volks and Raiffeisenbanke. Now it is starting to pilot the solution with the first bank, Westerwald Bank, opening crypto wallets and starting to transact. Many other co-operative banks are expected to go live in 2025, although the timing is up to each institution.

While these won’t be the first group of banks offering crypto services, it is still relatively novel for banks to provide crypto trading to retail clients. In Switzerland, the post office’s PostFinance launched crypto services in February. Other major German banks such as Commerzbank and LBBW are planning or started offering services, but only to corporate clients.

Börse Stuttgart will provide cryptocurrency trading and digital asset custody. It already has significant experience with retail crypto in Germany through the Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange (BSDEX). That was launched in 2019 as a joint venture with Axel Springer and finanzen.net.

👉 DZ Bank has a separate relationship with 🚨Ripple Custody (formerly Metaco)🚨 which forms part of its institutional custody solution. Initially the relationship targeted custody for crypto securities, the German term for digital securities issued on a blockchain. However, it expanded to cryptocurrency custody, but also for institutional clients of DZ Bank.

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Sonic Points and Gems Explained — 200 Million S Airdrop

Sonic Points are user-focused airdrop points that can be earned as part of the ~200 million $S airdrop. Designed to reward meaningful user engagement within the Sonic ecosystem, these points incentivize a wide range of activities, such as early adoption, long-term loyalty, asset ownership, and active participation with apps across the platform.

On the other hand, Sonic Gems are developer-focused airdrop points. As a groundbreaking incentive mechanism for developers within the Sonic ecosystem, Gems reward apps for driving user engagement and innovation based on their performance on Sonic.

These Gems can be redeemed for $S tokens, which apps can then distribute as rewards to their users. This system empowers apps to kickstart growth and maintain long-term user activity by encouraging consistent interaction and participation.

Both Sonic Points and Gems are distributed across multiple seasons, ensuring a sustainable and dynamic rewards structure that continuously incentivizes active involvement. The first season ends in ~June 2025.

Sonic Points Explained

To earn Sonic Points, users must bridge or use whitelisted assets within the Sonic ecosystem through any approved app. The current whitelisted assets for Season 1 are listed here, with more assets potentially added throughout the season.

There are two types of points within the Sonic Points program:

  1. Passive Liquidity Points
    Passive liquidity points reward users for bridging primary assets onto the Sonic mainnet. Users earn points based on the value and type of assets they hold, providing an incentive for maintaining liquidity within the ecosystem.
  2. Activity Points
    Activity points offer a multiplier on top of passive liquidity points, encouraging users to actively engage with the ecosystem. By deploying their assets into any whitelisted application, users can enhance their point earnings, driving greater participation and utility within the network.

On the designated user airdrop claim date (~June 2025), users can immediately claim 25% of their Season 1 airdrop as liquid $S tokens, while the remaining 75% will be vested over 270 days in the form of an NFT. Users can choose to claim their vested position early by burning some of their allocation.

Alternatively, users who choose to hold their airdrop NFT positions can trade them on a speculative NFT marketplace if desired, adding an additional layer of utility and flexibility.

Sonic Gems Explained

Sonic Gems are off-chain airdrop points exclusively designed for apps. Each season, a fixed number of Gems is distributed to apps based on various performance factors. Apps can monitor their progress through a leaderboard, which is updated every 24 hours with the latest Gem allocations.

The competitive PvP nature and fixed supply of Gems mean that an app's Gem balance may fluctuate daily, influenced by the performance of other apps on the platform. 

Apps that wish to distribute the $S tokens earned through Gems to their users must manage the accounting process independently. They have full flexibility in determining how to do so. For example, an app could:

  • Mint a new token representing its share of $S redeemed through Gems for a specific season.
  • Maintain an internal record of user balances.

Unlike Sonic Points, which are airdrop points designed for users, Gems empower apps to claim liquid $S tokens instead of vested NFT airdrop position. Once the $S tokens are claimed, it’s the app’s responsibility to determine how they’re distributed to their users.

While there’s no strict requirement for apps to share a specific percentage of their claimed $S tokens with their users, the design of Gems incentivizes generosity. Apps that share a larger portion of their claimed $S with their communities are rewarded more favorably compared to those that don’t.

Gems Season 1

A total of 1,680,000 Gems will be distributed during Season 1. Out of this, 262,500 Gems are pre-allocated to Sonic Boom winners. The chart below shows the number of Gems allocated to each tier in Sonic Boom.

The remaining 1,417,500 Gems will be available for any app to earn throughout the season — whether they’re Sonic Boom winners or not. At the end of Season 1, all eligible apps will be able to claim $S tokens based on the number of Gems they have earned.

Distribution of Gems

Sonic Gems are distributed using a structured approach designed to reward apps within the Sonic ecosystem. By considering factors such as category relevance, exclusivity, and effective reward distribution, this system promotes fairness and incentivizes active participation. 

Below are the key criteria that will determine an app's share of Gems in Season 1:

1. Category

Apps are assessed across several weighted categories, with each app assigned a weight based on its primary category. For Season 1, the specific weights are detailed below. If an app falls into multiple categories, the weight of its dominant category will be applied.

2. Sonic Native

Apps are assigned different weights depending on their level of exclusivity to Sonic:

  • Weight 2: Exclusively available on Sonic
  • Weight 1: Primarily on Sonic but accessible elsewhere
  • Weight 0.5: Available across multiple chains

Note: An app's Sonic-native weight cannot be upgraded during a season. However, if an app takes actions that reduce its Sonic nativeness, its weight will be reduced immediately and remain in effect for the following season as well.

3. Point Score

Point score is determined by calculating the total amount of Sonic Points that an app has generated for its users. This score is then divided by the total points generated across all eligible apps.

To generate Sonic Points for their users, apps must meet the following requirements:

  • Integrate with the OpenBlock Labs API.
  • Provide utility to whitelisted assets within the app.

4. Incentive (Applicable After Season 1)

This assesses how effectively an app distributes its claimed $S to its users. An app's incentive weight is determined by the percentage of its claimed $S that was distributed to its users during the previous season.

For example, if an app distributed 100% of its claimed $S to its users, it’ll receive a weight of 1 in the next season, while distributing only 80% would give it a weight of 0.8.

Note: While there’s no requirement for apps to distribute a specific amount of their claimed $S to users, it’s mandatory for all apps to publicly disclose the percentage they intend to share with their communities. This transparency allows users to make informed decisions about allocating their capital. Any instances of false communication or misuse of claimed $S will result in blacklisting for subsequent seasons.

Final Gems Calculation

Apps will receive a pro-rata share of Sonic Gems based on their final weights, determined by the calculations below.

Gems Revocation Policy

The following actions by the app can cause their Sonic Gems to be revoked.

  1. Incentivizing Project Tokens or NFTs with Gems
    Allocating Gems as rewards for activities like holding, staking, or providing liquidity (LPing) for a project’s token or NFT. For apps that have a voting mechanism to direct emissions, Gems can be used as vote incentives for any pool other than those that contain the project's token.
  2. Suspicious Distribution Practices
    Distributing large quantities of Gems non-transparently, such as allocating them disproportionately to insiders or KOLs without clear disclosure.
  3. Misrepresenting Gem Redistribution
    Providing false information about the amount of claimed $S being distributed to users during any season.

Note: Users are encouraged to report any suspicious activity or malpractice to the Sonic Labs team.

Example Distribution of Gems

Using the methodology outlined above, here is an example demonstrating the distribution of 100 Sonic Gems among five apps (A, B, C, D, and E) in Season 1. The distribution considers five random categories, Sonic nativeness, and point score.

Let’s assume the following weights:

Now that we have weights for each app (excluding the incentive weight, which applies only from Season 2 onward), we can proceed to calculate their Gem scores, which simply multiplies their category weight with their Sonic native weight.

After calculating each app’s Gem score, the next step is to determine their point score, which represents the proportion of Sonic Points each app generated for its users. In this example, we’ll assume the five apps collectively generated a total of 1,000 Sonic Points, with each app contributing a randomly assigned share.

To calculate an app’s point score, divide the number of Sonic Points the app generated by the total Sonic Points generated during the season.

With each app’s Gem and point score calculated, we can now calculate their final score. Remember, the formula for that is Gem Score × (1 + Point Score).

Finally, we can determine the number of Gems each app will receive based on the calculations above. The formula is straightforward: divide the app’s final score by the total final scores of all apps, then multiply the result by the total number of Gems available for the season.

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