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The burned tokens are now permanently destroyed, which makes circulating tokens more valuable if demand increases.

Open interest on XRP-based futures contracts crossed the $1.1 billion mark in the past 24 hours.
- 01:21A certain whale transferred 16,480,000 XRP to an exchange, worth approximately $50.85 million.According to ChainCatcher, Whale Alert monitoring shows that an unknown wallet transferred 16,483,919 XRP, worth approximately $50,856,185, to an exchange 3 minutes ago.
- 01:08Backed Finance CEO: xStocks issuer chooses Switzerland to avoid whitelist restrictions on Tesla tokenized stocksJinse Finance reported that Adam Levi, co-founder of Backed Finance, stated that seeking a balance between compliance requirements and the openness of decentralized finance ultimately led the company to settle in Switzerland. He said the company is registered in Europe because Switzerland allows them to issue digital representations of stocks such as Tesla and Nvidia (referred to as xStocks), which can be freely transferred rather than being subject to so-called whitelist restrictions. Levi recalled, “We looked at five jurisdictions, and lawyers told me, ‘Yes, you can do it, but it will be a whitelist-permissioned model.’ I said, ‘No, I’m not interested. I won’t build it that way because I wouldn’t use it myself.’” In the crypto industry, whitelists are often used to approve individuals to participate in specific events, such as minting NFTs or investing in the initial offering of a cryptocurrency. In the context of tokenized stocks, whitelists can determine who is eligible to hold the digital representations of these stocks.
- 01:08A certain whale bought 18,000 ETH at a price of $4,487 through Wintermute in the early hours today.According to a report by Jinse Finance, on-chain analyst Yu Jin monitored that a whale/institution, which has made $74.92 million in profits from ETH swing trading, purchased 18,000 ETH at a price of $4,487 using 80.77 million USDC through Wintermute in the early hours of today. After the purchase, ETH rebounded to $4,600. In other words, just a few hours after buying, this batch of 18,000 ETH has already yielded an unrealized profit of $2 million. They have already made $74.92 million in profits from swing trading ETH, and currently hold $530 million in USDC and 25,000 ETH (worth $114 million).