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A $1,000 investment in XRP today, September 24, 2026, will double in value when this token gets to reclaim its 52-week opening price. As this crypto asset traded at approximately $1.47 at the time of writing, a $1,000 investment in XRP will reach $2,000 when the token trades at exactly $2.94.  XRP/USD chart for 12 months. Source: Finbold On September 24, 2025, XRP price traded at $2.93 and fell to $2.75 the next day. In the past 12 months, the highest level reached by this token was $3.04 on October 3, 2025.  On the other hand, XRP price marked its 52-week low around $0.98 on August 14, 2026. Consequently, $1,000 put into XRP today, fetching roughly 680.27 tokens, will add another $1,000 when the altcoin reaches its 52-week entry price, which is closer to its 12-month peak. Can XRP cross $2 in 2026? For an XRP portfolio to double in value, it must clear a crucial liquidity level around $2, as Finbold explained. As a result, crypto traders are betting on...

Attackers claiming responsibility for Revolut’s data breach say they want $3 million in Monero from the banking firm, or they’ll sell the stolen customer data to other criminals. That’s according to the Financial Times , which reports that the group, going by the name “iamnotavillain,” is making its demands for the first time.  Its ransom website was launched this week, but negotiations haven’t yet begun with Revolut. Reuters also reports that Revolut has had no contact with, or received any demands from, the attackers.  What we know about the Revolut customer data leak Read more: Trezor’s summer of hacks continues with Brevo email breach Previous reports from Coin Bureau claimed the attackers had demanded 10,000 BTC, a figure that would be worth over $760 million today. It’s unclear whether it’s a different group behind today’s demand. Coin Bureau never revealed the usernames behind the apparent 10,000-BTC dema...

Postquant Labs, the company behind decentralized quantum computer marketplace Quip Network, has announced Quantum Echoes, a digital collectible collection generated using verifiable measurements from gate-based quantum hardware. Consisting of Quantum Forged Tokens, or QFTs for short, the collection is designed to show how quantum processors can provide verifiable randomness for onchain applications, the company told Finbold on Thursday, September 10. Accordingly, the main goal of the update is to bring a previously specialized computing capability to a consumer-oriented blockchain product. This is achieved via gate-based quantum computers, which introduce verifiable quantum randomness into generative art.  “We’ve spent the last hundred years telling people that quantum is this spooky and mysterious thing that even the smartest people in the world don’t understand. With Quantum Echoes, we are making multimillion-dollar quantum hardware tangible for everyone, provin...

An effective altruism-linked organization, as of last month, is paying $2,000 in weekly compensation for an ostensibly grassroots anti-AI media campaign.  Irreplaceable, which employs a campaign strategist who also works for the effective altruism-funded Center for AI Safety, supports protests against AI as a way to advocate for regulations that could benefit the effective altruism agenda. “What’s missing is coordinated action that forces the government to respond,” it claimed. It’s currently recruiting student protest leaders for an anti-AI uprising in October. They’ll help to coordinate walkouts at more than 100 colleges to demand new regulations to affect the AI industry. FTX-funded charity Effective Ventures to shut down in the UK Read more: FTX-funded charity Effective Ventures agrees to return donations Effective altruists want you to vote for AI regulators Irreplaceable’s campaign says that AI should be paused and placed under publ...