The last day of spring brought exciting crypto news, take a closer look at it with U.Today’s news digest!
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Shiba Inu (SHIB) perpetual futures listed on Kraken: Details
SHIB BPP, a Shiba Inu-themed Twitter account that shares breaking news on the meme coin, recently shared that Kraken Pro has added SHIB perpetual futures. Perpetual futures contracts are a kind of derivative financial instrument that allows traders to speculate on the assets’ price movements without actually owning them. Since Kraken is one of the largest crypto exchanges with millions of users, Shiba Inu has all the chances to increase its exposure via a new listing. Speaking of listings, in May, two exchanges added support for Shiba Inu: Bahrain’s exchange CoinMENA and Brazilian exchange Digitra.com.
Ripple lawsuit to settle in June? Fresh speculation arises following these events
In a recent tweet, Ashley Prosper, a Twitter user with more than 7,500 followers and a member of the XRP community, has listed a series of events that might hint at a quicker resolution of the Ripple-SEC lawsuit. She mentioned Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s prediction of the lawsuit being resolved in “weeks” and not “months” and the fact that he liked a comment about the lawsuit being over. Prosper also wrote about Ripple’s recent achievements, such as CBDC platform introduction, its ODL partner Tranglo’s collaboration with Al Ansari Exchange and acquisition of custody service provider Metaco. “Hmm, doesn’t sound like a company that’s about to lose a lawsuit and disappear any time soon…” she concludes.
Shytoshi Kusama supposed to be in Japan, here’s what he may be up to
Yesterday, SHIB community members noticed that the project’s lead Shytoshi Kusama changed his location status on Twitter to Nisako, Japan. Well-known SHIB enthusiast KURO SHIBARMY JPN suggested in a recent tweet that perhaps Kusama did this because he would like to visit Niseko for a holiday someday as it is a popular tourist location. Another SHIB enthusiast, @LucieSHIB, added to the speculation about Kusama’s whereabouts by sharing a screenshot of his recent message on Discord. In the message, the SHIB lead apologized for not being active on the SHIB Discord channel as he is “relaxing and enjoying like everyone else.” In another message, Kusama promised that he will finally “finalize/complete the decentralized system,” i.e., do exactly as he promised.
