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Ripple challenges industry giants with new stablecoin

Cryptocurrencies surged on Friday as optimism surrounding Ripple Labs’ plans for using a digital coin spread, lifting peers that have lost more than $600-billion of value since January.

Bitcoin’s rebound continued on Tuesday as the largest cryptocurrency climbed past the $8 000 level for the first time in two months.

Cryptocurrencies extended their rebound on Wednesday as bitcoin traded above $7 500 for the first time in a month, shrugging off security and regulatory concerns that have plagued the digital currency.

The US$500m heist of digital tokens from Japanese exchange Coincheck on Friday is remarkable for its sheer size, but thefts in the lightly regulated world of cryptocurrencies are woefully frequent. In less than a