XRP pumps, then dumps on a fake BlackRock trust file

For a brief moment today, XRP holders were in disbelief.

And for good reason. The Delaware filing of “BlackRock iShares XRP Trust,” which sent its crypto assets up 12% in half an hour, was fake.

Someone filed the corporate registration in Delaware — but it wasn't BlackRock, a company spokesman confirmed.

BlackRock, which registered its name for the iShares Ethereum Trust in Delaware last week, said in an email that the XRP file decrypted was fake. A fake XRP trust file was registered last week with the same address and contact information as BlackRock's very real ETH file.

When BlackRock confirmed that Ethereum's trust offering was real last week, Ethereum shot up to $2,000 for the first time in months.

This story is getting better and better.