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There’s a growing undercurrent of frustration among crypto investors watching XRP drift lower, seemingly tied to broader swings in the entire market. But a different perspective came to light after a post by Versan Aljarrah, founder of Black Swan Capitalist, who suggested that the entire discussion around XRP’s day-to-day price movement is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of what the asset actually represents. What XRP Really Does Aljarrah challenged the tendency to judge XRP as if it were a typical speculative crypto asset running on a debt-based system of inflows and hype. His point was that saying XRP keeps dropping assumes it is meant to trade like every other token whose value is tied almost entirely to leverage trading and investor appetite.  Related Re...

What to Know: New Hampshire’s $100M Bitcoin-backed municipal bond gives $BTC a compliant route into a roughly $140T global debt market. The state’s strategic Bitcoin reserve law, allowing up to 5% of funds in Bitcoin, shows treasuries are treating crypto as long-term collateral. Bitcoin Hyper aims to provide a fast, SVM-powered Bitcoin Layer 2 so that this new collateral can move efficiently across DeFi and institutional rails. With $28M raised, audited contracts, and staking at 41%, $HYPER targets utility in Bitcoin’s evolving bond and reserve landscape. New Hampshire just did what crypto Twitter has been memeing about for years: it put Bitcoin in a suit and marched it into the bond market. The state’s Business Finance Authority has approved a first of its kind $100...

What to Know: Bitcoin futures moving into backwardation signal derivatives stress and extreme fear, conditions that often cluster around important, but messy, market bottoms. $BTC fails to recover momentum and remains stuck in the $90K–$91K zone after a massive two-week long dip. Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER), Best Wallet Token ($BEST), and LiquidChain ($LIQUID) target structural themes – scaling, wallets, and cross-chain liquidity – rather than short-lived memes. Both Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) and Best Wallet Token ($BEST) are among the best presales of 2025, after raising over $28M and 17.1M respectively so far. Bitcoin is still in choppy waters, after failing to gain momentum above the $90K–$91K threshold. All while futures move into backwardation, which signals derivatives...

Donald Trump has pushed the Federal Reserve back into the center of the crypto macro narrative, telling reporters he “already” knows who should succeed Jerome Powell and triggering a sharp repricing in real-money prediction markets in favor of Kevin Hassett. In remarks in the Oval Office, Trump said: “I think I already know my choice,” when asked about the next Fed chair. He added that he would “love to get the guy currently in there out right now, but people are holding me back,” a clear swipe at Powell without naming him. Trump also hinted at the shape of his shortlist, saying, “We have some surprising names and we have some standard names that everybody’s talking about. And we may go the standard way. It’s nice to every once in a while go politically correct.” Tha...

What to Know: Solana’s strong defense of $130, plus a V-shaped recovery pattern, keeps a move back toward the $180–$250 range firmly on the table. Spot SOL ETFs have now attracted around $420M in cumulative inflows, signalling sustained institutional interest even after the recent correction. SUBBD Token, PEPENODE, and Aster tap AI creators, GameFi mining, and perp DEX liquidity respectively, aligning with narratives favored in risk-on phases. Solana just printed the kind of setup traders love. After a sharp 25% drawdown from $173, $SOL bounced perfectly from weekly support around $130 and is now forming a V-shaped recovery pattern, with technicians eyeing a move back into the $180–$250 range if momentum holds. On the derivatives side, futures open interest has climb...

What to Know: Bitcoin’s slow throughput, high fees, and lack of smart contracts limit its role in DeFi, even as market interest returns. Bitcoin Hyper builds a Bitcoin Layer-2 using SVM, a canonical bridge, and ZK proofs to deliver fast, low-fee, programmable $BTC. The $HYPER presale has raised over $28M at $0.013295, offering around 41% staking rewards and strong early staking participation. If roadmap milestones and listings land, upside scenarios imply multi-x potential from presale levels, but risks remain significant. Bitcoin is back in one of its moody phases. The price is barely climbing back to $92K, majors are bleeding double digits, and on-chain activity keeps reminding everyone that the original crypto is still slow, expensive, and awkward for anything bey...

With the Bitcoin price struggling recently, the expectations are that the crypto market is headed into another bear run. This is characterized by Bitcoin losing $100,000 after over four months, and has not been able to reclaim this major level. Meanwhile, sell-offs among whales have continued, putting billions of dollars worth of selling pressure on the cryptocurrency. As such, the probability that Bitcoin is going into a bear market has shot up considerably during this time. Analyst Warns Of Imminent Bitcoin Bear Market Crypto analyst Titan of Crypto has taken to the X (formerly Twitter) platform to share a warning with the broader crypto community. This warning was that the digital asset was more likely in a bear market compared to a bull market, giving an 80% scor...

Amid the second wave of crypto-based Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Solana (SOL)-based investment products have been leading the charge, fueled by strong demand despite the recent market volatility. As a new group of investment products based on the altcoin hits the market and SOL’s price starts to recover, some suggest that a rebound could be underway. Related Reading: Analyst Shares Worst-Case Scenario For Bitcoin (BTC) As Price Shows Concerning Signs Solana ETFs Take Over The second wave of Solana ETFs has arrived in the market after the successful launch of SOL-based investment products. On Monday, VanEck debuted its Solana ETF (VSOL) on Nasdaq, becoming the third investment product based on the altcoin to launch over the past month. According to the announcement,...

The US-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken recently secured a substantial $200 million investment from Citadel Securities, a global market maker. This investment values the exchange at an impressive $20 billion.  Kraken’s Growth Backed By Citadel Securities Citadel Securities has expressed enthusiasm about supporting Kraken’s growth, emphasizing the firm’s role in shaping the future landscape of digital innovation within markets.  Related Reading: Bitcoin Price Alert: This Indicator Signals SELL, Could History Repeat With A 67% Drop? Jim Esposito, president of Citadel Securities, highlighted their commitment to collaborating with Kraken on risk management and market structure analysis, among other strategic initiatives.  This capital infusion comes on the heels of a...

On-chain data shows Bitcoin short-term holders have transferred a large amount of BTC at a loss to exchanges, a sign of another capitulation wave on the network. Bitcoin Short-Term Holders Are Depositing To Exchanges At Loss As explained by CryptoQuant community analyst Maartunn in a new post on X, short-term holders (STHs) have just made another wave of underwater exchange deposits. Related Reading: XRP, Bitcoin Now In “Good Buy Zone,” Says Analytics Firm The STHs refer to the investors who purchased their Bitcoin during the past 155 days. This cohort is generally considered to include the weak hands of the market, who easily sell at the sight of market volatility. Recently, the market has been witnessing a bearish shift, which is exactly the type of event that STHs...