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A 2021 Citibank document that used the phrase “Regulated Internet of Value” sits at the center of a new XRP debate, after researcher Jesse of Apex Crypto Insights argued the wording was later shifted to “Regulated Liability Network” because the link to Ripple was too obvious. Related Reading: Security Milestone: XRP Lending Protocol Completes Military-Grade Assessment He says that paper trail, along with years of weak price action, points to a token that may be held down for reasons that are bigger than ordinary market trading. A Price That Would Not Move XRP’s chart is the first thing Jesse points to. The token reached $3.84 during the 2018 bull run and later touched $3.60 earlier in this cycle, yet it has spent much of the past decade moving sideways while Bitcoin climbed far higher. Jesse called that mismatch hard to explain under a normal market setup and said, in his view, suppression is one possible answer. The claim is not presented as proof. Jesse frames it as his opinion, but he ties it to a wider argument about how the financial system may change if XRP ends up in a deeper role than simple payments. The Internet Of Value Thesis Jesse says XRP should be viewed as part of an “internet of value” rather than just another crypto asset. He links that idea to Ripple’s Interledger Protocol, which he says is meant to move value in the same way the internet moves information. From there, he says the trail runs through several institutional documents and speeches. According to Jesse, Citibank’s Tony McLaughlin has described the Regulated Liability Network and the shared ledger idea as the same concept, and he says the Bank for International Settlements has also talked about a unified ledger that could replace correspondent banking and even Swift. The researcher’s case is built on that chain of references. He argues that if major banks are preparing a new settlement system, an asset tied to that system may not be allowed to swing wildly in price, since volatility would be a problem for anything meant to function as a reserve or settlement layer. Related Reading: SpaceX Exposure Comes To Bybit Through New Tokenized Product – Details What The Theory Still Lacks Jesse does not present hard evidence of manipulation. His argument is based on interpretation rather than any public proof of coordinated price control, and it ultimately leaves the question unresolved, with no definitive conclusion drawn on market behavior. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

Bybit users who subscribe to the exchange’s new IPO Express product and receive an allocation may be in for a surprise: if the final offering price comes in within 20% of the indicative price they agreed to, their order gets executed automatically, without any additional confirmation required. Related Reading: Security Milestone: XRP Lending Protocol Completes Military-Grade Assessment Launched June 7, IPO Express lets eligible Bybit users subscribe to tokenized representations of IPO shares at the offering price, with SpaceX as its first listing under the token ticker SPCX. Subscriptions run through June 11, with spot trading scheduled to open June 12. What The Token Actually Gives You The product is built on Payward Services’ xStocks platform — Payward being the parent company of Kraken, which has separately opened SpaceX IPO access to retail clients in over 110 countries through the same infrastructure. Each token is backed 1:1 by actual SpaceX equity held in regulated broker-dealer custody, which sets it apart from the synthetic pre-IPO perpetual contracts that Hyperliquid and Binance list, where no underlying shares change hands. But owning SPCX does not make someone a SpaceX shareholder. According to Bybit’s published terms, the tokens confer no voting rights, no dividend rights, and no direct legal or beneficial ownership in SpaceX equity. Holders have no claim against SpaceX itself. What they get is exposure to the economic performance of the share price — and nothing beyond that. Not Everyone Can Get In Access is restricted in two ways. First, the product is limited to Bybit users who have reached VIP or PRO tier status, a threshold typically tied to trading volume or asset holdings, in addition to completing identity verification. Second, the offering is entirely off-limits to residents of the European Economic Area, covering all 27 EU member states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway. Bybit states it holds no license or authorization under MiCA or any applicable EEA financial services regime for this product. The exclusion is notable given that SpaceX’s IPO has already shut out investors in mainland China and Hong Kong under US International Traffic in Arms Regulations. The tokenized access path that was positioned as a workaround carries its own exclusions. SpaceX’s IPO has drawn approximately $150 billion in demand against a $75 billion raise, meaning even VIP-tier subscribers who qualify may receive partial allocations. Related Reading: Has The Bitcoin Price Crash Ended Or Is This Just The Beginning? Analyst Answers Funds are frozen from the moment a subscription order is submitted until results are announced, or up to five business days if the event is cancelled. What Comes After SpaceX Bybit’s announcement positions IPO Express as a recurring platform, not a one-time product. Reports indicate that subsequent major IPOs — including potentially OpenAI and Anthropic — could see similar tokenized access products rolled out through Bybit, Kraken, and other xStocks-based platforms. Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView

Cardano’s total value locked dropped close to 30% in June, sliding from $129 million to $92 million — a fall that closely tracks ADA’s own price decline of 27% over the same stretch. Yet one platform inside the ecosystem is pushing back hard against the idea that the network is finished. DexHunter, a Cardano-based DEX aggregator, took to X to argue that the blockchain is more alive than ever, citing a sharp spike in trading activity as proof that user engagement remains strong despite ADA’s price weakness. Related Reading: Security Milestone: XRP Lending Protocol Completes Military-Grade Assessment A Surge, Then A Pullback Daily DEX trading volume on Cardano shot up from roughly 6 million ADA to 25 million ADA across four days, one of the steepest volume increases in recent months. DexHunter attributed that spike to heavy trading in tokens including NIGHT, STRIKE, and SNEK, as well as stablecoins such as USDCx. Volume has since retreated to around 7.45 million ADA, down 11% in the most recent 24-hour period. They say: Cardano is dead We say: Cardano is more alive than ever$STRIKE$ASCEND$ATLAS$SURF$SURGE The ecosystem is exploding???? pic.twitter.com/aCp8D80jAv — DexHunter ???? (@DexHunterIO) June 6, 2026 Alongside the volume data, DexHunter shared charts tracking the performance of several Cardano-native tokens. ATLAS rose 18% in a single day. STRIKE gained 3%. ASCEND added 1.20%. SURF was the exception, falling 2.67% during the same window. Based on that activity, DexHunter declared the ecosystem is exploding. Broader Headwinds Weigh On The Network The platform’s upbeat take comes against a backdrop of mounting pressure on Cardano. ADA hit a multi-year low of $0.14 earlier this year, and a string of setbacks has fed speculation about the network’s long-term prospects. Analytics platform TapTools shut down. A major ecosystem contributor exited after declaring bankruptcy. Input Output CEO Charles Hoskinson stepped back from public engagement for a period, and governance disputes have continued to draw criticism from within the community. Against all of that, DexHunter maintains the underlying activity tells a different story — one of continued user participation even as ADA’s market performance has disappointed. Related Reading: A 400 Billion Shiba Inu Surprise: Whale Wallet Springs Back To Life Signs Of Life In A Difficult Market ADA was trading at around $0.16 at the time of writing, still deep in the red compared to levels seen earlier this year. Whether the recent volume spike reflects a genuine shift in momentum or a short-term burst driven by a handful of tokens remains an open question. What the data does show is that trading activity on Cardano’s decentralized exchange layer is still moving, even if the numbers have pulled back from their recent peak. Featured image from Wallpaper Flare, chart from TradingView

Testing found something conventional methods missed. Ripple software engineer Vito Tumas disclosed that the formal verification process being applied to the XRP Ledger’s upcoming lending protocol has already uncovered complex edge cases that standard testing procedures failed to detect. Related Reading: A 400 Billion Shiba Inu Surprise: Whale Wallet Springs Back To Life Ripple is working alongside blockchain security firm Common Prefix on the effort. Together, the teams construct an abstract model of the protocol and continuously compare it against the C++ implementation of xrpld — the XRP Ledger’s server software — using a verification framework built to catch discrepancies and potential vulnerabilities before they reach users. Why Traditional Testing Falls Short Tumas explained that conventional testing only covers scenarios developers think to anticipate. Formal verification, by contrast, uses mathematical proofs to confirm that code behaves correctly across a much wider set of conditions — including edge cases that human testers may never consider. The technique is used in fields where failure is not an option, among them aircraft systems, nuclear power plants, and military-grade software. Upcoming Lending Protocol is getting Formal Verification ????!! The tech used to safeguard nuclear power plants, airplanes, military systems is being applied to the $XRP Ledger. Call it Fortress XRP. XRP’s native DeFi (no smart contracts) meets best in class security standards… https://t.co/KSAm0UuJC1 pic.twitter.com/D3aSFOUePS — Vet (@Vet_X0) June 8, 2026 The verification work covers two features central to XRPL’s native DeFi push: the Lending Protocol and Single Asset Vaults. Both are designed to bring borrowing and lending directly to XRPL’s Layer-1 architecture, bypassing the need for traditional smart contracts entirely. Because DeFi functionality is embedded at the protocol level rather than in separate application layers, a flaw would carry consequences for the entire network — not just a single app. AI And Formal Verification XRPL dUNL validator Vet, who brought wider attention to the initiative through a post on X, said artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in making formal verification more practical and accessible at scale. He suggested that combining AI with formal verification could strengthen institutional confidence in the XRP Ledger ecosystem going forward. The XRPL community has seen what AI-assisted security analysis can do. Earlier this year, an AI tool identified a flaw in the proposed Batch amendment that could have exposed user funds to risk. Related Reading: XRP Monthly RSI Drops To All-Time Low As Market Watches For Confirmation Native Lending Inches Toward Activation The lending protocol was introduced under the XLS-66 amendment and entered the validator voting phase earlier this year following the release of XRPL version 3.1.0. According to Vet, developers are still in the testing phase while the necessary security safeguards are put in place before the feature goes live. Both institutional and retail users are expected to be able to access credit using assets such as XRP and RLUSD once the protocol is activated. Featured image from Biotech Healthcare, chart from TradingView

Ethereum’s latest price crash has pushed the cryptocurrency below $1,800, placing its monthly chart under pressure at a time when the entire crypto market sentiment has turned heavily bearish. There is also another weakness coming from the monthly RSI, which has now dropped to its lowest level since the asset launched in 2015. That reading has made the current setup very important, as previous deep RSI resets appeared near major Ethereum cycle lows in 2020 and 2022, and there’s also a question of whether the same pattern is forming again. Related Reading: Bitcoin Price Plunges To $59K, Sparking Fears Of Deeper Decline RSI Hits Its Lowest Level Since Ethereum’s Launch Ethereum has endured a brutal nine months since it peaked at $4,946 in August 2025. The brutal price action has culminated in a break below $1,800 in June, with the leading altcoin falling to as low as $1,536 in the past 24 hours, which is its lowest price level so far in 2026. Interestingly, that crash has caused the monthly Relative Strength Index (RSI) on ETH/USD to print its lowest reading since Ethereum’s launch in 2015. The monthly RSI indicator chart shows the index dropping to around 40, its lowest level on the monthly timeframe since ETH began trading in 2015. Ethereum Price Chart. Source: @CryptoPatel On X What Does This Mean For Ethereum? Back in 2020, Ethereum’s RSI reached a depressed level before ETH began a massive rally from around $88 to its 2021 peak above $4,800. Again in 2022, another deep RSI reset came before ETH eventually rallied from around $880 to its 2025 all-time high. The current setup is not a guarantee that these same rallies will repeat, but it does show that Ethereum is now in the type of momentum zone that has always appeared closer to major bottoms than cycle tops.  A notable difference this time is that the RSI has gone even lower, making the 2026 reading the most extreme in the cryptocurrency’s history. If history repeats itself, the ensuing rally might be even larger than those seen in the previous cycles. Technical analysis of the monthly candlestick timeframe presents Ethereum as moving through another four-year cycle, similar to the move from the 2017 top to the 2021 top. As shown in the chart image above, the 2017 cycle peak is the first major top, the 2021 peak is the next major cycle high, and then there is a projection of a possible top around $10,000 sometime in 2026-2027. Related Reading: XRP Monthly RSI Drops To All-Time Low As Market Watches For Confirmation At the time of writing, Ethereum is trading at $1,612, leaving bulls with the immediate task of defending the $1,600 region with stronger inflows. Speaking of inflows, Spot Ethereum ETFs ended a 17-day streak of outflows on Thursday, June 4, after recording $19 million in net inflows. However, that relief was short-lived, as Friday’s session returned to negative territory with $5.97 million in net outflows. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

Long traders bore the brunt of the damage when over $382,000 in Shiba Inu futures positions were liquidated in a single day, with $365,660 wiped from bullish bets and just $17,320 lost on the short side. Related Reading: XRP Monthly RSI Drops To All-Time Low As Market Watches For Confirmation That wave of forced closures came as a long-dormant SHIB wallet suddenly came back to life after nearly 10 months of silence, drawing fresh attention to a token already under pressure. A Wallet Empties Out Data from Arkham Intelligence shows the wallet began its return with a test run — a small 10 million SHIB transfer through a MetaMask swap. After that, the holder moved fast, pushing nearly 400 billion tokens through BitGo’s Forwarder Smart Contract across three separate transactions: nearly 112 billion first, then almost 190 billion, then a final 99 billion. When it was done, the wallet held just 110 SHIB. The total amount transferred came to 399,989,999,938 SHIB. The address, which had sat untouched since roughly last August, was effectively cleared out in a matter of hours. Reading The BitGo Move What the transfers mean is harder to pin down. BitGo’s infrastructure is commonly used by institutional players for OTC deals or to move assets into cold storage — neither of which shows up as a sell on public exchanges. So while the scale of the move is hard to ignore, it does not confirm any tokens were sold into the market. What is clear is that a holder sitting on a position worth tens of millions of dollars chose this particular week to act — a week when the broader crypto market was already sliding. Shiba Inu Under Pressure SHIB dropped 16% over the past week and lost the $0.000005 psychological support level in the process. At last check, the token was trading at $0.000004535, down another 3.50% in the prior 24 hours. Related Reading: Bitcoin Price Plunges To $59K, Sparking Fears Of Deeper Decline The decline has pushed the memecoin toward the edge of the top 30 cryptocurrencies by market cap, with SHIB sitting at 29th place and a market value of $2.65 billion. The timing of the whale’s reactivation, arriving alongside a broader market selloff and a fresh round of liquidations, made the move impossible to ignore — even if its purpose remains unknown. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

XRP could be on track for one of its biggest price moves ever — but investors may need to wait until late 2027 or even 2028 to see it play out. A Long Road Ahead That’s the view from market analyst Dr Cat, who recently flagged $1.034 as a compelling long-term buy zone for the token. According to the analyst, that price level lines up with a thick Ichimoku Cloud support zone on the charts, which he sees as offering a strong risk-to-reward setup for patient buyers. Related Reading: Bitcoin Price Plunges To $59K, Sparking Fears Of Deeper Decline The price he’s projecting – the $30 target – would represent a gain of roughly 2,600% from XRP’s recent low of $1.09. That kind of move would rank among the largest in the token’s history. The Numbers Behind The Call The forecast, however, comes with conditions attached. Dr Cat’s model assumes XRP would need to trade at around 12,000 satoshis against Bitcoin, while Bitcoin itself would have to climb to approximately $250,000. Both would need to happen for the $30 scenario to materialize. $XRP Ripple If you are looking for an entry for long term from $USDT perspective I think that 1.034$ where the kumo surface is thick is a good buy price. Targeting ~30$ (12K $XRPBTC with ~250K $BTCUSD) in late 2027/2028. If $BTC dumps to 3 or 4 handle it goes without saying… https://t.co/JjSaHChkQF pic.twitter.com/8yTtYiZ77t — Dr Cat (@DoctorCatX) June 5, 2026 The analyst also warned that the path there won’t be smooth. If Bitcoin falls into a deeper correction, XRP could drop another 50% from current levels — a risk he acknowledged even while holding his bullish long-term view. His higher-timeframe analysis suggests the next major expansion phase for XRP may not begin before September 2027, meaning anyone who buys in now could be sitting through a long consolidation window before any serious upside kicks in. XRP’s Recent Slide The backdrop for all this is a token that has taken a hard hit in recent months. Based on data from Coingecko, XRP is down 18% over the past week, 20% over the past month, and 38% year-to-date. From its all-time high of $3.65, the token has shed more than 60% of its value. The wider market hasn’t helped. XRP dropped to $1.09 during a sharp correction that also dragged Bitcoin down to around $59,000 after it had been trading above $70,000 just days earlier. A Pattern Some Analysts Recognize Some in the XRP community see the selloff differently. Analyst Digital Outlook has pointed to similarities between current market conditions and the period following the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple in December 2020. Related Reading: XRP Monthly RSI Drops To All-Time Low As Market Watches For Confirmation Reports indicate XRP fell to around $0.17 in the aftermath of that filing, only to surge past $1.96 by April 2021 as sentiment shifted — a gain of more than 1,000%. Whether history repeats is far from guaranteed. But for Dr. Cat, the $1.034 zone remains his line in the sand — a level he believes offers long-term buyers a solid base, even if the wait turns out to be a long one. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

Dogecoin is trading below $0.09 at the time of writing, which places it more than 88% from its May 2021 all-time high of $0.74, and overlooked in a market that has spent most of 2026 rotating around Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP.  However, crypto analyst Javon Marks sees something in DOGE’s long-term chart that most traders are missing: a repeating pattern of increasing alt season performances that, if it holds, points to a target above $20 for the meme coin. Related Reading: Bitmine Seeks $300M Raise To Accelerate Ethereum Accumulation Strategy Dogecoin’s Alt-Season Pattern Technical analysis of Dogecoin’s movement on the weekly candlestick timeframe chart shows that the king of meme coins has delivered increasingly large moves during major altcoin cycles, with the 2017 and 2021 rallies serving as the foundation for the latest forecast. The weekly chart tracks Dogecoin’s price action across multiple market cycles, beginning from the early years of DOGE trading and extending into an alt-season window projected for 2026.  The 2017 alt season was characterized by Dogecoin rallying from a deep base into a move of about 100x that eventually topped around $0.018.  Interestingly, the 2021 alt season produced an even larger move than the 2017 one. Marks’ chart highlights a surge of more than 300x, taking Dogecoin from the lower range of its previous cycle into as high as the $0.70 area. That rally turned Dogecoin from an internet joke into one of the largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization with an active community of investors and developers. Dogecoin Price Chart. Source: @JavonTM1 On X Dogecoin’s Case For $20 Every cycle, DOGE has reached a new higher high than the previous one: $0.0025 in 2017, $0.069 in 2018, $0.017 in 2020, and $0.74 in 2021. Marks’ proposal is that if Dogecoin’s alt-season behavior continues to outperform its past cycles, then the next rally could be larger than the last one, placing a 300x move or more on the table. His projected price zone above $20 comes from applying that type of 300x expansion to the current price action. A $20 Dogecoin price is not a normal short-term target. At the time of writing, Dogecoin is trading at $0.081, which means it would need a move of about 247x just to reach $20. The projected zone by Javon Marks is even higher, with the visual move pointing to a move above $24. For that to happen, Dogecoin would first need to recover the levels it has already lost, as the current price action is the weakest it has been since 2022. Before any serious discussion of double-digit Dogecoin can become reality, the meme coin would need to reclaim $0.10, then push through the larger resistance zones around $0.20, $0.30, and eventually break above the December 2024 rejection zone of $0.49 before moving towards the old all-time high of $0.7316. Related Reading: XRP Monthly RSI Drops To All-Time Low As Market Watches For Confirmation The entire altcoin market would also need to enter a very strong rally phase, as Marks’ call is tied to alt season. That means the scenario depends entirely on capital rotating out of Bitcoin. Interestingly, a $20 Dogecoin would imply a market cap somewhere around $3 trillion, given a circulating supply of approximately 154.5 billion DOGE tokens as of June 2026. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

A crypto analyst known as Blacksea has revealed that the XRP price has formed a major bullish price pattern that appears to have gone largely unnoticed by the broader market. The expert noted that the last time this setup emerged, XRP rallied by triple-digit percentages and went on to set a new price high. If history were to repeat itself, the cryptocurrency could be on track for a similar parabolic price surge this cycle. Such a move could completely end XRP’s ongoing downtrend and position it firmly in a renewed bullish phase.  Related Reading: Bitmine Seeks $300M Raise To Accelerate Ethereum Accumulation Strategy XRP Prints The Same Pattern That Triggered 2024 Rally  On June 6, Blacksea noted that XRP has once again formed the same falling wedge pattern it previously printed in 2024. At that time, the cryptocurrency was trading around $0.5 before the structure fully developed, eventually leading to a massive 600% upside move. Looking back at the 2024 chart, XRP traded tightly within the falling wedge, with repeated swings and compression between the upper and lower trendlines. While price action fluctuated sharply, XRP eventually broke down briefly below the lower boundary of the wedge pattern. That false breakdown marked a turning point, as momentum quickly shifted and price reversed aggressively higher. This ultimately led to a surge past $1.5, delivering the historic rally. According to Blacksea, XRP could be gearing up for the same parabolic price surge. The cryptocurrency is currently trading inside its wedge with repeated price declines and compression, although it has not yet broken below the lower boundary. If a breakdown occurs, it could mirror the 2024 behavior, serving as a final shakeout before a strong reversal. Blacksea expects that such a move could fuel a fresh recovery for XRP, likely setting the stage for a renewed bullish trend and possible attempts at new all-time highs. Ahead of this projected rally, the analyst is urging traders and investors to position early and manage risk carefully to protect against sharp downside volatility if the pattern fails to play out as expected. Analyst Predicts XRP Price Dip Before Explosive Rally In a separate post, crypto analyst Celal Kucuker shared a bullish outlook for XRP but warned that the move may unfold only after another major price correction. He pointed to a Cup & Handle pattern currently forming on the XRP chart, forecasting a potential explosive rally toward the 1.618 Fibonacci Extension level above $14.  Kucuker explained that before XRP can reach this ambitious target, its price is expected to extend its current downward trend, potentially dropping sharply toward $0.9. The accompanying chart shows that further weakness around this region could invalidate XRP’s bullish structure and open the door to a deeper decline near $0.48.  Related Reading: XRP Monthly RSI Drops To All-Time Low As Market Watches For Confirmation However, Kucuker’s chart also suggests that if price holds the $0.95 support and stages a strong rebound, the next upside target would likely be around $1.5. From there, the analyst projects a jump to $3.66, representing a roughly 282% surge from $0.95. Following that, XRP could then accelerate toward the analyst’s final target around $14.1, a level that would mark a staggering 1,378% rally from the former $0.95 support area. Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView

Crypto analyst Crypto Patel has revealed when XRP could rally to between $10 and $20. This came as he commented on the token’s history following its 14th anniversary celebration, noting that it is one of the oldest crypto assets.  Analyst Reveals When XRP Will Rally To Between $10 and $20 In an X post, Crypto Patel predicted that XRP would trade between $10 and $20 by its 20th anniversary in 2032. The analyst also touched on the token’s history, noting that the XRP Ledger (XRPL) went live on June 2, 2021. As such, it is one of the oldest coins still standing, older than Ethereum and almost every other altcoin trading.  Related Reading: Why The Extreme FUD And Bearish Pressure Could Be Good News For The XRP Price Crypto Patel also touched on some misconceptions about XRP. First, he stated that there was no mining as all 100 billion tokens were created at the start. Furthermore, there was never an ICO for the token, and the analyst noted that this is the part the crowd gets wrong. Instead of a public token sale, he revealed that XRP was handed out through giveaways, partner deals, and private sales. As such, XRP doesn’t have an ICO price. The analyst also noted that XRP exchange trading began in August 2013, with the token trading at around $0.0058. In its first year, the token ranged between $0.005 and $0.01. XRP then rallied to an all-time high (ATH) near $3.84 in January 2018. It is worth noting that it is around this period that it recorded a parabolic rally of 1,400% in a few weeks.  Analyst Points To The Crash After The SEC Lawsuit Crypto Patel also mentioned that XRP crashed following the SEC’s 2020 allegations that the token was a security. The token fell to $0.11 within two years, representing a 97% crash from its ATH at the time. However, the token rallied to a new ATH of $3.66 in July 2025 as the SEC and Ripple settled the lawsuit that had lasted for almost five years.  Related Reading: If XRP Price Loses This Current Support, This Is How Low It Will Go The analyst remarked that XRP’s survival for this long is in itself an achievement, seeing as it went from half a cent to almost $4 and then through a multi-year SEC battle. Crypto Patel said that this achievement is the part that gets lost in the noise. He added that despite all that the token has been through, it is still trading just above $1, which represents around a 207x increase from its first exchange listing.  XRP also currently stands out as one of the tokens with regulatory clarity, as Judge Analisa Torres ruled in the SEC lawsuit that it is not a security.  At the time of writing, the XRP price is trading at around $1.09, down over 2% in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Featured image from Freepik, chart from Tradingview.com

The XRP monthly relative strength index has fallen to 41.64, the lowest reading the indicator has ever recorded for the token — lower even than the 43.75 it hit in March 2020, when XRP bottomed out at $0.11 during one of crypto’s worst bear markets. Related Reading: Bitmine Seeks $300M Raise To Accelerate Ethereum Accumulation Strategy A Signal With A Caveat The current reading edges out that 2020 low, but it is not yet final. June is still open, and data shows that if XRP recovers to above $1.30 before the month ends, the RSI could close well above its current level, which would undercut the significance of the signal entirely. XRP market commentator Austin, who goes by that name in the XRP community, was the first to flag the RSI drop publicly. His initial chart showed the reading had fallen to 42.64 — itself a new all-time low at the time — as XRP slid to $1.18. Prices dropped further since then, pulling the RSI down to 41.62 at last check. The token is currently trading around $1.11. That puts it roughly 61% below its October 2025 high of $2.84, a decline that has stretched across several months without a meaningful recovery. XRP is the most oversold on the monthly time frame that it has EVER been. pic.twitter.com/xlKEQkK7tc — Austin (@Austin_XRPL) June 4, 2026 What History Suggests The 2020 episode offers a point of comparison, though it is only one. That year’s RSI bottom aligned with what turned out to be the price floor for XRP in that cycle. From that low, the token posted a string of higher lows before reaching $1.96 in April 2021. A later surge in November 2024 pushed it as high as $3.40, representing a gain of roughly 580% from the October lows of that year. The broader crypto market has also been under pressure this week. Bitcoin dropped toward the $63,000 mark after Strategy, the firm associated with Michael Saylor, confirmed it sold 32 BTC from its stash of more than 800,000 BTC. Total crypto market cap shed $330 billion in the span of a week. XRP’s Own Decline In Focus XRP’s market cap dropped from $82.5 billion at the start of this week to around $69 billion at the time of writing, a fall of roughly 15%. Reports note that the current price of $1.10 revisits levels last seen in early February. Related Reading: Bitcoin Faces Pressure As Investors Rotate Capital Into AI Buildout: Saylor RSI measures the speed and size of recent price changes, and a reading below 30 is traditionally considered oversold territory. XRP’s monthly reading at 41.64 sits above that threshold, though it represents a historically low level for the token specifically. Whether the June candle closes anywhere near its current RSI reading will determine whether the signal holds. Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView

HYPE is trading above $60 despite the recent market selloff that has dragged most crypto assets to significant losses over the past several days. The relative strength is notable — but Arkham Intelligence data has revealed a series of institutional-scale transactions in the past several hours that transform the price resilience from an interesting observation into a documented behavioral signal. Related Reading: Bitcoin Falls Below $66K As Short-Term Holder Stress Reaches February Levels Three new wallets withdrew a combined 557,406 HYPE tokens worth approximately $40.2 million from Kraken eight hours ago — and immediately staked the entire amount. The staking decision is the detail that separates these withdrawals from routine portfolio management. Tokens staked immediately after exchange withdrawal are tokens being committed to the network’s validator infrastructure rather than positioned for near-term trading or sale. The intent is explicit in the action. Six hours ago, another new wallet withdrew 180,000 HYPE worth approximately $13.3 million from Coinbase — a second major exchange withdrawal concentrated in a compressed timeframe. Four new wallets. Four separate transactions. Over $53 million in HYPE was withdrawn from two of the most regulated and most scrutinized exchanges in the world — Kraken and Coinbase — within an eight-hour window during a market selloff that had most participants moving in the opposite direction. The accumulation is not slowing. It is arriving from new participants, at new venues, with the same directional conviction that has defined every institutional HYPE transaction this series has documented. 761,000 HYPE in Three Days The Arkham data reveals the cumulative scale of what wallet 0x6436 has been building since it first appeared in the flow data three days ago. The address has now withdrawn a total of 761,357 HYPE tokens worth approximately $55.4 million from exchanges across that compressed timeframe — a sustained, multi-session accumulation that has continued through the broader market selloff without pausing or reversing. HYPE Whale Activity | Source: Arkham The three-day window is the detail that separates a large single transaction from a deliberate accumulation strategy. A one-time withdrawal could reflect rebalancing, custody migration, or any number of operational decisions that do not necessarily express a directional thesis. Three consecutive days of withdrawals from exchanges — building toward $55.4 million in total exposure — describe a participant who made a decision about HYPE and has been executing against it systematically regardless of what the broader market was doing around them. The timing compounds the signal. The Bitcoin breakdown, the broader altcoin selling pressure, and the uncertainty that has defined market sentiment over the past week created exactly the kind of environment that causes most participants to reduce exposure rather than build it. Wallet 0x6436 used that environment to accumulate more than $55 million in HYPE across three days. Combined with Galaxy Digital’s withdrawals, the three Kraken wallets staking $40.2 million, and the Coinbase withdrawal of $13.3 million — all occurring within the same compressed window — the institutional accumulation picture around HYPE during this selloff has reached a scale that the broader market has not yet fully priced into the asset’s current valuation. Related Reading: Smart Money Keeps Buying HYPE Despite Rising Market Fear – Price Holds Above $70 Level HYPE Bulls Defend $65 After Rejection From New Highs HYPE is experiencing its first meaningful pullback after an explosive rally that carried the token to fresh all-time highs near $75. The daily chart shows a sharp rejection from the recent peak, with price falling almost 13% in a single session and closing near $65. While the move appears aggressive, it comes after a nearly uninterrupted advance from the $40 region in May. HYPE bulls try to hold the $65 level | Source: HYPEUSDT chart on TradingView Despite the correction, the broader trend remains firmly bullish. HYPE continues trading well above its 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day moving averages, which are all sloping higher and confirming strong long-term momentum. The 50-day moving average near $49 has become the first major dynamic support level and remains far below current price action. Related Reading: Bitcoin Loses $70K While 10,300 BTC Leave Mt. Gox-Linked Addresses – Details Volume provides important context. The rally into the highs was accompanied by a sustained increase in trading activity, suggesting genuine demand rather than a purely speculative spike. However, the latest selloff also produced elevated volume, indicating that some profit-taking is occurring after the parabolic advance. The key area to watch now is the $64-$65 zone. This level coincides with the breakout region that launched the final leg higher and is currently acting as immediate support. If bulls successfully defend this area, HYPE could establish a higher low before attempting another move toward the $75 all-time high. A deeper correction would likely target the $58-$60 region, where previous resistance could now act as support. Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com

Evernorth says daily activity on the XRP Ledger has climbed to nearly 3 million transactions, up from about 1 million in mid-2025, and the firm is now pointing to banks and other financial companies as the next source of demand. Real Banks Are Moving In According to the XRP-focused treasury company, some of the busiest names on the network over the past year include Bitstamp, Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin, and Braza Bank. The firm says that kind of traffic shows more than trader interest, with real financial activity taking place on the ledger. Related Reading: XRP Dips In The Short Run, But A Bigger Setup May Be Forming: Analyst Asheesh Birla, Evernorth’s chief executive, has argued that XRP’s long-term value will come from banks and businesses using it as working capital rather than treating it as a coin to trade. He has also said the gap between adoption and price remains wide, even as usage and tokenization continue to set records. Birla has pointed to macro pressure, geopolitical tension, and higher rates as part of the reason XRP has not kept pace with the growth story. The message is simple: the network can be busy while the token price stays under strain. 1/6 For everyone who’s wondered when “real banks” will use blockchain: they already are. The next 18 months will be about how much, on which chains, and under which set of rules. One of Europe’s biggest banks has put its euro stablecoin on XRP. Here’s why that matters. ????????… pic.twitter.com/iLcDFd0itK — evernorthxrp (@evernorthxrp) June 2, 2026 How Evernorth Plans To Expand Evernorth is trying to make that growth easier for institutions to access. Instead of forcing banks and asset managers to deal with wallets, private keys, and compliance systems on their own, the company is offering exposure through its own stock. The structure echoes the model used by several public companies that have built large Bitcoin holdings and given investors a familiar market wrapper. Evernorth has said that approach can make XRP easier for institutions to hold, fund, and use. 5/6 When a globally important bank picks public blockchains to host its regulated euro, that’s a vote about which networks they think will host the next phase of money. XRP was one of four chains that made that shortlist. — evernorthxrp (@evernorthxrp) June 2, 2026 The company says it has backing from Ripple, Kraken, Pantera Capital, and SBI Holdings, with total funding topping $1 billion. Its S-4 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, submitted in March 2026, lays out plans to grow XRP holdings through institutional lending, liquidity provision, and activity tied to decentralized finance on the XRP Ledger. XRP TREASURY EVERNORTH FILES UPDATED SEC DOCUMENTS AHEAD OF XRPN LISTING@Ripple-backed $XRP treasury firm, Evernorth has filed an updated Form S-4 as it moves closer to a Nasdaq debut. The firm plans to go public via merger with Armada Acquisition Corp II. It holds over 473… pic.twitter.com/MjUnROPQ5u — BSCN (@BSCNews) May 4, 2026 Related Reading: Ethereum Signals Strength As Citigroup Eyes $5.5 Trillion Tokenized Asset Boom Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView

HYPE is trading above $70 as the market faces selling pressure and uncertainty that has weighed on most crypto assets throughout recent sessions. The token’s ability to hold above that level while the broader ecosystem struggles is itself a signal — but Arkham Intelligence data has revealed a pair of institutional transactions that add a specific and deliberate dimension to the current price resilience. Related Reading: Bitcoin Loses $70K While 10,300 BTC Leave Mt. Gox-Linked Addresses – Details Galaxy Digital — the institutional digital asset firm founded by Mike Novogratz and one of the most closely watched institutional participants in the crypto market — withdrew 179,000 HYPE tokens worth approximately $12.62 million from Coinbase in the past seven hours. The withdrawal from a regulated US exchange into external custody describes a firm moving assets away from the venue where they can be most easily sold — the behavioral opposite of distribution. Galaxy Digital HYPE transfers | Source: Arkham Simultaneously, a new wallet identified as 0x6436 withdrew another 135,824 HYPE worth approximately $9.73 million eight hours ago. That single transaction brings the wallet’s two-day total to 399,730 HYPE — approximately $28.92 million accumulated across 48 hours by a single address that did not exist in the data before this week. Two separate institutional-scale participants. Over $40 million in combined HYPE withdrawals from exchanges. Both occurring within hours of each other while the broader crypto market faces selling pressure. The accumulation is not slowing. It is accelerating — and it is doing so at precisely the moment most participants are moving in the opposite direction. HYPE Keeps Attracting Institutional Capital The broader market context makes the Galaxy Digital and 0x6436 withdrawals considerably more significant than their dollar values alone would suggest. Bitcoin has lost critical support levels. Ethereum is struggling below key thresholds. The assets that define market sentiment and direction are under pressure — and the institutional participants who monitor macro conditions most closely are responding to that environment by accumulating HYPE rather than reducing risk. That behavioral divergence has been building since mid-May. While Bitcoin and Ethereum were losing momentum and testing lower support levels, HYPE was quietly establishing a pattern of relative strength that has now extended into a sustained outperformance against the broader altcoin market. Assets that hold their value — and set new all-time highs — during periods when the market leaders are breaking down are expressing something specific about their structural demand that goes beyond short-term price momentum. Related Reading: Ethereum Coinbase Premium Hits Lowest Level Since February – Traders Are Watching The institutional withdrawals from Coinbase confirm that the relative strength is not accidental. Galaxy Digital and the 0x6436 wallet are not buying HYPE because it is the easiest trade in a difficult market. They are buying it because the combination of genuine protocol utility, accelerating ETF adoption, and a16z’s sustained $170 million accumulation has created an asset with a thesis that does not weaken when Bitcoin does. HYPE trading above $70 while the rest of the market faces selling pressure is the price expression of that thesis being validated in real time — one institutional withdrawal at a time. Bulls Defend Breakout As New All-Time Highs Continue HYPE remains one of the strongest assets in the crypto market, continuing to outperform despite widespread weakness across Bitcoin and most altcoins. The daily chart shows a powerful uptrend that accelerated throughout May, culminating in a fresh all-time high near the $74 area before a modest pullback emerged. HYPE continues with bullish momentum | Source: HYPEUSDT chart on TradingView From a technical perspective, the structure remains firmly bullish. Price is trading well above the 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day moving averages, with all three averages sloping upward and maintaining a healthy bullish alignment. The 50-day moving average near $48 has acted as dynamic support throughout the advance, while the 100-day average around $41 highlights how extended the current rally has become. Related Reading: Chainlink Sends A Rare Signal As 66% Of Exchange Supply Sits On Binance The recent breakout above the previous resistance zone around $60-$65 triggered an expansion in both price and volume, confirming strong demand behind the move. Although HYPE is now experiencing some profit-taking near all-time highs, buyers have so far defended the critical $70 level. Holding above that area would keep the breakout intact and reinforce the possibility of further price discovery. Volume has increased noticeably during the latest leg higher, a constructive signal suggesting institutional and whale participation rather than purely speculative retail buying. As long as HYPE remains above $65-$70, the trend favors the bulls. A decisive break below that zone would likely trigger a deeper correction toward the rising 50-day moving average, but the broader structure remains one of the strongest in the market. Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com 

Investors who stay patient through the current pullback could be among the biggest winners when market sentiment eventually turns — at least according to one analyst who has been tracking XRP closely through this period of weakness. Related Reading: XRP Is The Clear Winner For Transactions, According To Peter Brandt A Floor That Holds XRP is not expected to collapse below $1, based on the analyst’s reading of current market conditions. The token has been trading near the bottom of its recent range, weighed down by a broader crypto selloff that has pushed Bitcoin below key support levels and rattled confidence across the market. The analyst, speaking in a video report, pointed to the $1.20 area as a likely floor before any meaningful recovery begins. That level, in his view, represents the kind of final washout that has historically preceded major rallies — a pattern he says is playing out again now. Geopolitics Behind The Pressure Much of the near-term risk, according to the analyst, comes not from crypto fundamentals but from the Middle East. Escalating tensions in the region have raised fears of a major crude oil supply disruption, with reports pointing to declining oil inventories, drawdowns in Japan’s strategic petroleum reserves, and renewed conflict between Iran and Israel. Idle vessels in the Gulf are reportedly dealing with operational issues that could slow energy transportation further. Even if a peace deal materializes, supply chains may take months to fully recover, the analyst warned. That overhang, he argues, keeps the door open for another round of selling across risk assets — crypto included. Stocks Are Flashing Yellow Traditional markets are not giving investors much comfort either. The US bond market has remained stuck in a prolonged drawdown, and while the S&P 500 has pushed to fresh highs, those gains are concentrated in a small number of companies. Market breadth is thin, and valuations are at historic extremes. The analyst’s advice: skip the overheated equity trade and pay attention to assets that have already gone through serious corrections. Related Reading: Ethereum Signals Strength As Citigroup Eyes $5.5 Trillion Tokenized Asset Boom A Bull Run Delayed, Not Denied XRP’s long-term case remains intact, the analyst said, with a major rally expected later in 2026. He plans to keep buying on weakness and views the current climate — heavy selling, widespread fear — as exactly the kind of setup that precedes outsized gains. Even large institutional buyers have been unable to stop prices from sliding, reports note. But the analyst sees that as a feature, not a flaw, in a market that tends to reward those who hold through the hard stretches. Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView

Ethereum’s funding rate climbed to its highest level since August 23, 2025 on May 31, even as the token slipped below the $2,000 mark. The move pointed to heavy long positioning, and that crowding showed up again on June 1 when about $84 million in long ETH bets were wiped out. Related Reading: Bitcoin Faces Prolonged Downtrend Through 2027, Analyst Warns Citigroup Sees Tokenization Breakout Citigroup’s new Tokenization 2030 report put the tokenized asset market at $17 billion today and projected a base-case value of $5.5 trillion by 2030. The bank also laid out a wider range, with a low case of $2.7 trillion and a high case of $8.2 trillion, depending on how fast adoption spreads. The forecast leans heavily on US Treasury bills and public equities. Citi said about 10% of the US Treasury bill market could be tokenized by 2030, while public stocks could make up another 3% of the total, with on-chain money and tokenized deposits helping settle those trades. Citi: Tokenized securities market could reach $5.5T by 2030 Citi said in its Tokenization 2030: Wall Street On-Chain report that the real-world asset tokenization market could grow from $17 billion today to $5.5 trillion by 2030, with estimates ranging from $2.7 trillion to $8.2… pic.twitter.com/OwwUCtPpFW — Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) June 1, 2026 Citi also said a shift by 10% of US retail investors to on-chain trading could create about $2.6 trillion in demand for tokenized public equities. The report framed the change as a gradual one, with legacy systems and blockchain-based rails likely to run side by side for a long stretch. Ethereum Still Sits In The Middle The report and the market reaction both placed Ethereum in the middle of the tokenization story. Reports have it that Wall Street firms are already using Ethereum for tokenization, citing BlackRock’s BUIDL fund and the firm’s plan to tokenize money market funds on the blockchain using Ethereum. Even so, the price action has stayed weak. Ethereum was trading around $1,985 when the piece was published, after a drop of 0.85% on the day, and the token had already fallen below the psychological $2,000 level. Related Reading: Bitcoin Could Enter Freefall If This Level Cracks: Analyst The report also pointed to a support band between $1,980 and $1,990, which had formed a demand zone on May 29. A bounce from that area, it said, could push ETH back above $2,000 and later toward $2,220. Price Still Has Work To Do Technical pressure was still hanging over the chart. ETH formed a double-top pattern on April 17 and May 6, then broke below the neckline and fell toward the $2,000 area after a second drop of about 9% from the $2,460 peak. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

Peter Brandt, a trader long known for his blunt view of crypto, said many digital assets will end up as junk even as he singled out XRP as the strongest candidate for transactional use. The comment came during a Crypto Banter interview with Ran Neuner and drew quick notice after Neuner said he did not expect that answer. Related Reading: Bitcoin Bottom Not In Yet? Analyst Sees Higher Odds Of Drop Below $61K A Hard Turn In A Familiar Debate Brandt said XRP would be his top choice if the question was which coin had the best shot at becoming a working payment network. He also put Solana and Ethereum in the same group, but the XRP pick stood out because he has spent years taking shots at the token and at its supporters. His comments carried a split message. On one hand, he gave XRP credit for possible real-world transaction use; on the other, he said most cryptocurrencies will not survive in any meaningful way. That mix of praise and warning is part of what made the interview spread so quickly. Did He Say $XRP? Even @cryptomanran was surprised by this one.@PeterLBrandt revealed what he thinks is the best bet in crypto right now… And it wasn’t the answer most people expected. pic.twitter.com/Aby4nWwbNn — Crypto Banter Clips (@Banter_Clips) May 30, 2026 Reaction Spread Fast The clip moved fast through crypto social media after Crypto Banter Clips shared it on X with a line asking whether Brandt had really said XRP. Neuner also made clear he was surprised, saying he never expected Brandt to speak well of XRP in that setting. Related Reading: Bitcoin Faces Prolonged Downtrend Through 2027, Analyst Warns Old Criticism Still Lingers That surprise made sense given Brandt’s recent track record. In December 2025, he said XRP traders were among the easiest crowds to bait, and he later called XRP and silver fans some of the most stubborn bulls he had seen in five decades of trading. Still, his view of the asset has not been one-sided. In October 2025, he posted an XRP chart and called it a very clean long-term setup, and in April 2026 he even asked followers where they thought XRP could find support during the bear market. For XRP holders, the latest remarks landed as another sign that Brandt sees at least one use case where the token belongs near the front of the pack. For Brandt, though, the point was narrower: XRP may fit the payments race better than most of the field, but that does not mean he trusts the rest of crypto to survive it. Featured image from Real Vision, chart from TradingView

A major traditional finance infrastructure provider has set its sights on the Stellar blockchain, and market watchers say the timing could not be more significant. The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, better known as the DTCC, announced plans to connect its tokenization platform to the Stellar network as part of a broader multi-chain strategy. The move is aimed at supporting tokenized representations of assets held within the traditional financial system. Related Reading: Bitcoin Faces Prolonged Downtrend Through 2027, Analyst Warns A Bounce Off Long-Term Support The announcement triggered one of XLM’s strongest price advances in months. That rally formed the monthly candle now visible at what analyst MikybullCrypto labels point E on a long-term chart structure he has been tracking across several market cycles. The chart maps a series of repeating highs and lows on the monthly timeframe dating back to 2017. Points B and D mark previous peaks near a horizontal resistance zone, while points A and C identify major lows along an ascending support trendline that has guided price action for years. $XLM is about to experience a mega breakout in history The upcoming altcoins season will be huge ???? The bull target price ranges between $5-$11 pic.twitter.com/v16PTNPZrJ — MikybullCrypto (@MikybullCrypto) May 31, 2026 Point E marks the latest successful test of that same support line. XLM has bounced from the trendline once again, staying within the broader structure that has defined its behavior across multiple cycles. The Setup Behind The Call MikybullCrypto, a widely followed crypto analyst, says the current positioning mirrors conditions that preceded strong rallies in the past. He is calling for a bull market target range of $5 to $11 for XLM, projecting that the upcoming altcoin season will be significant. The analyst expects a breakout above the long-standing resistance zone to serve as the next major technical milestone. A move above that level, according to his chart, would put XLM on a path toward substantially higher ground. What The Pattern Suggests The structure MikybullCrypto references has repeated itself across different market environments over roughly nine years. Each time XLM has tested the rising support line, a recovery followed — though the magnitude has varied. Bullish sentiment around XLM has been building in recent weeks. Reports indicate that separate analysts have pointed to the DTCC integration alongside the technical setup as factors strengthening the case for a larger move ahead. Related Reading: Could XRP Hit $10 This Bull Run? World’s Highest IQ Holder Thinks So XLM’s global search interest has also climbed to its highest level in three months, according to reports, suggesting growing retail attention toward the asset at the same time institutional blockchain activity is picking up. Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView

HYPE has been setting new all-time highs above $70 as the market faces selling pressure and uncertainty that has weighed on most assets across the crypto ecosystem. The divergence between HYPE’s performance and the broader market weakness has been one of the defining stories of recent weeks — and data from Lookonchain has surfaced a specific trade that captures the magnitude of what has been building in this asset over the past six months. Related Reading: Ethereum Flashes A Rare Signal As Open Interest Reaches Highest Level Since 2019 Six months ago, a trader identified as wallet 0x082e opened a 5x leveraged long position on 1.38 million HYPE tokens with a notional value of approximately $99.77 million. The position has remained open through every market fluctuation, every broader crypto selloff, and every moment of uncertainty that has tested conviction across the ecosystem since it was initiated. HYPE Whale activity | Source: Hypurrscan Today, that position is sitting on over $46 million in unrealized profit. The trade is significant beyond its financial scale. A 5x leveraged long held for six months through a period that included significant market volatility, multiple macro headwinds, and sustained selling pressure across the broader altcoin sector describes a level of conviction that goes well beyond routine speculation. The trader did not reduce the position when the market turned difficult. They held — and the HYPE all-time high above $70 is the price expression of what that patience has produced. Down $25 Million and Still Holding The path to $46 million in unrealized profit was not linear — and the Hypurrscan data reveals the full arc of a position that required the kind of conviction most participants cannot sustain when the market tests it at scale. At its worst point, the 0x082e position was down over $25 million in unrealized losses. A 5x leveraged long sitting $25 million underwater is not a theoretical exercise in portfolio management. It is the kind of drawdown that forces the majority of traders — regardless of their original thesis — to reduce exposure, cut losses, or abandon the position entirely before the liquidation engine makes the decision for them. The wallet held. Related Reading: Uniswap Price Slides As Binance Absorbs Millions Of Tokens – Traders Are Watching Through the drawdown, through the uncertainty, through whatever broader market conditions were generating $25 million in paper losses on a single leveraged position, 0x082e maintained the full exposure. The thesis did not change because the price did. The position did not shrink because the losses were uncomfortable. What followed is now documented in the all-time high prints above $70. HYPE’s continued advance did not simply recover the $25 million drawdown — it converted it into a $46 million gain on the other side. The distance between those two numbers is $71 million in position value swing generated by a single decision: to hold when every rational short-term signal was pointing toward the exit. HYPE Momentum Remains Strong As New Highs Continue HYPE continues to be one of the strongest assets in the crypto market, extending its rally to fresh all-time highs above $72 while most major cryptocurrencies remain under pressure. The chart shows a remarkably clean bullish structure that has been developing since the January bottom near $21, with price appreciating more than 240% in less than five months. HYPE continues pushing above ATH | Source: HYPEUSDT chart on TradingView The recent breakout above the previous resistance zone around $60–$65 is particularly important from a technical perspective. After several weeks of consolidation beneath that area, buyers absorbed available supply and triggered an impulsive expansion higher. Volume increased significantly during the breakout, confirming genuine participation rather than a low-liquidity move. Related Reading: XRP Sends A Rare Signal As Whale-Retail Dynamics Are Shifting – Traders Are Watching Trend structure remains exceptionally constructive. HYPE is trading well above its 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day moving averages, with all three averages aligned in a bullish configuration. The widening distance between price and the longer-term moving averages reflects the strength of the current trend but also highlights how extended the asset has become in the short term. The $70 level now becomes the first major support zone to monitor. Holding above this area would confirm the breakout and potentially create a platform for further upside exploration. On the downside, a deeper correction could target the former breakout region between $60 and $65, which should now act as support. Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com 

Burning the remaining escrow is an option Ripple has not ruled out, though its own chief architect has questioned whether doing so would actually move the price. David Schwartz pointed to a 2019 decision by the Stellar Development Foundation, which destroyed 55 billion XLM — half of its total supply — without triggering any noticeable price movement. Related Reading: Could XRP Hit $10 This Bull Run? World’s Highest IQ Holder Thinks So A Complicated Question On Burning Schwartz said Ripple could unilaterally ensure the locked tokens never enter circulation, and he added the company could replicate the effect of selling escrow by transferring control of the account that the escrow completes into. CEO Brad Garlinghouse, for his part, said he does not rule anything out when asked about permanently destroying the reserves. The comments come as Ripple completed its latest scheduled monthly escrow release, unlocking 1 billion XRP across three separate transactions worth more than $1.33 billion, according to on-chain tracker Whale Alert. ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? 100,000,000 $XRP (133,215,296 USD) unlocked at #Ripplehttps://t.co/Sh73Tf22at — Whale Alert (@whale_alert) June 1, 2026 The largest of the three moved 500 million XRP, valued at roughly $666 million. A second transaction transferred 400 million XRP at around $533 million, while a final transfer released 100 million XRP worth approximately $133 million. How Much Is Left Of the 100 billion XRP that will ever exist, about 61.85 billion are currently in circulation, based on Binance market data from early June 2026. That leaves Ripple holding roughly 38.15 billion XRP still locked in escrow. The monthly billion-XRP unlock does not mean a billion tokens flood the open market each time. Ripple re-escrows a large portion of what it unlocks, keeping only a fraction for its own use. Each returned batch effectively adds another month to the back end of the escrow schedule. Related Reading: Bitcoin Faces Prolonged Downtrend Through 2027, Analyst Warns When Escrow Ends Schwartz has also said the company voluntarily returns whatever XRP it expects it will not need, want, or use back into the system. That practice makes it hard to pin down exactly when the escrow will be emptied. The XRP Ledger caps total supply at exactly 100 billion tokens, a fixed ceiling that cannot be changed. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

XRP investment products pulled in close to $12 million in a single day on May 29, pushing total net inflows to roughly $1.42 billion — the token’s strongest ETF month of 2026 so far. Yet despite that institutional interest, XRP is still trading near $1.34, far below where some of its loudest supporters say it should be. Related Reading: Unknown Wallet Destroys $8.5 Million In Bitcoin In Shocking Burn A Fresh Target From A Familiar Voice YoungHoon Kim, who claims the title of world’s highest-IQ holder, posted a pointed statement on X this week: XRP will reach between $5 and $10 this cycle. A day earlier, he had teased that the token was about to explode — and the price target followed shortly after, drawing immediate attention across crypto social media. MY ANALYSIS IS FINAL: XRP WILL REACH BETWEEN $5 AND $10 THIS CYCLE. https://t.co/nFvSGhGp2W pic.twitter.com/HHg93FvHdV — YoungHoon Kim (@yhbryankimiq) May 29, 2026 The math behind those numbers is steep. Reaching $5 would require XRP to climb nearly 2.7 times from its current price. A run to $10 would mean a gain of over 600% from where the token sits today. A Credibility Debate Breaks Out Not everyone welcomed the forecast. Several traders on X pushed back, pointing to prior XRP calls by Kim that never panned out. Others went further, questioning whether his claim of holding the world’s highest IQ record is even legitimate. The skepticism is not without context. XRP hit an all-time high of $3.66 in July 2025 and has since fallen about 67% from that peak. Getting to $10 would mean eclipsing that record by nearly three times — a tall order under any market conditions. Related Reading: Bitcoin Faces Prolonged Downtrend Through 2027, Analyst Warns What The Data Actually Shows Reports indicate that institutional money has been moving steadily into XRP-backed products this year. The $1.42 billion in cumulative ETF inflows signals growing interest from larger investors, even as the spot price has failed to reflect that momentum. Regulatory clarity and sustained ETF demand are widely seen as the conditions most likely to drive any major price move. For now, XRP continues to trade sideways near $1.34, and whether it can push toward Kim’s target will depend far more on those fundamentals than on social media posts. Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView

The Dogecoin (DOGE) price has continued to trend downwards, fueled by general weakness in the meme coin market and a lack of sustainable bullish catalysts. Due to its poor performance, market sentiment has been in the dumps for months. However, a crypto analyst has noted that this period of prolonged consolidation and negativity occurs before every major expansion phase. He points to a chart, noting that Dogecoin’s price structure still looks dangerous, as he expects the meme coin to stage a potential rally that could catch many investors off guard.  Related Reading: Bitcoin Could Enter Freefall If This Level Cracks: Analyst Dogecoin Chart Mirrors Past Expansion Cycles  Market analyst Cryptollica is warning investors and traders not to sleep on Dogecoin after identifying a recurring cycle pattern that has preceded every major DOGE bull rally since 2021.  In an X post on May 27, the crypto expert said that Dogecoin’s current market structure is too dangerous to ignore. He explained that the reason is not because Dogecoin is a meme coin, but due to its habit of respecting and following the same cycle structure before delivering a massive price surge when the market least expects it.  The analyst pointed to his accompanying chart, noting that every price expansion since 2021 began after the market abandoned Dogecoin and stopped taking interest in it. Cryptollica noted that while “the crowd laughed,” DOGE was rebuilding its underlying structure quietly before exploding higher. Looking at the chart, Cryptollica shows Dogecoin trading near the lower boundary of a multi-year descending channel, a level that has historically acted as a launchpad for significant price expansions. The analysis reveals that every meaningful low within that structure was accompanied by the same market conditions currently present today. This includes public disinterest, negative sentiment, and the meme coin’s price sitting at or near the channel’s lower boundary.    After bottoming around $0.04 in mid-2022 and again at $0.05 in early 2023, Dogecoin staged back-to-back recoveries that brought its price to $0.22 and eventually $0.49 by mid-2024. Each of these explosive price rallies began after the asset was widely dismissed. Fast forward to today, Cryptollica has stated that Dogecoin is showing similar vertical-rally signals, with multiple bullish metrics aligning while market sentiment remains dead.  Chart Metrics Reinforce DOGE’s Underlying Bullishness In his X post, Cryptollica noted that Dogecoin’s Crypto Cycle Score, highlighted at the bottom of the chart, is reading 19.9. This suggests that the meme coin may be in a rebuilding phase even with no hype or bullish confirmation in sight. Related Reading: Unknown Wallet Destroys $8.5 Million In Bitcoin In Shocking Burn The chart shows that Dogecoin’s Mayer Multiple is sitting at 0.64, placing it well below its long-term moving average. The meme coin also has an attention score of 10.1, further confirming that public interest is dead. Meanwhile, the Bollinger Band Width is reading 138 and signaling compressed volatility and weak price action.  Cryptollica argues that all of these metrics combined with negative market psychology suggest that Dogecoin could be gearing up for an explosive price rally. He noted that this surge will likely fool many people, just as it did in past trends.   Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

HYPE has pulled back below $60 as the broader market faces selling pressure that has touched even the strongest performers of recent weeks. The retreat from all-time highs is real — but data from Arkham Intelligence has revealed a transaction that puts the current price weakness in a context that changes how it should be read. Related Reading: Bitcoin Sends An Unusual Signal After Miner Inflows Top 20,000 BTC – Analyst Explains The Setup The wallet linked to Andreessen Horowitz — the Silicon Valley venture capital firm universally known as a16z, whose dedicated crypto fund has been one of the most influential institutional forces in digital assets since its launch and has backed foundational projects including Coinbase, Uniswap, and Solana — has purchased another 253,947 HYPE tokens worth approximately $15.03 million over the past several hours. a16z-linked wallet buying HYPE | Source: Arkham The timing is the detail that matters most. A16z is not buying HYPE at its all-time high in a moment of market euphoria. It is buying HYPE as the price pulls back below $60 under market-wide selling pressure — deploying $15 million at precisely the moment most participants are reducing risk rather than adding to it. That behavior is not reactive. It is the expression of a thesis that does not change based on short-term price movements. For HYPE below $60, the a16z purchase does not simply represent another transaction in an ongoing accumulation strategy. It represents one of the most sophisticated institutional investors in crypto, declaring that the current price level is not a reason to pause — it is a reason to add. a16z Has Been Right Before the Market Knew It The cumulative picture that the latest purchase completes is the one that defines the entire a16z HYPE strategy. Since April 14, the linked wallet has accumulated 3.55 million HYPE tokens at a total cost of approximately $170.7 million, with an average entry price of $48 per token. HYPE trading below $60 today means the position is currently sitting on meaningful unrealized gains, but the average entry tells the more important story: the accumulation began and continued through periods when the current price levels were not yet visible. The persistence through bearish price action is the behavioral signal that carries the most analytical weight. A16z did not build this position during a single euphoric session or chase HYPE after the all-time high breakout attracted mainstream attention. The accumulation occurred across multiple weeks, through market uncertainty, through broader crypto selling pressure, and through the specific pullbacks that deterred less conviction-driven participants from adding exposure. Related Reading: The HYPE ETF Outpaced Every Crypto ETF Debut on Record – Institutions Rush Exposure That sustained buying through weakness — $170 million deployed at an average of $48 while the broader market was struggling — describes an institutional thesis that has been tested repeatedly by adverse conditions and has not wavered. Each purchase below the average strengthened the position. Each purchase above it confirmed the direction. For HYPE pulling back below $60 under current selling pressure, the a16z behavior provides the clearest available signal of how the most informed institutional participant in the asset views the current price level. They have spent $170 million establishing their view. The latest $15 million purchase is not a new thesis. It is the same thesis, expressed again, at a price the market is offering as a discount. HYPE Pulls Back Below $60 After Explosive Rally HYPE is undergoing its first meaningful pullback after one of the strongest rallies in the crypto market this year pushed the asset above the $60 mark into new all-time highs. Despite the recent decline, the daily chart still reflects one of the strongest bullish structures across major altcoins, with price continuing to trade well above all key moving averages. HYPE consolidates below $60 mark | Source: HYPEUSDT chart on TradingView The rejection near the $63–$65 region appears driven more by short-term profit taking than by a structural trend reversal. After accelerating vertically throughout May, HYPE became increasingly extended from its short-term moving averages, creating conditions where a cooling-off phase was likely. The current retracement toward the $56–$57 area is now testing the first important support zone following the breakout. Related Reading: Ethereum Staking Record Meets On-Chain Collapse: Analyst Explains What’s Holding ETH Price Technically, the broader trend remains firmly bullish. The 50-day moving average continues rising aggressively beneath price action, while the 100-day and 200-day moving averages are also trending upward after the major recovery that began earlier this year. Volume expanded sharply during the breakout phase, confirming strong market participation behind the move. What makes the current structure notable is how shallow the pullback remains relative to the magnitude of the rally. HYPE has corrected only modestly despite broader market weakness affecting Bitcoin and Ethereum, suggesting buyers continue absorbing supply aggressively during dips. As long as HYPE holds above the $52–$54 region, the broader breakout structure remains intact, with bulls maintaining control of momentum despite the recent volatility. Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com 

XRP could fall another 59% to 62% against Bitcoin before finding solid ground, according to technical analysis shared by chart analyst Chart Nerd. That target sits in the 0.0000071 to 0.0000065 range on the XRP/BTC pair, a level that has historically drawn buyers back into the market. Related Reading: Crypto Market Sees $1.46B Fund Exodus As Traders Turn Cautious A Pattern Of Lower Highs The XRP/BTC pair has been printing lower highs since 2017 — nearly a decade of consistent underperformance against Bitcoin. Each recovery attempt has fallen short of the previous one, with peak readings near 0.000097 in January 2019 giving way to 0.0000426 in November 2020, then 0.0000390 in May 2021, followed by 0.0000297 in July 2023, and most recently 0.0000257 in January 2026 — all stopped out beneath a long-running descending resistance line. I’m sorry to break this to my $XRP community. i’m just tired of the constant hopium: we have been underperforming #Bitcoin since 2017, with NO signs of any major rotation. In fact, over the last 3 months, BTC has climbed 60K-80K while $XRP/BTC has lost its 20 MEMA. Back to green. https://t.co/24IB42ZWsW pic.twitter.com/CeJibNhoMx — ???????? ChartNerd ???? (@ChartNerdTA) May 25, 2026 Despite the consistent pattern, XRP has not been completely left behind in dollar terms. Reports indicate the token climbed 37% from its February low of $1.12 to a May high of $1.54, a recovery that looks respectable on its own. But measured against Bitcoin, that move failed to hold above the 20-month exponential moving average, a sign analysts read as weakness. Capital Staying In Bitcoin Bitcoin gained 38% over the past three months, rising from a yearly low of $60,000 to $82,800. XRP did not keep pace on the BTC trading pair, and Chart Nerd says that tells a bigger story about where money is flowing. When major tokens like XRP trail Bitcoin during a rally, it typically signals that investors are staying put in Bitcoin rather than rotating into altcoins. Capital either holds in BTC or exits the sector altogether, based on Chart Nerd’s analysis. One area of relative strength remains. The XRP/BTC pair has approached what Chart Nerd labels a historical outperformance zone on multiple occasions, and buyers have consistently stepped in near those levels each time. Related Reading: When Bitcoin Gets Ignored, It Tends To Rally The Hardest, Analyst Says Weak Structure, Longer-Term Hope Chart Nerd’s outlook is not entirely negative on XRP. Higher prices are still expected for the token over the long run, though the analyst sees it continuing to lag Bitcoin through most of 2026. Other analysts share a cautious view. Top chartist Ali Martinez has flagged a possible drop to the $0.73 region for XRP if selling pressure continues to build. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

HYPE has pushed above $60 to set a new all-time high, creating a bullish environment that stands in sharp contrast to the broader market struggling with selling pressure and uncertainty. The breakout is significant on its own — but data from Kairos Research has revealed a development in the ETF market that places the current momentum in a historical context that amplifies the significance of the price action considerably. Related Reading: Ethereum Staking Record Meets On-Chain Collapse: Analyst Explains What’s Holding ETH Price The spot HYPE ETF has absorbed 1.04% of HYPE’s total market capitalization within its first ten trading days of existence. That figure requires a comparison to feel as significant as it is. HYPE’s ETF has outpaced every spot crypto ETF launch on record — including the Bitcoin ETF that became one of the most successful financial product launches in Wall Street history. The data is measured on a new-issuer cohort basis, stripping out the legacy trust conversions of GBTC and ETHE that inflated early flow figures for those products. The comparison is clean, the methodology is honest, and the conclusion is unambiguous: no spot crypto ETF has ever attracted institutional capital at the pace that HYPE has generated in its first ten trading days. The all-time high above $60 is the price expression of that demand. The ETF data is the institutional infrastructure confirming it. The Strongest Crypto ETF Debut in History The Kairos Research comparison delivers the findings in four numbers that require no additional interpretation. HYPE absorbed 1.04% of its market cap in ten trading days. Bitcoin absorbed 0.59%. Ethereum absorbed 0.41%. Solana absorbed 0.31%. Every previous spot crypto ETF launch — including the Bitcoin product that drew billions from BlackRock, Fidelity, and the largest asset managers on Wall Street — was outpaced by HYPE in the same debut window. Spot Crypto ETF Inflows as % of Market Cap | Source: Kairos Research The significance extends well beyond a statistical record. ETF absorption rate as a percentage of market cap measures institutional appetite relative to the asset’s existing size — it normalizes for the enormous difference in market capitalization between Bitcoin and HYPE and asks a more precise question: how urgently did institutions want access to this asset the moment a regulated vehicle became available? The answer HYPE produced is the most urgent on record. It suggests that a meaningful cohort of institutional participants had been waiting specifically for a compliant, brokerage-accessible vehicle rather than simply being indifferent to the asset. The demand was present before the product. The ETF provided the pathway. For the broader institutionalization of crypto markets, the HYPE ETF debut is a data point that changes the narrative. Bitcoin and Ethereum established that institutional demand for crypto ETFs was real. HYPE’s debut suggests that institutional interest is now extending beyond the two legacy assets. Regulated capital is willing to allocate to newer, utility-driven protocols when the infrastructure exists. That expansion of institutional appetite beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum is the development that the 1.04% figure actually represents. Related Reading: Bitcoin Spot Volume Collapses 81% Since October 10: History Points To A Rare Setup HYPE Enters Price Discovery As Momentum Accelerates HYPE continues extending its breakout after pushing into new all-time highs above the $60 level, with the daily chart showing one of the strongest momentum structures currently visible across the crypto market. Price has surged aggressively from the April consolidation zone near $35, nearly doubling in value within weeks while most major altcoins continue struggling below key resistance levels. HYPE consolidates above ATH | Source: HYPEUSDT chart on TradingView Technically, the structure remains decisively bullish. HYPE is trading well above all major moving averages, with the 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day averages aligned in a strong upward trend beneath price. That alignment reflects sustained momentum rather than a short-lived speculative spike. The recent breakout above the previous resistance cluster near $52 triggered a sharp expansion in both price and volume, confirming aggressive market participation behind the move. Related Reading: The Institutional Bitcoin Exit Is Real: Analyst Exposes Who’s On The Wrong Side Of The Trade The chart also highlights how each corrective phase since March has produced higher lows, reinforcing the broader bullish trend structure. Buyers have consistently defended pullbacks before new momentum legs emerged, a behavior typical of assets undergoing strong institutional and speculative accumulation simultaneously. Volume surged significantly during the latest breakout phase, signaling renewed demand entering precisely as HYPE moved into price discovery territory with limited historical resistance overhead. As long as price holds above the previous breakout region near $52–$55, momentum remains firmly in control of bulls. However, the speed of the rally also increases the probability of short-term volatility spikes and aggressive profit-taking moves along the way. Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com 

Render has surged back to a 4-month high as demand for AI infrastructure has grown and the network’s on-chain activity has exploded. Render Has Gone Up By More Than 30% Over The Past Week While the rest of the cryptocurrency sector has found itself stuck in consolidation during the past week, Render is among the few tokens that have witnessed a breakout inside the window. Related Reading: Dogecoin Must Hold This Level To Avoid Drop To $0.088, Analyst Says Below is a chart that shows how the altcoin’s recent performance has looked. As is visible in the graph, RENDER was trading around $1.80 last Tuesday, but since then, it has shot up to $2.35. This represents an increase of more than 30% over the last seven days. The current value of the asset is the highest that it has been since January. Now, what’s behind the run? There could be a multitude of factors involved here. To begin with, Render is unlike many other cryptocurrencies in that its network acts as a marketplace for a real-world commodity: GPU computing power. This decentralized platform connects users looking for GPU rendering capabilities with those willing to rent out their hardware. As the AI sector has enjoyed growth recently, demand for GPUs has exploded. This has naturally had a knock-on effect on platforms like RENDER and could explain some of the momentum seen by the network’s native token this year. The momentum has been accompanied by an uptick in the blockchain’s activity-related metrics, according to data from on-chain analytics firm Santiment. RENDER Has Seen A Surge In Daily Active Addresses & Network Growth As pointed out by Santiment in an X post, Render has observed a notable jump in the Daily Active Addresses and Network Growth recently. The first metric, the Daily Active Addresses, tracks the total number of addresses making at least one transaction on the blockchain every day. This indicator naturally provides an estimate for the daily user participation on the network. Meanwhile, the other indicator, the Network Growth, measures the activity specifically coming from the newly-generated wallets. That is, it tells us about the adoption that the chain is receiving. Now, here is the chart shared by the analytics firm that shows how these two indicators have changed for RENDER over the past month: From the graph, it’s apparent that the altcoin has observed a rise in both the Network Growth and Daily Active Addresses as its recent price rally has played out. This means that the run has been accompanied by both user adoption and activity. Related Reading: Bitcoin Sell Pressure Rising? Binance Inflows Hit 10-Day Streak Currently, there are 394 active addresses and 118 new wallets on the network, both of which are the highest daily levels since March. Featured image from Dall-E, chart from TradingView.com

Whale traders have taken their most aggressive net-long positions in eight months on Hyperliquid’s HYPE token, even as retail participants sit at a 12-month bearish extreme — a gap that data suggests typically resolves in favor of the larger players. Related Reading: When Bitcoin Gets Ignored, It Tends To Rally The Hardest, Analyst Says Retail Traders Stand Back As Big Money Moves In Data from Alphractal shows that since early May, large traders have been quietly building leveraged long positions while retail participants turned bearish and began short selling into the rising trend. That kind of split has historically triggered a wave of short covering by retail traders, pushing prices higher. HYPE was trading at $62.05 at the time of reporting, with a 24-hour trading volume of $830 million and a market cap of over $15 billion. The token slipped 2% over the past day, but its technical picture has stayed firmly bullish. Prices are tracking well above the 20-day simple moving average of $47.97 and have broken above the upper Bollinger Band, which analysts say signals strong momentum but also short-term overextension. #HYPE Tarihi direnç olan, grafikte belirttiğim Çanak direnci üzeri gün kapanışı yapmayı başardı. 59.54$ direnci üzerinde tutunduğu sürece grafikte belirtiğim çanak hedefi olan 170$ seviyelerini hedefleyecektir. Grafiği cidden güzel. Yakın takibinizde olsun. https://t.co/k3F6qaxRh6 pic.twitter.com/DiacAmgSN2 — Bitcoin Meraklısı (@Bitcoinmeraklsi) May 25, 2026 The Line To Watch Crypto analyst Bitcoin Meraklisi flagged a key development: HYPE closed a daily candle above $59.54, a level that had acted as stubborn resistance for months. Based on the structure of what analysts describe as a cup formation, that breakout opens a measured technical path toward $170 — a level that would represent roughly a 175% move from current prices. The $59.54 zone is now viewed as critical support. If the price holds above it, traders say the bullish case stays intact. A failure to hold could put the breakout in doubt. NEW: @Grayscale submits another Hyperliquid ETF filing! This one is amendment #3. Ticker will be $GHYP when it launches. Have to assume we are getting closer to a launch where we’ll have three hyperliquid:native ETFs on U.S. exchanges pic.twitter.com/lvrR3qbxM6 — James Seyffart (@JSeyff) May 22, 2026 The broader rally started taking shape in mid-May, following a period of consolidation through April. Prices have climbed sharply since then, and the MACD indicator has been trending upward in positive territory, with growing green histogram bars backing up the move. Related Reading: History Shows Bitcoin ETF Outflows Favor Accumulation, Says Santiment MACD Trend Aligns With Broader Market Push The Bollinger Bands have widened significantly, pointing to elevated volatility. TradingView data shows the price has risen sharply from lows seen in early February to its current range. In a separate but related development, Grayscale has filed a third amendment with the SEC related to a potential Hyperliquid ETF, while payments firm MoonPay has launched access to USDH and USDC through the Hypercore network — moves that reflect growing institutional interest around the Hyperliquid ecosystem. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

Crypto analyst Crypto Patel has outlined a roadmap for a Litecoin rally to $1,000. He noted that LTC is currently in a multi-year accumulation phase, which is why he remains bullish despite the altcoin being down over 80% from its all-time high.  The Roadmap For A Potential Litecoin Rally To $1,000 In an X post, Crypto Patel divided the roadmap for a Litecoin rally to $1,000 into three phases. Under the first phase, he expects LTC to reclaim the $100 to $140 zone between now and next year. Under phase 2, he predicts the altcoin could rally to between $200 and $280, which could happen between post-halving and 2028.  Related Reading: Is Litecoin “Dead Money” Or Is It About To Do What Solana Did In 2024? Furthermore, Crypto Patel stated that Phase 3 will be the bull cycle peak, which could be between 2028 and 2029. This is when he expects LTC to sweep its current all-time high (ATH) and then see an extension to a blow-off top of between $500 to $700. The analyst added that a rally to $1,000 will require a multi-cycle thesis beyond 2030.  The analyst also gave his honest opinion on whether Litecoin could reach these targets. He stated that there is a 20% to 30% probability of LTC reaching $500, possibly in the next bull cycle peak. Crypto Patel also mentioned that the altcoin could hit $1,000 only in an extreme bull case with full institutional adoption, which he estimates has a 5% to 10% probability. He added that the most likely path is a rally to between $150 and $300 between now and 2028, with an extension to as high as $600 in peak euphoria.  Crypto Patel also warned that Litecoin is not a 100x rocket but a “slow, reliable cycle beta play” and that those who believe in it will need to hold for up to five years rather than just months. The analyst said he sees value in the $40 to $50 range for spot accumulation. He added that LTC is sitting in a deep, multi-year accumulation zone, where smart money quietly builds positions while retail investors forget the coin exists.  Why The Analyst Is Still Bullish On LTC Crypto Patel outlined reasons he remains bullish on Litecoin, including Canary Capital’s launch of an LTC ETF. He further alluded to the 2027 halving setup, noting that it could spark a textbook supply shock. The analyst is also bullish because of LTC’s mainstream adoption, MWEB privacy layer, and the narrative that the altcoin is the silver to Bitcoin’s gold.  Related Reading: Why Litecoin Price Going To $2,000 Is Not A Fantasy, But Market Cap Math Meanwhile, the analyst also outlined a bear case for Litecoin. He noted that a $500 price target for LTC implies a $42 billion market cap, while a $1,000 price target would imply an $84 billion market cap for the altcoin. He also noted that LTC never reclaimed its 2021 ATH while BTC, ETH, and SOL made new all-time highs. Crypto Patel remarked that this means the structural demand is not yet there at scale. He added that the LTC ETFs’ flows are weak while the Litecoin network doesn’t have smart contracts. Featured image from Adobe Stock, chart from Tradingview.com

XRP derivatives traders are leaning bullish. Open interest in XRP futures jumped more than 1% in 24 hours to $2.86 billion, with activity climbing on both CME and Binance, signaling that traders with real money on the line are betting on a move up. Related Reading: Bitcoin Bull Thesis Goes Big: 39 Trillion Reasons To Buy, Says Gemini Founder A Familiar Pattern In The Data On-chain analytics firm Santiment flagged a shift in crowd mood on May 26, pointing out that the bullish-to-bearish comment ratio on social media had slipped to 1.1:1. That places sentiment at its most fearful in three weeks, a level that has historically been followed by short-term price stabilization or a bounce. Santiment’s reasoning is straightforward: when fear peaks, weak hands have already exited, and whales or institutions tend to step in and absorb the sell pressure. XRP was trading at $1.33 at the time of reporting, up about 1% from a 24-hour low of $1.32. Volume climbed 5% over the same period, adding some weight to the uptick. ???? XRP’s crowd sentiment has swung sharply negative again, with the ratio of positive to negative commentary dropping to just 1.1 bullish comments for every 1 bearish comment. Historically, this kind of fear and skepticism has often acted as a contrarian signal for XRP’s price.… pic.twitter.com/KGubO783yE — Santiment Intelligence (@SantimentData) May 25, 2026 On the daily chart, the token is still below its 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day moving averages, and the Relative Strength Index is sitting near 41. A break above a multi-month trendline, reports indicate, could open the door toward $1.50. Ripple And Circle Rumors Swirl Much of the chatter swirling around XRP on Monday centered on a possible acquisition. Speculation spread that Ripple is preparing to buy stablecoin issuer Circle at a price tag of $11 billion. The rumor was traced back to a post by the XRP Ledger Foundation on X that simply read: “Tomorrow’s going to be a great day.” No executives from either company have addressed the speculation. ???? RUMOR ALERT ???? It is being reported that Ripple has acquired Circle, the issuer of the $61B stablecoin USDC. An official announcement is supposedly expected later today. If true, this would be one of the BIGGEST moves in crypto history. ???? pic.twitter.com/Lpr7o7eX4D — John Squire XRP ???????? (@TheCryptoSquire) May 25, 2026 This is not the first time such a rumor has surfaced. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse publicly denied a Bloomberg report last year that said Ripple had pursued Circle at a valuation of $4 to $5 billion. Circle, for its part, said it was not for sale and was focused on its IPO. Reports suggest the XRP Ledger Foundation’s post was more likely connected to a major XRPL mainnet upgrade scheduled for May 27. Related Reading: When Bitcoin Gets Ignored, It Tends To Rally The Hardest, Analyst Says Chris Larsen’s Wallets Draw Attention Adding another thread to the day’s activity, wallets linked to Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen were reported to have become active again, with the timing drawing attention ahead of US midterm elections. No further details about the transactions were immediately available. Santiment noted that the opposite dynamic tends to play out during periods of heavy optimism, when the bullish-to-bearish ratio climbs into what it calls the FOMO zone, whale activity tends to fade and prices often pull back. Featured image from Gemini, chart from TradingView

A new report from market expert Sam Daodu argues that several large-cap cryptocurrencies, including XRP, are still “undervalued” relative to the activity and infrastructure building underneath them.  In Daodu’s view, the altcoin market hasn’t fully recovered from the drawdown that pushed crypto into bear territory—an environment where most major tokens have fallen much harder than Bitcoin (BTC) and have struggled to regain momentum. The Ethereum Puzzle The expert starts with Ethereum (ETH), pointing out an interesting disconnect; the price is down, yet the network’s usage remains strong. Ethereum is trading about 57% below its August 2025 all-time high of $4,946. But he stresses that on-chain fundamentals don’t line up with that level of weakness.  Related Reading: XRP Channel Pattern Points To $5, Says Korean Analyst Ethereum, he says, holds roughly $43 billion in total value locked (TVL) across its decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols—more than any other blockchain—while also maintaining the largest pool of DeFi capital, the widest stablecoin base, and some of the deepest trading infrastructure in the ecosystem.  Daodu links part of that valuation gap to an upgrade schedule aimed at improving performance. He points to Glamsterdam, targeted for mid-2026, as a potential catalyst that could address the longstanding complaints that have kept ETH below current peaks despite record on-chain activity.  CLARITY Act Momentum For XRP XRP is another centerpiece of the report, and Daodu’s case is built on the idea that the ledger is seeing increased activity even as price consolidation continues. He says XRP has spent much of 2026 trading between $1.30 and $1.50, sitting around 62% below its July 2025 high of $3.65.  While that looks like a stagnant range on charts, Daodu argues the XRP Ledger has been “busier than ever.” He points to daily transactions hitting 3 million in March, driven by new trading pools, stablecoins, and real-world assets (RWAs) moving onto the chain. Then came a regulatory turning point. On May 14, the US Senate Banking Committee advanced the CLARITY Act in a 15-9 vote. He describes the bill as one that would permanently classify XRP as a commodity under federal law, with the next step being consideration on the Senate floor.  Daodu emphasizes that while the joint SEC-CFTC ruling already gave XRP commodity status at the agency level, an agency ruling can be reversed by a future administration—whereas legislation is harder to undo.  That difference, he says, is part of why institutions continue accumulating XRP even as the token’s price has struggled. He adds that Standard Chartered expects the bill could bring an estimated $4 billion to $8 billion into spot XRP ETFs and push the token to at least $8. Solana’s ‘Price Vs Fundamentals’ Case Solana’s section follows a similar price vs. fundamentals theme. Daodu says SOL peaked at $295 in January 2025, then slid nearly 70% to $85. Even with that pressure on the chart, he argues the network’s trajectory remains constructive.  He highlights the March 17, 2026 SEC-CFTC guidance that classified XRP and Ethereum as digital commodities, noting that the guidance also covered Solana and cleared the security label that had kept large funds cautious.  On top of that regulatory backdrop, Daodu points to developer growth and usage metrics. Solana reportedly added more than 11,500 new developers in the first nine months of 2025, second only to Ethereum.  Why Chainlink Looks Cheap Chainlink, Daodu suggests, may be undervalued precisely because it doesn’t always dominate mainstream retail conversations. He says LINK trades around $9.50, down 82% from its May 2021 all-time high of $52.99.  But he argues that Chainlink’s role in the market is far bigger than its spot price reaction. Daodu points to Chainlink’s price feeds and its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), describing how these tools underpin the real-world asset (RWA) economy.  Related Reading: The Bitcoin Billion-Dollar Dump: Here’s Why The BTC Price Keeps Crashing He also points to scale and volume. Daodu says Chainlink secures over $75 billion in total value across crypto, and that CCIP alone moves around $18 billion in transfer volume every month.  Analysts, he adds, project the oracle sector could grow tenfold by 2030, and that if the prediction holds, Chainlink would be positioned as the backbone of that expansion.  Featured image created with OpenArt; chart from TradingView.com