Bhutan has been mining Bitcoin with its mountain rivers for years. Nobody paid much attention. Now it is selling and the numbers are getting harder to ignore. The Royal Government of Bhutan moved nearly $37 million in Bitcoin today, according to Arkham Intelligence. Some of those funds landed at addresses linked to QCP Capital, a …
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XRP may be setting up for a large upside liquidation event even as price action remains fragile in the short term, according to Cryptoinsightuk analyst Will Taylor, who argued in a March 24 video that leverage positioning, funding data, and broader market structure still point to a higher move later in the cycle. Taylor’s core claim is not that XRP has bottomed cleanly or that downside risk has disappeared. It is that the balance of leverage, sentiment, and liquidity remains skewed in a way that could eventually force price higher, particularly if crypto gets a supportive macro or policy catalyst. Bullish XRP Liquidity Builds Above A large part of that thesis rests on liquidation maps. Looking at XRP, Taylor said there is “quite significant liquidity” below current levels in the near term, especially around $1.25 to $1.21. But he stressed that the more important picture appears on the higher-timeframe view, where the density of liquidation liquidity is far greater above the market than below it. Related Reading: XRP Price Will Not Move The Way People Think, Here’s A Better Pattern “Significant upside liquidity,” he said. “Again, look at the difference between the denseness of all this liquidity on the right compared to the left. Now, yes, there’s liquidity down towards a dollar, down towards 94 cent, but all the way up to and even including $3.59, there’s substantial liquidity for XRP.” He then put numbers on that imbalance. On the downside, Taylor pointed to roughly $20 million in short-term liquidity around $1.24. On the upside, he said the map shows around $300 million near $3.38 and another roughly $300 million near $3.60. That contrast, he argued, is one reason he continues to lean bullish despite the market’s weak tone. “It’s so much liquidity to the right-hand side,” Taylor said. “And I think that’s something people need to watch for here.” Taylor tied that setup to derivatives sentiment. He said XRP has already gone through eight consecutive weeks of negative aggregated funding, with the current week potentially becoming a ninth if it were to close negative. According to him, the only comparable stretch came at the 2022 bear-market low. Related Reading: Bitcoin, XRP Rallies Won’t Hold Until Oil Falls Toward $80, Expert Warns “We’ve had eight weeks of negative funding,” he said. “The only other time we’ve had that was here, which was the bottom of the bear market in 2022. So, I do think that people are underestimating sentimentally and structurally where we could be in crypto right now.” Still, Taylor did not present the case as a straight-line breakout. He repeatedly warned that XRP could continue compressing inside what he described as a descending wedge or bull-flag-type structure, and that a deeper flush remains possible before any larger move develops. “It doesn’t mean we have to go up here and break straight out to the upside,” he said. “This is also possible to happen… You could just chill and go down like that. But all this is compression of volatility. And when that compression of volatility gets realized, the moves more if we do that, if we go down to say like $1 by June, the move to the upside will be even more explosive than it would be if we move now.” He floated several possible catalysts, including progress on crypto legislation such as the Clarity Act, broader monetary easing from the Federal Reserve, or some other US policy move that could improve liquidity conditions. “I do think there’s going to be some sort of narrative that comes out that’s going to be quite positive for the markets,” he said. “I think the Clarity Act could be one of the things that we really start to lean on.” At press time, XRP traded at $1.42. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
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On Mar. 24, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) launched its Innovation Task Force, tasked with developing frameworks for crypto assets, blockchain technologies, AI systems, and prediction markets. Alongside everything else Washington has done in the past three months, it reads as the moment when a provisional, enforcement-heavy posture toward crypto began to harden into […]
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Leading European crypto broker Bitpanda has launched a new blockchain called Vision Chain. This is to help European banks and fintech companies issue and settle tokenized assets under EU regulations. The move shows how traditional finance is slowly moving toward blockchain infrastructure and tokenized financial markets. Bitpanda Vision Chain to Connect Banks and Blockchain Bitpanda …
The Ethereum Foundation has introduced a new platform, pq.ethereum.org, bringing all its post-quantum (PQ) research into one place. This marks a major step in preparing Ethereum for future risks from quantum computing. 8+ Years of Research Comes Together This effort didn’t start recently. It goes back to 2018, when early research began on new cryptographic …
Stellar (XLM) price is showing early signs of revival as on-chain activity and derivatives participation accelerate. The token has gained over 8% in the past 24 hours, trading near $0.718, as improving market sentiment supports selective strength in altcoins. While no single catalyst has emerged, rising social media attention around Stellar’s partnerships with MoneyGram and …
Hyperliquid price is starting to turn heads again. After a quiet consolidation phase, HYPE is showing strength at a time when most altcoins are still struggling to find direction. But this move isn’t just another bounce, it’s backed by something deeper. Fresh whale inflows, a clean structural breakout, and rising momentum are beginning to align. …
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Bitcoin traders are again staring at a chart structure that resembles the setup that preceded the market’s roughly 30% drop from late January into early February. But several order-flow analysts argue the comparison is incomplete, because the underlying spot-book picture looks materially stronger this time. Will The 30% Bitcoin Crash Repeat? That debate picked up on March 24 after analyst Exitpump (@exitpumpBTC) posted a chart comparing the current range with the earlier breakdown zone. The visual similarity is hard to miss: in both cases, BTC traded inside a defined consolidation before slipping into the lower end of the structure. In the earlier episode from January 29 to February 5, that pattern gave way to a sharp -30% move into the low-$60,000s. In the current one, Bitcoin was trading around the $70,000 area, with price again sitting near a vulnerable-looking part of the range. Exitpump’s core argument is that the resemblance in price structure masks a key difference in liquidity. “I see people are comparing current spot to previous range and what many are missing here is that now aggregated spot orderbooks have way more passive demand than they had in the previous range,” he wrote. “Dump to low $60Ks is okay, acceptable, but not expecting bigger downtrend while such passive demand stays.” Related Reading: Bitcoin Holds $70K – Is The High‑Beta Era Over? That distinction matters because the chart he shared suggests the market is not entering this setup with the same thin bid support seen before the earlier flush. In his framing, the prior range featured fewer resting bids and more overhead asks. The current range, by contrast, shows thicker spot-book demand and relatively lighter sell-side pressure, implying that even if BTC revisits the lows, the path to a deeper trend breakdown may be less straightforward. Exitpump also pushed back on the idea that this type of deeper spot-book liquidity is easily manipulated. After one user asked whether spoofing is common in aggregated order-book data, he replied: “deeper depth spot orderbooks don’t spoof, those bids sit there for weeks or even months.” That is a consequential point in the context of the trade. If the demand visible in the book is genuine and sticky rather than tactical and fleeting, then the market may have a stronger absorption layer beneath price than it did during the January-February slide. Related Reading: Bitcoin Miner Selling Pressure Drops To Near Three-Year Low Still, the short-term flow picture is not cleanly bullish. In a separate post, Exitpump said the order books had “flipped bearish,” adding that “yesterday was better, but looks like momentum to the upside is fading away.” He also flagged positioning risk, saying open interest RSI was near an extreme and that “chances of longs unwind has increased.” Other market watchers pointed to the same deterioration from different angles. Maartunn (@JA_Maartun) noted that the Coinbase Premium Gap had turned negative again, a sign that Coinbase spot demand was lagging. Zord’s (@ZordXBT) read was more explicitly cautious: “Funding stays positive + Volume is down + Coinbase in deep red territory. Not going to lie, price wise the chart looks like it wants to continue but orderflow wise, things are looking like distribution.” He then laid out what would need to improve to make the move more convincing. “Maybe some more volume + Coinbase in green would be good. Funding slightly down will be cherry on the cake.” At press time, BTC traded at $71,482. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
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