XRP is struggling at $1.35. The market is bracing for a volatile week. And quietly, the data on Binance is telling a story the price chart has not yet decided to believe. An Arab Chain report tracking supply dynamics on Binance has identified a reading that stands out against the current bearish backdrop: XRP’s scarcity indicator has reached 0.59 — its highest level since 2024. That number reflects something specific and consequential. The supply of XRP available for immediate sale on the platform is contracting, not expanding. Related Reading: An XRP Key Indicator Just Flipped Bullish — and Most Traders Are Not Watching It Coins are leaving exchanges. Investors are withdrawing to private wallets, locking positions for the long term, and removing liquidity from the market’s most accessible selling venue. The historical context sharpens the significance. This same indicator spent months in deeply negative territory — registering its worst readings during the periods of heaviest selling pressure and peak exchange inflows earlier in the cycle. The move into positive territory, and now toward a multi-year high, represents a behavioral reversal: the sellers who were flooding the market are stepping back, and the holders who are replacing them are not selling. XRP at $1.35 looks fragile. The scarcity data says the floor beneath it is quietly being reinforced. One of them will prove correct first. The Sellers Are Stepping Back. The Question Is Whether Buyers Are Ready to Step Forward Arab Chain’s behavioral read of the scarcity data is where the report becomes most consequential. A scarcity indicator climbing to its highest level since 2024 is not just a supply metric — it is a behavioral fingerprint. It reflects who is currently holding XRP and what they intend to do with it. The answer, according to the data, is that the short-term sellers who dominated earlier in the cycle are being replaced by a different category of participant entirely: long-term holders, accumulating quietly, withdrawing from exchanges, and removing their coins from the available sell-side pool. That shift has a name in market structure analysis. It is called an accumulation phase, and the scarcity index reaching a multi-year high is one of its clearest on-chain signatures. Short-term selling pressure is declining. Investor confidence, at least among those moving coins off exchanges, is increasing. The balance of the market is tilting toward buyers. The report is careful about what comes next. The accumulation thesis holds only if two conditions persist: overall market sentiment continues to improve, and exchange supply continues to contract. If both hold, the setup for a stronger price movement builds gradually but structurally. XRP at $1.35 is the price the market is offering. The scarcity data suggest fewer and fewer participants are willing to sell it there. Related Reading: Crypto Market Open Interest Hits $30 Billion, Highest Since January: Leverage Returns To The Market The XRP Chart Has Not Changed Its Mind. XRP is trading at $1.3510, up 1.75% on the day — a green candle that opened at $1.3279, reached $1.3669, and is holding modest gains into the afternoon session. On any other chart, a 1.75% daily gain would be unremarkable. On this one, it barely registers against the damage accumulated since July. The daily structure is unambiguous and has been for months. XRP peaked near $3.90 in late July 2025 and has traced a textbook descending staircase ever since — lower highs in August, October, January, and March, each rally sold into at a lower level than the one before. The February capitulation wick to $1.15, accompanied by the heaviest sell volume on the entire chart, established the floor the market is currently defending. That defense has held. It has not yet become a foundation. Related Reading: Unknown Wallet Buys $107 Million In Ethereum – Purchase Pattern Points To Bitmine All three moving averages confirm the structural damage. The 50-day MA has crossed below the 100-day MA — a death cross on the intermediate timeframe — and both are accelerating lower toward the $1.60–$1.80 region. The 200-day MA descends from approximately $2.10, so distant from the current price that reclaiming it is a medium-term ambition, not a near-term target. Today’s candle is constructive. The trend surrounding it is not. XRP needs a daily close above $1.45 to begin suggesting the post-capitulation range is building a base rather than forming a continuation pattern toward lower levels. Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com
Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm American Bitcoin now holds over 7,000 Bitcoin, worth over $467 million at press time (BTC price of $66,754). Following a prior accumulation of 416 BTC, the company is now the 16th-largest publicly traded Bitcoin Treasury in the world. The development also marks 186.53% growth in the company’s holdings, given that it …
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Ethereum is trading just above the important $2,000 psychological level, but the apparent stabilization may be deceptive. According to a technical analysis published on TradingView by crypto analyst RLinda, what looks like a recovery attempt is, in fact, a counter-trend correction, a bear market bounce that could be setting bulls up for a painful flush lower. Crypto Winter Tightens Its Grip RLinda’s analysis opens with a direct assessment of how the crypto winter is still in play and support might break down around $2,000. Technical analysis of the 2-hour timeframe chart shows that Ethereum has already printed a series of lower highs and lower lows following its rejection around $2,380 in mid-March. The most recent lower low saw the Ethereum price drop to the $1,960-$1,990 zone over the weekend, which confirms that sellers are still battling for control, forcing the market into what RLinda describes as a counter-trend correction. Related Reading: Ethereum Accumulation Map Reveals Price Roadmap To $20,000 This type of correction often creates the illusion of recovery. Price begins to grind upward or move sideways, but within the context of a broader bearish structure. The charts reflect this clearly, with Ethereum now attempting a modest rebound after establishing a local bottom just below $2,000 over the weekend. Making matters worse is the macro backdrop relating to Bitcoin. Bitcoin, which had been staging what appeared to be a recovery attempt to $72,000 last week, has failed to hold those gains and reversed to as low as $65,810 over the weekend. Bears have reasserted control and Bitcoin’s weakness is cascading directly into altcoins. This, in turn, might cause the Ethereum price to bear the brunt of that spillover pressure in the coming days. Price Battlegrounds To Watch Out For The immediate focus on the 2-hour chart is a tight resistance cluster formed between $2,024 and $2,062. This zone coincides with multiple technical factors visible on the chart, including prior support turned resistance, Fibonacci retracement levels around 0.5 and 0.618, and a descending trendline pressing down on lower highs in March. Related Reading: Here’s The Latest On The US-Iran War And How It Could Affect Bitcoin, Ethereum Prices According to RLinda, Ethereum may test the 2025 to 2038 liquidity zones. A short squeeze would provide a good signal for a potential decline. Price resistance levels to watch in this case are at $2,025, $2,037, and $2,062. The point of interest (POI) at $2,062.50, which is also shown on the chart above, is the most important one. A retest of this resistance zone, followed by a false breakout and consolidation in the short zone, will confirm bear dominance. Should that confirmation materialize, it could create a counter-trend correction that leads to a new round of selling pressure that pushes the Ethereum price to a support point of interest around $1,900. At the time of writing, Ethereum is trading at $2,050. Featured image from Pixabay, chart from Tradingview.com
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The XRP ecosystem has taken a major step forward in global adoption with its entry into the regulated United Arab Emirates market, following a landmark approval for Ripple in Dubai. This milestone marks the first time a blockchain-enabled payments provider has received such authorization in one of the world’s leading financial hubs, the Dubai International Financial Centre. This is a new level of regulatory recognition for crypto-based financial infrastructure. When Did Ripple Break New Ground In Middle East Financial Markets The builder of the XRP ecosystem, Ripple, has achieved a major regulatory milestone, becoming the first blockchain payment provider licensed in Dubai. An analyst known as XFinanceBull has revealed on X that Ripple established its Middle East headquarters in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) back in 2020. This is the region’s regulated financial hub connecting the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. Related Reading: XRP Positioned At The Center Of Wall Street’s Tokenization Boom — Is A Rally Emerging? In March 2025, Ripple secured full approval from the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), representing a formal regulatory license rather than a simple partnership announcement. That groundwork has now translated into real adoption. Zand Bank and Mamo are already utilizing Ripple payments within the UAE. At the same time, Dubai launched its real estate tokenization, with title deeds expected to integrate with the XRP ledger. Further strengthening its position, Ripple’s stablecoin is now recognized within the DIFC framework, placing it inside a regulated financial ecosystem. With the Middle East investing trillions in next-generation financial infrastructure, Ripple’s early and active presence in the region underscores its strategic positioning. XFinanceBull concluded that this is why XRP remains on his radar, even during a broader market slowdown. The SBI Remit is ramping up its partnership with Ripple, betting big on digital technology to transform how money moves across borders worldwide. Crypto Trader Skipper stated that as global cross-border payment flows continue to expand, Ripple’s platform is opening new revenue streams. By leveraging Ripple’s infrastructure, transactions that were once slow and expensive are becoming faster and more seamless. Whether it’s individuals sending money to family abroad or businesses managing international payments, the technology is streamlining processes that have traditionally faced significant friction. This development has underscored a broader shift in the financial landscape, with real-world adoption of Ripple’s XRP blockchain-based payment solutions accelerating. An established player like SBI Remit is leading the charge to modernize remittances. Franklin Templeton Signals Strong Outlook For XRP Trader Skipper has also noted that the global investment giant Franklin Templeton sees a strong outlook for XRP, emphasizing that the asset is doing far more than simply surviving the industry challenges. Related Reading: Pundit Says Real XRP Adoption Is Here, What Investors Are Missing Furthermore, the firm’s digital assets leadership pointed out that XRP’s strength lies in years of investment capital to partner with real-world businesses, as countries build their digital economies. At the center of this progress is Ripple, which continues to build out infrastructure, and its ongoing work aligns with how nations are embracing digital finance. Featured image from Adobe Stock, chart from Tradingview.com
Bitcoin (BTC) has been consolidating between $68,000 and $66,000 over the weekend after falling below $70K last Thursday. At press time, Bitcoin was trading at $66,386, up just 0.02% over the past 24 hours and down 6.27% over the past week. Several indicators signal the coin’s upcoming capitulation but also point to an eventual recovery …
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Analyst Willy Woo has highlighted how some old-school Bitcoin on-chain models could suggest a bottoming zone for the asset in the current cycle. Bitcoin Bottomed Between Realized Price & CVDD In Past Bear Markets In a new post on X, analyst Willy Woo has talked about where the Bitcoin bottom could lie according to two on-chain models. The models in question are the Realized Price and CVDD. Related Reading: KPMG, PwC Involved In Tether’s First-Ever Audit: Report First, the “Realized Price” keeps track of the cost basis or acquisition value of the average token part of the cryptocurrency’s circulating supply. Whenever the spot price is above this metric, the investors as a whole could be assumed to be in a state of net unrealized profit. Similarly, the asset being below the level can imply the dominance of loss on the blockchain. As shown in the chart shared by Woo, the Bitcoin Realized Price has been sliding down recently, meaning that average investor cost basis has been declining. In other words, the average capital invested per holder is down, so some net capital could be considered to have left the cryptocurrency. Following the drawdown in the Realized Price since November, its value has dropped to around $54,200. So far in the latest bearish market phase, Bitcoin has yet to retest this level. From the chart, it’s visible that past bear markets found their bottoms when BTC was below the indicator. Interestingly, the other model in the chart, the CVDD, served as a sort of lower bound across these cycles, with BTC never dipping below it. The CVDD, standing for Cumulative Value Days Destroyed, is an indicator created by Woo that derives from the popular Coin Days Destroyed (CDD) metric. A “coin day” is a quantity that 1 BTC accumulates after being dormant on the blockchain for 1 day. When a token dormant for some number of days is moved, its coin days reset back to zero and are said to be destroyed. The CDD measures the number of coin days being reset across the network in this manner. The CVDD goes a step further and attaches a USD value to each of these coin days, based on the BTC price at the time, and takes their cumulative sum. Additionally, it applies a normalization factor by taking the sum’s ratio with the total age of the market (in days). Related Reading: Bitcoin Unrealized Loss Hits 15% Of Market Cap—Still Below FTX Capitulation Levels Today, the Bitcoin CVDD is sitting at $45,500. If the pattern from the last few cycles is anything to go by, it’s possible that BTC could find a bottom somewhere between this level and the Realized Price at $54,200. That said, the analyst also added a caution, noting: Models use past behaviour… there’s only been 4 prior bear markets and they have been inside a secular bull market in risk equities. If that foundation collapses, we will be in uncharted territory (deeper bear). BTC Price Bitcoin has again failed to maintain its recovery as its price has slipped to the $67,200 mark. Featured image from Dall-E, chart from TradingView.com
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The XRP price traded at around $1.30 on Monday as markets consolidated and Bitcoin (BTC) fought to hold above $67,000, but the calm belies meaningful downside risk if BTC revisits its key support at $60,000, according to market analyst Sam Daodu. Key Levels For XRP Price In his latest report, Daodu warns that XRP’s price action tends to amplify Bitcoin moves. He noted that this year the XRP price has behaved with roughly a 1.8-to-1 correlation to BTC’s declines. That means XRP is vulnerable to a steep retracement if BTC loses ground. Related Reading: XRP Nears Key Turning Point As Descending Wedge Tightens On XRP’s outlook, Daodu points to a sequence of support levels that could determine how far losses extend. The immediate floor is at about $1.28, where 443 million XRP have been accumulated by holders who have stepped in on dips. If that level breaks, buying interest thins, and the next material support is around $1.11 — the low seen in February. Beneath $1.11, Daodu identifies $1.00 as the next notable cushion for the XRP price, with a deeper support cluster near $0.82, which would mean a near 40% decline for the altcoin on top of current losses. The analyst asserts that once $1.28 gives way, a rapid slide to $1.11 could follow, and if that fails, a drop toward $1.00 or lower would be possible because there are few bids between those levels. What Could Push BTC Back To $60,000 Daodu’s scenario hinges on Bitcoin revisiting $60,000, a test he regards as the most important support for BTC so far this cycle. He cites macro drivers that could pressure Bitcoin, notably the conflict in Iran and elevated oil prices. “As long as oil stays above $100 and the war keeps escalating, Bitcoin stays under pressure,” he said, framing those geopolitical and commodity dynamics as key determinants of Bitcoin’s near-term path. Related Reading: Bitcoin Price Will Do A ‘Big Print’ If This Happens; Pundit Explains There are, however, events that could help decouple the XRP price from Bitcoin’s movements. Daodu highlights two potential catalysts: the passage of the long-anticipated CLARITY Act and renewed inflows into spot crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Passage of the CLARITY Act would, in his view, create a legal framework enabling institutions to use XRP for settlement at scale. Likewise, sustained ETF inflows would produce consistent buying pressure that could support XRP’s price. At the time of writing, the XRP price was at $1.32, having recorded a 8% weekly loss, according to CoinGecko data. Featured image from OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has given one of his clearest explanations yet of what the CLARITY Act would actually mean for Ripple, XRP and the broader financial system, and his answer is more significant than most people realise. It Is Not About Ripple. It Is About the Banks. Speaking on Fox Business, Garlinghouse said the …