Fraud schemes grew more sophisticated and targeted larger sums than in 2024.
Schwab says crypto allocations should stay small, outlining return based and risk budget strategies for Bitcoin or Ether.
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Thorn argues that a recent New York Times op-ed rewrites history through omission, glossing over the collateral damage caused by the previous administration.
Split Capital founder Zaheer Ebtikar is closing his crypto hedge fund after strong returns to join Plasma as chief strategy officer, citing a major industry shift.
A crypto commentator has put forward a bold prediction for XRP, arguing that a return to its 2017-style growth could send the asset into four-digit territory. Taking to the social media platform X, The Real Remi Relief pointed to the magnitude of XRP’s previous cycle and laid out how a similar percentage move from the current price range would place the cryptocurrency trading above $1,000. Looking At The 2017 XRP Price Blueprint According to a crypto commentator known as The Real Remi Relief on X, we will have a $1000 XRP if we continue to follow the 2017 bull run. To understand the weight of the claim, it helps to revisit what 2017 actually looked like for XRP. Back in 2017, XRP entered the year trading at roughly $0.006, largely flying under the radar compared to other major cryptocurrencies at the time. Momentum began to build in the first half of the year, and by May, the price had already surged past $0.40 as the entire crypto market picked up speed. Even so, that early rally only hinted at what was to come. Related Reading: Analyst Who Called Bitcoin Price Crash Above $100,000 Predicts Crash To $29,000 However, it wasn’t until December 2017 when the real price surge came. This surge pushed XRP to close the year above $2.30, before eventually rolling over into January 2018, where it printed its previously long-standing peak price of $3.40. That rally amounted to an extraordinary 76,000% increase within a single cycle, and it occurred when the crypto market lacked many of the structural factors that are present today. There were no spot ETFs, no institutional allocations, and limited real-world utility tied to blockchain infrastructure. Despite that, XRP still managed to deliver one of the biggest price expansions ever recorded in the industry. Applying that same percentage gain to a current base price of $1.40, assuming the cycle bottom is in, yields a price target of $1,064. The Difference Between 2017 And Now There’s no denying the fact that there is a vast structural difference between the state of the crypto market in 2017 and 2026. The analyst is not predicting a carbon copy of 2017. He is using it as a floor. “Now add FOMO, institutions, utility, ETFs, supply shock, etc.,” he wrote, “and you will get my conservative $1,200-$1,700 price prediction.” Back in 2017, the market infrastructure was immature. Now, there is a more mature market with institutional investors in the mix and talks of passing US legislation for the crypto industry. Related Reading: Ripple Makes A $13 Trillion Bet With This Move, And XRP Price Could Be Set To Explode Spot XRP ETFs launched in November 2025, generating over $1 billion in net inflows since inception. Their presence adds a layer of accessibility that was previously missing, especially for traditional investors. A survey conducted by Coinbase in collaboration with EY-Parthenon, covering 351 institutional investors, shows that interest is not just theoretical. About 25% of respondents indicated plans to add XRP to their portfolios in 2026, while 18% reported that they already hold the asset. Featured image from Freepik chart from Tradingview.com
The brokerage's research finds that even a tiny crypto allocation can dominate your portfolio's risk, suggesting that the "right" amount to own depends entirely on your stomach for 70% price swings.
CME Group's expansion into Avalanche and Sui futures signals growing institutional interest and regulatory acceptance in crypto markets.
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The asset manager's research arm argues the technical path to quantum-safe blockchains is clear but reaching consensus on protocol changes, especially what to do with Satoshi's coins, is the real obstacle.
Polymarket has become one of decentralized finance’s highest fee-generating protocols, pulling in about $7.1 million in fees in the first week of the second quarter.
Bitcoin and risk-asset price action tried to brush off new US-Iran war rhetoric just hours before the deadline for a deal passed.
CME Group said it will launch Avalanche and Sui futures contracts pending regulatory approval, as it expands its regulated crypto product offering.
Aave commands DeFi lending, with DefiLlama showing $24.51 billion in total value locked and $17.526 billion in borrowed funds. The margin against Morpho, its closest rival, is roughly 4.1 times. Spark, the third-largest competitor, sits at $967.52 million in borrowed funds. Aave ended 2025 with 61.5% active loan market share and 52.4% lending TVL share, […]
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Prediction markets can evolve from betting casinos to decision operating systems. Futarchy replaces manual governance with market-priced causal logic gates.
The world's largest derivatives exchange is also expanding its crypto suite to include Avalanche (AVAX) and Sui (SUI) contracts.
Multiple Bitcoin indicators, including a bull-bear sentiment index and realized price metric, point to a possible final BTC shakeout toward $54,000
Split Capital returned outside capital as founder joins Plasma, calling crypto hedge funds "broken" after $100 billion in venture funding.
Switzerland accounted for 70% of global crypto ETP inflows last week with XRP products contributing more than half the total.
Lido’s institutional lead argues that more crypto treasury companies will need to incorporate liquid staking to outperform the returns generated by staked Ether ETFs.
Aave (AAVE) dropped 8.5% and Avalanche (AVAX) fell 7.6%, leading the index lower from Monday.
AAVE price slips below the $100 level, dropping over 10% today, after a fresh bearish breakdown, as rising exchange reserves and recent developments around Chaos Labs’ exit add pressure to the outlook. The combination of increasing supply on exchanges and weakening price structure points to growing sell-side intent rather than stabilization. Is this the early …
A Reddit post claiming 75% output token savings sparked 400 comments and multiple GitHub repos dedicated to making AI grunt its way to efficiency.
CertiK's AI Auditor could revolutionize blockchain security by enabling proactive threat detection, potentially reducing costly exploits.
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Weekend gains for bitcoin have been mostly erased ahead of the president's Tuesday night deadline for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz
On-chain data shows the Bitcoin network has seen a spike in profit transactions, something that has often led into local price tops in the past. Bitcoin Has Seen Its Highest Profit-To-Loss Transfer Ratio In 12 Weeks In a new post on X, on-chain analytics firm Santiment has talked about the latest trend in the ratio of profit and loss transactions taking place on the Bitcoin network. A transfer is categorized as a ‘profit’ one when the tokens involved in it had a last transaction price lower than the latest one. Similarly, transfers with coins of the opposite type fall into the ‘loss’ category. Related Reading: Bitcoin Sharks & Whales Capitulate: Realized Loss Exceeds $200M Below is the chart shared by Santiment that shows the ratio between the number of transactions falling in each group over the last few months. As is visible in the graph, the ratio has witnessed a rapid surge for the Bitcoin blockchain recently, indicating profit transactions have outpaced the loss ones. Currently, the metric has a value of 2.95, which means that traders are making nearly three profit-taking moves for every loss-taking transfer. This is the highest level for the indicator in about 12 weeks. In the chart, Santiment has highlighted past spikes in the metric. “Historically, this has been a short-term price top signal,” noted the analytics firm. Given this pattern, it now remains to be seen whether the latest surge in the ratio will also align with a local peak. In some other news, Bitcoin started the weekend with the most fearful social media sentiment in five weeks, as pointed out by Santiment in another X post. The indicator shown in the chart is the “Positive/Negative Sentiment,” tracking the ratio between bullish and bearish comments related to Bitcoin on the major social media platforms. This metric observed a drop to 0.81 on Saturday, corresponding to there being five negative posts for every four positive ones. The trend naturally suggests that all the market uncertainty like the Iran war and continued lackluster BTC price action induced FUD among retail traders on social media. Related Reading: Ethereum Drops Nearly 5% As Familiar Leverage Setup Plays Out While the market sentiment turned bearish, the analytics firm had noted in the post, “Remember that markets typically move the opposite direction of the crowd’s expectations.” Bitcoin has made some recovery to kickstart the new week, so it’s possible that this contrarian effect of the crowd mood may be what has once again affected the cryptocurrency’s trajectory. BTC Price Bitcoin has returned back to $69,200 following its recovery surge. Featured image from Dall-E, chart from TradingView.com
Trump has yet again posted something that stopped crypto traders mid-session. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” That is not a ceasefire signal. That is a regime change declaration. And Bitcoin is sitting at $68,355 – already down 1.61% …
Former Google quantum hardware leader and winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, John Martinis, warns that breaking encryption will be among the earliest uses of quantum computing
Global crypto funds saw $224 million worth of net inflows last week, led by XRP products with $119.6 million, per CoinShares.
An inspection found slow reconciliation cycles and weak trade-halting systems across major crypto exchanges.
XRP’s profitable supply fell to 43% as high capitulation and a bearish chart setup signaled a potential drop toward $1.10 in the coming weeks.
For years, the DeFi industry has treated security as a technical problem: something that could be solved with better code. But the Drift incident suggests something far more complex: that the real vulnerabilities may lie outside the codebase altogether.