XRP price started a downside correction from the $1.5050 zone. The price is now consolidating and might aim for another increase if it stays above the $1.4450 zone. XRP price started a downside correction after it failed to stay above the $1.50 zone. The price is now trading above $1.4450 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a bullish trend line forming with support at $1.4450 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The pair could start a fresh increase if it settles above $1.480. XRP Price Holds Key Support XRP price started a decent upward move above $1.4350 and $1.4550, outperforming Bitcoin and Ethereum. The price gained pace for a clear move above the $1.480 resistance. A high was formed at $1.5074, and the price started a downside correction. There was a move below $1.4750 and $1.4650. The price dipped below the 38.2% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $1.3785 swing low to the $1.5074 high. The price is now trading above $1.4450 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is also a bullish trend line forming with support at $1.4450 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair. If there is a fresh upward move, the price might face resistance near the $1.4720 level. The first major resistance is near the $1.480 level, above which the price could rise and test $1.4880. A clear move above the $1.4880 resistance might send the price toward the $1.50 resistance. Any more gains might send the price toward the $1.520 resistance. The next major hurdle for the bulls might be near $1.550. Downside Continuation? If XRP fails to clear the $1.4720 resistance zone, it could start a fresh decline. Initial support on the downside is near the $1.4450 level. The next major support is near the $1.4430 level and the trend line or the 50% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $1.3785 swing low to the $1.5074 high. If there is a downside break and a close below the $1.4430 level, the price might continue to decline toward $1.4280. The next major support sits near the $1.4280 zone, below which the price could continue lower toward $1.4120. Any more losses might call for a test of $1.4050. Technical Indicators Hourly MACD – The MACD for XRP/USD is now gaining pace in the bearish zone. Hourly RSI (Relative Strength Index) – The RSI for XRP/USD is now above the 50 level. Major Support Levels – $1.4450 and $1.4280. Major Resistance Levels – $1.4720 and $1.4880.
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Ethereum price started a downside correction from $2,380. ETH is now showing a few bearish signs and might decline further if it trades below $2,300. Ethereum started a downside correction below the $2,360 zone. The price is trading below $2,350 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There was a break below a bullish trend line with support at $2,340 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could continue to move down if it stays below the $2,350 zone. Ethereum Price Dips Again Ethereum price failed to stay above the $2,365 zone and extended its decline, like Bitcoin. ETH price gained pace for a move below the $2,350 and $2,340 levels. There was a break below a bullish trend line with support at $2,340 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD. The bears pushed the price below the 50% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $2,265 swing low to the $2,382 high. Finally, the bulls appeared near $2,300. Ethereum price is now trading below $2,340 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. If the bulls remain in action above $2,300, the price could attempt another increase. Immediate resistance is seen near the $2,340 level. The first key resistance is near the $2,365 level. The next major resistance is near the $2,380 level. A clear move above the $2,380 resistance might send the price toward the $2,400 resistance. An upside break above the $2,400 region might call for more gains in the coming days. In the stated case, Ether could rise toward the $2,440 resistance zone or even $2,450 in the near term. More Downside In ETH? If Ethereum fails to clear the $2,350 resistance, it could start a fresh decline. Initial support on the downside is near the $2,300 level and the 76.4% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $2,265 swing low to the $2,382 high. The first major support sits near the $2,265 zone. A clear move below the $2,265 support might push the price toward the $2,220 support. Any more losses might send the price toward the $2,200 region. The main support could be $2,150. Technical Indicators Hourly MACD – The MACD for ETH/USD is gaining momentum in the bearish zone. Hourly RSI – The RSI for ETH/USD is now below the 50 zone. Major Support Level – $2,300 Major Resistance Level – $2,380
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Michael Saylor has spent years telling investors to “never sell your Bitcoin,” but during a recent appearance on The Wolf Of All Streets Podcast at Consensus Miami, the Strategy chairman explained why the company may occasionally sell portions of its Bitcoin holdings. Strategy currently holds around 818,000 BTC worth nearly $65 billion, making it the …
Bitcoin price started a downside correction from the $82,000 zone. BTC is consolidating and might aim for a fresh increase if it clears $82,000. Bitcoin failed to stay above $81,500 and extended losses. The price is trading above $80,500 and the 100 hourly simple moving average. There is a key contracting triangle forming with support at $80,800 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair might extend losses if it stays below the $81,800 and $82,000 levels. Bitcoin Price Dips Again Bitcoin price failed to clear the $82,000 resistance zone. BTC started a downside correction below the $81,500 and $81,200 levels to enter a short-term bearish zone. There was a move below the 50% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $80,421 swing low to the $82,100 high. However, the bulls were active above $80,500. There is also a key contracting triangle forming with support at $80,800 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair. Bitcoin is now trading above $80,500 and the 100 hourly simple moving average. If the price remains stable above $80,500, it could attempt a fresh increase. Immediate resistance is near the $81,500 level. The first key resistance is near the $81,800 level. A close above the $81,800 resistance might send the price further higher. In the stated case, the price could rise and test the $82,250 resistance. Any more gains might send the price toward the $82,500 level. The next barrier for the bulls could be $83,500. Downside Extension In BTC? If Bitcoin fails to rise above the $81,800 resistance zone, it could start another decline. Immediate support is near the $80,800 level or the 76.4% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $80,421 swing low to the $82,100 high. The first major support is near the $80,400 level. The next support is now near the $79,400 zone. Any more losses might send the price toward the $79,000 support in the near term. The main support now sits at $78,500, below which BTC might struggle to recover in the near term. Technical indicators: Hourly MACD – The MACD is now gaining pace in the bearish zone. Hourly RSI (Relative Strength Index) – The RSI for BTC/USD is now below the 50 level. Major Support Levels – $80,800, followed by $80,400. Major Resistance Levels – $81,800 and $82,000.
The altcoin market is gaining strength as a growing number of assets beyond the major names have begun pushing higher, drawing attention back to the broader ecosystem after months of Bitcoin-dominated price action. GugaOnchain has identified a specific signal in the volume data that suggests the shift may be more structural than it first appears. Related Reading: Ethereum Is Going Up While Shorts Are Piling In: Find Out What Usually Follows A closer examination of the CEX Volume Ratio — which tracks trading volume across all altcoins excluding the top five assets: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and Binance Coin — reveals what the analyst describes as an Altcoin Volume Increasing Trend. The signal is generated when the 30-day moving average of altcoin trading volume crosses above its 365-day moving average — a condition that filters out short-term noise and identifies sustained, trend-level increases in altcoin participation rather than isolated spikes driven by a single asset or event. That crossover is happening now. The yellow bars on GugaOnchain’s chart mark the periods when this condition has been active historically, and the current reading places the market in one of those periods. The significance of the signal is not simply that altcoin volume is rising. Volume rises and falls routinely. What matters is that the shorter-term trend has now exceeded the longer-term baseline — which suggests the increase in altcoin activity is broad-based, sustained, and significant enough to change the structural picture of where market participation is flowing. The Last Time This Signal Appeared at Scale, Altcoins Exploded. It Is Appearing Again The GugaOnchain analysis places the current volume signal in a historical context that gives it its full weight. When the yellow bars — indicating sustained short-term volume growth above the long-term baseline — appeared in clusters during the 2021 bull cycle, they coincided precisely with the most explosive altcoin seasons of that period and with Ethereum’s peak price levels. The signal did not merely precede the moves. It marked them in real time as capital rotated out of major caps and flooded into mid and low-cap altcoins that had been waiting for exactly that liquidity. The current reading suggests that rotation is beginning again. Retail and institutional interest is expanding beyond the top five assets — the CEX volume ratio data confirms that participation is broadening in a way that the 30-day versus 365-day crossover specifically identifies as sustained rather than temporary. The condition the analysis attaches to the forward outlook is the one that separates a genuine altseason from a false start. If the volume momentum holds and Ethereum’s price remains stable or continues rising, the combination provides strong confirmation that a broader altcoin rally is underway rather than a brief rotation that reverses quickly. The metric to watch is the purple line — the Volume Ratio itself. When that line breaks out above its established range, GugaOnchain identifies it as a leading signal for high-volatility, high-opportunity phases in the altcoin market. The yellow bars say the conditions are building. The purple line breakout would confirm that the opportunity has arrived. Related Reading: 14,600 Bitcoin Sold in Profit in One Day: Here Is How BTC’s Own Structure Broke It Below $80K Altcoin Market Structure Begins Recovering From Capitulation The total crypto market cap, excluding the top 10 assets, continues to stabilize near the $200 billion level after months of persistent weakness across the broader altcoin market. The chart shows that altcoins remain well below the euphoric peaks reached during the 2024 expansion phase, but recent price action suggests the aggressive capitulation that defined late 2025 and early 2026 is beginning to lose momentum. One of the most important structural developments is the defense of the $160–$180 billion region. That zone acted as support multiple times throughout the recent correction and continues absorbing downside pressure despite repeated attempts to break lower. Buyers are gradually stepping back into the market, preventing a continuation of the broader downtrend. Related Reading: Bitcoin Found Support Where Recent Buyers Can’t Afford to Lose: Discover the Mechanics At the same time, the recovery remains incomplete. The total market cap still trades below the declining 50-week and 100-week moving averages, confirming that the broader altcoin structure has not yet transitioned back into a sustained bullish phase. Every recovery attempt into the $220–$260 billion region has faced renewed selling pressure, showing that supply remains active across the sector. Volume trends, however, are beginning to improve. Participation has stabilized after the sharp contraction seen earlier in the year, suggesting speculative interest is slowly returning to the broader market. A confirmed reclaim of the major weekly moving averages would strengthen the case for a broader altcoin rotation later in the cycle. Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com
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On-chain data shows Bitcoin network conditions have improved recently, but net capital inflows are still of a relatively weak order. Bitcoin Realized Cap Now Rising, But Only In A Slow Manner As pointed out by CryptoQuant author Axel Adler Jr in an X post, Bitcoin has exited from the “panic zone” on the Realized Profit/Loss Ratio. This on-chain indicator tells us, as its name suggests, whether BTC investors are selling their coins at a profit or loss. Related Reading: XRP Pulls Back, But TD Sequential Flashes Buy Signal Below is the chart shared by Adler Jr that shows how the 30-day moving average (MA) value of the metric has changed for Bitcoin over the past decade. As is visible in the graph, the 30-day SMA of the Bitcoin Realized P/L Ratio shot up to significant levels during 2025, suggesting investors were using the bullish momentum to take profits. The trend shifted in the last quarter of the year as the sector as a whole observed a downturn. After the drawdown extended in 2026, the indicator collapsed to a value that historically coincided with panic capitulation from investors. Since this loss-taking event, however, the market has found some stability, and the metric has slowly been making its way back up. Right now, the Realized P/L Ratio is no longer signaling a panic phase for the network, meaning that market conditions have started to improve. Though, for now, the metric still has a relatively low value. Another adjacent development in the market is that the Realized Cap has finally reversed course, as the analyst has highlighted in another X post. The “Realized Cap” is an on-chain capitalization model for Bitcoin that measures its total value by assuming that the ‘real’ value of each token in circulation is equal to the price at which it was last involved in a blockchain transaction. In short, what this model captures is the total amount of capital that investors as a whole used to purchase their BTC. Here is a chart that shows the trend in the indicator, as well as its 30-day change, over the last few years: From the graph, it’s apparent that the Bitcoin Realized Cap shrank alongside the earlier bearish price action, with its 30-day change sinking to a notable negative value. The recent market recovery has meant, however, that the capital netflow has reversed course. Related Reading: XRP Network Quiet: Adoption & Activity Plunge From 2024 Peak Currently, the 30-day change in the metric has a slight positive value, suggesting that some capital has flowed into BTC over the past month, although its scale has remained low when compared to past bullish periods. BTC Price Bitcoin has taken to sideways movement recently as its price is still floating around the $81,000 level. Featured image from Dall-E, chart from TradingView.com
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