The long-running belief that holding 10,000 XRP could lead to financial freedom is now being reassessed. In a recent market breakdown, analysts from Cheeky Crypto said the strategy no longer reflects the financial reality many investors face today. So the big question remains—is 10,000 XRP really enough? Let’s find out. The 10,000 XRP Myth Is …
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XRP is trading at $1.43, up 3.31% today. Bitcoin is at $72,535 and Ethereum sits at $2,131. The market is having a good Friday. But the price action today is almost a distraction from something much bigger that has been quietly building in the background, and almost nobody in retail is paying attention to it. …
Ether’s road to recovery looked clearer, especially if the balance in Ethereum accumulation wallets and the staked supply continue rising at their current pace.
The USDt-settled contracts allow traders to speculate on the price movements of the two companies’ shares around the clock without owning the underlying stocks.
Six North Korean individuals and two entities were hit with U.S. sanctions over an alleged crypto-fueled fraud scheme targeting U.S. firms.
Bitcoin is pushing higher after clearing a resistance level, but one analyst is pumping the brakes before calling it a confirmed rally. The analyst’s core position has not shifted in weeks. Bitcoin is currently in a counter-trend bounce, meaning it is moving against the dominant direction of the market rather than with it. Counter-trend moves …
Crypto analyst Osemka has suggested that DOGE is at a make-or-break level, where it could see a parabolic move to the upside or suffer a huge decline. The analyst alluded to the Dogecoin EMA, which could determine the next move for the foremost meme coin. Dogecoin EMA Set To Determine Next Move For The Meme Coin In an X post, Osemka said that something will soon have to give, alluding to the Dogecoin EMA. The analyst noted that DOGE has been getting slammed by the EMA for the past three weeks, that there will soon be no room left to run, and that a decision will be made. The accompanying chart showed that the DOGE price could still drop to a new low of around $0.084. However, there is also the possibility that the meme coin could finally break above this EMA. Related Reading: A Bullish Pennant Just Appeared On The Dogecoin Monthly Chart, Here’s What To Expect This comes as Dogecoin continues to struggle to break the psychological $0.10 level. Notably, this EMA is now sitting just below this psychological level, which is likely to provide further resistance for the foremost meme coin. The U.S.-Iran war also continues to pressure DOGE and other crypto prices, which could lead to a larger decline. Crypto analyst TraderSZ suggested that Dogecoin’s next move will heavily depend on Bitcoin’s price action. He stated that DOGE could pull off a move similar to the one seen last year, when the meme coin rose to around $0.3. Crypto analyst BitGuru also provided a bullish outlook on DOGE, hinting at a recovery for the meme coin. In an X post, the analyst said that Dogecoin looks done with the downtrend after a liquidity sweep and long consolidation. If support holds at the current level, the analyst predicts an upside towards $0.13 and $0.15. He added that this is where smart money usually starts positioning. DOGE Eyeing A Run To $1.80 Crypto analyst Javon Marks predicted that Dogecoin could rally to $1.80 in the next bull run. This came as he noted that over the cycles, DOGE has shown a clear and consistent trend with prices breaking out. He added that the meme coin stagnates for a while and then delivers a huge bull run. Related Reading: Dogecoin Remains Inside Falling Channel, Bulls Target Surge Above $0.1 Marks stated that, as part of this trend, Dogecoin’s next stage appears to involve a huge run. The targets for the meme coin on this parabolic run include $0.739, $1.25, and a potential rally over $1.80. A rally to these levels would mark new all-time highs for DOGE. This rally is expected to happen between now and 2027. At the time of writing, the Dogecoin price is trading at around $0.09639, up over 4% in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Featured image from iStock, chart from Tradingview.com
Surging to a near one-month high of $74,000, bitcoin reversed back to just above $71,000 as news of U.S. military movements in the Middle East rattled risk assets.
The Ethereum Foundation released its official mandate today – a document originally written for internal EF members that sets out what the Foundation is for, what it will focus on, and what falls outside its scope. The core of the document is a single, unusually direct idea: Ethereum exists to be an escape hatch. “Sanctuary …
A dormant crypto whale just bet $7 million on the Trump memecoin after a new Mar-a-Lago gala was announced, sparking a 60% rally for the struggling token.
The next big Bitcoin policy fight may have nothing to do with ETFs or government legislation, but with a dry Federal Reserve capital proposal that most investors will never read. The landscape is simple: will big banks continue to treat Bitcoin as a balance sheet hazard, or will US capital rules begin to leave room […]
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The feature allows users to verify and sign every transaction generated by an AI agent using a Ledger hardware device, ensuring private keys never leave the hardware signer.
The XLM price has quietly staged a recovery this week, climbing toward the $0.163 level after printing a string of bullish daily candles. It’s not exactly a moonshot but it’s a clear shift in tone compared to the sluggish price action seen earlier. Momentum has been building since the start of the week, and the …
The team behind Story Protocol has let go of several employees and contractors as it explores opportunities associated with AI agents.
The document comes at a point of transition for the organization, following shifts in the blockchain's technical roadmap and the resignation of a co-executive director.
AI-driven data center demand is reviving nuclear power across the US, and Bitcoin miners were among the first to tap nuclear energy to run high-performance computing operations.
Bitcoin's resilience amid economic uncertainty suggests a potential shift in its role as a hedge, but market sentiment remains cautious.
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The billionaire investor said stablecoins could become the whole payment system in 10-15 years, and reiterated that crypto might replace the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency.
The SUI price is back at a level traders have been staring at for weeks. After grinding through a long stretch of consolidation since February, the token has climbed to around $1.05, a range that now acts as a decisive resistance on the daily chart. And markets love moments like this. Because when price reaches …
Japanese investment bank Mizuho remains neutral on Circle, but lifted it price target to $120 from $100.
USDC is the more popular option when it comes to everyday, real-world applications, the research analysts said.
After six years of mobile mining, a bruising 95% crash from its all-time high, and weeks of speculation, Pi Network is officially trading on Kraken today. For a community that has waited longer than almost any other in crypto, the day has arrived. Kraken wrote, “@PiCoreTeam is a Layer-1 ecosystem of Pi apps and utilities …
One trader who previously lost about $15.7M on MELANIA is sitting on a multi-million-dollar unrealized gain from a recent TRUMP purchase.
Wall Street’s biggest gold fund saw something unusual recently — a single-day outflow of $3 billion from SPDR Gold Shares, a number that dwarfed any comparable daily exit over the prior two years by more than 200%. The $3 billion single-day outflow from SPDR Gold Shares — a US gold-backed ETF trading under the ticker GLD — was flagged by the Kobeissi Letter as exceeding any comparable daily exit over the prior two years by more than 200%. Related Reading: Ghana’s Crypto Push Begins As 11 Companies Enter SEC Sandbox On the same side of the ledger, Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded over $900 million in net inflows over the 30 days ending March 11, swinging from close to $2 billion outflow the month before. BREAKING: The largest US gold-backed ETF, $GLD, posted a record -$3.0 billion outflow on Wednesday. This surpasses any previous large daily outflow seen over the last 2 years by +200%. At the same time, silver ETFs recorded small outflows, while Bitcoin ETFs saw modest inflows.… pic.twitter.com/XF8y99cPSV — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) March 6, 2026 A Ratio To Watch The Bitcoin-to-gold ratio has pulled back to a support zone near 12-13 — a level that blocked further gains in 2017, then flipped to support in 2022 and 2023. Analysts say that history gives the current price level added weight. Michaël van de Poppe, founder of MN Capital, points to a bullish divergence forming between the ratio and the relative strength index on the daily chart. In plain terms, that means selling pressure appears to be fading even as prices have stayed under stress. Whether that signal holds is another matter, but it has drawn attention from traders tracking Bitcoin’s long-term standing against gold. #Bitcoin vs. Gold is currently breaking upwards after a confirmation of the bullish divergence. This should indicate that we’re about to see significantly more strength in Bitcoin. pic.twitter.com/vwIpwJ82qz — Michaël van de Poppe (@CryptoMichNL) March 11, 2026 The shift in ETF holdings reinforces the picture. Bitcoin ETF balances improved by roughly 12,900 BTC in the last monthly timeframe, while gold ETF holdings fell by nearly 800,000 ounces during a similar window. Capital appears to be moving, even if slowly. Institutions Are Coming, Just Not Yet In Full Binance Research flagged the current stretch of market volatility as what it called an “opportunity within risk” for Bitcoin. Bitcoin has traded in step with oil and US equities recently, moving alongside broader macro assets as the US-Israel and Iran conflict has kept global markets on edge. Despite that turbulence, institutional interest has not dried up. US spot ETFs now account for roughly 9% of total Bitcoin trading volume. That sounds modest — and it is. In US equity markets, ETFs account for 30-40% of total trading volume. The gap tells its own story about how much room remains for institutional participation to grow. Related Reading: Bitcoin Crosses 20 Million Coins Mined — And Only 1 In 20 Remains History Offers A Cautionary But Compelling Pattern Midterm election years have not been kind to risk assets. The S&P 500 has averaged a peak-to-trough drop of 16% during those cycles. Bitcoin’s drawdowns have been steeper, averaging around 56%. But the 12 months after midterm elections have, without exception since 1939, produced positive returns for the S&P 500, averaging 19% gains. Bitcoin, with only three post-midterm years on record, has averaged 54% gains across all three. Reports from Binance Research also identified $78,000 as the level Bitcoin would need to reclaim to signal a broader trend reversal. BTC was trading around $71,500 at the time of publication. The distance between the two numbers is not enormous, but in a market moving this quickly, it is not small either. Featured image from Incrementum, chart from TradingView
Bitcoin bulls squeezed the market toward $74,000 again as promising US inflation data buoyed risk assets, but BTC price forecasts stayed mixed.
If 2024 was about “trying to figure it out,” 2026 is the year staking officially became a cornerstone of the modern digital wallet. At its simplest, staking is the crypto-native version of putting your money to work. Instead of your assets sitting idle, you’re essentially “hiring” them out to help secure and run a blockchain …
Crypto is having one of its best days in weeks. Bitcoin has pushed above $73,000, Ethereum has cleared $2,180, and the total crypto market has added $90 billion in value in the past 15 hours alone. Here is what is actually driving it. The Numbers First Bitcoin: Up 4.80% to $72,867, adding $60 billion to …
The US economy grew just 0.7% in Q4 2025. That number, revised down from 1.4% by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, is already trending on X and CNN is calling it “far weaker than previously reported.” With the FOMC meeting four days away on March 17-18, crypto traders have one question: does this change anything …
The US Treasury (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities tied to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) IT‑worker schemes that allegedly generated nearly $800 million in 2024. US Vs. DPRK Over Crypto Fraud Crypto is once again at the center of Washington’s latest sanctions push. On an official press release on March 12, the US Treasury announced that they have blacklisted a North Korean IT‑worker network accused of routing nearly $800 million through digital assets to fund weapons programs in 2024. The Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, quoted on the announcement, warned that “The North Korean regime targets American companies through deceptive schemes carried out by its overseas IT operatives, who weaponize sensitive data and extort businesses for substantial payments”. Related Reading: Binance Warning? Leverage Explodes As Crypto Tracks A World On Edge How The North Korean Crypto Scheme Worked According to the OFAC’s statement, these North Korean IT networks relied on front companies in Vietnam, Laos and Spain to move IT‑worker revenue into cryptocurrency, convert it, and route funds back to Pyongyang. As the statement claims: DPRK-facilitated IT teams commonly rely on fraudulent documentation, stolen identities, and fabricated personas to conceal their true identities and gain employment with legitimate companies, including those in the United States and allied countries. The DPRK government reportedly appropriates the majority of the wages earned by these overseas IT workers, generating hundreds of millions of dollars to support the regime’s WMD and ballistic missile programs, in violation of U.S. and United Nations sanctions. In certain instances, DPRK-affiliated workers have also covertly introduced malware into company networks to extract proprietary and sensitive information. Amongst the companies signaled by Washington are Amnokgang Technology Development Company, that manages overseas DPRK IT delegations and other illicit procurement and Vietnam‑based partner (Quangvietdnbg) whose CEO converted around $2.5 million into crypto for North Koreans between mid‑2023 and mid‑2025, with $800 million in 2024 alone. Other facilitators opened bank accounts, enabled crypto transactions, and laundered IT‑worker proceeds on behalf of North Korean procurement figures, like Kim Se Un. The OFAC warns that both US and foreign financial institutions face secondary‑sanctions risk if they keep touching flows linked to the newly designated actors, which effectively isolates their remaining fiat and crypto on‑ramps. Related Reading: Hyperliquid Rockets as Oil Touches $100: Arthur Hayes Reveals Why What This Means For The Crypto Market This is but the newest chapter on a long saga of North Korean cyber and IT operations repeatedly leaning on crypto, mixers and OTC brokers to launder billions in stolen or fraudulently earned funds, which regulators now say directly supports its weapons programs. Even as Treasury has recently acknowledged that mixers and privacy tools can have legitimate uses, the new designations show that they are still ready to aggressively sanction any intermediaries that route significant illicit crypto flows for state actors like the DPRK. Despite episodes like this usually not moving Bitcoin’s price on their own, they do add to the regulatory overhang that can cap risk appetite around privacy coins, mixer‑adjacent protocols and lightly regulated offshore venues. For majors like BTC and ETH, stricter enforcement against DPRK‑linked networks tends to be framed as “cleaning up the rails,” which can support institutional adoption over time even if it generates headline risk in the near term. The regulatory tail risk remains highest around privacy‑focused tools, offshore venues and tokens that depend on opaque liquidity paths. At the same time, every DPRK‑linked enforcement wave nudges more volume toward KYC’d exchanges and transparent stablecoin and BTC pairs, which is where long‑term liquidity and institutional flows are likely to concentrate. BTC’s price trends to the upside on the daily chart. Source: BTCUSD on Tradingview Cover image from Perplexity, BTCUSD chart from Tradingview