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The threat actor manipulated the platform by using Thena tokens to bypass the maximum supply cap and borrow several different digital assets.
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Daily transaction volume on the XRP Ledger has surged to almost 3 million as of this week, a near-tripling of the approximately 1 million transactions recorded per day in mid-2025, according to data published by Evernorth, the largest public XRP treasury company. XRP Ledger Activity At Record Levels Recent data shows the XRP Ledger is now processing almost 3 million transactions daily, making it one of the busiest periods in the network’s history. The increase places current activity far above levels recorded earlier in the cycle, especially in the mid-2025 months, when XRP was pushing to new all-time highs. Related Reading: Bitcoin Climbs Back To $73,000 As Short Squeeze Wipes Out $246M In Futures Bets The chart data revealed by Evernorth, sourced from XRPScan data, shows February 2026 as the strongest month in the observed window, with average daily transactions climbing to approximately 1.3 million over the month, up from 800,000 in May 2025 on a monthly average basis. Individual daily peaks in March are now at 3 million transactions. The XRP Ledger’s transaction count has not followed a linear path. Monthly average XRP transactions fluctuated between 800,000 and 950,000 from May to August 2025, before declining to lows around 700,000, and, on certain days in June and July, falling below that threshold. A recovery in the fourth quarter of 2025 proved modest, but transactions again fell during the end of the year. The XRP transactions changed meaningfully at the start of the current year. Monthly average transactions crossed above 1 million in January 2026, and daily transactions are now above 2.7 million in March 2026, up from a peak of 1 million per day in mid-2025. Chart Image From X. Source: @evernorthxrp Activity And Price Moving In Opposite Directions Although transactions are high, XRP’s market price has not yet followed the increase in network usage. The cryptocurrency is still moving within a relatively narrow range around $1.4. However, that gap between network utility and token pricing may not persist indefinitely. While speaking in a recent interview with Paul Barron, Zach Pandl, Head of Research at Grayscale Investments, discussed how regulatory clarity in the United States could impact XRP’s long-term valuation. According to the executive, products tied to XRP have already been attracting huge demand from investors. However, regulatory clarity, specifically the passage of the CLARITY Act, could influence a meaningful repricing of XRP. “I think we would see a pricing across a range of assets, certainly including XRP,” he said. Interestingly, the Grayscale executive also identified the long-term token supply outlook of XRP as a particular area where legislative clarity could increase its value. Related Reading: Strategy’s Bitcoin Bet Now $3.35 Billion In The Red As Saylor Tells Investors To Wait This idea of institutional involvement in XRP is also reflected through Evernorth. The company announced a $1 billion valuation in October 2025 to accumulate XRP as a treasury reserve. Evernorth’s concept follows the same strategy popularized by Strategy, which has built a corporate treasury around Bitcoin. However, instead of just holding, Evernorth seeks to grow XRP per share over time by participating in institutional lending and other DeFi activities. Featured image from Getty Images, chart from TradingView
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Decentralized lending platform Venus Protocol has reportedly suffered a suspected flash-loan attack on its Core Pool on BNB Chain, leading to losses of more than $3.7 million. On-chain data shows the attacker manipulated supply caps using the Thena (THE) token, allowing them to borrow multiple assets from the protocol. How the Venus Protocol Attack Happened? …
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The crypto market’s fear gauge hit 15 — deep inside “Extreme Fear” territory — yet the biggest Bitcoin holders quietly moved in the opposite direction. Related Reading: Strategy’s Bitcoin Bet Now $3.35 Billion In The Red As Saylor Tells Investors To Wait Whale Wallets Grow Their Share Of Total Bitcoin Supply According to crypto analytics platform Santiment, wallets holding between 10 and 10,000 BTC increased their collective share of total supply to 68% last week, up from 68% seven days prior. Whales were not buying blindly. Santiment disclosed the accumulation happened as Bitcoin held steady around $71,000 — a price level that large holders appear to have treated as an entry point worth acting on. While that shift may look small on paper, Santiment flagged it as a meaningful directional change after weeks of selling pressure. Bitcoin was trading around $71,470 at the time of the report, up about 6% over the prior week. Source: Santiment The timing stands out. Just over a week earlier, whale behavior told a very different story. Reports indicate that in the two days leading up to March 6, large wallet holders had offloaded 65% of the Bitcoin they accumulated between February 23 and March 3 — a mass exit that coincided with Bitcoin briefly touching $74,000 before pulling back. A Bottom Signal That Depends On What Retail Does Next Santiment says the renewed accumulation by large holders is encouraging, but the picture isn’t complete yet. What analysts are watching now is whether everyday investors — those with smaller wallets — start trimming their holdings. Data shows that historically, Bitcoin has tended to hit its floor not when big money walks away, but when ordinary buyers give up and sell. “Markets rarely reward the majority consensus immediately,” Santiment said in its weekly report. If retail participation stays elevated or keeps climbing, analysts say that could signal more downside ahead rather than a recovery. That caution is reinforced by on-chain analyst Willy Woo, who recently said Bitcoin remains “solidly in the middle of its bear market” when viewed through a long-range liquidity lens — a read that cuts against any near-term optimism. Related Reading: Bitcoin Climbs Back To $73,000 As Short Squeeze Wipes Out $246M In Futures Bets ETF Inflows Offer A Counterpoint To Bearish Sentiment Not everything in the market is pointing down. US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted their first five-day inflow streak of 2026, pulling in roughly $767 million across the week. That kind of sustained institutional interest is harder to dismiss, and it adds a layer of complexity to what is otherwise a cloudy short-term outlook. Whether whale accumulation marks the start of a sustained recovery or just a brief pause in a longer slide will likely depend on how retail investors behave in the days ahead. Santiment says it wants to see small wallet holdings decline while large wallet positions continue rising — the classic pattern of coins moving from uncertain hands into more committed ones. For now, that shift has started. Whether it holds is another question. Featured image from Shutterstock, chart from TradingView
Some of Bitcoin’s most trusted bottom signals rest on the simple assumption that when old coins move, something meaningful has changed. Traders and analysts often interpret that as renewed selling, fresh distribution, or signs that the market hasn't bottomed. That logic helped turn HODL Waves, Coin Days Destroyed, and long-term holder supply into some of […]
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A viral clip circulating on crypto Twitter has reignited one of the most divisive arguments in digital assets: is Ripple building the future of finance, or is it running the most sophisticated wealth transfer in crypto history? The Accusation That Started It All The controversy centres on comments made by Bitcoin advocate Robert Breedlove in …
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Washington has spent years talking about a US CBDC as a distant possibility. It was an abstract policy idea, safely contained inside white papers and partisan messaging. But then the Senate put a number on it and made it very real. On March 2, senators voted 84-6 to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed […]
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Bitcoin’s recent price action may be showing its first signs of relief as a closely watched indicator tied to US demand has just changed direction. The Coinbase Premium Gap has moved back into positive territory following nearly 10 weeks of persistent negative readings, a stretch that coincided with Bitcoin’s decline from around $95,000 to below $65,000 in February. Coinbase Premium Turns Positive The Coinbase Premium Gap, which measures the price difference between Bitcoin on Coinbase, the primary exchange for US-based institutional and retail investors, and its price on offshore platforms such as Binance, stayed in negative territory for the entirety of Bitcoin’s correction from $95,000 to the mid-$60,000 range. Related Reading: Bitcoin Climbs Back To $73,000 As Short Squeeze Wipes Out $246M In Futures Bets Whenever the Coinbase Premium Gap is negative, it usually means that traders in the United States are selling Bitcoin at a faster pace than buyers are stepping in. A positive gap indicates the opposite dynamic of demand from US investors pushing Coinbase prices higher relative to the price in the global market. Notably, the metric entered a sustained negative zone on January 1 and held there through March 7, which is a period during which US spot demand was largely absent among crypto investors At its worst, the gap reached -175 on February 2, coinciding with the most severe phase of Bitcoin’s price crash. At the time of writing, the Coinbase Premium Gap has now turned positive, registering a reading of +25.4 according to data shared by CryptoQuant analyst @IT_TECH_PL. The reversal of the Coinbase Premium Gap from a low of -175 to a positive reading is the first step in a meaningful change in market structure. Chart Image From X. Source: @IT_TECH_PL The current reading, while still early and modest relative to the depth of the prior negative regime, is the first consistent sign that American spot demand may be returning to Bitcoin. It shows that those same participants may be slowly accumulating Bitcoin again compared to the rest of the world. However, the broader structure of Bitcoin’s price action still leaves room for further downside before the formation of a definitive bottom. Bitcoin Could Still Drop To $50,000 Before Bottom Although a few on-chain signals are slowly turning constructive, a few analysts are cautious before declaring the broader correction over. A technical analysis from crypto analyst Ted Pillows points to a longer-term technical indicator that has always coincided with Bitcoin bottoms. According to his observation, the last two major bear-market lows occurred below the 300-week exponential moving average (300W EMA). In both cases, Bitcoin fell more than 15% beneath the indicator before the final bottom was established. Bitcoin Price Chart. Source: @TedPillows On X Related Reading: Strategy’s Bitcoin Bet Now $3.35 Billion In The Red As Saylor Tells Investors To Wait Bitcoin’s 300-week EMA is currently around $57,100. Applying the same pattern would imply a possible move to around $50,000, which would represent a decline of roughly 15% below the indicator. Nonetheless, this projection does not guarantee that Bitcoin will revisit that level before forming a bottom. Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView
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Bitcoin edged toward an important weekly close above $70,000 that would include a reclaim of an important 200-week trend line.
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After another failed attempt at breaking the $74,000 resistance, the Bitcoin price continues to hover around the psychological $70,000 level, with very little — if any — momentum to boast of. Some analysts expect this price level to serve as a rebound point for the flagship cryptocurrency; however, data from a recent on-chain evaluation implies that the Bitcoin market might still see a final shake-off before the real move begins. Historic MVRV Z-Score Comes In Sight — What This Means For Price In a March 14 post on X, popular market analyst Ali Martinez put forward an interesting on-chain outlook on the Bitcoin price, showing the flagship cryptocurrency might soon establish a local price bottom. This hypothesis is based on readings obtained from the Bitcoin MVRV Z-Score metric. Related Reading: On-Chain Data Shows Why Bitcoin’s Next Stop Could Be At $82K For context, the MVRV Z-Score metric measures whether Bitcoin is either undervalued or overvalued by comparing its market value to its realized value. When the MVRV Z-Score enters negative territory, it indicates that the Bitcoin price has become significantly lower than the average cost basis of holders. According to Martinez, there have been historical occurrences where the Bitcoin Z-Score reached a -0.262 reading, followed by a decisive rebound of the BTC price. As shown in the chart below, these occurrences were during the 2015, 2019, and 2022 cycle lows — all of which preceded the start of sustained bullish trends. If historical patterns continue to hold — as it has thrice held — the recent approach of the -0.262 level could be a sign that Bitcoin might soon reach a level where active accumulation becomes the trend. However, it is worth noting that the Z-Score is still somewhat far from the pivotal level, as it currently stands near 0.469. For this reason, it is reasonable to expect prices to head further south before reaching the expected Z-Score level. In a scenario where this Z-Score is reached, it is also important to note that an immediate trend reversal is not promised. This is because, in the past cycles (per MVRV data), the Bitcoin price spent weeks — sometimes, months — establishing solid grounds, before finally making its major move. Hence, the scenario might occur similarly if the Z-Score falls to that level. Bitcoin Market At A Glance As of this writing, BTC is valued at around $71,480, reflecting an over 1% price increase in the past 24 hours. According to data from CoinGecko, the price of Bitcoin is up by more than 6% on the weekly timeframe. Related Reading: Solana Key Indicator Flashes First Bullish Signal Since January – Market Rebound Incoming? Featured image from iStock, chart from TradingView
Bitcoin entered the weekend hovering near $71,000, well off the previous week's spike above $74,000, but far below the highs it touched at the beginning of the year. On price alone, the market looks pretty composed. However, underneath, its structure looks much less comfortable. Data shows spot activity fading while derivatives keep doing more of […]
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Hougan says bitcoin could reach that milestone if it captures a larger share of the global store-of-value market, though analysts say it would likely take years of institutional adoption and macro shifts.
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On Mar. 12, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a staff advisory telling exchanges to tighten surveillance on event contracts. Simultaneously, the regulator opened a 45-day rulemaking process that asks pointed questions about inside information, manipulation, and whether some markets serve the public interest at all. Two weeks earlier, the agency had spotlighted two […]
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Valory co-founder David Minarsch says autonomous agents running on the Olas protocol are giving retail traders a 24/7, strategy-driven edge on platforms like Polymarket.
According to the latest on-chain data, Ethereum appears to be entering a state of undervaluation, with the potential of rebounding to new highs. However, the question is — is it really time to buy ETH? ETH Could Drop Another 40% Before Bear Cycle Ends In a new Quicktake post on the CryptoQuant platform, crypto analyst Burak Kesmeci shared that Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is starting to become relatively cheap. The relevant on-chain indicator in this observation is the MVRV (Market Value to Realized Value) ratio, an indicator that compares a coin’s market cap and its realized cap. Related Reading: Strategy’s Bitcoin Bet Now $3.35 Billion In The Red As Saylor Tells Investors To Wait Typically, the MVRV ratio offers insight into how the value the investors (of Ethereum, in this case) hold (the market cap) measures against the value they put in (the realized cap). When the value of this ratio is greater than one, it means that more investors are in profit at the moment. On the flip side, a lower-than-one ratio suggests that holders are currently underwater. Typically, high MVRV values are considered cycle top signals, while a low ratio indicates that the cryptocurrency has either reached or is close to a bottom. According to Kesmeci, the Ethereum MVRV is currently at 0.9, meaning that ETH might be getting undervalued. However, Kesmeci mentioned that while Ethereum is indeed cheap, there is still a chance the altcoin gets cheaper from its current price point. To explain this point, the analyst highlighted the Realized Price Bands metric, noting that the ETH price has often gravitated toward the green band (the Realized Price lower band) in bear cycles. According to data from CryptoQuant, the green band currently sits at around $1,152, suggesting a potential further downturn of over 40% from the current price point. Kesmeci added: So yes, MVRV at 0.9 confirms ETH is getting cheaper. But the chart also clearly shows that MVRV has a habit of pushing down to 0.5 and below during full bear cycles. The Realized Price Bands confirm the same picture. Ethereum can dive into much colder waters from here. In summary, the Ethereum price is at risk of further downside from its current price point, despite being nearly 60% down from the current cycle high. Prediction Market Bets On Ether Losing No. 2 Crypto Spot According to an ongoing prediction market on Polymarket, Ethereum is being projected to lose its position as the second-largest cryptocurrency. The odds of the altcoin getting flipped rose to as high as 57% on the prediction market platform on Saturday. As of this writing, the Ether token is valued at around $2,090, with a market capitalization of over $253.1 billion. According to CoinGecko, the closest cryptocurrency (excluding stablecoins) to ETH is BNB, with a market capitalization of over $89 billion. Related Reading: Bitcoin Fails To Break $74,000 Resistance: Analyst Predicts ‘Structural Bottom’ Yet to Form Featured image by DALL-E, chart from TradingView
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Gareth Soloway, chief market strategist at VerifiedInvesting.com, is doubling down on his short-term bullish thesis for crypto, and the charts he is looking at are telling a story that most of the market is missing. While the S&P 500 slides, Bitcoin is green. That divergence, he says, is the most important signal in the market …