SEC and CFTC sign agreement to coordinate regulation, clarify crypto oversight, and reduce duplicative rules across US financial markets.
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XRP has had a rough start to 2026, with the first two months of the year closing in the red. Right now, XRP enthusiasts are hungry for a bullish direction. Interestingly, one analyst thinks he has the full picture. Not just a target, but a turn-by-turn roadmap of exactly how the next months will play out for XRP. CryptoBull, a closely followed crypto analyst on X, has laid out a detailed five-wave projection for XRP that begins right where the market currently stands, and the destination is unlike anything most traders are prepared for. XRP’s 2026 Broadening Pattern Roadmap The basis of CryptoBull’s roadmap is a five-wave broadening pattern drawn on XRP’s weekly chart. The structure on the chart is labeled from A to E and is sitting inside two diverging trendlines, forming a wide megaphone-like setup that widens as the pattern develops. Related Reading: XRP Price Could Stage 1,500% Rally To $20 If It Mirrors This 2017 Move Price action on that roadmap indicates that XRP has already completed Waves A and B and is now wrapping up Wave C around the lower boundary of the formation. The chart shows this decline unfolding from the July 2025 $3.65 high marked as Wave B, followed by a long slide into early 2026. That lower trendline is now the most important support in the entire setup because it is the area where the next major pivot is expected to happen. XRP is close to ending Wave C and preparing to reverse into Wave D, which is not going to be just a small relief bounce. It is a strong advance to the upper boundary of the broadening pattern, with the Wave D target placed around $5. $5, Then A Gut-Punch, Then $27 According to CryptoBull, Wave C could still dip to around $1.10 to form a double bottom before XRP turns higher to Wave D. Wave D in this framework targets $5, which would see XRP trading in new price territories. However, here is where the pattern gets ruthless. Related Reading: Analysts Predict Conservative XRP Price If It Follows 2017 Run Based on the projection, Wave E follows the D wave, dragging the price back down to $0.78 before the final thrust begins. That final breakout is where the most ambitious part of the prediction comes in. Once Waves A through E are complete, the analyst projected that the XRP price would surge to $27 in the move that follows. Notably, this analysis is based on a purely technical standpoint, not looking at XRP fundamentals or examining its related growth in traditional finance. The chart is plotted on a weekly timeframe on Bitstamp, which means each candle represents one week of price action, and the projected path stretches well into late 2026 and the coming years. Therefore, this is not a trade for the impatient. At the time of writing, XRP is trading at $1.37, down by 1.9% in the past 24 hours. Featured image from Pxfuel, chart from Tradingview.com
The two agencies sealed their memorandum of understanding to link the parts of their work that overlap, and coordinated crypto oversight is among the top goals.
A new chart analysis from market technician Johnathan Carter highlights a defining stage in the current price cycle of Dogecoin. In a chart shared on X, Carter shows the meme coin trading within a descending channel on the daily timeframe, a structure that outlines both its present position in the trend and the price levels that could shape the next market move. Dogecoin’s Position Inside The Descending Channel Carter’s chart shows a clearly defined descending channel that has shaped Dogecoin price action for several months. The structure is formed by two downward-sloping parallel trendlines that continue to guide the asset’s pattern of lower highs and lower lows, outlining the broader corrective phase that has dominated the market during this period. Within this formation, Dogecoin is currently trading close to the channel’s midline. This level often acts as a temporary equilibrium point where the price pauses and stabilizes before deciding its next direction. Running through the pattern is the 50-day moving average, which further reflects the prevailing downward trend. Throughout the decline, this indicator has repeatedly acted as a dynamic resistance, limiting several recovery attempts. Related Reading: Bitcoin S2F Model Says BTC Price Is Headed To $500,000, Here’s When While this broader structure remains bearish, the lower section of the channel aligns with a clearly defined support zone between roughly $0.088 and $0.09. Recent candles have formed around this region, showing that the price is consolidating close to the base of the formation after the extended downward move. This positioning is central to Carter’s interpretation of Dogecoin’s current cycle stage. With Dogecoin stabilizing near the lower portion of the channel while holding above support, the chart places the asset in the accumulation stage of the pattern. Projected Recovery Path And Key Upside Milestones From this consolidation area, Carter outlines a sequence of levels that could shape Dogecoin’s next upward move if the price begins to rebound. The first objective appears at $0.100, representing the nearest psychological and structural barrier above the current trading range. If Dogecoin pushes beyond that level, the chart highlights additional milestones at $0.116 and $0.135. These zones previously acted as reaction areas within the descending channel, where price movements slowed or reversed during earlier stages of the downtrend. Related Reading: Why Did Bitcoin Price Crash To $67,000, And Ethereum Price Fell Below $2,000? Further up the structure, the next projected targets sit at $0.153 and $0.182. These levels lie in the upper half of the channel, meaning a move toward them would signal strengthening bullish momentum following the recent consolidation phase. The final level identified on the chart appears near $0.206, aligning with the upper boundary of the descending channel that Carter marks as a broader resistance zone. Reaching this region would suggest Dogecoin is moving from the lower support area toward the top of the channel. In that context, the current price zone could serve as a base for a rebound toward successive resistance levels. During this phase, selling pressure may ease as buyers gradually step in, creating conditions for a recovery toward the upper half of the channel. Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com
Bitcoin (BTC) has been consistently trading below $75,000 for the past 35 days, after falling below this level on February 4. This month, the flagship cryptocurrency hit $74,031 following optimism around favorable regulations, but has since pulled back to trade at $70,525 at press time. Source: CoinMarketCap The Bitcoin $75K sell wall Several recent developments …
Despite a decline in the price of XRP in the last year, Ripple is expected to reach a valuation 25% higher than reported after a November 2025 funding round.
The security architecture surrounding Bitcoin continues to evolve as new infrastructure emerges to support self-custody and advanced on-chain protections. A notable step in this direction is the integration between Babylon Labs and Ledger. By combining Babylon’s protocol-level vault system with Ledger’s hardware wallet security, the collaboration seeks to strengthen how users store, manage, and interact with BTC in decentralized environments. How Babylon And Ledger Aim To Strengthen Bitcoin Self-Custody The Babylon platform is expanding access to Trustless Bitcoin Vaults through a new integration with Ledger. According to the Babylon Labs post on X, once the integration goes live in the second half of the year, users will be able to authorize BTCVault transactions directly from a ledger device using clear signing. This will allow 8 million Ledger users to review and approve vault operations on a secure hardware screen. Related Reading: Bitcoin On-Chain Data Identifies Unusual Market Cap Behavior – Details These Trustless BTC Vaults are anchored directly on the BTC base layer and enable external applications to verify that BTC collateral remains locked in place while enforcing predefined collateralization conditions. This vault architecture utilizes cryptographic mechanisms to execute rules, such as unlocking funds or triggering a liquidation event, rather than relying on discretionary control. By combining Babylon’s vault architecture with Ledger’s secure signing infrastructure, BTCVault workflows can connect with the hardware security that many BTC holders already rely on for self-custody. As part of the broader rollout, Ledger devices will also support Babylon’s native asset, BABY, on Ledger devices. A Familiar Pattern Emerges In Bitcoin’s Orderbook Data As noted by Crypto analyst Ardi, the latest order book data is showing a pattern that has appeared at key moments in the market before. Currently, asks on Bitcoin have climbed to a two-month high, with roughly $1.57 billion in sell-side liquidity stacked above the current price compared with about $1.125 billion in bids below. This shift indicates around 40% more supply than demand within 5% of the market price. Related Reading: No Rebound For Bitcoin Yet — Short-Term BTC Holders Continue Holding At A Loss Ardi pointed out that the last time the asks reached a similar high level was during the retest that followed the $98,000 fakeout in January. In that case, BTC briefly broke above the fakeout range, price re-entered it, and then retested the level while the sell-side liquidity accumulated heavily above the retest price. Now, the BTC market structure appears to be retesting after the $72,000 fakeout, with orderbook data showing a similar signature. In this setup, bids below the price act as a support cushion, while asks above the price form a resistance wall. When Asks liquidity spikes to multi-month highs during a retest, it suggests that participants are using price rebounds as opportunities to sell into strength. However, Ardi cautions that orderbook liquidity can be removed at any time, and the recurring pattern of elevated asks during post-fakeout retests has shown a specific track record on this chart. Featured image from Getty Images, chart from Tradingview.com
The program connects crypto companies, banks and payment providers to explore blockchain-based payment and settlement infrastructure.
The institutional-focused exchange saw spot trading jump 62% to $76 billion in February, surpassing Coinbase’s market share.
Bitcoin is up about 7% from the Sunday lows, even as equities and gold tread water. Analysts point to seller exhaustion, shifting gold correlation and improving ETF flows.
The financial tech company was granted a full UK banking license on Wednesday and has also applied for a federal bank charter in the United States.
Institutional investors are beginning to pull capital out of XRP after a month of steady inflows, raising new questions about whether confidence in the digital asset is weakening. Lately, XRP has experienced significant volatility, sending its price crashing below $1.4. If this downtrend continues alongside capital outflows, it would not be surprising if market participants begin to wonder whether now may be the right time to sell their bags to avoid deeper losses. XRP Records Outflows As Other Digital Assets Attract Capital XRP currently stands apart from the rest of the crypto market, and not in a good way. According to a CoinShares digital asset fund flows weekly report, XRP recorded substantial outflows of $30.3 million last week. The decline stands in contrast to the broader digital asset investment market, which continued to attract new money during the same period. Related Reading: Buying XRP At These Prices Is Like Buying Bitcoin At $200 Across all digital asset investment products, CoinShares reports that total inflows had jumped to $619 million. Early in the week, the market also showed strong demand, with $1.44 billion flowing into crypto funds during the first three days. However, the trend reversed toward the end of the week, with investors withdrawing $829 million on Thursday and Friday. According to CoinShares analysts, the negative shift in sentiment came as oil prices rose, complicating inflation expectations. This occurred even though US payroll data came in weaker than expected, a development that would normally support risk assets like cryptocurrencies, but failed to do so. Investors Become More Selective About Crypto Despite the late-week reversal, the total inflows show that institutional interest in digital assets has remained relatively strong, especially amid ongoing geopolitical tensions involving the US, Israel, and Iran. Still, the distribution of those flows shows that investors are becoming more selective about capital allocation, with XRP notably absent from the list of assets attracting new institutional money. Related Reading: XRP Starts New Week With Bullish Confirmation, But This Level Is A Problem Instead, funds are concentrated on larger assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, leaving XRP outside the current focus of institutional demand. CoinShares reports that Bitcoin attracted the vast majority of new capital, with $521 million flowing into related investment products. At the same time, $11.4 million moved into short Bitcoin products, reflecting a divided outlook among investors. Notably, Ethereum recorded $88.5 million in inflows, while Solana brought in $14.6 million. Smaller allocations were also directed toward Uniswap and Chainlink. Against this backdrop, XRP was the only major digital asset to experience significant outflows. The recent withdrawals could signal that institutions are rotating capital from XRP into assets with stronger narratives or higher expected returns. For investors, this shift could raise questions about whether it is time to sell. Although institutional outflows do not automatically signal a price decline, they can indicate weakening confidence among large investors. If these outflows continue in the coming weeks, it could be a sign of caution ahead. Featured image from Pxfuel, chart from Tradingview.com
XRP’s price performance is stripping out fast-money participation while leaving behind a more durable class of holders. According to CryptoSlate's data, XRP is trading at $1.37 as of press time, down 55% within the last six months. This comes as data from CoinGlass shows XRP's open interest has fallen to about $2.40 billion from a […]
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Bitcoin remains under pressure as war and poor jobs data offset ETF inflows, shifting the $78,000 price target from late March to the coming months.
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Blockchain payments giant Ripple has initiated a share buyback program that positions the company at a substantial valuation of $50 billion. Ripple Revives Share Buyback Effort According to a Wednesday report from Bloomberg, Ripple plans to repurchase up to $750 million in shares from both investors and employees. The plan is set to run through April, as disclosed by sources familiar with the situation. This new buyback effort follows a previous attempt in September, when Ripple aimed to buy back $1 billion worth of shares. However, that initiative fell short, as the company’s participation rate was notably low compared to earlier rounds of tender offers. Related Reading: XRP Price Outlook: Analyst Foresees New All-Time Highs Above $40 In 2026 During that attempt, Ripple had valued the company at $40 billion but struggled to attract interest from current shareholders, suggesting that many were reluctant to part with their stakes in what they believed to be a promising venture. Despite the recent buyback news, the blockchain payment company has consistently maintained that it has no plans to take Ripple public in the United States. Meanwhile, a growing number of crypto firms, including giants such as Circle (CRCL) and Gemini (GME), have launched their own initial public offerings (IPOs) in the US over the past year, amid a notable shift toward a pro-crypto environment among regulators. XRP Price Sees Minor Recovery In connection with the buyback announcement, XRP, Ripple’s associated digital asset, experienced a slight rebound, reaching approximately $1.39 at the time of writing. Related Reading: Top Analyst Suggests Solana May Surpass XRP In Market Value: Here’s Why And When However, the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization continues to face challenges in all time frames, recording losses between 4% and 5% over the past seven to fourteen-day period, respectively. Featured image from OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com
A proposed plan by the agency would ban “pass-through insurance“ for stablecoins by third parties in addition to the FDIC not insuring deposits under the law.
Despite the bear market, today's report suggests a higher valuation than the $40 billion at which the firm raised funds in November.
The digital asset infrastructure company plans to launch the pool in April as it expands beyond Bitcoin mining services.
The latest liquidity picture suggests digital dollars are still building inside crypto, but they are concentrating on the chains with the deepest trust, clearest utility, and strongest settlement gravity. For much of the last cycle, stablecoin growth was treated as a simple bullish cue. More digital dollars meant more buying power, more risk appetite, and, eventually, more upside for Bitcoin and the broader market. That reading still matters, but it is no longer enough. In 2026, the real signal is not just whether stablecoin liquidity is growing. It is where that liquidity is choosing to sit before it gets deployed. The current USD stablecoin category is roughly a $306 billion market, large enough that internal capital rotation now says as much about market structure as headline expansion does. The Real Signal Is Not Supply Alone A recent BitBullNews Stablecoin Flow Monitor made that distinction especially clear. Its core finding was not that capital left crypto. It did not. The more useful takeaway was that liquidity kept expanding overall while becoming more selective in distribution. Ethereum posted the largest absolute weekly gain in tracked stablecoin supply, Tron continued reinforcing its role as the market’s dominant USDT corridor, Base stood out as one of the strongest relative gainers, Solana held broadly steady, and Arbitrum recorded the clearest decline among the major chains covered in the report. That is not a market-wide retreat. It is a market choosing where it feels safest warehousing dollars. That distinction matters because stablecoins are not passive background assets anymore. They are the market’s dry powder, settlement layer, and increasingly its confidence gauge. When fresh supply builds broadly, that can be read as available fuel. But when it clusters unevenly, the more revealing question becomes what kind of risk the market is willing to take next. Concentrated flows usually say more than aggregate numbers do. Ethereum, Tron, And Base Are Telling Different Stories Ethereum’s latest growth reinforces its role as the balance-sheet layer of crypto. It remains the network most closely associated with deep collateral markets, large DeFi positions, institutional familiarity, and high-value settlement. When fresh stablecoin balances keep moving there, the message is usually less speculative than structural. Capital is not necessarily chasing the hottest beta first. It is often parking where liquidity depth and composability are strongest. Tron, by contrast, is winning a very different contest. It is not the chain institutions cite most often in polished tokenization presentations, but it remains one of the most important rails for moving digital dollars at scale. The BitBullNews monitor notes that Tron stayed firmly in second place in tracked stablecoin supply and continued to function as the market’s dominant USDT transport corridor. That matters because efficiency, distribution, and transactional utility still beat narrative elegance when real capital needs to move. Base is perhaps the most interesting middle case. Its growth looks less like an ideological shift and more like targeted migration into a cheaper, faster extension of the Ethereum orbit. In the March 2–8 snapshot, Base added more than $140 million in tracked stablecoin supply and remained overwhelmingly USDC-led. That suggests it is increasingly being used as a practical expansion zone for dollar liquidity that wants Ethereum adjacency without full Ethereum cost. Why This Matters For Bitcoin Before It Matters For Altcoins This is where many market participants still overread stablecoin growth. More on-chain dollars do not automatically mean altseason is around the corner. Sometimes they mean caution with optionality. Sometimes they mean liquidity is preparing for deployment but has not yet chosen risk. Sometimes they mean the market prefers rails over exposure. For Bitcoin, that distinction is important. BTC is usually the first major beneficiary when on-chain dollar capacity remains healthy because it is still the cleanest, deepest, most institutionally legible expression of crypto risk. If stablecoin liquidity is building while concentrating in the most trusted environments, that can support Bitcoin before it supports lower-quality or narrative-driven parts of the market. In that sense, chain-level stablecoin flow can act as a lead indicator for how selectively the next wave of capital may move. This is an inference, but it is the one the latest market structure most strongly supports. Issuer Quality Still Sets The Ceiling There is also a second layer to this story: not all digital dollars carry the same trust profile. Circle says USDC is always redeemable 1:1 for dollars, backed by highly liquid cash and cash-equivalent assets, with reserve composition disclosed publicly. On March 6, 2026, Circle showed USDC reserves composition on its transparency page and described the majority of reserves as being held in the Circle Reserve Fund, an SEC-registered government money market fund. That does not reduce the centrality of Tether, which remains the largest stablecoin and one of the deepest pools of crypto-native dollar liquidity. But it does explain why the market often uses USDT and USDC differently. In a stablecoin system still overwhelmingly dominated by those two issuers, disclosure quality, redemption confidence, and distribution power are not side issues. They are market-structure variables. Final Take The key question now is no longer whether stablecoins are growing. They are. The more important question is where that growth is settling, and what kind of behavior that usually precedes. Right now, the answer looks selective rather than euphoric. Digital dollars are staying inside crypto, but they are becoming more deliberate about which chains deserve them first. That is a constructive signal for the market, but not an indiscriminate one. And for Bitcoin, that may be exactly the kind of setup that matters most: liquidity is present, trust is concentrated, and capital still appears to prefer quality before it prefers chaos.
Microsoft filed a court brief backing Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon—a move that reveals just how much the tech giant has riding on Claude's survival.
Wells Fargo has applied for a trademark for "WFUSD" for potential use in service categories that mention crypto and stablecoins.
Ripple launches a $750M share buyback, valuing the company at $50B as it expands its digital asset infrastructure business.
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The cost of medical care, apparel, household furnishings, airline fares, and education all rose during the month of February, BLS data shows.
XRP’s prolonged decline has seen its price down more than 60% from its 2025 peak, placing it inside what can be viewed as an extended corrective phase. As expected, this has led to questions among crypto investors as to whether XRP can still go on a rally this year that would see it push to new all-time highs and possibly above $4. One analyst has now laid out a scenario suggesting XRP could soon complete its correction and begin another upward wave that may eventually push the price to new highs. XRP May Be Nearing The End Of A Long Corrective Phase The prevailing discussion around XRP’s decline in the past few months has largely centered on the cryptocurrency topping out at its summer 2025 all-time high of $3.65. According to one analyst posting on X, that reading may be fundamentally incorrect. Related Reading: Expert Trader Shows ‘Simple Math’ To Calculate The Bitcoin Price Bottom Based on this analysis, the impulsive wave for XRP completed as far back as January 2025, when XRP reached a peak above $3.30. This was several months before the all-time high was printed. The subwaves originating from July 2024 fit best as an impulsive structure that concluded in January 2025, with the price action that followed, including the ATH, forming a corrective pattern. The last major corrective stretch on the weekly chart lasted 61 weeks from top to bottom and erased about 85% of XRP’s value before the next meaningful recovery began. Applying that same time window to the January 2025 high would place the current correction close to completion around mid-March 2026. XRP Price Chart. Source: @protechtor On X As shown in the chart above, XRP’s earlier correction after 2021 unfolded inside a descending channel and lasted 61 bars, or 427 days, before finding a low. The price decline during that phase reached about 85.34%. The current structure on the right side of the chart is looking like that earlier breakdown in both shape and duration. This time, the decline has so far reached about 71.52%, with the same 61-week duration highlighted as a key timing marker. A descending trendline cuts through the current price structure and converges at $1.05. According to the analyst, that level could serve as the final downside target if XRP has not already bottomed. Can XRP Still Reach $4 In 2026? A move to $4 in 2026 would require XRP to do far more than just bounce from support, but the scenario is not unrealistic if the current correction is approaching its end. A rally from the analyst’s suggested downside at $1.05 to $4 would represent a gain of about 281%. Even from the price zone shown on the chart, around $1.38, XRP would still need to climb 200% to reclaim and break beyond the upper boundary of the current corrective structure. Related Reading: Bitcoin Liquidation Map Predicts The Next Targets To Watch Out For A confirmed monthly bottom followed by a strong push above the horizontal resistance area at $1.80 would likely be the first signal. From there, the upper trendline of the current structure and the prior highs around the $3.4 to $3.6 range would become the next price targets. This is where the $4 discussion will become more realistic. Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com
Binance data points to shifting liquidity flows and evolving trader positioning that may support Bitcoin’s next price move.
Foundry plans to launch an institutional grade Zcash mining pool in April 2026, expanding compliant mining infrastructure for the network.
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A vulnerability in some MediaTek-powered phones could allow attackers to extract encrypted data, including wallet seed phrases, using only a USB connection.
Revolut receives PRA approval to launch a UK bank, enabling FSCS protected deposits and new services for its 13 million UK customers.
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The integration of AI agents with blockchain infrastructure could revolutionize secure transaction execution, enhancing the onchain economy.
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