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Crypto pundit Crypto Bully has shared his base case for Bitcoin and what to expect before the flagship crypto rallies above $100,000. This comes as BTC continues to struggle to hold above the $70,000 resistance amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. Analyst Shares Base Case For Bitcoin In an X post, Crypto Bully stated that the path and exact levels of Bitcoin are not important in the long run, aside from immediate support and resistance levels. The analyst shared key points, including the observation that downside retests have not worked for a while. He pointed to the $85,000 level, which he noted is the logical lower high from the previous value generated before a further collapse due to extensive selling. Related Reading: The Bitcoin Game Plan That Shows How To Navigate BTC Below $100,000 However, the analyst suggested that the downtrend is not over, noting that bear market bottoms take months, not weeks. His accompanying chart showed that Bitcoin could still drop to $50,000. In the short term, he predicted that the flagship crypto could drop to $65,000. As for the bullish outlook for BTC, Crypto Bully stated that a break above the current level near $72,000 could easily spark a rally towards $85,000. He explained that a Bitcoin rally to $85,000 is possible, given the strength the flagship crypto has shown amid the ongoing geopolitical turmoil. The analyst added that the aggressive inflows into the BTC ETFs have not disappeared during this period. SoSoValue data shows that the Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net inflow of $767 million this week. Crypto Bull said the best DCA strategy is to buy Bitcoin whenever it drops from $65,000 down to $50,000. He revealed that his current spot buying average is around $67,000. BTC Is Not Yet At A Bottom A CryptoQuant analysis noted that the Bitcoin bottom is “not quite” in. The analysis revealed that, despite BTC’s resilience amid recent geopolitical tensions, on-chain data indicate the leading crypto is in a critical “stress test” phase. It added that the bottoming process could take a long while, with institutions being the primary investors in this cycle. Related Reading: Has Bitcoin Price Bottomed Yet? Analyst Says We’re Not There Yet The analysis also highlighted two paths to a Bottom for Bitcoin. The first path is a potential Black Swan that could trigger a crash, forcing liquidations and wiping out high-cost “new money.” CryptoQuant noted that this is the fastest route to a solid floor, which could form between one and two months. The second path is longer and involves a scenario in which Bitcoin trades sideways between $60,000 and $80,000 for a year, allowing new money to grow into long-term holder status. Under this path, the bear market could extend to late 2026 or early 2027. At the time of writing, the Bitcoin price is trading at around $71,000, down in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Featured image from Pixabay, chart from Tradingview.com
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A quiet shift is underway in the stablecoin hierarchy. While Tether’s USDT still dominates the digital dollar market, the gap between the two largest issuers is narrowing as USDC steadily expands its footprint and Tether’s growth shows signs of softening. Additionally, USDC is gaining ground in the places where the next wave of crypto money […]
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Something strange is happening with USDT, and it’s not the kind of shift traders and investors usually celebrate. On the surface, Ethereum’s USDT activity looks vibrant. Active addresses recently surged to 340,000, a level that normally screams strong network engagement. But digging a little deeper and the story changes fast. This isn’t a speculative frenzy. …
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The past week recorded a significant change in the Bitcoin price action, where there was a momentum-driven rally to the upside of the charts. As of Tuesday, March 10, this move had boosted the flagship cryptocurrency tp reclaim its previous psychological $70,000 level. Interestingly, the Bitcoin price would go on to reach about $74,000 on Friday. While this might be good for Bitcoin, if at all in the short term, data from a recent on-chain evaluation has been published, leading to the suspicious conclusion that Bitcoin’s market participants are currently not as enthusiastic as they should be. Related Reading: Bitcoin Price From $70,000 To $110,000 In 2 Months? Analyst Reveals How Negative Funding Rates On Binance Reveal Increasing Short Positioning In an X post on March 13, pseudonymous on-chain analyst Darkfost reveals that there is a widespread wave of cautious pessimism in the Bitcoin market, despite the most recent bullish performance. As noted by the crypto expert, every rebound of the BTC price seen in March seems merely to be opportunities for short positioning, rather than clear recovery movements. For this reason, there has been a progressive display of negative funding rates on the Binance exchange for close to a week, as shown by the Bitcoin: Funding Rates – Binance metric. Darkfost points out that this is reflected in the extreme readings obtained on the Funding Rates metric, with funding rates slipping under -0.006 both on the 10th and 11th of March. According to the analyst, this significantly negative level indicates that most of the positions currently open on Binance are biased towards shorts, as high skepticism remains among investors on the tenability of Bitcoin’s recovery taking place in the near-term. Related Reading: Bitcoin Eyes Gold’s Crown As Institutional Money Quietly Shifts Extreme Bearish Sentiment Could Trigger Counterintuitive Bullish Move Interestingly, Darkfost references historical data to explain that the Bitcoin market could still see a sharp inflow of bullish momentum. This is because, when most traders open clusters of short positions, they open the market to an increasing possibility of a short squeeze. According to history, Darkfost explains that “when funding rates reach extreme levels or when a strong market consensus forms, it is often too late to position in that direction.” Hence, in the scenario where the Bitcoin price can sustain its recent upside movement, a short squeeze would likely occur. As a result, all of the sell-side liquidity currently sitting above Bitcoin’s market price would become converted to fuel for the upside move, and this in turn could cause the liquidation of even more short positions, further reinforcing the bullish move. Barring a definite move occurring, market participants are therefore advised to retain a more cautious stance in their dealings. As of press time, the Bitcoin price trades at $70,852 following a 1.09% loss over the past 24-hours. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from Tradingview.com
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Washington is getting ready to potentially make life easier for the biggest US banks. That can sound pretty abstract if you don't strip it down to the mechanics. Regulators decide how much capital banks must keep to absorb losses and how much liquidity they need if funding starts to disappear. More capital and more liquidity […]
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A single historical parallel is driving one analyst’s bold call on XRP — and it hinges on a rally that hasn’t happened yet. Related Reading: Ghana’s Crypto Push Begins As 11 Companies Enter SEC Sandbox Channel Pattern Tracks 9 Months Of Price Action Chartist Celal Kucuker has mapped out a descending channel that has guided XRP’s price movements since the token hit a record high of $3.6 in July 2025. The channel has two boundaries: a lower trendline that dates back even further — to when XRP pulled back from $3.4 in January 2025 — and an upper trendline that formed after the July peak. Together, they’ve boxed in the token’s price for the better part of nine months. Two of Kucuker’s projected targets within that channel have already been hit. XRP climbed to $2.4 in January 2026, touching the upper trendline, then reversed and fell to $1.1 in early February, landing near the lower boundary. Both moves played out largely as the analyst had outlined. XRP is now trading around $1.41, down 24% since the start of the year. Ripple XRP 2.40$ ☑️ 1.10$ ☑️ 1.80$ ⌛️ 0.90$ ⌛️ 8.60$ ⌛️ September – December pic.twitter.com/dFilurLCVC — Celal Kucuker (@CelalKucuker) March 13, 2026 Two More Moves Before A Potential Breakout According to Kucuker’s roadmap, the price action isn’t done yet. He expects XRP to bounce toward $1.8 — a retest of the upper trendline — before pulling back again to around $0.9, which would mark another touch of the lower boundary and potentially push the token below the $1 mark. Only after that final retest, in his view, does the setup for a breakout emerge. When that breakout comes, Kucuker puts the upside target at $8.6. He projects that move to unfold between September and December 2026. From the estimated breakout price, that would represent a gain of 330%. That percentage isn’t arbitrary. It mirrors what XRP did the last time it broke out of a similar structure. After clearing a comparable descending channel in November 2024, the token climbed 330% to reach $3.4 by January 2025. The current projection applies that same multiplier to the new setup. Broader Market Adds To Uncertainty The crypto market hasn’t made things easy. Reports indicate the global crypto market cap has dropped 18% since January, falling to roughly $2.4 trillion. XRP’s losses have outpaced that decline. Related Reading: Bitcoin Climbs Back To $73,000 As Short Squeeze Wipes Out $246M In Futures Bets None of that, on its own, derails a technical forecast built on chart patterns rather than macro conditions. But the scale of the projected move — from a potential low near $0.9 to a target of $8.6 — would require sustained buying pressure over several months, with few major disruptions along the way. Kucuker has not specified a timeline for the near-term moves to $1.8 and $0.9. Those steps are treated as preconditions, not endpoints. The $8.6 figure only comes into play after the channel is broken to the upside. As of March 14, XRP continues to trade well within the channel’s boundaries, with the next key level — the $1.8 upper trendline retest — still ahead. Featured image from Shutterstock, chart from TradingView
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The Bitcoin price might look calm on the surface, but beneath that quiet chart is a familiar cocktail of fear, speculation, and historical pattern-chasing. And right now, the ingredients look oddly familiar. Fresh on-chain data shows the percentage of coins sitting on exchanges has fallen to its lowest level since November 2017. That’s a long …
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While the Pi Network community celebrates Pi Day on March 14, its native token PI is crashing instead of rallying. The price has fallen about 26% in 24 hours, leaving investors wondering what went wrong. Let’s find out the reason why the Pi network Pi coin price is crashing today on Pi day. Sell-the-News Reaction …
One company spent $1.28 billion buying nearly 18,000 BTC in seven days. At its current pace, it is on track to hold more Bitcoin than the person who created it. Strategy now holds 738,731 BTC, acquired at a total cost of around $56 billion. According to Lark Davis, Strategy sits among the four largest Bitcoin …
DEXE price is gaining traction as investors rotate into DAO governance tokens during the latest crypto market rally. The token powering the DeXe Protocol has surged after breaking out of a prolonged consolidation phase, drawing attention from traders looking for momentum opportunities in smaller-cap altcoins. While major cryptocurrencies remain in consolidation mode, niche sectors such …
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The dogecoin price trending below $1 means that the meme coin is still around a 1,000% rally from hitting the coveted $1 level. Despite the expectations over the years, the digital asset has not performed well, instead ending its 2024 rally before it even got to its present all-time high of $0.74. However, this poor performance has not dissuaded investors, with one analyst predicting that the Dogecoin price will indeed end up hitting $1. Using Previous Cycles To Predict Price Trajectory Crypto analyst Javon Marks has predicted the trajectory of the Dogecoin price using the performance of the meme coin in the last few cycles. So far, there has been a consistent trend showing that the cryptocurrency has staged a major recovery with each cycle. While there was an over 500% surge in 2024, it has fallen short of the explosive rallies that investors have come to expect. Related Reading: XRP Negative Funding Continues, Crashes To Levels Not Seen Since 2022 Instead of an actual breakout, the analyst classifies the performance between 2023 and 2025 as being part of a stagnation period. What this means is that the Dogecoin price is still in a build-up phase that would lead to its next rally. If the trend holds, then it is possible that Dogecoin could see another explosive rally in 2026. A breakout from the bottom, somewhere around $0.09, would define the rally and set the tone to hit the first target. This target lies at $0.739, which would be a 750% rally. Next on the target list is the $1.25 level, meaning that the price would have to rise around 1,100% to complete this move. Then, the final target is placed somewhere above $1.80, and this would mean an over 2,000% move for the meme coin. Dogecoin Could Be Marking A Bottom Another analyst, CryptoAnalystSignal, on the TradingView website, has also proposed that the Dogecoin price might be hitting a bottom. This is because the price had been moving inside a descending channel on the one-hour chart. Usually, when the price reaches the lower boundary of this channel, as Dogecoin has done, it results in a bounce. Rising from this descending channel would mean that a possible bottom was in. Related Reading: Analyst Maps Out XRP’s Exact Path For 2026, Here’s The Roadmap There is still the question of the Relative Strength Index (RSI) showing a possible bearish trend. However, as the price moves toward the 100-MA, it is possible that Dogecoin will target above $0.097 before encountering major resistance. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com
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Bitcoin peaked at $126,230 on October 6. It has been falling for 159 days since. To most holders, that feels like an eternity. To anyone who has looked at the historical data, it barely registers. CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost laid out the numbers. In the 2017 cycle, it took 1,180 days before Bitcoin reached a new …
Cardano price is approaching a potentially critical moment as the broader crypto market rally begins to build momentum. Despite trading below the $0.30 level, analysts believe the current structure could signal early accumulation before the next major move in ADA. While several altcoins continue to struggle amid market volatility, Cardano (ADA) has managed to hold …
On-chain analytics firm Glassnode has highlighted how Bitcoin has only seen a relatively thin accumulation band form during the recent consolidation range. Bitcoin STH CBD Shows Accumulation Remains Thin In a new post on X, Glassnode has talked about the latest trend in the Bitcoin Cost Basis Distribution (CBD) of the short-term holders. The CBD here refers to an indicator that tells us about the amount of supply that was purchased at the various price levels visited by BTC in its history. Related Reading: Bitcoin Returns Mirror Late-2022 Levels Seen Before 67% Rally: Santiment The CBD of the short-term holders (STHs) specifically tracks this for the supply that was purchased within the past 155 days. The short time frame means that supply clusters on the indicator always thin out over time, whether by coins from them being moved at other price levels (thus regaining their cost basis there) or by maturing into the long-term holder (LTH) cohort, beyond the 155-day cutoff. Now, here is the chart shared by Glassnode that shows how the Bitcoin STH CBD has changed over the past year: As displayed in the above graph, the Bitcoin STH CBD gained a large supply cluster at the price lows seen back in November, indicating that a notable amount of fresh accumulation took place in response to the market crash. This dense supply zone then acted as a support cushion for the asset, helping stabilize it into a phase of consolidation. Eventually, though, the cryptocurrency’s bearish momentum returned and its price plummeted deep under the cluster. This implies that all tokens part of it have gone underwater. Besides the strong supply zone at the range’s lower end, the consolidation phase from November-January also resulted in some higher levels being filled out with supply. This accumulation wasn’t quite as strong as at the lows, but it still nonetheless showed that coins were actively changing hands. Recently, Bitcoin has stabilized into another phase of sideways movement, but from the chart, it’s apparent that this time there has neither been a strong dip buying response, nor a buildup of a significant supply cluster as the consolidation has gone on. That said, buying hasn’t been completely absent, with some supply starting to find cost basis inside the zone. “An accumulation cluster is forming in the $62k–$72k range,” noted Glassnode. “However, its intensity is modest relative to prior phases that preceded sustained expansions.” Related Reading: Bitcoin Recovery Requires STH Profitability Above 50%: Glassnode It now remains to be seen how the supply range will develop in the near future. For now, the foundation provided by it remains thin for a mid-term breakout, according to the analytics firm. BTC Price At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading around $71,100, up nearly 5% over the past week. Featured image from Dall-E, chart from TradingView.com
XRP is trading at $1.39 today, down 63% from its peak. And while most holders are staring at the price waiting for a recovery, they may be missing the more important question: does XRP even work if the price stays low? According to Ripple’s own CTO, the answer is no. David Schwartz Said It Eight …
USDC’s market cap is approaching a record $80 billion, with one analyst linking the surge to capital flight and turmoil in Dubai’s real estate market.