XRP may be entering a more constructive phase, according to a new thread via X from market analyst Ali Martinez (@alicharts), who argued on April 21 via X that the asset is showing a “structural trend shift from bearish to bullish.” The case rests on a mix of trend-following indicators, whale accumulation, exchange supply dynamics, and a tightening chart structure that could set up a larger move. 4 Signs XRP Is Turning Bullish Ali’s first signal is a change in the macro trend on the daily chart. In the thread, he said the SuperTrend indicator has now issued its first buy signal since January, a notable reversal after months of persistent sell pressure. He wrote: “On the daily chart, the SuperTrend indicator has flashed a buy signal for the first time since January. This flip suggests that selling pressure is waning down, and XRP could be gearing up for a trend reversal.” Related Reading: ‘The Short Version For Why I Hold XRP Through Everything’; Analyst Reveals That call builds on an earlier April 18 post in which Ali framed the signal as a potentially important inflection point. “For the first time since Jan. 17, the SuperTrend indicator has flipped bullish on the daily chart. After months of ‘sell’ pressure, we are officially seeing a buy signal that anticipates a major comeback in XRP’s trend. While the trend has shifted, the real test lies at $1.55,” he wrote. The second sign is positioning from large holders. Ali said on-chain data from Santiment shows whales accumulated roughly 360 million XRP over the past week. If that accumulation continues, it adds weight to the idea that the recent change in trend is being supported by capital rather than by a short-lived bounce. The third sign is the setup forming on lower time frames. Ali said XRP has been compressing into a symmetrical triangle, a structure he argued could foreshadow a 35% move once price breaks out decisively. In his telling, the pattern fits with the broader shift underway: macro conditions are improving, supply is being pulled off exchanges, and price is coiling into a tighter range. Related Reading: Is XRP Gearing Up For A 35% Move? This Pattern May Suggest So “As the macro trend flips and supply is pulled off exchanges, a symmetrical triangle has formed on the lower time frames. This pattern has compressed the price into a tight range, anticipating a 35% move once a breakout occurs,” he writes. The fourth sign is the clarity of the invalidation and breakout levels. He says a daily close above $1.55 would validate the breakout and open the way toward $1.90, describing that resistance as “the key level” that has capped upside recently. At the same time, he said the bullish outlook remains intact only as long as XRP holds the $1.30 support zone. Rather than calling for an immediate breakout, Ali is outlining a market that may be transitioning from defense to offense, with defined levels that would either confirm or weaken the thesis. A bullish SuperTrend flip, whale accumulation, a compressed triangle, and a nearby resistance test do not amount to proof on their own. Together, though, they form a coherent case that XRP may be moving out of a bearish regime and into an early bullish one. At press time, XRP traded at $1.4368. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
The bill would prohibit the use of crypto for domestic payments but allow its use in foreign economic activities, according to TASS.
Hackers behind the KelpDAO breach have started moving stolen assets into Bitcoin, using THORChain to convert funds and dramatically increase the network’s activity. One attacker wallet sent funds through THORChain, pushing daily transaction volume to about $211 million, nearly 10× the 30-day average. Around 442 BTC ($33 million) is now spread across more than 400 …
The naval blockade's persistence underscores a diplomatic impasse, reducing market confidence in a swift resolution and impacting negotiations.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX revealed that it has secured an option to acquire Cursor, the AI coding assistant developed by Anysphere, in a deal valued at $60 billion later this year, with an alternative $10 billion payment tied to their joint work if the acquisition does not go through. This signals that the AI coding race …
The potential for US-Iran talks hinges on US concessions, impacting diplomatic dynamics and market sentiment amid ongoing mediation.
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Bitcoin's Coinbase premium has been positive for 14 straight days, the longest bullish streak since BTC hit its all time high of $126,000 in October.
Trump's push for rate cuts highlights tensions between political influence and Fed's inflation control, potentially impacting economic stability.
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Umbra has shut down its front end to stop hackers, but says it can’t stop the use of its smart contracts or another version of its open-source front end.
Bitcoin miners dumped a record 40,000 BTC in the first quarter of this year — more than the entirety of 2025 combined and well above the 20,000 BTC sold in the panic following the Terra collapse in mid-2022. That number sits quietly beneath the surface of what otherwise looks like a recovering market. Related Reading: Strategy Raises $1.76B War Chest As Saylor Signals Bigger Bitcoin Buy Miners Signal Trouble Even As Prices Climb The sell-off came as mining difficulty dropped 2.4% to 135 trillion, while network hashrate climbed back from roughly 978 exahashes per second to 992 EH/s this month, according to data from Glassnode. When producers sell at record pace during a difficulty drop, it points to one thing: tight margins. The economics of mining haven’t recovered the way the price chart might suggest, and any sustained move above $80,000 would have to absorb continued selling from that same group. Bitcoin was trading at $76,827 on Tuesday noon, up 1.4% over 24 hours, as Iran confirmed it would send a delegation to Pakistan for a second round of ceasefire talks. Ether gained 1.18% to reach $2,311. XRP rose 1.2% to $1.42. Solana trailed the pack, up just 0.9% on the day and down 1% for the week. The broader market moved in the same direction. The MSCI All Country World Index added 0.1% after pausing on Monday, with Asian equities leading the charge and the regional tech index gaining 2.38%. Brent crude slipped 0.7% to $94.80 a barrel. Gold fell 0.6% to around $4,800. Silver dropped 1% to $78.89. Treasuries and the dollar were largely flat. A Deadline That Markets Can’t Ignore The two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran expires Wednesday evening, Washington time. US President Donald Trump said Monday he does not plan to extend it. Markets are now priced around that deadline. Three vessels attempted passage through the Strait of Hormuz early Tuesday, with American and Iranian blockades still active — the first real test of whether the waterway is clearing before any agreement is signed. Bitcoin has lagged equities throughout this stretch. The MSCI ACWI has been on an 11-day rally that stumbled only once since de-escalation began. Bitcoin, by contrast, spent that same period crawling back from below $75,000 to just above $76,000. ETF Demand Holds The Floor Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $996 million last week, according to SoSoValue. Ethereum spot ETFs brought in $276 million over the same period. That institutional buying has kept a floor under prices even as miners push supply into the market. Related Reading: Rave Token Crashes 95% As Manipulation Allegations Trigger Panic Research firm Kaiko said a clean break above $76,000 would open a path toward $85,000. Analysts at K33 flagged that same level as a potential short squeeze trigger. On the downside, a slide back below $75,000 — if Wednesday’s deadline passes without a deal — remains the key risk traders are watching. Bitcoin’s ceasefire rally gave the alpha crypto a lift. The miners are using it to sell. Until that changes, the rebound has a floor but no clear roof. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
FTX liquidators sold the Alameda Research stake in Cursor’s developer, Anysphere, for just $200,000 during the bankruptcy process, missing out on massive upside. Alameda originally backed Anysphere with $200,000 for roughly 5% of the company. Today, SpaceX has secured an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion later this year or pay $10 billion for …
Sullivan & Cromwell’s Andrew Dietderich said the company has AI policies to prevent incorrect citations and other errors, but procedures weren’t followed on this occasion.
The rejection of the ceasefire extension may prolong regional instability and complicate diplomatic efforts, impacting global markets.
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Justin Sun has filed a lawsuit in a California federal court against World Liberty Financial, a DeFi project backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., over a dispute involving frozen tokens and governance control. Sun says the issue began when the team froze all his WLFI holdings, removed his voting rights, and allegedly threatened …
Justin Sun, the crypto entrepreneur behind TRON, has taken World Liberty Financial (WLFI) to a federal court in California, accusing the Trump-linked DeFi project of freezing his $WLFI tokens and blocking his ability to vote on governance decisions. Sun says repeated requests to unfreeze his assets and restore his rights were rejected, and he claims …
The IRGC's stance heightens geopolitical tensions, impacting market perceptions and signaling potential instability within Iran's regime.
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BlackRock's Bitcoin purchase highlights the growing influence of institutional investments on cryptocurrency markets amid geopolitical tensions.
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The indefinite ceasefire extension may stabilize tensions, but the ongoing naval blockade and lack of diplomatic progress sustain uncertainty.
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Bitcoin traded at $77,541 on Wednesday morning, up 2.2% over 24 hours and 4.3% on the week, after Trump extended the Iran ceasefire and Strategy disclosed its largest BTC purchase in 17 months.
World Liberty unfairly froze Sun's $WLFI tokens and threatened him, the lawsuit alleged.
The transfer effectively moves part of Li’s private trading operation into a public company where he is the largest shareholder.
Dogecoin started a recovery wave above the $0.0940 zone against the US Dollar. DOGE is now facing hurdles near $0.0975 and might struggle to continue higher. DOGE price started a recovery wave from $0.0925 and climbed above $0.0940. The price is trading above the $0.0950 level and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There is a rising channel forming with resistance at $0.0970 on the hourly chart of the DOGE/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The price could continue to move up if it stays above $0.0925. Dogecoin Price Hits Resistance Dogecoin price started a recovery wave from the $0.0925 zone, like Bitcoin and Ethereum. DOGE climbed above the $0.0935 and $0.0942 resistance levels. There was a decent upward move above the 23.6% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $0.1021 swing high to the $0.0926 low. However, the bears remained active near the $0.0970 zone. Besides, there is a rising channel forming with resistance at $0.0970 on the hourly chart of the DOGE/USD pair. Dogecoin price is now trading above the $0.0950 level and the 100-hourly simple moving average. If there is another recovery wave, immediate resistance on the upside is near the $0.0970 level. The first major resistance for the bulls could be near the $0.0975 level or the 50% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $0.1021 swing high to the $0.0926 low. The next major resistance is near the $0.10 level. A close above the $0.10 resistance might send the price toward the $0.1020 resistance. Any more gains might send the price toward the $0.1065 level. The next major stop for the bulls might be $0.1120. Another Decline In DOGE? If DOGE’s price fails to climb above the $0.0975 level, it could continue to move down. Initial support on the downside is near the $0.0950 level. The next major support is near the $0.0932 level. The main support sits at $0.0925. If there is a downside break below the $0.0925 support, the price could decline further. In the stated case, the price might slide toward the $0.090 level or even $0.0880 in the near term. Technical Indicators Hourly MACD – The MACD for DOGE/USD is now losing momentum in the bullish zone. Hourly RSI (Relative Strength Index) – The RSI for DOGE/USD is now above the 50 level. Major Support Levels – $0.0950 and $0.0925. Major Resistance Levels – $0.0975 and $0.10.
Pi Network has rolled out Pi Request for Comment 2 (PiRC2), opening its testnet subscription smart contracts for developers and the community to review, test, and give feedback. The move is aimed at stress-testing recurring payment systems inside the ecosystem before full deployment. The update focuses on a subscription smart contract system that enables recurring …
In a crypto landscape increasingly defined by fragmentation, the idea of unified liquidity is gaining traction, and Solana is positioning itself at the center of that conversation. Solana Foundation president explained that the network’s architecture was intentionally designed to keep liquidity on a single, high-performance layer rather than splitting it across multiple chains, bridges, and isolated environments. How Unified Liquidity Improves Market Efficiency The Solana Foundation president Calilyliu claimed that SOL is built for unified liquidity. According to a post on X, Calilyliu stated that no matter how advanced a technology may be, no participants is ever bigger than the market itself, and the most important thing in finance is liquidity. Related Reading: Solana Foundation Launches Developer Platform — TradFi And DeFi Giants Join The Push In an interview at the Solana Policy Institute’s Washington x Wall Street Summit, she highlighted that the market will always win, liquidity will always win, and people will ultimately trade off everything to participate in the largest market. Meanwhile, the scale of that opportunity to create a marketplace is unprecedented, with an estimated 5.5 billion people connected to the internet. There is no isolated pool of liquidity that will be larger than SOL. SOL’s architecture aims to support a single, global marketplace accessible to anyone online, which reinforces the network as the preferred infrastructure. By prioritizing unified liquidity from the start, SOL positions itself as the number one network designed for the full scale of the financial market. A New Foundation For Autonomous AI Agents To Operate On Solana In a recent post on X, SAEP introduced the agent economy protocol on Solana, a foundational infrastructure layer designed to enable autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents to operate as independent economic actors on SOL. Related Reading: Solana Value Proposition Extends Beyond Tech Into Economic Infrastructure Today, AI agents are already capable of executing tasks and generating real economic value, but they rely on centralized APIs and human-controlled wallets. There is no trustless framework that allows an agent to natively hold funds, take a job, verify completion, or resolve disputes without human intervention. SAEP is built to remove that limitation. At its core is a system of 10 interconnected Anchor programs that collectively define a machine-native economy. Agents are given on-chain identities, paired with staked reputation, and enforced through slash timelocks. At the financial layer, agents are equipped with sovereign PDA treasuries with programmable sending rules. SAEP also introduces a permissionless task marketplace, where agents can discover and execute jobs with atomic jito-bundled escrow. Payment is conditional and trustless, released only when Groth16 zero-knowledge proofs verification confirms that the required work has been completed. In case of conflict, SAEP integrates Switchboard VRF-powered dispute resolution, where bonded jurors and on-chain are randomly selected to arbitrate outcomes. Beyond execution, SAEP embeds governance, staking, and fee distribution directly into its architecture, creating a fully integrated economic system from day one. Lastly, security is enforced through audit-gated development, a 4-of-7 multisig, and a 7-day upgrade timelock. Featured image from iStock, chart from Tradingview.com
Coinbase’s quantum advisory board says quantum computing isn’t yet a threat, but has urged for upgrade work to begin, with some blockchains being less prepared than others.
Sun said the WLFI team refused to unfreeze his tokens, leaving him with no choice but to turn to the courts.
The heightened tensions and military threats from Iran increase the risk of conflict, impacting global stability and market volatility.
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Iran's refusal to negotiate heightens geopolitical tensions, increasing the risk of prolonged conflict and impacting global market stability.
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Sun said the lawsuit is to protect his rights as a WLFI token holder and doesn't change his support of US President Donald Trump and his administration’s efforts to make the US crypto-friendly.
Geopolitical stability boosts Bitcoin's appeal, potentially influencing future market dynamics and investor confidence in crypto assets.
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