Heavy volume pushed XRP through resistance, but sellers met the move near $1.16 and left traders watching whether former resistance can now hold as support.
A stalling rebound in AI and chip stocks and a stronger dollar kept the mood cautious as the second half gets underway.
All parties are still optimistic that Clarity can happen before the midterms, but time is really starting to run out.
U.S.-linked wallets traded $571 million in political contracts over the past year, more than any other country, even though the platform legally cannot serve them. The money leans toward the foreign-conflict markets U.S. venues do not list.
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said he will hold bitcoin all the way down to zero after buying near $100,000.
Thomas Sy, head of multi-asset solutions at the $800-million asset manager, says blockchain can enable complex portfolio construction that’s not yet possible in traditional finance.
The token hit its highest in over a month during thin July 4 trading, with XRP up 5% in 24 hours to lead gains among majors.
A critical flaw in the Aptos blockchain, which was patched, gave researchers a near-90% success rate at breaking a core security guarantee, with attack costs of just hundreds of dollars.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoin should be frozen before quantum computers can steal it. Not everyone agrees.
The token’s 30-day and 365-day MVRV, a measure of how far holders are underwater, sit near -45% and -47%, lows Santiment says XRP has never reached before. Some traders read stretched losses as a contrarian signal.
This cycle, about $697 billion in new money has generated a roughly 689% gain, compared with earlier cycles where far less capital drove returns of 2,000 percent to more than 50,000 percent.
A7A5 claims crypto data providers understate its trading activity, while blockchain analytics firms say the ruble-backed token’s volumes have fallen sharply this year.