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Bitcoin’s price struggles to break $100,000 as resistance holds firm. Slower recovery rates show a loss of buying interest since early 2025. Speculative assets like Solana and meme coins are attracting more attention. Bitcoin’s immediate past performance has not displayed considerable upward momentum in the face of further positive news in the market: the chart reveals even longer-term consolidation, with price action largely stuck in between $90,000s and $100,000s. The resistance levels are currently limiting price action, as evidenced by repeated price rejection through $102,749. In the face of several positive developments and strong SPX (S&P 500) performance, Bitcoin has…
The Bitcoin ecosystem is rapidly growing as its cumulative TVL has reached $5.37B, with several DeFi protocols witnessing considerable rise in total value locked. As per the data from Phoenix Group, top DeFi protocols on the Bitcoin ecosystem in terms of TVL include Babylon, Lombard, and SOLV in the leading positions as of March 14th. The crypto data and analytics firm took to social media to share the list of top Bitcoin-based DeFi protocols. TOP 10 #TVL ON #BITCOIN#Babylon #Lombard $SOLV #exSat #Lorenzo #Lightning #tBTC #Coffer #b14g #Bedrock pic.twitter.com/lnIISJcpVN — PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) March 14, 2025…
This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. The White House crypto summit — not to be confused with the Blockworks Digital Asset Summit — dominated headlines on Friday. But as the dust settled over the weekend, crypto investors were left wondering what, if anything, was actually accomplished. The summit was closed-door, save for a 20-minute televised address from Trump and his top lieutenants. A quick note: The public portion of the afternoon inexplicably started with the unveiling of the 2026 World Cup trophy and remarks from FIFA president Gianni Infantino. We were just…
According to a Feb. 14 regulatory filing, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has acknowledged Cboe BZX’s request to list asset manager 21Shares’ XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF). Not to be confused with an actual XRP ETF approval, the acknowledgment is a sign of progress for US exchanges seeking to list ETFs containing spot XRP. The filing reads, “The Exchange proposes to list and trade the Shares under BZX Rule 14.11(e), which governs the listing and trading of Commodity-Based Trust Shares on the Exchange.5 21Shares US, LLC is the sponsor of the Trust (the “Sponsor”). The Shares will be…
Base has become Ethereum’s top layer two (L2) across several metrics and Base projects will now have access to onchain startup capital on Echo. Echo Hosts Coinbase Ventures’ New Base Ecosystem Group to Expand Crypto Development Projects building on Ethereum’s largest L2 network Base will now have access to early startup capital via the Echo platform thanks to the newly created Base Ecosystem Group announced by Coinbase Ventures on Thursday. Crypto thought leader Jordan Fish, more commonly known as, “Cobie,” launched Echo in March 2024 with the goal of democratizing early stage onchain investing. Token launches are notorious for giving…
Bitcoin’s social risk is at 0.223, showing lower sentiment volatility. A strong correlation exists between Bitcoin price rises and social risk spikes. Lower social risk suggests Bitcoin could remain stable or see future growth. Analyst Benjamin Cowen made a chart on February 18, 2025, which indicated the changes in the metric value of Bitcoin’s social risk over the years. This demonstrates the ways sentiment and public perception generate an impact on price movements. The data clearly shows that the social risk metric is inversely correlated with the price of Bitcoin; as the price of Bitcoin jumped sharply during bull runs,…
The Trump family fund, World Liberty Financial, is on track to sell out the last of the WLFI tokens. The second stage of the presale has to raise only $2M to close, opening up the next stage of the project. World Liberty Financial has almost finalized the last stage of its WLFI token presale. A little over 40M tokens remain, with a price tag of $0.05, awaiting inflows of just $2M. The fundraising remained relatively slow, as most of the buying was for retail amounts. The fund is closing its second presale, after previously placing another 25B tokens at $0.015.…
A key player behind the Libra token bragged about buying access to Argentine President Javier Milei’s inner circle months before the memecoin’s scandalous launch and crash. In text messages reviewed by CoinDesk, Hayden Davis, CEO of Kelsier Ventures, claimed he could “control” Milei because of payments he had been making to Karina Milei, a powerful figure in Milei’s government, not to mention the president’s sister. “I control that n****,” Davis claimed in text messages from mid-December, adding, “I send $$ to his sister and he signs whatever I say and does what I want.” Karina Milei’s office did not respond…
There is a new crypto project that aims to build a decentralized network for trustless AI Output Verification. It is called Mira, it was launched last year, and it is still in the testnet phase. The crypto network centered on AI of Mira How does the crypto network for AI by Mira work? The problem and the solution proposed by Mira The token of the Mira project The crypto network centered on AI of Mira The project was initiated by three AI experts from Aroha Labs, Ninad Naik, Sidhartha Doddipalli, and Karan Sirdesai. In particular, Ninad Naik has previously been…
Bitcoin price started another decline below the $96,200 zone. BTC is retesting the $95,000 support zone and might struggle to recover losses. Bitcoin started a fresh decline from the $97,500 zone. The price is trading below $96,200 and the 100 hourly Simple moving average. There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance at $96,000 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair could start another increase if it stays above the $95,000 zone. Bitcoin Price Dips Further Bitcoin price failed to clear the $98,500 and $98,000 resistance levels. BTC formed a top…