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What the Data Shows As of now, the crypto market is experiencing a lack of significant price movement, with current volumes remaining unchanged. This stagnant market state could be a reflection of the prevailing uncertainty surrounding regulatory developments, particularly the Clarity Act. Investors appear cautious, monitoring any shifts in legislative momentum that could impact the broader crypto landscape. The Clarity Act, championed by Senator Lummis, aims to establish a regulatory framework for digital assets, particularly focusing on token creation and consumer protections. Given the recent collapse of FTX, this legislation is crucial for preventing similar incidents and ensuring a stable…

Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. The pitch addresses a problem emerging as AI agents grow more capable: they are becoming “economic actors” that need to buy data from one provider, an AI model from another and computing power from a third, but today’s paid services typically demand an account, API key or billing relationship with each one, which breaks down when an agent is picking services on the fly. Agent Pay for Machines builds on x402, the open protocol that lets online services request payment, and pairs it with Mastercard’s network. The flow hinges…

The hourly chart supports the bullish bias more convincingly than the daily momentum readings do. Yet price is already above the hourly upper Bollinger Band, making a failed breakout a credible near-term risk. This is a continuation setup with stretched execution conditions, not an unqualified breakout. Bitcoin prediction hinges on hourly R1 at $83,600.18 The immediate directional question is whether Bitcoin can close an hourly candle above R1 at $83,600.18. A confirmed break would shift focus to daily R1 at $83,911.43, while failure to hold above the pivot would unwind the setup. Bullish scenario: an hourly close above hourly R1…

BlockTower Capital founder Ari Paul publicly accused Coinbase of losing roughly $25 million of his firm’s assets and concealing hacks totaling more than $1 billion across a dozen institutions. Coinbase flatly denies it, Paul says active litigation prevents him from publishing his evidence, and the industry has spent the weeks since arguing about who is telling the truth. The argument misses the most uncomfortable fact in the story: nobody outside the two parties involved can check. That is a strange place to land for an industry built on an asset designed so that no one would have to take anyone’s…

This includes payments, investment access, and connections to existing financial systems. On-chain data shows data that suggests that there is already some early evidence of activity. According to recent data, the total amount of Ripple USD [RLUSD] issued is approximately $1.03 billion, and the total value of all stablecoins on the XRPL network is approximately $1.11 billion. Source: DeFiLlama As a result of this data, it appears as though the XRPL network has already demonstrated an ability to support significant settlement-related activity outside traditional payment use cases. Unless institutional users continue to increase their usage of the XRPL network, many…

The defendants include Kalshi Inc., KalshiEX LLC, Kalshi Klear Inc., Kalshi Klear LLC and Kalshi Trading LLC, alongside Susquehanna International Group LLP and Susquehanna Government Products LLLP. Utah alleges the Susquehanna firms act as institutional counterparties, routinely taking the other side of retail customers’ wagers, including those placed by Utah residents. The complaint characterizes that activity as accepting and profiting from illegal bets. Its claims include public nuisance, unjust enrichment and civil conspiracy, alongside requests for declaratory and injunctive relief. It also seeks punitive damages and reimbursement of the state’s nuisance-abatement costs. The market-making relationship itself was publicly announced by…

Bitquery Counts 8.98 Million Pump.fun Tokens Roughly eight in ten tokens issued through Pump.fun, the Solana-based launchpad, never traded again after the day they went live. An on-chain study by the analytics firm Bitquery, which tracked new Solana tokens from Nov. 1, 2025 through Oct. 7, 2026, puts the share at 79% of the 8,984,141 Pump.fun tokens in its survival table. Launch day is defined as the date of a token’s first swap, and the number measures trading persistence rather than price damage: it says nothing about how far a token fell or how many holders lost money. The tail…

Bitcoin 2025 buyers add to $87,000 resistance zone New research from onchain analytics platform Glassnode reveals that the breakeven point for a cohort of new Bitcoin holders is currently acting as resistance. Since the start of the year, two groups of holders have kept $BTC/USD from moving higher once it challenges their acquisition cost basis. In November 2025, price lost the cost basis of investors with entries between six and 12 months prior, which sat at $94,000 at the time. When price attempted to break above the trendline at $97,100 in January 2026, it became resistance, triggering a rejection and…

What Is Driving Digital Gold Adoption? Digital gold includes products that let investors own a fractional interest in physical gold stored in a vault, including blockchain tokens backed by the bullion. Unlike traditional gold ETFs, these products can come with different ownership setups and, in some cases, integrate with blockchain-based financial apps. According to the WGC, digital gold makes up less than 1% of the roughly $13 trillion market for physical investment gold. Still, tokenized gold is already picking up steam, as its value has grown about fivefold since late 2024 to around $6 billion, and trading volume topped $90…

The gap places Tron well ahead of these competitors on this specific metric. However, network revenue does not capture every aspect of blockchain activity, and differences in fee structures make direct comparisons more complex. $USDT Transfers Drive Tron’s Network Activity Tron’s revenue strength is closely linked to its role as a major network for Tether’s $USDT stablecoin. Users frequently rely on Tron to transfer dollar-pegged tokens between exchanges and wallets, supporting consistent transaction demand. This payment-focused activity helps explain why Tron can generate substantial revenue without relying solely on speculative trading or decentralized finance. Transactions require network resources, linking usage…