XRP has dropped 4% over the past week, with trading volumes spiking by 171% as the token broke below key support at $1.90.This surge in activity signals growing uncertainty, adding doubt to the bullish XRP price prediction that has dominated recent sentiment.Bearish pressure is intensifying after Donald Trump threatened a…

Tether announced that it purchased approximately 27 tons of gold in the fourth quarter of 2025, and that the current value of this asset has reached $4.4 billion. With this growth, the company’s gold-backed stablecoin, XAUT (Tether Gold), has surpassed the $4 billion mark in total market capitalization, controlling more…

Gold climbed to a fresh all-time high, crossing $5,100 an ounce on Monday, extending its record-breaking run as investors seek shelter amid rising geopolitical tensions and global fiscal risks.Spot gold prices gained 2.4%, trading at $5,102 an ounce, before paring gains to $5,086.The surge comes days after President Donald Trump…

With four days remaining in January, expectations regarding the levels Bitcoin might test by the end of the month have begun to take shape on the prediction marketplace Polymarket. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $87,832. In contracts titled “What price will Bitcoin reach in January?” on…

Crypto traders are abandoning token speculation in favour of prediction markets following a brutal $150 billion altcoin crash, with platforms like Polymarket seeing app installs surge from 30,000 to over 400,000 between January and December 2025, according to Bloomberg.Source: BloombergWeekly trading volume across prediction platforms, including Polymarket and Kalshi, exploded…

The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) is investigating allegations that the son of a Department of Defense and Department of Justice services provider, charged with managing cryptocurrency seized by law enforcement, stole more than $40 million worth of confiscated digital assets. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT accused John “Lick” Daghita, son of Dean…

BitMine Immersion Technologies, a New York–listed company chaired by Fundstrat’s Tom Lee, has quietly built one of the largest concentrated positions in Ethereum ever disclosed by a single entity.In an update published on January 26, BitMine said it now holds 4,243,338 ether, giving the company control of roughly 3.52% of…

Lantern Finance, a U.S.-based crypto lending company, has added Bitcoin Cash, Chainlink, and Sui as eligible collateral on its crypto-backed lending platform, expanding support for assets with established holder bases. With the update, Lantern now supports twelve digital assets in total. Existing collateral options include Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, Litecoin,…

Everyone’s building AI applications, but nobody’s asking who’s going to run them. AI models need actual compute, bandwidth, and storage, not just code and hype. Last year, I watched DePIN move from a narrative into a clear answer to this infrastructure gap. As a result, the market stopped rewarding projects…

Bitcoin (BTC) has been unable to break out of its downtrend since October. After the major crash, which saw it fall to the $80,000 mark, BTC has closed every month in the red since then. At this point, the risk of Bitcoin closing January in the red is increasing, and…