XRP slipped to $1.85 after breaking the $1.87 support zone, with heavier exchange inflows pointing to renewed distribution just as bitcoin’s rebound lost momentum and broader risk appetite stayed cautious. News background Institutional interest in XRP remains structurally supportive through ETFs, but near-term flows are telling a different story. On-chain data shows a sharp pickup…
Dogecoin slipped 3% to $0.1226 as year-end selling pressure pushed the token through a key support zone, keeping the meme coin pinned to the lower end of its December downtrend. DOGE broke below $0.1248 during the heaviest trading window of the session, with volume running about 157% above average — a sign the move wasn’t…
Major alternative cryptocurrencies slipped on Tuesday as volumes remained thin and bitcoin BTC$88,587.60 traders continue to eye range play in the leading cryptocurrency. Bitcoin hovered around $87,300, down about 3% over 24 hours, while ether fell near $2,950. XRP traded around $1.86, also down on the day, as most large caps drifted lower with no…
Perpetuals-focused Ethereum-based Layer 2 decentralized exchange (DEX) Lighter has announced the debut of its native cryptocurrency, the Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT), to align traders, builders, and backers as it looks to blend traditional markets with DeFi. The LIT token supply is divided evenly: 50% to the ecosystem, 50% to the team and investors. An immediate…
Metaplanet (3350), a Tokyo-listed investment and operating company focused on bitcoin treasury management, bought another 4,279 bitcoin BTC$88,248.95 in the fourth quarter, spending a total of $451 million, it said in a post on X. The purchase, at an average price of $105,412, took its total to 35,102 BTC, the fourth largest of any publicly…
Long-term holders (LTH) of bitcoin BTC$88,429.55 have shifted back into accumulation for the first time since July. LTHs, defined as entities that have held bitcoin for at least 155 days, have accumulated roughly 33,000 BTC on a 30-day net basis, according to onchain data analysts checkonchain. Selling from LTHs has been one of the two…
2025 is drawing to an end with few crypto market stories more dramatic than the Oct. 10 “flash crash,” when bitcoin BTC$88,304.52 plunged $12,000, or nearly 10%, in minutes. The meltdown triggered more than $19 billion in liquidations in just 24 hours, followed by a trader-circulated “cascade warning” and a staggering $500 billion wiped from…
APT$1.6893 posted rose in the past 24 hours, advancing 1.3% to $1.73. The token maintained tight correlation with broader crypto markets throughout the period, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. The model showed that volume patterns revealed underlying institutional accumulation. Price action accelerated during the end of the period as APT pierced previous resistance…
South Korea’s long-awaited Digital Asset Basic Act (DABA), a sweeping framework meant to govern crypto trading and issuance in one of Asia’s most active digital asset markets, has been delayed amid disagreements among regulators over stablecoin issuance. The most significant disagreement centers on who should have the legal authority to issue KRW-pegged stablecoins, according to…
Prenetics (PRE), a health-sciences company that raised $48 million earlier this year, partially to build a bitcoin treasury, said it decided to stop purchasing BTC amid prolonged weakness in the cryptocurrency market. The company rolled out its bitcoin accumulation strategy in June, following a model championed by Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc, in which firms raise…
