Key takeaways: Solana outperforms Ethereum in high-revenue DApps, providing a fundamental cushion against recent price drops. Rising Ethereum Layer-2 dominance challenges SOL as traders monitor the critical $80 support level for a retest. Solana’s native token, SOL (SOL), faced an 11% correction following a rejection at $93 on last Wednesday. SOL has lagged the broader cryptocurrency market over the past week, testing the $80 support on multiple occasions. Solana network fees have also declined over the past two months, leading traders to fear a potential retest of the $75 level.…
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Bitcoin, Stocks Pile On Gains As US, Iran Consider Ending War
Bitcoin held gains above $68,000 as investors leaned into news that the US and Iran were ideating ways to end the war. Will markets hold their newfound bullishness? Bitcoin (BTC) briefly jumped to $68,589, and US stock markets rallied as investors reacted to US President Donald Trump’s statements on considering options for ending the US and Israel-Iran war. Separate, unconfirmed comments attributed to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also suggested that Iran may be looking for ways to end the war. On Tuesday, reporting from The Wall Street Journal said that…
Ethereum Faces Selling Pressure On Charts While Supply Remains Locked
Ethereum is navigating a challenging market phase, with price facing persistent selling pressure despite a tightening supply landscape. On the charts, ETH has shown signs of weakness, with repeated rejections at key resistance levels and declining momentum suggesting that sellers remain in control in the short term. A significant portion of the ETH supply remains locked across staking contracts, effectively reducing the amount of liquid ETH available on the market. Locked Supply Continues To Tighten Circulating Ethereum Ethereum is experiencing selling pressure on the charts, but supply is being locked…
Trump Signals Possible US Withdrawal from Iran Within Weeks
“We’re finishing the job, and I think within maybe two weeks, maybe a couple of days longer to do the job,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. President Donald Trump said the US could be wrapping up its war with Iran soon, and said this could happen within the next month. “I would say that within two weeks, maybe two weeks, maybe three,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. “We’ll leave because there’s no reason for us to do this.” The conflict in Iran has been escalating…
Bitcoin Holds $67K As Fear Index Stays In Extreme Zone
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index currently exhibits “extreme fear” with a reading of 11, and the condition has held for 12 consecutive days. Although there was a brief recovery between March 17 and March 18, the index has stayed in “extreme fear” since Jan. 28. Traders use the index as a contrarian metric for monitoring investor sentiment as it is comprised of volatility, volume, social trend and market momentum data. With that view in mind, in previous bull and bear markets, traders interpreted “extreme fear” readings as dip-buying opportunities,…
Texas Lt. Gov. Lists Crypto, Prediction Markets in Charges to Senate
The #2 Texas state official called on lawmakers to study “the sudden inundation of prediction market gambling“ as other jurisdictions take the platforms to court. Dan Patrick, Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate in Texas, has included a study of prediction markets and crypto and blockchain as part of legislative priorities for the state’s next legislative session, scheduled to begin in January. In a Friday announcement, the lieutenant governor’s office issued 2026 interim charges for Texas Senate committees to study in preparation for the next legislature. Patrick said that…
S&P Tokenizes Treasury Index On Canton Network
S&P Dow Jones Indices has tokenized its iBoxx US Treasuries Index on the Canton Network, making a major fixed-income benchmark available as a digital asset and signaling a shift toward onchain data infrastructure in traditional finance. In a Tuesday announcement, S&P said the index was brought onchain together with Kaiko, a provider of digital asset market data and infrastructure that supports the tokenization and onchain delivery of the index. The iBoxx US Treasuries Index is a widely used benchmark that tracks the performance of US government bonds across different maturities,…
Ripple Founder Pivots $1 Billion From XRP Fortune Into New Investment
Jed McCaleb, the founder of Ripple and Stellar (XLM), has announced plans to redirect a whopping $1 billion from his XRP fortune into a new investment outside the cryptocurrency space. The crypto founder and Silicon Valley billionaire is now turning his focus toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), aiming to build an AI system based on the human brain. Ripple Founder To Invest $1 Billion Into AI Research In an interview with Forbes, McCaleb disclosed plans to allocate approximately $1 billion from his estimated $3.9 billion in XRP holdings to fund…
Bitcoin Isn’t Decoupling From Stocks Yet, This Chart Shows Why
Bitcoin may no longer be moving in lockstep with the S&P 500 over a short time frame, but that does not mean it has escaped the broader risk-off regime. In Axel Adler Jr.’s latest morning brief, the more important signal is not the breakdown in short-term correlation, but Bitcoin’s continued relative weakness against US equities. Bitcoin Weakens Against The S&P 500 Adler’s argument rests on two charts that, taken together, push back on the increasingly familiar claim that a lower BTC-equity correlation automatically points to decoupling. The first is the…
Bitcoin Strength Holds Into $68K But Pro Traders Remain Cautious
Key takeaways: Bitcoin reclaimed $68,000 as President Trump hinted at ending the Iran War even if the Strait of Hormuz remained partially closed. Bitcoin derivatives data show high fear, with put options at a premium and low demand for bullish leveraged trades. Bitcoin (BTC) rallied to $68,000 on Monday following the gains in the S&P 500 after US President Donald Trump suggested that the administration may consider ways to end the US and Israel-Iran war without a full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. However, Bitcoin traders have kept a…