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The white hat hacker said the decision to exploit Renegade’s dark pool was made to protect the funds and safety of DeFi users. |
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Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder of Mysten Labs, announced at an event in Miami plans for zero-fee stablecoin transfers on Sui and reiterated the ambition to add private transactions. |
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Hyperliquid, EdgeX and Pump.fun returned a combined $96 million to token holders in 30 days, as the crypto community shifts its focus from transaction volumes to real earnings. |
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The Nobitex dilemma: How Iran's biggest crypto exchange stays off the OFAC blacklist Iran entered the final night of February 2026 under a near-total internet shutdown. In the wake of a joint strike by the United States and Israel, Tehran almost completely severed the country's connection to the global internet — likely leaving only users on a government whitelist with access to the outside world. |
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Solv Protocol and other DeFi projects are migrating to Chainlink infrastructure after the $293 million exploit exposed risks in third-party bridge and oracle setups. |
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The credit facility would help Aave address bad debt created after the April rsETH exploit strained its WETH market. |
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Polygon delivered its first block time reduction upgrade since genesis, as the network seeks to position for more high-frequency applications such as private stablecoin payments. |
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1inch said its protocols, infrastructure and user funds were not affected by the exploit targeting independent resolver TrustedVolumes. |
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BNY is partnering with Finstreet and ADI Foundation to offer regulated Bitcoin and Ethereum custody to UAE clients from the Abu Dhabi Global Market. |
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Near One says blockchains may need new ownership verification systems if quantum attacks compromise wallet keys and expose private assets. |
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JPMorgan, Mastercard make first cross-border US Treasury transfer via XRP Ledger The cross-border tokenized US Treasury transaction using blockchain and banking rails builds on an earlier pilot in which the same fund moved between a public and permissioned blockchain. |
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Samsung SDS wins deal to build South Korea’s blockchain securities system: Report The Korea Securities Depository platform is expected to launch by February 2027, aligning with South Korea’s incoming security token regulations. |
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The data blockchain securing onchain finance projects looks to provide lenders and borrowers with agreement-specific collateral solution. |
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The Bank of Italy’s deputy governor floated the evaluation of tokenized SEPA payments, as the ECB experiments with tokenized digital payment frameworks to avoid stablecoin competition. |
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Michael Saylor hints at a fresh BTC purchase as Strategy explores selling portions of its treasury to fund dividends, sparking mixed reactions. (Read More) |
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Three DeFi protocols—Hyperliquid, EdgeX, and Pump.fun—distributed $96.3M in revenue to token holders in 30 days, signaling a focus on real earnings. (Read More) |
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South Korea's crypto holdings plunged 50% in a year, with trading volumes collapsing as investors pivot to stocks and regulators tighten oversight. (Read More) |
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AAVE sits perfectly positioned at $96.92 with whales loading 65% long positions and aggressive buying pressure emerging. Technical setup points to $105 within 8 weeks, though failure below $92 inva... (Read More) |
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LDO Price Prediction: $0.45 Breakout Target as Institutional Money Flows Counter Retail Sentiment LDO consolidates at $0.40 with whale accumulation patterns emerging while 56.6% of retail traders hold short positions. Technical setup points to $0.45 resistance test within 10 days as momentum in... (Read More) |
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HBAR breaks above $0.094 with 69% whale positioning and rising open interest signaling institutional accumulation ahead of January's historically strong performance window. (Read More) |
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WIF approaches a pivotal resistance zone that technical patterns suggest could spark either a breakout rally or a significant pullback toward lower support levels. (Read More) |
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PEPE trades near Bollinger Band resistance at $0.000008 while RSI momentum fades from overbought levels. Technical breakdown suggests immediate correction to $0.000005 support before any sustainabl... (Read More) |
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ALGO Price Prediction: $0.14 Target Within Reach as Whales Double Down on Breakout Setup ALGO tests critical $0.132 resistance with 62% whale positioning long and 7% open interest spike signaling breakout potential. Technical setup targets $0.14 on successful break, while failure risks... (Read More) |
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FILE Price Prediction: Critical $1.25 Resistance Test Could Trigger $1.50 Rally or $0.90 Crash FILE trades at $1.18 with RSI at 67 and MACD momentum stalling, while whales maintain 72% long positioning worth $74M in open interest. The next 7-10 days will determine whether bulls break $1.25 r... (Read More) |
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INJ trades at $4.12 with smart money positioning 69% long while technical indicators align for bullish continuation. Current setup points to $4.50 breakout with strong probability if institutional ... (Read More) |
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CRV Price Prediction: $0.30 Target Within 30 Days as Smart Money Builds Massive Positions CRV's technical setup screams accumulation with whales holding 65.6% long positions while retail fights resistance at $0.26. The next 30 days will likely deliver either a breakout to $0.30 or a flu... (Read More) |
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FLOKI Price Prediction: $0.000050 Target Faces Technical Headwinds Despite Ecosystem Growth With RSI climbing to 67 and price hugging upper Bollinger Bands, FLOKI's 38% rally to analyst targets faces immediate resistance. Smart money positioning suggests 60% probability of pullback before... (Read More) |
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Toncoin's overbought RSI at 76 and neutral MACD signal technical exhaustion at $2.42 levels. Price action points to inevitable retreat toward $2.24 support within two weeks. (Read More) |
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SHIB Price Prediction: Technical Data Blackout Creates 70% Crash Risk Within 48 Hours SHIB's complete price data failure across all technical indicators signals imminent exchange action or system collapse. Zero readings on price, support, and moving averages indicate 70% probability... (Read More) |
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Worldcoin trades at $0.27 in a tightening range with bullish whale positioning setting up for a potential 19% surge to $0.32. Critical support at $0.26 must hold to avoid a cascade to $0.22. (Read More) |
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Two exploits — Kelp DAO ($292M) and Drift ($285M) — drained $760 million from DeFi in early 2026 without breaking a single smart contract. Both protocols had clean audit reports. This piece argues that audits are a point-in-time opinion, not a security guarantee, and that formal verification — which produces mathematical proof that code cannot behave unexpectedly — is the only methodology that meets the demands of an autonomous, agent-driven DeFi economy.Read All |
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The debate about AI taking your job is already the old debate. Web4 is about AI replacing you as the end-user of the internet entirely: Agents transacting with agents, content made by machines for machines, platforms optimizing for agent legibility instead of human attention. The infrastructure exists. The direction is set. And by the time that's obvious, the feedback loop will already have decided it doesn't need us to notice.Read All |
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I built a framework tracking seven independent on-chain metrics (MVRV, SOPR, LTH-SOPR, NUPL, Puell Multiple, exchange reserves, SSR). When five or more cross their bottom thresholds within 30 days, it flags a probable Bitcoin bottom. All seven fired in March 2026 at $66,800. BTC has since rallied 18% to $78,321. The same pattern appeared at every major bottom since 2018 — including FTX (7/7, then +710%) and COVID (5/7, then +550%). Four data points are not a law, but the framework has not produced a false positive yet.Read All |
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CertiK Is Funding Web3's Cybersecurity Defense Rails as Anthropic's Mythos Changes the Game CertiK commits $50,000 to Ethereum's Security QF as Anthropic's Mythos rewrites the threat model for every blockchain running on vulnerable infrastructure.Read All |
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AmericanFortress Raises $8M to Defend the $483 Billion in Bitcoin Already Exposed to Quantum Risk AmericanFortress closed an $8 million seed round co-led by SAVA Digital Asset Fund, Moon Pursuit Capital, and 0G Labs, and filed a patent for quantum-resistant cryptographic transaction signing that any chain can license as a retrofit. The launch arrives as roughly 6.9 million Bitcoin (~$483 billion at recent prices) sit in addresses with already-revealed public keys, making them vulnerable to a one-shot Shor's algorithm attack the moment a sufficiently powerful quantum computer exists. Google and Caltech papers published in March 2026 cut the qubit threshold needed to break Bitcoin's ECDSA signatures, and Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation now estimates at least a 10% chance by 2032. Bitcoin and Ethereum have proposals on the table (BIP-360, Vitalik's Strawmap), but governance over what to do with millions of dormant exposed wallets that cannot be migrated remains the real obstacle. AmericanFortress's bet is to bypass that governance trap entirely by selling licensable PQC signing infrastructure to chains that move first. 0G Labs becomes the first chain to bring the technology to production. NIST finalized the foundational PQC standards (FIPS 203, 204, 205) in August 2024. Twenty months later, only one major chain has reached production deployment.Read All |
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TL;DR: Sam McCarthy, Governance Lead at GoodDollar and Ecosystem Lead at DAOstar, just wrapped a nine-week community redesign of GoodDollar's governance system. His core argument: the hardest problems in DAOs are social ones, and most governance primitives have already been built—what's missing is the people work. He breaks down how to diagnose broken governance (plutocracy, back channels, fake inclusivity), why crypto projects should start lean and centralized before decentralizing, and how GoodDollar's new two-house system—the House of Alignment for aligned projects, the House of Citizenship for the wider community—is designed to push back against the failure modes he sees everywhere else. The throughline: governance is a muscle, and people only flex it when they believe their participation matters.Read All |
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How ClawBank Is Turning Bureaucratic Paperwork Into the Next Open API for AI Agents ClawBank's AI agent Manfred filed a US LLC, got an EIN, and opened an FDIC-insured account. The first software to incorporate itself.Read All |
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After studying how tokens with thin floats and inflated valuations implode across dozens of projects, I distilled the predatory structure down to five signals.Read All |
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Decentralised compute networks like Akash Network, io.net, and Render Network improve access and pricing, but still rely on trust because they cannot prove results are correct.Without built in verification, they replicate Web2 with different payment rails. The real breakthrough is verifiable compute, where outputs are cryptographically proven, removing trust and enabling reliable AI and ZK workloads.Read All |
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Real Finance and Wiener Privatbank to Build $500 Million Pipeline for Tokenized Real-World Assets Real Finance and Wiener Privatbank announce a partnership targeting a $500 million pipeline of tokenized real-world assets on the REAL blockchain under MiCA.Read All |
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Solana's 27 April 2026 'Quantum Readiness' post calls the work 'manageable,' the chain 'ahead in its preparation,' and the performance impact negligible. The engineering signal (two validator clients converging on Falcon) is real. The framing softens implementation maturity, Falcon side-channel hazards, migration mechanics, and Solana's position relative to Bitcoin and especially Ethereum. Reassurance and fear-selling are the same anti-pattern from opposite ends; both substitute confidence for discovery.Read All |
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Smartphone penetration among the unbanked has crossed 86%, yet 1.3 billion people remain outside the formal financial system. The problem was never hardware. It's the design choices baked into digital financial infrastructure — who it's built for, what it requires to onboard, and what it punishes.CBDCs are being positioned as the answer, but most current implementations replicate the same exclusionary logic as legacy banking: KYC requirements that assume stable addresses and identity documents, internet dependency in regions with inconsistent connectivity, and UI built for the already-banked.The cash-to-digital transition fails when it treats cash users as a legacy problem to be upgraded rather than a design constraint to be solved. Offline functionality, tiered identity verification, and programmable distribution channels are not edge cases — they are the entire challenge.Financial inclusion doesn't happen by default when infrastructure is deployed. It happens when the people who fall outside existing systems are the primary design target, not an afterthought.Read All |
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Bitcoin has triggered another daily Kumo breakout, putting a historically bullish technical signal back in focus. Analyst Josh Olszewicz, who posts as CarpeNoctom, shared a chart on X tracking BTC’s forward performance after every daily Kumo breakout since 2015. “BTC forward performance of daily kumo breakouts since 2015,” CarpeNoctom wrote, alongside a TradingView chart showing the latest breakout dated May 6, 2026. What This Means For Bitcoin Price The historical table attached to the chart shows a notably positive skew across completed signals. After prior daily Kumo breakouts, Bitcoin was higher one week later in 22 of 26 cases, with an average gain of 6.21% and a median gain of 5.08%. One month out, BTC was positive in 20 of 26 cases, with an average return of 14.05% and a median of 12.00%. Related Reading: Bitcoin Miners Bag Profit: 3,400 BTC Flow Out Of Reserves Since April The signal’s stronger historical profile appears over longer windows. Three months after breakout, Bitcoin was higher in 18 of 26 cases, with an average gain of 39.48% and a median of 26.37%. Six months later, BTC was positive in 22 of 26 cases, with an average return of 74.36% and a median of 46.04%. The one-year data is even more striking: across completed samples, Bitcoin was higher in 22 of 25 cases, with an average gain of 186.01% and a median gain of 129.46%. The largest one-year forward returns came during major bull-market phases. Breakouts on Sept. 4, 2016 and Oct. 7, 2016 preceded one-year gains of 615.08% and 617.09%, respectively. The April 1, 2017 signal was followed by a 525.35% one-year advance, while the April 23, 2020 breakout led to a 581.82% one-year gain. Another October 2020 breakout produced a 237.35% three-month move, a 430.84% six-month move, and a 393.65% one-year return. The chart also shows that the signal has not been uniformly reliable. Breakouts during weaker or late-cycle conditions produced negative forward returns in several cases. The Aug. 13, 2021 breakout was followed by a 48.89% one-year decline, while the Oct. 1, 2021 signal preceded a 59.90% one-year drop. More recently, the April 22, 2025 breakout showed positive returns over one week, one month, three months, and six months, but was down 16.31% after one year. Related Reading: This 1 Chart Explains Why Bitcoin Is Winning And Ethereum Is Losing Right Now The most recent completed signal before the May 2026 breakout, dated Oct. 1, 2025, also remains a cautionary data point. Bitcoin rose 3.98% after one week, but fell 7.60% after one month, 25.46% after three months, and 43.74% after six months. Its one-year return is not yet available in the table. For traders, the chart frames the Kumo breakout less as a standalone prediction and more as a historically asymmetric trend signal. The median returns suggest the pattern has often appeared near meaningful upside continuation, but the failed signals cluster around periods where broader market structure deteriorated after the breakout. At press time, BTC traded at $80,735. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com |
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Solana started a fresh increase above the $90 zone. SOL price is now consolidating and might aim for more gains above the $96 zone. SOL price started a fresh upward move above the $90 and $92 levels against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above $92 and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There is a bullish trend line forming with support at $92.20 on the hourly chart of the SOL/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The pair could extend gains if it clears the $96.50 resistance zone. Solana Price Starts Fresh Surge Solana price started a decent increase after it settled above the $88 zone, outperforming Bitcoin and Ethereum. SOL climbed above the $92 level to enter a short-term positive zone. The price even smashed the $95 resistance. A high was formed at $96.85, and the price is now consolidating gains. There was a minor decline toward the 23.6% Fib retracement level of the recent upward move from the $87.61 swing low to the $96.85 high. Solana is now trading above $92 and the 100-hourly simple moving average. Besides, there is a bullish trend line forming with support at $92.20 on the hourly chart of the SOL/USD pair. On the upside, the price is facing resistance near $96.20. The next major resistance is near the $96.50 level. The main resistance could be $98. A successful close above the $98 resistance zone could set the pace for another steady increase. The next key resistance is $102. Any more gains might send the price toward the $105 level. Downside Correction In SOL? If SOL fails to rise above the $96.50 resistance, it could start another decline. Initial support on the downside is near the $94.00 zone. The first major support is near the $92.20 level, the trend line, and the 50% Fib retracement level of the recent upward move from the $87.61 swing low to the $96.85 high. A break below the $92.20 level might send the price toward the $90 support zone. If there is a close below the $90 support, the price could decline toward the $88 support in the near term. Technical Indicators Hourly MACD – The MACD for SOL/USD is gaining pace in the bullish zone. Hourly Hours RSI (Relative Strength Index) – The RSI for SOL/USD is above the 50 level. Major Support Levels – $94.00 and $92.20 Major Resistance Levels – $96.50 and $98.00. |
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XRP price started a downside correction from the $1.50 zone. The price is now consolidating and might aim for another increase if it stays above the $1.440 zone. XRP price started a downside correction after it failed to clear the $1.5050 zone. The price is now trading above $1.440 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a bullish trend line forming with support at $1.4420 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The pair could start a fresh increase if it settles above $1.4620. XRP Price Trims Some Gains XRP price started a decent upward move above $1.4250 and $1.450, outperforming Bitcoin and Ethereum. The price gained pace for a clear move above the $1.450 resistance. A high was formed at $1.5074, and the price started a downside correction. There was a move below $1.480 and $1.4620. The price dipped below the 38.2% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $1.3786 swing low to the $1.5074 high. The price is now trading above $1.440 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is also a bullish trend line forming with support at $1.4420 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair. If there is a fresh upward move, the price might face resistance near the $1.4580 level. The first major resistance is near the $1.4620 level, above which the price could rise and test $1.4770. A clear move above the $1.4770 resistance might send the price toward the $1.5050 resistance. Any more gains might send the price toward the $1.520 resistance. The next major hurdle for the bulls might be near $1.550. Another Drop? If XRP fails to clear the $1.4620 resistance zone, it could start a fresh decline. Initial support on the downside is near the $1.4420 level. The next major support is near the $1.4280 level and the trend line or the 61.8% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $1.3786 swing low to the $1.5074 high. If there is a downside break and a close below the $1.4280 level, the price might continue to decline toward $1.4120. The next major support sits near the $1.40 zone, below which the price could continue lower toward $1.3850. Any more losses might call for a test of $1.3650. Technical Indicators Hourly MACD – The MACD for XRP/USD is now gaining pace in the bearish zone. Hourly RSI (Relative Strength Index) – The RSI for XRP/USD is now above the 50 level. Major Support Levels – $1.4420 and $1.4280. Major Resistance Levels – $1.4620 and $1.4770. |
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Ethereum price started a fresh increase above the $2,320 zone. ETH is now consolidating and might struggle to continue higher above the $2,385 resistance. Ethereum started a decent upward move from the $2,265 zone. The price is trading above $2,320 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a bullish trend line forming with support at $2,320 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could start a fresh decline if it stays below the $2,300 zone. Ethereum Price Faces Hurdles Ethereum price remained bid above the $2,265 support zone, like Bitcoin. ETH price formed a base and started a recovery wave above the $2,300 resistance. The price surpassed the 50% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $2,423 swing high to the $2,265 low. The bulls even pushed the price toward $2,380. Besides, there is a bullish trend line forming with support at $2,320 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD. Ethereum price is now trading above $2,320 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. If the bulls remain in action above $2,320, the price could attempt another increase. Immediate resistance is seen near the $2,385 level or the 76.4% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $2,423 swing high to the $2,265 low. The first key resistance is near the $2,400 level. The next major resistance is near the $2,420 level. A clear move above the $2,420 resistance might send the price toward the $2,480 resistance. An upside break above the $2,480 region might call for more gains in the coming days. In the stated case, Ether could rise toward the $2,550 resistance zone or even $2,565 in the near term. Another Drop In ETH? If Ethereum fails to clear the $2,385 resistance, it could start a fresh decline. Initial support on the downside is near the $2,320 level. The first major support sits near the $2,300 zone. A clear move below the $2,300 support might push the price toward the $2,265 support. Any more losses might send the price toward the $2,220 region. The main support could be $2,200. Technical Indicators Hourly MACD – The MACD for ETH/USD is gaining momentum in the bullish zone. Hourly RSI – The RSI for ETH/USD is now above the 50 zone. Major Support Level – $2,300 Major Resistance Level – $2,385 |
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Bitcoin price started a fresh increase and cleared the $81,500 zone. BTC is consolidating and might aim for more gains above the $82,450 level. Bitcoin managed to stay above $79,200 and started a fresh increase. The price is trading above $80,750 and the 100 hourly simple moving average. There is a bullish trend line forming with support at $80,800 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair might extend gains if it stays above the $80,800 and $80,000 levels. Bitcoin Price Turns Positive Bitcoin price found support near $79,200 and started a fresh increase. BTC gained pace for a move above the $79,750 and $80,200 resistance levels. The bulls even pushed the price above $82,000. A high was formed at $82,436, and the price started a consolidation phase. There was a minor decline toward the 23.6% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $79,168 swing low to the $82,436 high. Bitcoin is now trading above $80,750 and the 100 hourly simple moving average. There is also a bullish trend line forming with support at $80,800 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair. If the price remains stable above $80,500, it could attempt a fresh increase. Immediate resistance is near the $82,000 level. The first key resistance is near the $82,450 level. A close above the $82,450 resistance might send the price further higher. In the stated case, the price could rise and test the $83,200 resistance. Any more gains might send the price toward the $84,000 level. The next barrier for the bulls could be $85,000. Downside Correction In BTC? If Bitcoin fails to rise above the $82,000 resistance zone, it could start another decline. Immediate support is near the $80,800 level and the trend line. The first major support is near the $80,400 level or the 61.8% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $79,168 swing low to the $82,436 high. The next support is now near the $79,950 zone. Any more losses might send the price toward the $79,250 support in the near term. The main support now sits at $78,500, below which BTC might struggle to recover in the near term. Technical indicators: Hourly MACD – The MACD is now losing pace in the bullish zone. Hourly RSI (Relative Strength Index) – The RSI for BTC/USD is now above the 50 level. Major Support Levels – $80,800, followed by $80,000. Major Resistance Levels – $82,000 and $82,450. |
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Following the recent uptick in altcoin prices, conversations about the potential start of an altseason are gaining significant momentum. Interestingly, recent on-chain data about the rising altcoin trading volume has added some weight to the altseason discussions. Altcoin Trading Volume Climbs Above Yearly Average In a recent Quicktake post on the CryptoQuant platform, CryptoOnchain revealed a critical change in the altcoin market. Citing the “CEX Volume Ratio: Others vs Top 5” metric, the market analyst explained that the altcoin trading volume has been in an uptrend lately. The “CEX Volume Ratio: Others vs Top 5” metric tracks how much trading volume is flowing into altcoins outside the top 5, relative to the combined volume of the top 5 assets. As such, it plays a key role in identifying the extent of capital rotation and whether altcoins have started to gain strength. Related Reading: Cardano Holds Critical $0.25 Support: History Points To A Major Rally Setup According to CryptoOnchain, the 30-day moving average of altcoin trading volume has now climbed past its 365-day moving average. This trend, explained the analyst, shows that the volume of this sub-asset class is steadily increasing. Higher readings in the CEX Volume Ratio: Others vs. Top 5 are telltale signs that traders are leaning towards smaller altcoins rather than into major cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and BNB). This, in turn, is interpreted as growing risk appetite, which could positively influence an altcoin rally. The market analyst cited historical data, noting that instances where the signals flashed mostly reflected short-term volume growth relative to the long-term baseline. These cases have also signaled “clear rotation of capital from major caps into mid and low-cap altcoins.” For example, during the 2021 bull cycle, repeated clusters of these signals coincided with explosive rallies across the altcoins’ sector, alongside a major price appreciation in Ethereum. Notably, the chart shared by CryptoOnchain shows the purple “Volume Ratio” line gradually strengthening again after a period of weakness. The analyst noted that a breakout in the ratio could precede high-volatility periods, potentially increasing the likelihood of an altcoin market rally. Ethereum Stability Could Confirm Imminent Altcoin Rally CryptoOnchain further explained that the reinvigoration of the altcoin trading volume could be a sign that “retail and institutional interest is expanding beyond the top 5 assets.” However, this does not necessarily translate to bullish news for the altcoin market. According to the crypto pundit, confirmation from Ethereum’s price action might be necessary to determine the market’s inner dynamics. CryptoOnchain explained: If this momentum is sustained and accompanied by a stable or rising ETH price, it could serve as a strong confirmation that a broader altcoin rally is underway. As of press time, the Ethereum price stands at $2,329, up 1% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data. Related Reading: Ethereum Sees Sharp Decline In High-Leverage Long Positions — See What Happens Next Featured image from Shutterstock, chart from TradingView |
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Bitcoin has climbed above a key price zone that analysts had flagged as a major obstacle — and that move is drawing fresh attention to who actually holds the coin. Related Reading: Swiss Bitcoin Reserve Effort Withdrawn After Resistance From Central Bank Long-Term Holders Absorb More Supply Around 830,000 BTC has left short-term trader wallets in recent months, pushing the share of Bitcoin held by long-term addresses to 78%, up from 74% in the previous cycle. Data from on-chain tracking account Alphractal shows the shift is one of the largest recorded in recent memory. As more supply gets locked away in long-term wallets, the amount available for active trading keeps shrinking. That tightening supply tends to work in favor of prices during periods of steady demand. When fewer coins are circulating, selling pressure during price dips tends to be weaker. Reports indicate that long-term holders have been absorbing supply consistently relative to price movements, which has contributed to thinner liquidity across the market. 𝟳𝟴.𝟯% 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗧𝗖 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀. 𝗨𝗽 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟳𝟰.𝟭%. That 4.2 percentage-point shift = roughly 830,000 BTC migrated from short-term to long-term cohort over the cycle. STH conviction is crumbling, LTH conviction… pic.twitter.com/aL8pTSk3Js — Alphractal (@Alphractal) May 9, 2026 Price Structure Points To A Range With High Stakes Bitcoin recently broke through a resistance zone between $78,000 and $80,000 — a range that had acted as a bearish block. According to an analyst, that zone has now flipped to support, and the next target to the upside sits at $90,000. But the setup carries risk on both sides. If that newly established support level fails to hold, a pullback toward $68,000 — and possibly as low as $60,000 — becomes a real possibility. Reports note that tighter liquidity zones increase the chance of sharp moves at key price levels, making the $78,000 area especially critical for short-term direction. A rejection at $82,000 could also be enough to swing momentum back toward the bears, according to the same analysis. Higher Timeframe Still Shows Caution Zooming out, the picture is less clear. Bitcoin remains in a corrective phase after reaching an all-time high of $120,000, wi th lower highs and lower lows forming despite brief rallies. The price is still trading below resistance at $97,000, a level analysts say would need to be reclaimed to signal a stronger shift in trend. Related Reading: XRP Market Now Controlled By Whales? Dominance Reaches 91% On Binance Two major supply zones between $79,000 and $94,000 continue to sit overhead, acting as a ceiling for the current rally. A support channel has been forming since prices bounced from around $59,000. The data points to a market where long-term conviction is rising but short-term direction remains unsettled. Whether buyers can hold the ground they’ve gained will likely shape the next significant move. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView |
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According to the latest on-chain data, the Ethereum-native iteration of USDT, the world’s largest stablecoin, has just witnessed its largest exchange outflow in recent months. 1.29 Billion USDT Flow Out Of Crypto Exchanges In a May 9th post on the X platform, blockchain analytics firm Santiment revealed that USDT on the Ethereum network recently recorded its largest flow out of exchanges in months. Around 1.29 billion stablecoins (the highest since February) were transferred out of exchanges on Friday, May 8th. This on-chain observation is based on the change in the Exchange Flow Balance indicator, which measures the net amount of tokens moving into and out of centralized exchange addresses. Related Reading: This 1 Chart Explains Why Bitcoin Is Winning And Ethereum Is Losing Right Now A spike in the Exchange Flow Balance metric indicates that more tokens (USDT, in this case) are flowing to centralized exchanges. On the other hand, when the indicator declines, it suggests that investors are withdrawing assets from these trading platforms. Santiment explained the significance of investors moving their USDT away from exchanges, noting that this would ordinarily mean they are withdrawing their buying power from trading platforms where they can use it for instant cryptocurrency purchases. On the surface, this reduction of buying power (or capital) on exchanges is a bearish signal for crypto markets. However, the analytics firm believes that the significant USDT outflows (of this reported magnitude) suggest that institutional investors are moving capital to self-custody wallets, DeFi protocols, or OTC (over-the-counter) desks ahead of larger planned transactions. Therefore, capital is believed to be flowing out of the ecosystem, not entirely, but being repositioned for even larger purposes. Santiment also highlighted the pattern often surrounding exchange outflow spikes of this magnitude. For instance, as observed in the chart below, the Bitcoin price witnessed a mini-pullback over the subsequent two weeks following the 3.72 billion USDT outflow on February 9. What’s more interesting is that this pullback birthed the buying opportunity that has seen the Bitcoin price jump by more than 30% in the past few months. Santiment concluded in the social media post: Whether this current capital re-enters exchanges as buying pressure in the near term is the key variable to monitor. If USDT begins flowing back onto exchanges in the coming days, it would signal that deployment into crypto assets is imminent. Crypto Market Capitalization As of this writing, the total cryptocurrency market capitalization stands at around $2.66 trillion, up nearly 4% over the past week. Related Reading: 14,600 Bitcoin Sold in Profit in One Day: Here Is How BTC’s Own Structure Broke It Below $80K Featured image from iStock, chart from TradingView |
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The opening days in May have been accompanied by a rise in Ethereum on-chain activity. In a recent post on X, a pseudonymous analyst Darkfost dives into the intricacies of this activity and its impact on price. Related Reading: Ethereum Is Going Up While Shorts Are Piling In: Find Out What Usually Follows Binance Records Massive Ethereum Inflow According to Darkfost, the resurgence of activity on the Ethereum network corresponds with the sideways movement of the second-largest cryptocurrency, trading between $2,250 and $2,450. Further details of this recent activity surge show that Binance has seen multiple large hourly ETH inflow spikes since the beginning of May. The three largest of these Ethereum transfers to Binance were reported as follows: on May 6, about 216,152 ETH, worth approximately $511 million, was transferred to Binance. Although smaller in comparison, on May 8, 98,552 ETH valued at $224 million also entered Binance. A larger number of transfers was also observed on May 9, totaling approximately $288 million. Interestingly, many of these inflows into Binance occurred while Ethereum was entering corrective phases. So, rather than reflecting calculative profit-taking among Ethereum’s investors, this suggests that Ethereum users are driven more by emotion. Related Reading: Swiss Bitcoin Reserve Effort Withdrawn After Resistance From Central Bank Rising Ether Reserves Could Signal Continued Consolidation In addition to its rising inflows, Ethereum’s reserves on Binance have also increased. Darkfost points out that about 3.62 million ETH are now held in reserves at the world’s largest exchange by trading volume; this figure accounts for approximately 24.6% of total Ethereum reserves across exchanges. Typically, growing reserves are viewed as a bearish or neutral signal because they imply more coins are available for potential selling. In contrast, declining reserves typically suggest that investors are withdrawing assets into private wallets for longer-term holding. Hence, the increase in Binance-held ETH may explain why Ethereum has remained trapped in a consolidation pattern despite periodic attempts at bullish momentum. Darkfost explains that this could be a sign of short-term instability among Ethereum’s large holders, which has played a major role in limiting its attempts to establish higher price grounds over the past weeks. Looking at the broader picture, Ethereum shows no real intent to break out of this consolidation. If reserve growth begins to dwindle and price strength improves, bullish sentiment around Ethereum could be restored. As of this writing, Ethereum is worth approximately $2,329, recording a measly 0.6% growth since the past 24 hours. Featured image from Freepik, chart from Tradingview |
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Ethereum is trading just above $2,330, a price that, on the monthly chart, is sitting just above within a long accumulation zone. However, recent market dynamics show that Ethereum is destined for far higher prices than $2,300 this cycle, and this is not only about traders waiting for another rotation into ETH. The outlook is that the Ethereum price will cross above $10,000 this cycle based on factors that are turning Ethereum into a base layer for regulated on-chain markets. Related Reading: Swiss Bitcoin Reserve Effort Withdrawn After Resistance From Central Bank Wall Street To Push Ethereum Price To $15,000 According to a crypto analyst that goes by the name Crypto Patel on X, Ethereum is going to trade somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000 this cycle, and there are about 10 reasons why this is going to happen. His price prediction is based on the idea that Ethereum is no longer being controlled only by retail speculation or short-term market sentiment. Instead, the network is becoming one of the main settlement layers for tokenized finance, institutional custody, exchange-traded products, and corporate ETH accumulation. The analyst pointed to BlackRock’s filing for two tokenized money-market funds on Ethereum, JPMorgan’s MONY fund going live on Ethereum, and BlackRock’s BUIDL fund reportedly reaching $2.85 billion as the largest real-world asset product on-chain. These are three reasons why Ethereum is becoming a preferred settlement layer for institutional financial products. Another reason for the analyst’s price prediction is the partnership between Uniswap and Securitize to unlock BUIDL on-chain. This partnership connects tokenized Wall Street assets with Ethereum’s DeFi liquidity, and this creates a direct link between traditional finance and DeFi, which has always been one of Ethereum’s strongest areas. Ethereum Price Chart. Source: @CryptoPatel On X ETFs, Custody, And ETH Accumulation Add To The Bullish Outlook The second part of the bullish case comes from broader institutional access to ETH. Crypto Patel cited Robinhood building its Layer 2 on Ethereum, BNY Mellon launching Ethereum custody in the UAE, more than $12 billion flowing into Spot ETH ETFs this year, and BitMine’s accumulation of more than 5 million ETH, which is over 4% of Ethereum’s supply, as factors that support the Ethereum price heading to $15,000 this cycle. Other factors are the DTCC tokenizing Russell 1000 assets on the blockchain, with Ethereum being considered a leading contender to host these assets, and WisdomTree’s fully staked ETH ETP going live in Europe. Together, these factors strengthen Ethereum’s demand and supply setup. ETFs make ETH easier for institutions to buy, custody services make it easier to hold, corporate accumulation reduces available supply, and staked ETPs give investors a regulated way to gain ETH exposure with yield. Related Reading: XRP Market Now Controlled By Whales? Dominance Reaches 91% On Binance Keeping these factors in view, a favorable continuation of this institutional trend could give Ethereum enough momentum to break above $10,000 and possibly climb as high as $15,000 this cycle. Those targets would represent gains of about 335% and 550%, respectively, from the current price of Ethereum. Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView |