Author: Coindesk
As of this writing, XRP traded close to 65 cents – a critical level above which selling pressure has remained robust since October 2023. Should the resistance give away this time, the months of pent-up energy accumulated during this consolidation phase could be unleashed, potentially yielding a rapid rise toward 90 cents-$1.00. Read the full article here
The Beam Chain would focus on Ethereum’s consensus layer, also called the Beacon Chain, which is the part of the network that handles how transactions get processed and recorded. “The beacon chain is kind of old,” Drake said. “The spec was frozen five years ago, and in those five years so much has happened.” Read the full article here
“Assets in the US spot bitcoin ETFs are now up to $84b, which is 2/3 of the way to what gold ETFs have, all the sudden there’s a decent shot they surpass gold before their first birthday (we predicted it would take 3-4yrs),” Eric Balchunas, a senior analyst at Bloomberg, said in a post on X. Read the full article here
The volatility caused nearly $700 million in liquidations on crypto-tracked futures, impacting both longs and shorts (or bets on higher and lower prices, respectively), with $380 million in bearish traders and $290 million in bullish bets evaporated. Such cumulative losses are the highest since early April, when BTC briefly crossed its previous peak at over $73,000. Read the full article here
Republicans will control 53 seats for at least the next two years, having flipped Pennsylvania, Ohio, Montana and West Virginia last week. The crypto-focused super political action committee, Fairshake, was heavily involved in the Ohio race in particular, supporting Republican Bernie Moreno to the tune of $40 million. Read the full article here
Musk has discussed creating a “Department of Government Efficiency,” abbreviated as D.O.G.E, to make government spending more efficient. That has fueled expectation among traders that there could be more chatter of “DOGE” in mainstream media and retail trading circles, fueling attention and interest in dogecoin, as a CoinDesk analysis first noted in mid-October. Read the full article here
It’s a sign that bullish long positions are likely getting crowded, and a slight price pullback could see over leveraged bulls capitulate, closing their longs and inadvertently exacerbating downside pressures in the market. Leverage washouts have been a common phenomenon in previous bull markets, often leading to a sudden double-digit percentage price drops. Read the full article here
Lens, which was founded in 2022 by the creators of decentralized finance (DeFi) giant Aave, released its version 3 on Monday, having already empowered some 550,000 users by granting them complete ownership of their social identity, the data they create, the connections they make and the audiences they communicate with. Read the full article here
MicroStrategy (MSTR), the Nasdaq-listed software company with the largest corporate bitcoin treasury, melted up 25%, closing the day at a new all-time high price of $340, overcoming its 24-year old record from the dotcom bubble era. The company announced on Monday that it acquired 27,200 BTC, bringing its total holdings to 279,420 bitcoin, worth about $24.5 billion at current price. Read the full article here
Trabucco, who was part of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle and became Caroline Ellison’s right hand at Alameda Research, the trading firm co-founded by Bankman-Fried, left the company in August 2022, just months before both Alameda and FTX filed for bankruptcy in December of that year. Read the full article here