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Whales dumped two hundred fifty million XRP, signaling fading confidence and accelerating bearish market pressure.MVRV long-short difference turns negative, showing long-term holder losses and growing volatility risk.Price risks deeper decline unless reclaiming two dollars, with recovery needing renewed accumulation and stability.XRP has fallen below the key $2 psychological support level as bearish pressure intensifies across the broader market. The altcoin’s decline has accelerated over the past week, prompting significant selling from major holders. 

This shift in behavior from large investors has amplified downward momentum and weakened XRP’s short-term outlook.

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XRP Whales Switch Their StanceWhales have moved decisively from accumulation to heavy selling. Addresses holding between 10 million and 100 million XRP have dumped more than 250 million tokens in the past 48 hours alone, worth over $480 million.

This selling wave follows more than 20 consecutive days of accumulation by the same group of holders.

Such an abrupt shift signals a loss of conviction among large investors who had previously supported XRP’s rise. Their exit removes a crucial source of market strength and may prolong XRP’s decline. Without renewed confidence from whales, recovery momentum could weaken further and keep prices under pressure.

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XRP Whale Holding. Source: SantimentMacro indicators also highlight growing fragility. The MVRV Long/Short Difference has slipped below zero for the first time in five months, indicating that long-term holders have lost profitability. This shift pushes profit opportunity toward short-term holders, who tend to sell quickly once prices rise.

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If XRP’s price rebounds even modestly, short-term holders may capitalize on their gains by selling, which could suppress upward movement. This dynamic often keeps volatility elevated and limits breakout potential. 

XRP MVRV Long/Short Difference. Source: SantimentXRP Price May Need SupportXRP has fallen 23% over the past 11 days and trades at $1.92, sitting just under the $1.94 resistance level. The drop below $2.00 marks a significant psychological break and reinforces the current bearish sentiment across the market.

If whale selling accelerates and macro indicators worsen, XRP could fall further toward $1.79 or even lower. Such a move would deepen losses and extend the current downtrend as market sentiment weakens.

XRP Price Analysis. Source: TradingViewHowever, if investor support stabilizes or broader market conditions improve, XRP may be able to reclaim $2.00 as support.

A successful recovery could lift the price toward $2.14 and higher, helping reverse recent losses and invalidating the bearish thesis.

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The Cardano blockchain network suffered a temporary chain split on Friday due to an old software bug triggered by an abnormal transaction.

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The Cardano network suffered a temporary chain split on Friday, due to a “malformed” delegation transaction, transactions to delegate ADA (ADA) to a staking pool, which are valid on the protocol level but can cause code malfunctions that affect network functionality.

This “malformed” transaction exploited an old code bug in the underlying software library used by the Cardano blockchain, resulting in a network partition due to a disagreement in how nodes processed the transaction, according to an incident report from Cardano ecosystem organization Intersect.

Staking pool operators were directed to download the latest version of the node software to fix the issue and reconstitute the split chain into a single blockchain history. 

However, the split has led to concerns about orphaned transactions and potential ADA double-spends that have caused economic damage to some users.

Source: Homer JThe exploit was caused by an ADA staking pool operator known as Homer J, who used AI-generated code to push the transaction and has accepted responsibility for causing the network partition. 

The temporary split caused a debate within the Cardano community, with some arguing that Homer J’s actions helped expose critical bugs and others, like Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson, calling it an attack on the Cardano network.

Charles Hoskinson says the FBI is now investigating, but markets barely noticed the splitThe US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was contacted and is investigating the incident, according to Hoskinson. In a separate video statement, Hoskinson said:

“This kicked a hornet's nest, and in many jurisdictions, this is a felony — a very serious one. It's tampering with and damaging a digital network. Maybe it's shits and giggles, and they think it's just fun and games — ‘oh, look, we kicked Charles's toy.’  Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson provides an update after Friday’s incident that caused a temporary chain split. Source: Charles HoskinsonBut these things impact the lives, money, and commerce of millions of people. It's like trying to shut down an economy and conduct a cyberattack on a nation-state,” he continued. 

A chain split or any network disruptions are typically significant events for blockchain protocols that negatively impact the price of their native tokens.

However, the price of ADA recorded modest declines during and after the incident, dropping from $0.44 on Friday to about $0.40 at the time of this writing.

ADA declined by a modest amount despite the software bug that caused the temporary Cardano network partition. Source: TradingViewThe modest price decline came amid a broad crypto market downturn that began in October when a historic flash crash led to a $20 billion cascade of crypto liquidations — the largest single-day liquidation in crypto history.

No one noticed Cardano’s network partition, “because nobody uses it,” one user said in response to Friday’s incident.

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The value of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has dropped below $80,000, trapping over 70% of active capital in unrealized losses, a clear indication of significant market stress.

What Happened: Bitcoin’s value has seen a sharp decline of nearly 35% from its October peak of $126,000. This has put investors, who entered the market during the late-2024 and early-2025 rallies, in a precarious situation.

According to the Checkonchain’s on-chain data, 71.2% of Bitcoin’s realized capitalization is now below its entry price.

The significant drop in price has led to a concentration of Bitcoin holdings at higher levels, causing severe stress for short-term holders. As Bitcoin struggles to maintain its value at lower levels, many are now facing substantial losses.

Other data from Glassnode support the notion that the Bitcoin market is experiencing a reset. The Relative Unrealized Loss indicator, which measures the dollar value of coins held below their acquisition price, has risen to 8.5%.

The current market conditions are compelling short-term holders to sell their positions as losses continue to increase. This trend is reflected in the sharp decline in Bitcoin's market sentiment, with retail traders beginning to capitulate.

Despite the grim market conditions, some analysts believe that the extreme levels of bearish sentiment could indicate a potential local bottom for Bitcoin. The combination of high unrealized losses and weak retail sentiment could be clearing out "weak hands," potentially setting the stage for a recovery in the near future.

Why It Matters: Bitcoin's climb back to $84,543 has revived hopes that the downturn may be easing, but any real shift will depend on how the market handles the latest sell-off.

Even with momentum still pointing lower, traders are keeping a close eye on whether the token can steady itself and build toward a stronger recovery.

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Bitcoin's Plunge Brings Strategy's Holdings to Near Breakeven, but Key Test Lies 18 Months AheadMichael Saylor's company's balance sheet isn't at imminent risk of collapse, but further capital-raising efforts could surely be hindered unless conditions improve. Nov 22, 2025, 9:00 p.m.

Liquidation calls from the sidelines are growing louder for Strategy (MSTR) as bitcoin tumbles and the company's common stock has plunged nearly 70% from last year's peak, calling into question — for some — the firm's ability to continue to meet its obligations.

Throughout 2025, Strategy has relied on perpetual preferred stock as its primary financing vehicle for bitcoin purchases, while mostly using at-the-market (ATM) common share issuance mainly to cover its preferred dividend obligations.

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Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company issued four U.S.-listed preferred series during the year: Strike (STRK) pays an 8% fixed dividend and is convertible into common stock at $1,000 per share. Strife (STRF) carries a 10% fixed non cumulative dividend and ranks as the most senior of the preferreds. STRD$0.05493 also pays 10% but on cumulative terms and sits junior in the structure. Stretch (STRC), the newest series, debuted in August at $90 with a 10.5% fixed cumulative dividend and now trades just above its offer price.

As of Nov. 21 STRK trades near $73, an 11.1% current yield, with a 10% decline since issuance. STRD has been the weakest performer, falling to about $66 for a 15.2% yield and a 22% total return loss. STRF is the only series still above issue, trading around $94 and delivering roughly an 11% gain, reflecting its senior standing.

Nearly back to breakevenBitcoin's plunge over the past weeks has market participants focusing on the roughly $74,400 level at which Strategy — after more than five years of accumulation — would actually be in the red on its bitcoin holdings.

While that's surely an important level for talking points, a decline below $74,400 surely does not mean the company would face a margin call or need to engage in forced sales of any part of its BTC stack.

The nearest structural pressure point is almost two years out on September 15 2027, when holders of the $1 billion 0.625% convertible senior notes receive their first put option.

The notes were priced when MSTR traded at $130.85 and carry a conversion price of $183.19. With the stock now at about $168, holders would be unlikely to convert and would probably seek cash repayment, potentially requiring Strategy to raise or liquidate assets unless the share price rises meaningfully before 2027.

Multiple levers remainEven if the MSTR share valuation premium to bitcoin holdings (the mNAV) collapses further and maybe even goes to a discount, Strategy still has a clear path to cover the annual preferred dividend bill.

The company can continue to issue common shares via ATM offerings, or sell small slices of its bitcoin treasury, or even pay dividends in-kind with newly issued stock.

This isn't to say all is well. While preferred dividends are not at immediate risk, use of any of the above options would surely dent investor confidence in Strategy even further, likely putting to an end — for at least a temporary time — any efforts to raise additional capital for more bitcoin purchases.

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In November 2025, Bitcoin miners are grappling with a significant financial squeeze as Bitcoin's market value has dropped over 20% this month alone. This sharp decline in price has led to a plunging hashprice, hitting levels that haven't been witnessed in several years.

Coinbase initiated a movement to transfer its internal Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets, a process the exchange described as part of its ongoing security strategy aimed at reducing the long-term exposure of digital assets. The company reported that the transfers recorded as high-volume movements on-chain were maintenance operations that had been planned long in advance.

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Strategy, a business intelligence company founded by Michael Saylor, has released new data outlining how its Bitcoin (BTC) position holds up under current market conditions. This disclosure raises the question of whether the company could ever be forced to sell its $54.59 billion in Bitcoin holdings. Its latest internal projections, shared publicly, highlight the firm’s expectations for long-term sustainability while also inviting scrutiny of its historic aggressive accumulation strategy. 

Strategy Confirms BTC Reserves Cover Dividends For Decades
The Strategy team stated on X this Thursday that with Bitcoin trading below $85,000, the company has more than enough coverage to maintain its dividend obligations for 71 years even if the price remains flat. Additionally, if Bitcoin’s price grows by more than 1.41% annually, that growth alone would completely neutralize the firm’s dividends without requiring additional funds.  

Strategy shared its internal credit dashboard, which tracks details such as debt maturities, durations, interest exposure, and Bitcoin risk. The report shows a total debt of $8,214 and a matching cumulative national value. Most of this comes from the company’s Bitcoin-linked preferred instruments, including various STR-series tranches, totaling $7,779 and with a combined notional value of $15,993. 

Durations across these instruments range from under 2 years to nearly 10, with BTC risk concentrated in the low single digits. Overall, the combined debt and preferred structure totals $15,993. The company’s model also assumes a Bitcoin price of $87,300, a volatility of 45%, and an expected annual return of 30%. 

According to Strategy, these numbers indicate that the firm has plenty of financial flexibility. The company has shown that its dividend security does not rely on aggressive Bitcoin price growth. Although its balance sheet is tied to BTC’s market performance, Strategy’s internal credit analysis suggests it can withstand extended periods of sideways price action without liquidating its core holdings. 

BTCUSD currently trading at $83,998. Chart: TradingView
Saylor Faces Criticism For Persistent Bitcoin Buys
In a separate update, Strategy highlighted its actions during the 2022 crypto winter, which was marked by a widespread market collapse. When the price of Bitcoin dropped to $16,000, roughly 50% of Strategy’s then-average cost basis of $30,000, the firm increased its position rather than pulling back. 

This reminder resurfaced longstanding criticisms from market participants who argue that the company’s approach relies too heavily on constant averaging up. The CEO of SwanDesk, Jacob King, criticized Saylor, claiming that the Strategy founder has not shown any real investment ability. 

King pointed out that since Saylor’s first BTC purchase at around $11,000, the cryptocurrency has surged roughly 1,000%. In contrast, Strategy has generated only a 22% return over five years, equating to about 4.4% per year. King described this performance as “horrible,” attributing it to the firm’s seemingly flawed strategy of persistently buying Bitcoin at higher prices. 

The SwanDesk CEO also highlighted Saylor’s history in the tech sector, noting that he had wiped out nearly 99% of his net worth during the dot-com era by chasing underperforming tech stocks and restating the firm’s financials under the scrutiny of the US SEC. 

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Bitcoin ATM operator Crypto Dispensers says it's considering a $100 million sale of the company.
Both the company and founder and CEO Firas Isa were charged in an alleged $10 million money laundering scheme earlier this week.
Crypto Dispensers and Isa pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Crypto Dispensers (aka Virtual Assets LLC), a Chicago-based operator of ATMs that let users buy and send Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, said Friday that it is weighing a potential sale valued around $100 million.

The announcement came just days after the U.S. Department of Justice filed charges against both the company and founder and CEO Firas Isa, alleging that they perpetrated a $10 million money laundering scheme.

Crypto Dispensers and Isa have pleaded not guilty to the single money-laundering conspiracy charge against each, which holds a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.

The DOJ filing alleged that Isa and his company received funds from victims and criminals through Bitcoin ATMs. Despite know-your-customer (KYC) requirements meant to prevent money laundering, prosecutors claim Isa converted these illicit funds into cryptocurrency and transferred them to other wallets.

If convicted, Isa and his company would face asset forfeiture, including all property involved in the alleged money laundering, with the government able to pursue substitute assets if necessary.

Crypto Dispensers said Friday that it is “evaluating a potential sale valued at approximately $100 million,” and that it has “retained advisors to support the review as consolidation accelerates across the cash-to-crypto and digital asset infrastructure sector.”

“This review is about understanding the next stage of growth and determining which path creates the most value for the platform we have built,” Isa said in a statement.

Decrypt reached out to Crypto Dispensers to clarify whether the firm has lined up a potential buyer or is rather announcing its openness to a deal. Decrypt also sought comment regarding the U.S. charges, but did not immediately receive a response to the queries.

Crypto Dispensers’ potential sale comes as markets have crashed following a huge upswing over the first 10 months of the year. Bitcoin fell to nearly $81,000 early Friday, notching its lowest price since April. BTC set a record high of $126,000 in early October. 

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After a bruising week of historic outflows, the exchange-traded fund (ETF) market finally took a breath. Bitcoin, ether, and solana ETFs all closed Friday in the green, signaling a welcome shift in sentiment.

Bitcoin is now sitting at one of its most critical junctures of the entire cycle. A rising-wedge breakdown has driven price straight into a key support zone just as BTC prints its first major post-ATH drawdown of over 33%, a level that has historically signaled prolonged weakness and heightened volatility. With technical pressure colliding with a historically significant threshold, the market now faces a decisive moment.

Rising Wedge Break Sends Bitcoin Lower Into Key Support Zone
Crypto analyst The Boss, in a recent breakdown of Bitcoin’s daily chart, highlighted the formation of a rising wedge pattern. As expected, Bitcoin has broken down from this wedge, sending the price sliding into what is considered a strong support zone. This level has historically acted as a turning point, making its current test a crucial moment for the market.

According to the analyst, this area could trigger a potential upward reaction, as buyers often step in when the price reaches such well-established support levels. However, the possibility of a rebound is not guaranteed. The structure must show early signs of strength before any meaningful recovery can be considered reliable. 

BTC holding support at $84,000 | Source: Chart from The Boss on X
Momentum indicators paint a cautious picture as they remain notably weak, showing no clear signal of bullish pressure returning to the market. At the same time, trading volume remains lower than necessary for a confident reversal, suggesting that buyers have yet to step in. Without stronger participation, any bounce may be shallow or short-lived.

Due to these factors, the analyst emphasized that Bitcoin’s current level must be closely monitored. While a short-term reaction from support is possible, a failure to hold this zone would open the door to further downside and potentially expose deeper support areas. 

BTC Hits 33% Drawdown Threshold: A Historically Significant Signal
According to a recent update shared by Crypto Patel, Bitcoin has now recorded a 33% drawdown from its all-time high, marking a correction significant enough to grab the market’s full attention. This is more than a routine pullback; it represents a level of decline that has historically signaled deeper shifts in market sentiment.

Looking back through previous cycles, every instance where BTC retraced beyond 33% after a peak has been followed by prolonged periods of weakness, increased volatility, and continued downside pressure. These drawdowns often served as transitional phases, where momentum reset before the next major trend could establish itself. 

The market now sits in a critical phase, with traders and analysts watching closely to see whether Bitcoin repeats its well-known historical behavior or breaks the cycle with a stronger-than-expected recovery.

BTC trading at $84,211 on the 1D chart | Source: BTCUSDT on Tradingview.com
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LISBON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Portugal's state holding company Parpublica said on Saturday it had received only three expressions of interest in a minority stake in flag carrier TAP, all from Europe's largest airlines and none from outside the EU, falling short of government hopes.

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Portugal relaunched the long-delayed privatisation of TAP in July, seeking to sell a 44.9% stake to an airline capable of boosting the company's global scale and competitiveness, with a further 5% to be offered to TAP employees.

Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said in July that the government expected TAP's privatisation to also draw interest from major airlines outside the European Union, citing the carrier's untapped potential.

The deadline for airlines to formally express interest closed on Saturday at 1700 GMT.

Parpublica said in a statement it has until December 12 to assess whether the interested airlines meet the criteria, including at least one year of revenue above 5 billion euros in the last three years and financial capacity.

Non-binding offers are due by mid-March, followed by binding offers detailing price and a strategic plan for TAP. The privatisation is expected to be completed in the second half of 2026.

TAP's most attractive assets are its connections to Brazil, Portuguese-speaking African countries and the United States from its Lisbon hub, which the government wants to keep and expand.

Bernstein analysts valued TAP's 44.9% stake at least 700 million euros ($810 million), based on a full airline valuation of 1.5 billion euros. They said this represents a roughly 25%–30% premium over European peers, justified by TAP's strategic upside.

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When a number of billionaire investors are all buying the same stock in the same quarter, that can be a bullish indicator for the company.

It's understandable why retail investors might see a hedge fund making a big new investment in a company and get excited about that stock. After all, billionaire hedge fund managers are generally viewed as the best stock pickers on Wall Street, and some of them even have the track records of investment returns to back that premise up.

But retail investors must remember that, in general, they're finding out about these trades a few months after they occur, and many hedge funds invest for short-term time horizons. That's why retail investors must always conduct their own due diligence to make sure it still makes sense to buy a given stock.

However, if several billionaire hedge fund managers are buying or selling the same stock, it can be a clear indicator that it's at the very least time to take a look at following their lead. In the third quarter, a number of billionaires sold their stakes in Philip Morris International (PM 0.26%) and loaded up on one "Magnificent Seven" stock.

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Selling a high-yielding dividend stock
Shares of tobacco giant Philip Morris are having a strong year. They were up 27% as of Nov. 17, but the stock had been performing even better previously -- it has since given up some ground since July. And the July-through-September period was when a couple of billionaires exited their stakes in the company:

Stanley Druckenmiller's Duquesne Family Office sold all of its nearly 816,000 shares.
Philippe Laffont's Coatue Management also completely exited its position in Philip Morris, selling nearly 1.3 million shares.

The stock's slide began after Philip Morris released its second-quarter earnings report. Its earnings were stronger than expected, and management raised its full-year forecast. However, revenue came up short of expectations, and investors grew concerned about demand for the company's new smokeless nicotine pouch product, Zyn. Demand was still strong, but because Zyn is viewed as the future of the longtime cigarette-focused company, investors are focused on its growth.

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Investors got spooked again after Philip Morris delivered its third-quarter results in late October. Management said it had engaged in some promotions for Zyn, which led some onlookers to question how sustainable the product's moat could be in a world filled with growing competition. Still, net revenue in the company's smoke-free business grew 17.7% year over year in the quarter.

Investors may have grown wary of the stock's valuation, which neared 25 times forward earnings in July. Philip Morris might still be an attractive stock for income investors, as its trailing-12-month dividend yield is close to 3.6% and its trailing-12-month free-cash-flow yield is roughly 4.2%.

Backing up the truck for Alphabet
Meanwhile, Coatue Management, Duquesne, and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway initiated new positions in Alphabet (GOOG +3.33%)(GOOGL +3.53%) in the third quarter. Coatue purchased nearly 2.1 million shares, Duquesne bought over 102,000 shares, and Berkshire took a stake of over 17.8 million shares, which was valued at over $4.3 billion at the end of the third quarter.

Alphabet put several significant challenges behind it earlier this year, including a Justice Department lawsuit. The federal judge overseeing that suit ruled last year that Google did indeed employ monopolistic practices in its search and online advertising businesses. The Justice Department had requested that the judge order Alphabet to divest its Google Chrome business as part of its remediation for those practices. However, the judge declined to do so, and the sentencing he ultimately imposed was a much more favorable outcome for Alphabet than most investors expected.

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Furthermore, concerns over how artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT might erode the traditional online search market, where Google holds a 90% share, have dissipated somewhat. Investors are becoming more confident in Google's AI search offerings and the company's ability to remain competitive in the space.

Given that Alphabet trades at a cheaper valuation than most of the other Magnificent Seven companies -- less than 28 times forward earnings -- and that it still has many strong and high-growing businesses in addition to search, if you are going to invest in a Magnificent Seven stock, I think Alphabet makes sense to consider right now.

These companies have lots of visibility into their growth over the next several years.

No one knows what the future holds. However, some companies have more visibility into their future growth potential than others. That makes them ideal long-term holdings.

Clearway Energy (CWEN.A 0.12%)(CWEN 0.25%), Kinder Morgan (KMI +0.97%), and ConocoPhillips (COP 0.11%) stand out for their visible growth over the next several years. They should have plenty of fuel to continue increasing their dividends, making them ideal dividend stocks to hold for the next five years.

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A powerful growth plan
Clearway Energy owns a large portfolio of clean power assets (wind, solar, and natural gas). The company sells the power it produces under long-term contracts with utilities and large corporations. That provides it with lots of steady cash flow.

The clean power company aims to pay out about 70% of its stable cash flow in dividends. It retains the rest to invest in expanding its portfolio. Clearway has already secured investments that should start contributing to its cash flow through 2027. This supports the company's view that it can increase its free cash flow per share from $2.11 this year to around $2.70 by 2027. Meanwhile, Clearway believes it will have the financial capacity and growth opportunities to increase its cash flow to around $3 per share by 2030. That implies a 7% to 8% compound annual growth rate over the next five years.

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Clearway's growing cash flow will enable it to continue increasing its 5%-yielding dividend. It currently aims to hike its annualized dividend rate to $1.98 per share by 2027, up from its current level of $1.51 per share.

Lots of fuel to grow the dividend
Kinder Morgan is one of the country's largest natural gas pipeline companies. Its assets generate stable cash flow backed by fee-based contracts, government-regulated rate structures, and hedging agreements.

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The energy midstream giant pays out around half of its steady cash flow in dividends, retaining the rest to invest in expansion projects. Kinder Morgan currently has $9.3 billion of expansion projects in its backlog, which should come online through the second quarter of 2030. That's more than three times the size of its backlog at the end of 2023. The company has been capitalizing on a surge in demand for gas infrastructure to support liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals, AI data centers, and other catalysts. It's currently pursuing over $10 billion of additional expansion projects.

Kinder Morgan's cash flow should rise as it completes expansion projects, giving it more fuel to increase its 4.3%-yielding dividend. The gas pipeline giant has raised its payout for eight straight years, a streak that isn't likely to end anytime soon.

The coming free cash flow gusher
ConocoPhillips has built one of the deepest, most durable, and diversified portfolios in the oil and gas industry. It has a treasure trove of low-cost oil supplies. That enables it to produce lots of cash at lower oil prices.

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The oil and gas giant is about to enter a period of sustained free cash flow growth. It expects to deliver an incremental $1 billion improvement in its annual free cash flow each year from 2026 through 2028, before hitting an inflection point in 2029. It anticipates capturing an additional $1 billion of cost savings and other synergies from last year's Marathon Oil acquisition by the end of 2026. Meanwhile, it has investments in three LNG projects that will come online and contribute to its free cash flow in 2027 and 2028. Finally, the company expects to complete its Willow oil project in Alaska in 2029, which it anticipates will add another $4 billion to its annual free cash flow that year. Add it up, and that's $7 billion in incremental free cash flow over the next few years. That's a significant boost for a company that produced $6.1 billion in free cash flow through the first nine months of this year.

ConocoPhillips' surging free cash flow will give it more fuel to grow its 3.6%-yielding dividend. The oil giant recently boosted its payout by 8% and aims to deliver dividend growth within the top 25% of companies in the S&P 500 in the coming years.

Ideal long-term holdings
Clearway Energy, Kinder Morgan, and ConocoPhillips have lots of visibility into their growth prospects over the next several years. As a result, they should have ample power to continue increasing their high-yielding dividends. That should give investors confidence that they can hold these dividend stocks for at least the next five years.

This chipmaker's offerings are now gaining terrific traction among customers.

Nvidia and Broadcom are the leading players in the artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor market. Both chip designers dominate their respective niches, which has helped them clock respectable gains on the market so far this year.

Nvidia's leading position in the data center graphics processing unit (GPU) market has led to a 39% jump in its stock price this year. Meanwhile, rapidly growing demand for custom AI processors has sent shares of Broadcom up by 48%. However, the gains clocked by these semiconductor stocks are well below the 99% spike in shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD 1.09%).

A nice chunk of AMD's gains has arrived since the beginning of October, after it became evident that its stature in the AI chip market is rising. Let's look at the reasons why AMD has shot into the limelight and has upstaged its more illustrious rivals of late.

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AMD's data center business is primed for terrific growth
AMD has historically played second fiddle to Nvidia and Intel in the data center market. However, it is now coming out of their shadows.

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For instance, the enterprise adoption of its server central processing units (CPUs) has simply taken off this year. AMD's Fortune 100 CPU enterprise customer base has increased by more than 60% this year. Meanwhile, the total number of new customers has more than doubled in the first nine months of 2025. As a result, AMD believes it is on track to end 2025 with a 40% revenue share of the server CPU market.

But more importantly, management now sees a "clear path" to a market share in excess of 50% in the long run. AMD points out that its next-generation server CPU, code-named Venice, is going to be 1.7 times more powerful and efficient than its current offerings. This could spur greater adoption of AMD's Epyc server processors, which are already in solid demand thanks to their ability to lower the operating costs of data centers. Cloud computing major Oracle is one of those companies set to deploy the Venice CPUs in data centers.

AMD points out that AI-driven demand for its data center CPUs could create a $60 billion addressable market opportunity for the company by 2030. That would be more than double the $26 billion revenue that the data center CPU market is expected to generate this year. A 50% revenue share of this market could send AMD's data center CPU revenue to $30 billion by the end of the decade. That would be nearly 4x the data center CPU revenue the company is projected to have generated in 2024.

On the other hand, AMD expects its data center GPU business to step on the gas as well. The company is projecting a major bump in the compute performance of its data center GPUs from 2026, when it launches the MI450 series of accelerators.

The good part is that its next-generation GPUs have already been selected for deployment by the likes of OpenAI, Oracle, Meta Platforms, and the U.S. Department of Energy. In all, AMD points out that seven of the top 10 AI companies are already using its Instinct data center GPUs, while the overall customer base includes many other companies such as Tesla, Samsung, and others.

Thanks to strength in both the data center CPU and GPU markets, AMD is now expecting its data center business to clock a compound annual growth rate of over 60% for the next three to five years. Meanwhile, the 10% annual growth the company projects in its other business segments -- personal computers, gaming, and embedded chips -- should complement the outstanding growth it anticipates in data centers.

Solid financial growth should translate into healthy stock market gains
AMD management pointed out on its latest Financial Analyst Day that it is expecting its overall revenue to increase at a 35% CAGR over the next three to five years. Additionally, the company is targeting its non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) earnings to exceed $20 per share during this period.

AMD is expected to end 2025 with $3.94 per share in earnings. So, a reading of $20 per share after five years would translate into an annual growth rate of just over 38%. That looks achievable, considering it's expecting its non-GAAP operating margin to exceed 35% in the next three to five years, which would be a major improvement over its 2024 margin of 24%.

However, the potential margin improvement along with the robust revenue growth may help AMD achieve $20 per share in annual earnings before 2030. If the company hits that mark in just three years and trades at 34 times earnings at that time (in line with the tech-laden Nasdaq-100 index's earnings multiple), its stock price could jump to $680. That would be 2.8x of AMD's current stock price.

So, AMD has the potential to keep delivering outstanding gains in the next three to five years, even after the impressive upside that it has clocked in 2025, giving investors a solid reason to add this AI stock to their portfolios.

Harsh Chauhan has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, Meta Platforms, Nvidia, Oracle, and Tesla. The Motley Fool recommends Broadcom and recommends the following options: short November 2025 $21 puts on Intel. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Druckenmiller opened new positions in Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Alphabet in Q3.

Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller was busy scooping up a trio of "Magnificent Seven" stocks in the third quarter, adding positions in Amazon (AMZN +1.64%), Meta Platforms (META +0.87%), and Alphabet (GOOGL +3.50%) (GOOG +3.33%). However, the former hedge fund manager (who now just manages his own money) wasn't going all-in on big tech, as he exited his positions in Microsoft and Broadcom.

Let's look at what Druckenmiller might like about these three artificial intelligence (AI) stocks, and consider whether retail investors should follow him into these names.

1. Amazon

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Druckenmiller's biggest individual stock purchase in the third quarter was Amazon. Despite its size, Amazon has been a low-key winner in the AI arena. While it's best known for its e-commerce operations, it is the company's cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), that is actually its largest source of profits. That unit is also its fastest-growing, with revenue growth accelerating to 20% in Q3.

While AWS' growth has trailed peers, it's spending big and starting to gain momentum. Its huge Project Rainer, which uses its custom AI chips to support Anthropic, is just starting to ramp up. Additionally, AWS recently signed a seven-year, $38 billion deal with OpenAI.

Meanwhile, the company is increasing its use of AI and robots internally to make its e-commerce operations more efficient. It's also using AI in its high-gross-margin ad business to improve targeting and campaign creativity. This is leading to strong operating leverage.

With the stock trading at a P/E ratio below the levels of traditional retailers like Costco Wholesale and Walmart, it's easy to see why Druckenmiller likes Amazon's stock.

2. Meta Platforms

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Meta Platforms is also benefiting from AI. Like Amazon, it's using AI to help advertisers on its platforms create better campaigns and improve user targeting. It's also using AI to enhance its recommendation algorithm, which is feeding users more relevant content and keeping them engaged with its apps longer. Combined, this helped drive 26% growth in revenue last quarter, as it saw a 14% jump in ad impressions and a 10% increase in average price per ad.

Meanwhile, Meta has nice opportunities in front of it with WhatsApp and Threads. It's just starting to serve ads on both platforms, so there is a long potential runway for revenue growth. WhatsApp has more than 3 billion users, and while most are in international markets, this is still a big opportunity. At the same time, it continues to build out Threads.

Meta is also the cheapest of the Magnificent Seven stocks, trading at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of under 19.5 times 2026 analyst estimates.

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3. Alphabet

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Alphabet is arguably one of the companies that's best positioned to profit from AI. Its cloud business is growing swiftly, with revenue soaring 34% and operating income skyrocketing 89% last quarter. Moreover, it's the cloud company with the most complete tech stack, and with its pending acquisition of cloud security company Wiz, the best could still be ahead.

Alphabet can supply its customers with end-to-end solutions. Its Gemini foundational large language model (LLM) is among the best currently on the market, and Alphabet is far ahead of its rivals with custom AI chips. It began developing its tensor processing units (TPUs) more than a decade ago, and is now on the seventh generation of those specialized AI accelerators. This gives its AI data centers advantages in performance, efficiency, and cost that will only become more important in the coming years.

Meanwhile, its search business is also benefiting from AI, which is helping drive growth in queries. This could also be seen last quarter as its search revenue growth accelerated to 15%. The company has huge distribution and data advantages, which create a wide moat, even as search and AI chatbots meld into one service. Meanwhile, its YouTube streaming business is seeing robust growth (15% in Q3), and it has attractive speculative bets that could pay off handsomely in the long term with its Waymo robotaxi business and its quantum computing unit.

Trading at a forward P/E of around 25 times 2026 analysts' estimates, Alphabet looks attractively priced, given the long-term opportunities in front of it.

Geoffrey Seiler has positions in Alphabet and Amazon. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Alphabet, Amazon, Costco Wholesale, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and Walmart. The Motley Fool recommends Broadcom and recommends the following options: long January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft and short January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Realty Income's steadily rising dividend adds up over the years.

Realty Income (O +0.66%) has been a powerful passive income producer over the years. The real estate investment trust (REIT) has increased its monthly dividend 132 times since its public market listing in 1994. The landlord has hiked its payout by 259% over that period (a 4.2% compound annual growth rate), paying out a cumulative $17.6 billion in dividends over the past three decades.

The REIT's high-yielding (more than 5.5% current yield) and steadily rising monthly dividend make it an ideal investment for those seeking to generate passive income. Here's why income-seeking investors should buy shares and never look back.

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A higher yield the longer you hold
Realty Income has historically offered a high current yield, averaging in the mid-single digits. That has allowed investors to lock in a lucrative income stream on any new investment.

For example, an investor who bought 100 shares at the end of 2014 would have paid about $4,771 for those shares. At the time, Realty Income's dividend yield was around 4.2%. This yield implies that the investment would have generated around $220 in annual dividend income at the then-current payment rate, or approximately $18.33 per month.

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The payment rate has increased steadily over the past decade, rising 47% overall. As a result, the investor is now collecting significantly more dividend income on their initial investment. These initial 100 shares would generate about $323 of dividend income each year (roughly $26.92 per month) at the current payment rate. That pushes the yield on this investor's cost basis up to 6.8%.

Built to continue paying a growing dividend
Realty Income is well-positioned to continue increasing its high-yielding monthly dividend in the future. The foundational factor driving that view is its high-quality real estate portfolio. The REIT owns over 15,500 retail, industrial, gaming, and other properties across the U.S. and Europe, net leased to about 1,650 clients in 92 industries.

The long-term net leases securing its properties provide it with dependable rental income as tenants cover all property operating costs (including routine maintenance, real estate taxes, and building insurance). Realty Income pays out a conservative percentage of its stable cash flow in dividends (about 75% of its adjusted funds from operations). That gives it a very comfortable cushion while allowing it to retain a significant amount of cash to fund new investments (Realty Income is on track to produce $843.5 million of free cash flow after dividends this year). The company complements its robust free cash flow with one of the strongest balance sheets in the REIT sector, providing it with even greater financial flexibility to make new investments.

Realty Income has enhanced its ability to grow over the years by steadily diversifying its platform. It started by focusing on investing in retail properties. The REIT has since expanded into industrial real estate, gaming properties, and other property types, including data centers. Additionally, it has expanded geographically (first into the U.K. and then into continental Europe) and started making credit investments (real estate-backed loans). This expansion has increased its total addressable market opportunity to $14 trillion.

While Realty Income has a tremendous amount of financial flexibility to make new investments and a massive opportunity set, it's very selective. The REIT has sourced $97 billion of new investment opportunities this year. However, it only closed on $3.9 billion of deals through the end of the third quarter, as it moved forward with its best opportunities. That discipline enables it to maximize its returns, putting it in the strongest position to continue increasing the dividend.

The perfect passive income investment
Realty Income is a dividend powerhouse. The REIT pays a high-yielding dividend that it has steadily increased over the years. It's well-positioned to continue growing its payout in the future. That's why you can buy shares for passive income and never look back.

Time to buy? It depends on what you're considering.

After a powerful run earlier in the year, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC +0.88%) has slipped from recent highs as investors reassess how much they are willing to pay for artificial intelligence (AI) beneficiaries. Spooked, some investors are seemingly rotating out of some of the most aggressive AI winners.

That nervousness is understandable. AI infrastructure spending has surged, and many AI-linked stocks have multiplied in value. Yet the current sell-off is also revealing a gap between truly attractive AI investments and those that may be overhyped.

For investors trying to sort opportunity from risk, Microsoft (MSFT 1.32%) and Palantir Technologies (PLTR 0.62%) illustrate that range. Microsoft looks like a credible way to lean into long-term AI demand during volatility, while Palantir will likely be far more exposed if AI spending or sentiment cools.

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One AI stock to buy
Microsoft arguably sits at the center of the AI buildout. Benefiting from AI (and powering it) is the software giant's Azure cloud computing platform. Of course, the company is also using generative AI with its Copilot assistant across its productivity tools in Microsoft 365. Then there's its partnership with OpenAI.

Importantly, AI is already positively impacting the software giant's financial results, too. In Microsoft's first quarter of fiscal 2026, the company generated revenue of $77.7 billion, up 18% year over year. Microsoft Cloud revenue grew 26% year over year to $49.1 billion in the same period.

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Revenue from its intelligent cloud segment climbed 28% year over year to $30.9 billion, aided by 40% growth in "Azure and other cloud services revenue."

The stock does not look cheap, but it is not euphoric either. Microsoft stock has a price-to-earnings ratio of 34 -- a premium to the broader market, yet one supported by high-teens revenue growth, rising earnings per share, and a balance sheet stacked with cash.

In my opinion, Microsoft stock is worth buying and holding for the long haul. It gives investors exposure to the AI boom without paying bubble-like prices.

One AI stock to avoid
Data analytics and software company Palantir has become one of the market's loudest AI beneficiaries, with its stock up more than 100% this year (even after a big pullback in recent weeks).

Investors love Palantir's growth. Third-quarter revenue rose 63% year over year to about $1.2 billion. This was a huge acceleration from 48% growth in the prior quarter.

Profitability looks good, too. The tech company reported a third-quarter generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) profit of $476 million, or 40% of revenue.

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Yet the stock's valuation leaves very little margin for disappointment. As of this writing, shares trade at about 165 times forward earnings. This is a bubble-like valuation.

Sure, this valuation level might be defensible in a world of limited competition and near-certain sustained hypergrowth. But reality looks less comfortable. Palantir faces well-funded rivals in analytics and AI platforms. Additionally, its heavy reliance on government contracts makes it susceptible to government spending shifts. With the stock already priced for exceptional results, any cooling in AI enthusiasm or slowdown in contract wins could ultimately hit the shares much harder than the underlying business, making this a risky place to hide during AI bubble scares.

Which is the better buy?
AI bubble worries have reminded investors that even promising technologies can produce painful stock-price swings. This raises the stakes for making sure you're invested in the best options.

For those who want exposure to the theme without taking on undue valuation risk, Microsoft looks like the more resilient option, thanks to its diversified business and far more conservative valuation.

Palantir, by contrast, simply prices in too much. Even more, the company's business isn't nearly as diversified as Microsoft's.

While it's impossible to know for sure which stock is the better long-term buy, one thing is clear: Palantir stock looks a lot riskier today than Microsoft does. For that reason, I'd personally avoid Palantir, and I'd consider buying shares of Microsoft to get more exposure to the AI boom.

AMD and Intel are both vying for incremental share of the data center market currently dominated by Nvidia.

Perhaps the most important piece of technology powering generative AI development is an advanced chipset known as the graphics processing unit (GPU).

While Nvidia pioneered these chips, two of the company's cohorts in the semiconductor space -- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD 1.09%) and Intel (INTC +2.62%) -- are seeking to make inroads as investments in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure accelerate.

Let's break down the current picture between AMD and Intel, and assess which chipmaker is better positioned for the proliferation of the AI infrastructure era.

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Where does AMD's data center business stand today?
The AI revolution has featured a number of different GPU series. For Nvidia, the company's Hopper architecture was once coveted as the best chips money could buy. But over the last couple of years, Nvidia has introduced successor chips -- namely, Blackwell and the upcoming Rubin architecture.

Similarly, AMD started to gain traction in the data center landscape through its Instinct MI300 accelerators, launched in the fourth quarter of 2023.

As the graphic below illustrates, AMD's data center business generated similar levels of revenue to Intel's within about six months following the Instinct release.

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During the third quarter of 2025, AMD's data center segment generated $4.3 billion in revenue -- rising by 22% year over year. By contrast, Intel's data center business reported $4.1 billion of sales -- a decline of 1% annually.

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Could Intel be a stealth data center stock?
Intel is an extremely diversified business. In addition to its data center operations, the company also sells various hardware products, including microprocessors and other chips, as well as provides foundry services.

A couple of months ago, Nvidia agreed to invest $5 billion into Intel alongside additional funding commitments from the U.S. government and SoftBank. As part of the deal, Intel will be designing next-generation CPU architectures for Nvidia -- a potential catalyst for its data center segment.

The verdict: AMD's full-stack approach beats Intel's diversification
As the image above illustrates, AMD's data center segment has consistently grown at double-digit rates. By contrast, Intel's growth has been rather inconsistent and appears to be decelerating in more recent quarters.

I believe the growth disparity between the two chipmakers stems from their differing approaches.

AMD offers a combination of hardware -- GPUs and CPUs -- as well as a software system called ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) -- providing developers with a comprehensive, full-stack suite. This approach is similar to that of Nvidia, which complements its GPUs with a custom software platform called CUDA.

By offering both hardware and software, AMD is able to create a lock-in effect with its developer base -- putting the company in a position to scale alongside its customers as they continue to invest capital in AI capex.

This strategy has already helped AMD win over the likes of Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Oracle, and OpenAI -- each of which is deploying large clusters of the company's Instinct accelerators.

Conversely, Intel has been struggling to execute on the innovation front. To further exacerbate its operational headaches, most of the hyperscalers now turn to Taiwan Semiconductor for its foundry services instead of Intel.

Throughout the AI revolution, TSMC has seen its market share in the foundry space expand from 56% to 68%. Meanwhile, Intel has lost ground -- now accounting for less than 1% of the market.

While Intel has some intriguing catalysts in the works, it's hard to know just how impactful its relationship with Nvidia will be. To me, Intel remains more of a turnaround story than a concrete winner of the AI infrastructure chapter.

For these reasons, I see AMD as the more strategically positioned data center business. The company's progress to date appears to be challenging an incumbent like Intel, and its current momentum on the backdrop of high-profile customer wins and secular themes of a multi-year, multi-trillion dollar infrastructure opportunity could further widen the gap.

Adam Spatacco has positions in Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and Nvidia. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft, short January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft, and short November 2025 $21 puts on Intel. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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World Liberty Financial (WLFI) price has surged by 17% in the past 24 hours. This outpaces the broader crypto market, which gained just 0.72%. The surge follows a positive technical outlook and ongoing efforts to recover funds after a breach. Institutional investors have also shown renewed interest, fueling WLFI’s rise. 

WLFI now stands among the top gainers, along with Bitcoin Cash price soaring by 16% over the past 24 hours. 

Despite recent struggles, with the crypto market down 10% in the past week and 21% in the last 30 days, recovery signs are emerging. Bitcoin (BTC) has recently seen a slight uptick, now hovering around $84,000.

WLFI Token Burn Drives 17% Surge
WLFI (World Liberty) saw a significant price jump of 27%, rising from $0.11 to $0.14, after the team took swift action in response to compromised investor wallets. 

The breach, caused by phishing attacks exposing seed phrases via third-party apps, led to an emergency burn of 166.667 million WLFI tokens, worth $22.1 million. These tokens were then redistributed to verified recovery addresses. 

The move was part of WLFI’s strategy to restore confidence in the project. With this decisive action, combined with ongoing technical improvements and institutional partnerships, WLFI continues to demonstrate its commitment to transparency and rebuilding trust in the market.

World Liberty Financial has reported significant growth in derivatives market activity. Volume has surged by 48.91%, reaching $730.81 million. Additionally, open interest has risen by 24.82%, now standing at $255.06 million. 

These changes indicate increasing investor engagement and market interest in WLFI derivatives. The figures highlight the growing strength of WLFI in the financial sector and its rising influence in the derivatives market.

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Is WLFI Price Set to Hit $0.20? A Bullish Outlook
The WLFI price soared to $0.1510 on November 22, 2025, marking a strong increase. The cryptocurrency has been showing strong momentum, breaking above the resistance level of $0.14. 

The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is currently positive. The MACD line is above the signal line, confirming bullish momentum. Additionally, the Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) stands at +0.12, reflecting positive money flow into the market.

Source: WLFI/USD 4-hour chart: Tradingview
With the price above the $0.14 support, WLFI may aim for a target of $0.16. If the  WLFI price sustains this momentum, the next resistance level could be at $0.18. However, a drop below $0.14 would signal a possible retracement, so traders should be cautious.

In a dramatic downturn this weekend, the cryptocurrency market saw significant losses as its total valuation dropped to $2.87 trillion, falling below the $3 trillion threshold. The decline has triggered alarm among investors, as evidenced by crypto fear and greed indexes plummeting to levels categorized as “extreme fear.

Asset manager Grayscale will debut new spot ETFs for Dogecoin and XRP on the NYSE on November 24.The products convert existing private trusts and expand the US market beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs.The approvals reflect a broader regulatory shift under the new US SEC Chairman Paul Atkins.Grayscale will introduce new exchange-traded fund products tied to Dogecoin and XRP on Nov. 24 after securing approval to list both vehicles on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Grayscale Dogecoin Trust ETF (GDOG) and the Grayscale XRP Trust ETF (GXRP) will debut as spot ETPs holding their respective underlying tokens.

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Grayscale Expands ETF Lineup With Dogecoin and XRPThe firm is converting its existing private trusts into fully listed ETFs, a move that represents a major liquidity event for current investors.

GXRP will enter a market that already includes spot products from Canary Capital and Bitwise.

Those funds have drawn about $422 million in combined inflows during their first two weeks of trading, signaling early institutional interest in XRP-linked products.

XRP ETFs Daily Inflow Since Launch. Source: SoSoValueOn the other hand, GDOG will be one of the first Dogecoin ETF available to US investors.

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Dogecoin, once a meme token, has grown into the ninth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Its deep retail following has made it one of the most frequently traded and discussed digital assets, a trend Grayscale expects will support ETF demand.

Considering this, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Eric Balchunas said the product could attract as much as $11 million in volume on its first trading day.

GDOG and GXRP’s launch broadens the mix of crypto ETFs available in the US market, extending the industry’s expansion beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum products that dominated the initial wave of approvals.

Their arrival also reflects shifting regulatory conditions in Washington.

Both approvals are part of a broader acceleration in digital asset oversight under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins.

Since taking office, Atkins has moved the agency away from a “regulation by enforcement” approach and toward a disclosure-focused framework.

Through his “Project Crypto” initiative, he has signaled that the SEC is open to reviewing compliant digital asset products, clearing the path for issuers seeking to list new ETFs.

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The recent downturn in the crypto market has intensified XRP's ongoing decline, and the launch of the Bitwise XRP ETF did little to stabilize sentiment. Despite a respectable debut, the fund significantly underperformed compared with Canary's XRPC ETF, adding pressure during an already turbulent trading environment.

Canadian-based SOL Strategies is a publicly traded Solana-centric company that has stockpiled the network’s native token—but it doesn’t want to be confused with the growing list of digital asset treasuries (or DATs) that have merely focused on accumulating SOL, the network’s native token. 

“Our thesis is that there's no sustainable market for digital asset treasuries,” SOL Strategies Interim CEO Michael Hubbard told Decrypt. “That's not an interesting business model.”

“They're a proxy financial engineering play that largely was driven by short-term hype. I almost want to say greed, but that seems a bit strong,” he added. "I think we'll see one or two long-term sustainable or successful DATs that kind of control the narrative, that drive the theme, but staking ETFs are going to eat their lunch.” 

Hubbard said that while the original DAT thesis of providing exposure to previously uninvestible assets—either based on geography or other restrictions—was a great thesis, it has lost its luster. 

“Now we have ETFs that provide the same level of exposure, but ETFs are far more regulated and have a very known framework and protections around that,” he added.

ETFs also come from known issuers with controlled and defined expenses, he added, while DATs can have complex balance sheets, warrant overhangs, debt converts, and shares in private placements that haven’t yet been registered for resale.

“The value gap that DATs are filling is narrowing very rapidly,” said Hubbard.

Staking ETFs add a further benefit for investors by letting them get a share of network staking rewards for proof-of-stake assets like Solana and Ethereum. The recently launched Bitwise Solana Staking ETF has seen zero days of outflows since launching in late October, suggesting solid demand for both Solana and staking-enhanced funds.

SOL Strategies was arguably the first Solana treasury firm, rebranding from Cypherpunk Holdings in September 2024 to commit to a focus on the growing layer-1 network and its underlying token, SOL. 

But the company maintains that it’s more than a DAT, instead adopting the DAT++ moniker that lends credence to the brand’s validator business. 

Hubbard, who took over as interim CEO in September with the departure of Leah Wald, is focused on ensuring shareholders and prospective investors are aware of it. 

“What we're really trying to convey to the market right now is our focus is to capture the value of the economy, not the currency,” said Hubbard, speaking about the firm’s focus on the growth of the Solana network and activity, versus just the price of the token. 

“The currency [SOL] is a piece of it. It's a pillar of our foundation,” he added. “But that's why we have the operating business.”

The firm's validator operations had more than 2.8 million SOL or about $364 million in assets under delegation as of its most recently published business update, earning a network average of around 6.45% APY in rewards on that delegated stake. 

It also manages a digital asset treasury of more than 526,000 SOL or greater than $67 million at today’s prices, placing it among the top publicly listed holders of Solana. 

“Using the DAT++ term has the negative consequence that we're being lumped into that basket,” said Hubbard of the growing list of Solana treasury firms. “And to be clear, we think that it's very important and valuable for us to have a treasury in Solana, because we believe in Solana, the ecosystem and the asset.” 

But the firm’s interim CEO, who joined in March when it acquired his validator business, Laine, wants to continue to push the narrative that SOL Strategies is not purely focused on the value of the SOL token, and instead aims to be the company that captures the value of the entire Solana economy.

“If I had to, I would say we become like the Berkshire Hathaway of Solana, or the S&P 500 of Solana,” he said when asked about what success looks like for the firm. “We would be just accelerating the ecosystem through our involvement, but at the same time also capturing the value of that entire growth—and we're not tied purely to the price of SOL.” 

Hubbard’s comments come as the year’s digital asset treasury continues to show signs of weakness. Top firms like Bitcoin giant Strategy and leading Ethereum treasury BitMine have seen their stock prices tumble in recent weeks, while some DATS have started selling off their crypto holdings in an attempt to prop up their share prices through stock buybacks.

Shares of SOL Strategies finished up 6% on Friday. Shares in the firm began trading on the Nasdaq earlier this summer as part of its cross-listing with the Canadian Securities Exchange. 

Solana is down about 33% in the last month, recently trading around $127 and more than 56% off its January all-time high of $293.

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XRP Drops With Market as Bitcoin Weakness Pulls Altcoins Into Oversold TerritoryTechnical indicators suggest oversold conditions, but a break above $1.96 is needed to reverse the current downward trend.Updated Nov 22, 2025, 7:26 p.m. Published Nov 22, 2025, 7:26 p.m.

Technical reversal signals emerge amid extreme oversold conditions following an aggressive institutional distribution wave.

News Background• Whale wallets dumped nearly 200 million XRP (~$400M) over 48 hours, triggering acute supply pressure
• Market-wide risk-off intensified as Bitcoin slipped below $90,000, pulling altcoins into deeper volatility
• Bitwise’s new XRP ETF posted $25.7M first-day volume and $107.6M AUM, signaling strong institutional demand
• Sentiment across majors remains fragile, with total crypto market cap still drifting under heavy outflows

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Price Action Summary• XRP fell from $1.96 → $1.91, marking its lowest close in three sessions
• Volume spiked 67% above average to 182.1M, confirming institutional selling
• A descending channel dominated the session with 5.1% intraday volatility
• Capitulation bottom formed at $1.895, followed by a 0.5% late-session reversal
• Final-hour volume surged to 2.76M, breaking the pattern of declining activity

Technical AnalysisXRP’s session reflected a classic distribution-driven decline followed by early-stage reversal signals. Whale selling created sustained downward pressure as major holders offloaded nearly 200M tokens, overwhelming the $1.96 resistance band and pushing XRP into a descending channel that persisted through most of the session.

Support at $1.90–$1.91 emerged as the key battleground. The psychological level attracted aggressive buying after a capitulation event at $1.895, where institutional inflows reversed the intraday trend. Momentum indicators—including RSI and short-term stochastic—flashed deep oversold conditions, creating the first bullish divergence since last week’s major breakdown.

The strong 2.76M-volume spike during the bounce suggests early accumulation behavior, contradicting the prior multi-hour decline in participation. Still, the macro structure remains fragile. Bulls must force a clean break above $1.96 to invalidate the descending channel and attempt a trend reversal. Failure to defend $1.90 would expose the chart to a fast extension toward $1.82, then $1.73.

What Traders Should Watch• $1.90 remains the line in the sand. A close below opens the path toward October’s deep liquidity pockets
• Reclaiming $1.96 is essential to neutralize the descending channel and restore short-term bullish momentum
• ETF flows—especially Bitwise’s AUM trajectory—may provide upside catalysts if volume accelerates
• Divergences and oversold signals favor near-term bounce attempts, but whale distribution remains the dominant risk
• Market-wide fear levels remain elevated; XRP will continue to overreact to Bitcoin volatility

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Younger, wealthier Americans seem to be rewriting the house rules of wealth management.

They like broad equity indices. They park cash in T-bills. They still buy real estate and private deals. But they also expect to see Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a handful of other digital assets on the same dashboard as everything else.

For them, crypto is a normal slice of a portfolio. For many of their advisors, though, it’s still a compliance headache and a career risk.

That gap between young investors and advisors is there, and it’s getting wider every day. Zerohash’s new “Crypto and the Future of Wealth” report surveyed 500 investors aged 18–40 in the US with household incomes ranging from $100,000 to over $1 million.

Most of them already work with a financial advisor or private wealth manager. Yet when it comes to crypto, a big chunk runs a separate stack of apps, exchanges, and wallets because their advisory firm either can’t or won’t touch it.

Tens of trillions will flow from older Americans to younger heirs and charities over the next two decades. The people set to receive that capital already treat a 5–20% crypto allocation as usual, and they’re now benchmarking advisors on whether they can underwrite that reality without blowing up fiduciary duty, tax planning, or basic cybersecurity.

The decision younger wealthy clients have to make is simple: if you won’t manage the part of my portfolio I care most about, I’ll find someone who will.

The demand signal Wall Street tried to pretend wasn’t thereThe numbers from Zerohash’s survey are blunt: around 61% percent of affluent 18–40-year-olds already hold crypto. That share climbs to 69% among the highest earners in the sample, and most don’t see crypto as a fun lottery. Among high-income investors, 58% put 11–20% of their portfolios into digital assets.

For all of them, crypto sits in the same mental bucket as real estate and core equity funds, not as a side bet. The study notes that 43% of young investors allocate 5–10% of their portfolios to crypto, 27% allocate 11–20%, and 11% allocate more than 20%. Zerohash also adds that 84% of crypto holders plan to increase those allocations over the next year.

Those are the numbers for the demand side.

On the supply side, the advisory channel is basically a ghost town. The survey showed 76% of crypto holders invest independently, outside their brokerage or wealth management firm. Only 24% hold crypto through an advisor at all.

These are not your BTC maximalists living in cold storage; these are people who already pay a basis-point fee for advice and still feel they have to run a separate portfolio in another browser tab.

Their money is already moving, as 35% percent of all affluent investors in the sample say they have shifted assets away from advisors who do not offer crypto.

Among the top-earning group on $500,000 to over $1 million, that share jumps to 51%. More than half of those who left moved between $250,000 and $1 million per head.

And yet, the same dataset shows how easy it would be for wealth managers to keep these clients. About 64% of respondents say they would stay with an advisor longer or bring more assets across if that advisor provided crypto access; 63% say they would feel more comfortable investing through an advisor if digital assets sat on the same portfolio dashboard as their stocks and bonds.

The main takeaway is that the bar for advisors is very, very low. The bar isn’t “become a crypto hedge fund,” but “recognize this asset class exists and can be held inside the same reporting stack.”

Layer this on top of the Great Wealth Transfer, and the stakes get very large, very fast. Cerulli and RBC estimate that total wealth moving from older Americans to younger generations and charities will be in the $84–$124 trillion range through the 2040s.

That wall of inheritance and business proceeds is drifting toward cohorts who already treat crypto as a regular part of their portfolio.

The advisory machine is built for everything except on-chainIf the demand is this clear, why do so many advisors still default to “we can’t touch that”?

Part of the answer sits in product design. For a long time, the only way an advisory firm could get crypto exposure into a model portfolio was through weird closed-end funds, trust structures, or offshore vehicles nobody wanted to explain in a compliance exam.

Even now, with spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs out in the wild, many RIAs and broker-dealers treat those tickers as curiosities.

Then there is the paperwork. Investment Policy Statements written in the past 10 years often lump Bitcoin into “prohibited speculative instruments” alongside penny stocks and options. Changing that language takes committee meetings, E&O reviews, and legal memos. The path of least resistance for a mid-level compliance officer is usually to write “not approved at this time.”

Underneath that sits custody law. Under SEC rules, registered advisers need to hold client funds and securities with a “qualified custodian,” which usually means a bank, broker-dealer, or similar institution that meets strict safeguards.

For years, crypto didn’t fit neatly into those boxes, and the coveted SAB 121 (Staff Accounting Bulletin 121) made life even more complicated by forcing public banks that held digital assets to record matching liabilities on their balance sheets.

That logjam has started to clear. In early 2025, the SEC rolled out new guidance and no-action relief that made it easier for state-chartered trust companies to serve as qualified crypto custodians, effectively retiring SAB 121. The regulatory stack might still look like uncharted waters for many, but it no longer treats digital assets as radioactive waste.

However, on the ground, a new cast of partners is rushing into the gap. Fidelity Crypto for Wealth Managers offers custody and trade execution through Fidelity Digital Assets, wired directly into the same Wealthscape interface that an RIA already uses for stocks and bonds.

Eaglebrook Advisors runs model portfolios and SMAs focused on BTC and ETH for wealth managers, with portfolio reporting and billing wired into standard RIA systems. BitGo has built a platform aimed at wealth management that ties qualified custody to a TAMP-style overlay.

Anchorage Digital pitches itself as a regulated digital asset custodian with reporting, reconciliation, and governance controls explicitly designed for RIAs.

On paper, a mid-sized advisory shop could now bolt on a crypto sleeve with partners it already recognizes from the institutional world. But in practice, the pipes inside many firms are still stuck in the last cycle. OMS and PMS systems do not always know what to do with staking yield. The billing logic struggles with on-chain positions.

So advisors do something they know how to do: they stall.The structural gap shows up in the Zerohash numbers around behavior: 76% of crypto holders in the survey buy and manage their digital assets independently. That means they already know how to move funds through exchanges, hardware wallets, and on-chain apps. For that cohort, advisors become essentially useless for buying Bitcoin, Ethereum, or any other number of coins ranging from XRP to DOGE. Their value lies in tax, estate, and risk engineering for something the client has already done.

This is where the “crypto-competent advisor” idea matters. A serious under-40 client today doesn’t care if their advisor can quote the Nakamoto consensus section of the Bitcoin whitepaper. They care about whether that advisor can:

Translate a 5–15% BTC/ETH sleeve into an IPS that an investment committee and E&O carrier can live with.Set boundaries for rebalancing so the position doesn’t silently swell to 40% in a bull run.Decide when to use ETFs for ease of tracking and when to hold coins directly for long-term conviction or on-chain activity.Map these holdings into estate plans, including how heirs inherit multisig or hardware wallets without locking themselves out.None of that is science fiction anymore. It’s just regular old financial advisor work. And it’s work that younger, wealthier investors have begun using as a scorecard.

Follow the assetsZerohash’s survey shows a slow-motion run on legacy investment platforms.

Start with the top-line: 35% of affluent investors in the 18–40 bracket have already moved assets away from advisors who do not provide crypto access. Among the highest-earning slice, that share is 51%. More than half of those who left had household incomes between $250,000 and $1 million.

Put that into revenue terms. A $750,000 account billed at 1% is $7,500 per year. Lose ten of those relationships because you cannot stomach a 5–10% Bitcoin sleeve, and you have burned through the equivalent of a junior advisor’s salary. Lose fifty and you are into “we used to have an office in that city” territory.

The path usually looks something like this:

First, the client opens a self-directed account or a mobile app to get exposure while their advisor waffles. They buy the spot BTC ETF or a mix of coins on a mainstream exchange.

Then, as that bucket grows and starts to feel real, they go shopping for someone who can treat it as part of a serious balance sheet.

Crypto-focused RIAs and multi-family offices have picked up that brief, from DAiM in California to new arms like Abra Capital Management.

Along the way, TikTok, YouTube, and Discord serve as the new discovery layer. A creator walks through how they run a 60/30/10 portfolio with T-bills, index ETFs, and a BTC/ETH sleeve. A podcast brings on a family office CIO who talks casually about budgeting 5% for digital assets. The message lands: if your advisor cannot even discuss this, others will.

Culture becomes distribution. The golden aura around mahogany offices, golf club memberships, and brand-name wirehouses sits alongside a screen showing real-time P&L for a Coinbase or Binance account.

For clients under 40, trust is starting to look like proof-of-reserves, qualified custody, hardware wallets, 2FA, and the ability to see everything in one portal, not just a logo they grew up seeing on CNBC.

The Zerohash survey backs this up: 82% percent of respondents say that moves by names like BlackRock, Fidelity, and Morgan Stanley into digital assets make them more at ease with crypto in advisory portfolios. This is brand halo used in a new way: not to sell the firm’s own stock-picking skill, but to validate a new asset class they already hold.

The portfolio design underneath all this is boring in the best way. Most affluent young investors in the survey sit inside a barbell: treasuries and broad indices on one side, a 5–20% crypto sleeve on the other, and some private deals or real estate sprinkled in between.

They are not trying to reinvent modern portfolio theory. They are just adding one more risk bucket, then asking why the person who manages everything else in their life cannot help them manage this one.

What does a “crypto-competent” advisory practice look like?On the policy side, it lists Bitcoin and Ethereum as permitted assets in the IPS, subject to a defined cap, with clear language on liquidity events, rebalancing bands, and concentration limits.

On the product side, it offers a simple menu: spot ETFs for clients who care about convenience and easy tax reporting; direct coins with institutional custody for those who want on-chain access; minimal alt exposure, if any, and only in products that clear compliance checks.

On the operations side, it chooses partners who plug into existing reporting and billing systems: perhaps Fidelity Crypto for custody and execution, Eaglebrook or Bitwise strategies inside model portfolios, Anchorage or BitGo for more advanced clients who need governance features and staking.

And it works on cybersecurity: how to talk about hardware wallets, key backups, SIM-swap risk, and what happens if a client loses access.

On the human side, it stops treating crypto questions as a nuisance and starts treating them as an early warning system. The client who quietly moves $500,000 to a self-directed platform because you refused even to discuss Bitcoin is telling you something. Not necessarily anything about their risk tolerance, but a lot about how replaceable they think you are.

All of this sits atop that $80-plus trillion to $120-plus trillion wall of wealth slated to move from boomers to their heirs over the next two decades. The inheritors of that capital grew up in a world where spending and sending feel as normal as wiring a bank transfer, and they’re busy watching which advisors respect that reality.

The window is open for Wall Street, but it will not stay open forever. The first wave of crypto-competent RIAs, family offices, and fintech platforms is already laying the groundwork for weaving Bitcoin and digital assets into plain-vanilla wealth management without blowing up fiduciary duty, tax planning, or cybersecurity.

Everyone else can keep arguing about whether a 5–10% crypto sleeve belongs in a portfolio while their clients quietly walk their accounts out the door.

The wealth transfer is happening either way. The question is who gets to book the AUM when it lands.

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