The TRON juggernaut is showing no signs of hitting the brakes following another industry partnership, this time with gaming rewards platform Refereum. Excluding Binance, TRON is responsible for the busiest crypto ecosystem in the industry, having racked up a dizzying array of mergers, acquisitions and partnerships. TRX and BTT are now integrated into Refereum’s rewards that users can earn for watching their favorite video game streamers.
There are signs that TRON’s expansion into the gaming and broader entertainment industry is starting to bear fruit. BitTorrent usage is up 30% in a month, with 2.1 million users having installed the Windows BitTorrent client. The TRON Foundation has also been thriving, introducing its own Maker DAO-style stablecoin called Djed. The integration of TRX and BTT into Refereum further extends the reach of the TRON network and bolsters its ecosystem of products.
TRON’s Entertainment Grab Yields Dividends While Ethereum has planted its flag firmly within defi, TRON has established itself as the home of consumer entertainment. This has primarily meant gaming, gambling, and video streaming, all powered by crypto tokens. That tokenization is the most effective means of facilitating micropayments and administering in-game rewards is not a revelation. The way in which TRON has gone about building its empire of consumer-facing platforms, however, has given even its cynics pause for thought.
TRON’s integration with Refereum follows DLive forging a similar partnership back in November that saw users of both platforms offered crypto rewards for consuming video game content. The addition of TRX and BTT gives Refereum users access to highly liquid crypto assets, whose value is relatively stable, and which can be converted to fiat with relative ease. In turn, it extends TRON’s ecosystem while further increasing synergies between DLive, which TRON bought late last year, and Refereum.
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Lemons are the native tokens within the DLive platform, used to reward streamers and their fans. They have a fixed value within DLive, and can be earned for performing various tasks. As a result of TRON’s partnership with Refereum, $1,000 in RFR tokens and game codes to be redeemed on Steam are being given away along with 1,000 Lemons on DLive for the first 100 content creators that create a Refereum Hub.
The integration of projects such spanning streaming, gaming, and torrenting creates a thriving hub of communities whose native currencies can be interchanged. Crypto is still waiting for its killer app, but in the meantime, crypto-powered platforms are solving real world problems, even if those problems are as benign as “How can I earn rewards for doing the things I love?” Video game streaming might be one of the most compelling applications for crypto yet.
TRON’s transformation into the gamer’s crypto network of choice is gathering pace. On April 2, a partnership with gaming rewards platform Refereum was announced, extending TRON’s tentacles deeper into the gaming sphere. Many video gamers need no introduction to TRON and TRX, having already encountered it through streaming platform DLive, which TRON acquired in 2019, and through the many TRON gaming and gambling dApps that top the charts.
The upshot of TRON’s partnership with Refereum is that gaming fans can unlock loot boxes containing TRX and game codes during the month of April. The longer term benefits of the deal will be greater utility for TRX and BTT (which is also being integrated with Refereum), and increased demand for the two tokens, particularly from the tech-savvy gamer demographic.
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Brands as well as individuals have been rushing to share their suggestions for livening up the lockdown that’s seen one third of the world forced to stay at home and self isolate. The predictable upswell in video gaming has proved a lifeline to those who are stuck at home or recuperating during an unprecedented epidemiological crisis. On Instagram, people have resorted to recreating famous paintings at home, while video game usage has climbed 75%.
It’s not just the need for home entertainment that’s seen gaming sales soar: demand for VR headsets has been fueled by the rise of virtual conferences and remote meetings, providing a dual use for the coveted equipment. TRON is well positioned to capitalize on this trend, having laid bare its pro-gamer credentials for some time now. With months more quarantine expected, and the potential for new outbreaks of Covid-19 to occur, it is assumed that digital will subsume physical in every way possible.
From rolling out contactless biometric systems that reduce the potential for infection, to accelerating the establishment of remote workforces, the world is getting used to a new paradigm. While “earning from home” becomes simply “earning,” the attention economy is thriving, from the incentivized ad model pioneered by Brave’s web browser to the rewards streaming system developed by Refereum. Pro gamers get paid to play and now their fans can earn liquid crypto tokens such as TRX and BTT for watching their favorite streamers.
It may not be get-rich-quick, but Refereum’s don’t-get-bored-quick solution for rewarding viewers should be well received. As Refereum CEO Dylan Jones put it: “It’s our hope that through this partnership with TRON and DLive we can make time at home more interesting for millions of people by offering rewards for watching game streams.”
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[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 24th, 2024
Me3, a prediction platform that integrates digital asset ownership with live events, Web 2.5 gaming & eSports interaction, announces its private sale on the Yield App Angel Launchpad. Yield App, a well-known crypto platform that bridges the gap between traditional finance and the innovative world of Web3, making crypto accessible and rewarding for everyone, teams up with Me3 for an opportunity to revolutionise the way fans interact with their favourite events.
Key highlights:
Stake to Win Rewards: Unlock exclusive rewards and incentives with Me3’s ‘Stake to Win’ feature, incentivizing active participation and fostering a vibrant and rewarding ecosystem for all stakeholders. Flexible Staking and Prediction Pools: Users can engage in prediction pools with flexible staking options, allowing them to amplify their participation and earn rewards for their insights into various events and outcomes. Yield Battle Feature: Me3 introduces the innovative ‘Yield Battle’ feature, enabling users to potentially earn yields while blending decentralized finance (DeFi) with the excitement of competitive gaming, further enhancing their earning potential and entertainment experience. Staking Rewards and Fee Discounts: $ME3 token holders stand to benefit from staking rewards and fee discounts, aligning their interests with the long-term success of the platform. Support from Established VCs and KOLs: With investments from renowned venture capital firms such as Kakao Games (BORA Ecosystem Fund), Outlier Ventures, Master Ventures, Maven Capital, Tokocrypto (acquired by Binance), and more, with support from major KOLs like Jett Chang, Brian D Evans, Mario Nawful, and many others. Successful Offering on Top Launchpads: Having previously completed successful offerings on top launchpads such as Trustswap & Ferrum DAO, Me3 is primed for further growth and success in the digital asset space. “At Me3, we are leading a revolution in the Web3 space by launching innovative products that reinvent the relationship between digital assets and esports. We increase user engagement by combining competitive predictions with the strategic depth of yield-based markets and fan-driven activities through unique features like Hype Pool, Yield Battle, and FANatic. Furthermore, we are growing our reach through strategic alliances with leading Web 2.5 platforms and Asean gaming communities.” said Matthew Ainscow, Founder of Me3.
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Me3 through Yield Apps launchpad is offering a private sale to it’s users of up to $400,000 at a token sale price of @ 0.007 per ME3 token at a $7 million fully diluted valuation (FDV).
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$ME3 represents the wide range of features that it brings to the ecosystem. $ME3 token users can engage with Prediction Pools, enjoy safe and transparent transactions, enjoy staking incentives (with up to 50% of platform fees flowing back to them), enjoy fee discounts, and a lot more.
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Backed by AGE Crypto and Alphabit, crypto wealth management platform Yield App has announced its shutdown following losses linked to the collapse of FTX.
Yield App appears to be the latest crypto firm to fall victim to the fallout from the FTX collapse, announcing in a Jun. 28 post on X the closure of “all activity” as it “prepares to enter liquidation proceedings.”
Suspension of platform activity ahead of liquidation proceedings
28 JUNE 2024, 04:15 UTC: Yield App Ltd, a Seychelles-incorporated limited liability company, is today, Friday 28 June 2024, announcing the suspension of all activity on the digital wealth platform…
— Yield App (@YieldApp) June 28, 2024 Founded in 2020 by Tim Frost, Justin Wright, Jan Strandberg, and Jason Corbett, Yield App marketed itself as a “one-stop crypto wealth platform where you can earn interest, buy, and swap between your cryptocurrency assets.” Now, the firm is trying to get its funds stuck on the FTX crypto exchange.
“Yield App asks for the patience of its valued customers as it works with its advisors, with whom it jointly commits to releasing further information, including detailed FAQs, at the earliest possible date.”
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In the X post, Yield App attributed the decision to “portfolio losses incurred through third-party hedge fund managers that held Yield App assets in custody on the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and who are subject to ongoing litigation.”
Although the firm didn’t disclose the name of the hedge fund, earlier reports suggested that Yield App’s funds might be trapped on FTX due to “criminal” mismanagement by Swiss hedge fund Tyr Capital Partners.
Tyr allegedly ignored internal risk limits and investor warnings regarding its exposure to FTX. While Yield App wasn’t a direct client of Tyr, it was a client of TGT, a fund whose directors included Yield App co-founders Wright and Corbett, which had invested with Tyr on Yield App’s behalf.
FTX collapsed in November 2022 amid allegations of embezzlement and misappropriation of billions of dollars in customer funds involving its owners and affiliated hedge fund Alameda Research. Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the exchange, was sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to reimburse $11 billion.
The downfall of FTX continues to leave its mark on the crypto industry, with Yield App being the latest casualty. The crypto investment platform announced its decision to shut down operations, citing significant losses tied to the collapse of the exchange.
In a statement released on June 28, the Seychelles-based company disclosed that the financial turmoil caused by FTX’s implosion had severely impacted its liquidity and overall business operations.
As a result, the firm is suspending all activities on the platform as it prepares to enter liquidation proceedings with immediate effect. The company stated that this step was necessary to ensure fair and equal treatment for all its users and stakeholders.
Losses Tied to FTX Collapse The company said it arrived at this decision after suffering significant losses resulting from third-party hedge fund managers who held Yield App assets in custody on the collapsed exchange FTX.
“This follows the realization of portfolio losses incurred through third-party hedge fund managers that held Yield App assets in custody on the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and who are subject to ongoing litigation,” said Yield App.
The firm said its community channels on Discord and other social media platforms will no longer be accessible to users. However, Yield App said it will leave a support channel open for those that wish to reach out to the firm through its official website.
Transparency Concerns The latest developments come as a surprise, as the company had initially told users in November 2022 that it had minimal exposure to FTX. At the time, Yield App’s Tim Frost assured customers that their funds were safe and that the firm had “no significant exposure to FTX”.
The contractual statement now raises concerns about the company’s transparency and its treatment of customers concerning their exposure limit to FTX. Despite these concerns, Yield App is not alone in feeling the aftershocks of FTX’s collapse.
Impact of FTX Collapse on Crypto Firms FTX officially went bankrupt in November 2022, along with its associated entities, due to poor management and misappropriation of customer funds. However, the ripple effects continue to impact other companies.
Earlier this year, OPNX, a crypto exchange for trading bankruptcy claims launched by the founders of Three Arrows Capital (3AC), also wound up its operations as FTX’s bankruptcy proceedings reached their final stages. Although OPNX was not directly affected by FTX, its parent company 3AC suffered a massive liquidity crisis during the 2022 bear market caused by the exchange and Terra blockchain collapse.
Last year, Galois Capital, a hedge fund founded by Kevin Zhou, shut down its flagship fund due to significant exposure to FTX. The company announced that it lost nearly half of the fund’s capital when FTX collapsed.
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Yield App has announced that it has halted all activity on its crypto investment platform with ‘immediate effect’ after admitting it had lost funds on FTX a year and a half after it collapsed.
The company said its assets were held by a series of third-party hedge fund managers that were using FTX as custody. As a result, it says it’s preparing to enter liquidation and is in the process of taking legal action against the managers.
In a statement, Yield said, “This decision has been made to ensure fair and equal treatment for all Yield App’s users and stakeholders.”
Previously, Yield had claimed that deposits made on its platform were ‘always safe‘ and even claimed “your funds are insured.” It’s not clear how these issues could endanger deposits that are both always safe and insured.
Suspension of platform activity ahead of liquidation proceedings
28 JUNE 2024, 04:15 UTC: Yield App Ltd, a Seychelles-incorporated limited liability company, is today, Friday 28 June 2024, announcing the suspension of all activity on the digital wealth platform…
— Yield App (@YieldApp) June 28, 2024 Yield noted its community channels will shut while a support channel remains open on its app. Read more: FTX chasing $5M spent on ‘right-wing’ conference venue
Despite this liquidation announcement that claims it involves “the suspension of all activity,” the Angel Launchpad operated by Yield still lists a project meant to launch next week.
Yield is a Seychelles-incorporated firm that offers various crypto trading activities. Its post today may be referring to hedge fund management firm Geneva-based Tyr Capital Partners, which was sued in February 2024 by TGT, a fund that invested with Tyr, for allegedly ignoring internal risk limits and investor warnings regarding FTX.
The Financial Times reports that TGT is trying to recover $22 million from Tyr that was lost to FTX.
FTX, under the leadership of Sam Bankman-Fried, filed for bankruptcy almost two years ago on November 11, 2022. FTX reportedly claims it will have $16.3 billion — after selling its remaining assets — to pay its debts of roughly $11 billion. Both FTX US and Yield were previously audited by Armamino LLP, which no longer offers auditing services.
As part of this asset recovery, FTX is chasing $5 million from a former hotel that hosted various right-wing fringe groups. Recovery plans have also been put in place for FTX creditors which stretch the semantics of a ‘full recovery,’ prompting one group to sue the collapsed exchange.
One firm that was successful in recouping its FTX losses was European investment firm CoinShares which managed to sell its $33.6 million FTX claim to a mystery buyer.
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Yield App, a crypto investment platform, announced that it will immediately stop all its activities, citing FTX losses.
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Yield App, a crypto investment platform based in Seychelles, announced today that it will cease all operations immediately.
Crypto Platform Yield App Closed Citing FTX Losses The decision follows portfolio losses linked to the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, despite previous assurances that it would not have a significant impact.
In the official statement made by Yield App, it was emphasized that the decision was taken “to ensure fair and equal treatment for all users and stakeholders of Yield App.”
The announcement revealed that Yield App had suffered portfolio losses through third-party hedge fund managers who kept Yield App assets under custody on FTX. These assets are currently the subject of ongoing litigation.
In response to the closure, Yield App suspended its community channels, but a support channel remained open through its official website.
Yield App's closure raises questions about the company's transparency regarding its exposure to the FTX crash.
In a Discord message dated November 10, 2022, Yield App's Tim Frost assured users that the firm “does not have significant exposure to FTX.” This latest development contradicts previous assurances.
A source who wished to remain anonymous expressed confusion about the situation, saying: “This whole thing makes no sense. I think it's very strange that they were influenced by FTX even though they made an official statement two years ago.”
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Yield App, a crypto trading platform based in Seychelles, will shut down immediately, citing exposure to FTX.
The FTX contagion in 2022 remains a thorn in the flesh of the crypto community. The impact of the implosion remains visible even months after the sentencing of its founder, Sam-Bankman Fried (SBF).
Yield App Shuts Down After Hiding Exposure to FTXIn the announcement, the firm said it had suspended all activity on its trading platform as liquidation proceedings commence. Along with the termination of activities, the firm has taken down its community channels but left the support channel open for further information.
“With immediate effect, all activity on Yield App will be halted as Yield App consults with liquidators. This decision has been made to ensure fair and equal treatment for all Yield App’s users and stakeholders,” read the announcement.
Yield App attributed the shutdown to the collapse of FTX, citing exposure. Specifically, Yield App highlighted “portfolio losses incurred through third-party hedge fund managers that held Yield App assets in custody” on the failed cryptocurrency exchange.
While this is understandable, it is surprising, given the firm’s previous reassurance that it did not suffer significant exposure to FTX. Tim Frost, the firm’s CEO, shared the message on Discord on November 10, 2022, a day before FTX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and SBF’s resignation.
The twist shows that the reassurance was false, a made-up story intended to assuage customers. Therefore, the Yield App’s transparency regarding its exposure to the FTX collapse is now in doubt. Lou, founder and CEO of protocol builder XBorg, said lack of transparency is a threat to innovation.
“Greed in the crypto industry is stifling innovation. The pursuit of unsustainable high yields and quick profits is overshadowing long-term advancements,” Lou wrote.
It remains unknown how the litigation will bode for retail investors as liquidation proceedings continue. The firm is trying to release its funds stuck on the now-collapsed FTX crypto exchange.
Yield App halts operations due to FTX losses, despite earlier assurances of minimal impact.
Yield App Ltd, a Seychelles-incorporated crypto investment platform, has announced the immediate suspension of all operations on its digital wealth platform, yield.app.
This move comes as the company prepares to enter liquidation proceedings and aims to ensure fair and equal treatment for all users and stakeholders.
Yield App Stops Operations The decision, effective today, was shared in an official statement through a post on X. “Yield App Ltd, a Seychelles-incorporated limited liability company, is today, Friday, 28 June 2024, announcing the suspension of all activity on the digital wealth platform http://yield.app as the company prepares to enter liquidation proceedings,” said the statement.
Suspension of platform activity ahead of liquidation proceedings
28 JUNE 2024, 04:15 UTC: Yield App Ltd, a Seychelles-incorporated limited liability company, is today, Friday 28 June 2024, announcing the suspension of all activity on the digital wealth platform…
— Yield App (@YieldApp) June 28, 2024
The suspension follows significant portfolio losses incurred through third-party hedge fund managers who had custody of Yield App assets on the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX. These hedge funds are also involved in ongoing litigation.
Effective immediately, all activities on Yield App’s platform will stop as the company consults with liquidators. Community channels will also be suspended, although a support channel will remain accessible through the yield app to assist users during this transitional period.
Yield App has requested patience from its customers, assuring them that further information, including detailed FAQs, will be provided as soon as possible.
You may also like: FTT Skyrockets as SBF Seeks Presidential Pardon While Serving 25-Year Sentence: Report Donald Trump Says No Pardon Issuance to FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried The announcement got mixed reactions from the crypto community. One user expressed disbelief, saying, “I can’t believe it. I thought you would survive the bear market and make a strong comeback. Why give up now when the bull market is only halfway through?”
Another commented, “I’m glad I withdrew my bitcoin a few months ago.” Overall, the sentiment was one of shock, with many X users simply asking, “What?” Another user remarked, “What’s going on? This must be a joke.”
Yield App’s Transparency Questioned The announcement has raised concerns regarding Yield App’s transparency, particularly in light of previous reassurances about its exposure to FTX.
In a Discord message dated November 10, 2022, Yield App CEO Tim Frost assured users that the firm had “no significant exposure to FTX.” This statement has come under scrutiny following today’s revelations.
The liquidation of Yield App’s assets occurs amidst a broader context of FTX’s bankruptcy proceedings. The failed exchange has been actively liquidating assets to settle its disputes. In 2024 alone, FTX sold 8% of its stake in the AI firm Anthropic, offloaded its European arm for $33 million, and planned the sale of Digital Custody for $500,000.
The collapse of FTX has had severe repercussions for several firms. Last year, Galois Capital, a hedge fund founded by Kevin Zhou, closed its flagship fund due to substantial exposure to FTX. The fund lost nearly half of its capital when FTX collapsed.
The GalaxyOne platform allows users to earn yield on cash deposits and trade both crypto and traditional equities.The launch positions Galaxy Digital as a competitor to Robinhood and Coinbase in the U.S. retail investing market.GLXY shares were higher by 8% in premarket action.Shares of Galaxy Digital rose 8% in premarket trading Monday as the company rolled out GalaxyOne, a mobile and web platform built to give retail investors access to a blend of cash, crypto, and equity investing tools, with yield at the core.
The app gives users access to FDIC-insured high-yield cash accounts, crypto trading, and U.S. equities and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the company announced in a press release. Galaxy says it’s offering 4% annual returns on regular cash deposits and up to 8% for accredited investors through its Galaxy Premium Yield product. Both rates are powered by the company’s institutional lending business, which manages a loan book of more than $1.1 billion.
Beyond passive yield, GalaxyOne users can trade across digital assets like bitcoin BTC$60,851.52, ether (ETH) and solana (SOL), as well as stocks listed on major U.S. exchanges. Galaxy also offers automated reinvestment of earnings into crypto or cash, aiming to simplify compounding returns, the company said.
The launch puts Galaxy in direct competition with Robinhood (HOOD) and Coinbase (COIN), two of the dominant players among digital-first retail traders in the U.S. Both have launched new services this year — including crypto staking, margin trading and retirement accounts — as they try to lock in more users and increase assets held on their platforms.
HOOD and COIN are both trading about 2% higher in pre-market trading alongside a general rise in stock and crypto markets.
Galaxy’s move is notable in part because of its institutional background. The company went public on Nasdaq in May and its stock is up 100% since the listing. Originally built on the infrastructure of Fierce, a fintech platform Galaxy acquired last year, GalaxyOne signals a broader push into consumer finance from a firm historically focused on institutional clients.
Galaxy said more features are on the way, including business accounts, crypto staking and expanded lending products.
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Aave is offering a savings account-like app offering over 5% annualized yield, initially available on Apple's App Store.The app allows deposits from bank accounts, debit cards or in stablecoins, with offering balance protection up to $1 million, the protocol said in a blog post.Aave's move is part of a trend in decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols expanding to offer neobank-like services.Aave AAVE$71.43, the largest decentralized crypto lending platform, is rolling out a "savings account"-like consumer yield app, opening waitlist on Apple's App Store first.
With the Aave App, users will be able to earn up to 6.5% annualized yield, higher than money market funds, leveraging Aave's infrastructure lending protocol, and can deposit funds from bank accounts, debit cards or in stablecoins, according to a blog post on Monday. It also offers "balance protection" on deposits up to $1 million.
Aave's move fits into a broader trend of decentralized finance (DeFi) crypto projects branching out to offer neobank-like products directly to consumers. Staking protocol Ether.fi (ETHFI) introduced an Amex-like cash card product and other financial services, while Ethereum layer-2 Mantle recently debuted its neobank app UR offering Swiss bank accounts.
Retail crypto yield platforms, which grew popular in the 2020-21 crypto bull cycle, suffered a big setback following the spectacular blowups of centralized lending platforms such as Celsius and Block.fi in 2022, portending a severe crypto winter.
Aave's expansion comes after acquiring last month San Francisco-based fintech company Stable Finance for developing a consumer savings app. Aave has gathered $70 billion in deposits and boasts 2.5 million in users, the blog post said.
OnchainLens monitoring reported on December 21 that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has sold multiple cryptocurrencies over the past two days—including UNI, ZORA, BNB, KNC, OMG and other meme tokens—totaling tens of thousands of dollars. Following those sales, he transferred approximately $564,672 in USDC and 27 ETH (valued at roughly $80,364) using the privacy protocol Railgun.
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The crypto market is ending the week strong despite a four-day streak of U.S. spot ETF outflows and global tensions. Here’s a recap of what transpired in the space in the past 48 hours.
BTC hit with $1.68B ETF outflows Bitcoin [BTC] price held the $90k despite record weekly ETF outflows in 2026. The products saw four consecutive days of outflows, totalling $1.68 billion.
Source: Soso Value This week’s risk-off mode was triggered by Japan’s bond crisis, as investors feared the rout could spill over into U.S. markets. Additionally, the global tensions between the E.U. and the U.S. over Greenland further spooked the markets.
As of writing, these two risk factors were significantly neutralized. The E.U.-U.S. tensions, for example, had eased over a potential Greenland deal, prompting a relief rally in markets.
At press time, the Asian markets surged, with Shanghai’s SSE Composite (SSE) and Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 posting a 33 and 29 basis points surge, respectively.
However, India’s Nifty 50 retreated nearly 1%. The improved sentiment followed Japan’s rate pause after its policy rate decision on the 22nd of January.
Collectively, the shift in sentiment helped Bitcoin hover near $90k despite record ETF outflows earlier in the week.
BitGo joins the crypto IPO mania BitGo, a crypto custody and infrastructure firm, became the latest industry player to go public. The crypto IPO mania underscored the sector’s growth into the mainstream, but BitGo’s first day performance was volatile.
The stock (NYSE: BITGO) opened at $22, slightly above its $18 per share in the initial public offering (IPO).
It hit a high of $24.5 in intraday trading, about a 36% jump. But it later erased the gains and closed the intraday session at $18.49, translating to a 2.7% rally.
Source: Yahoo Finance Several crypto infrastructure firms, including custody provider Anchorage Digital, Kraken, and crypto payments giant Bitpanda, are planning IPOs.
This follows a successful Circle IPO last year. That said, BitGo raised $212 million from the IPO, putting its value above $2 billion.
Railgun to scale DeFi privacy The key final update was from the privacy sector. Ethereum-based Railgun unveiled Railgun_connect, a ‘plug and play’ DeFi integration that allows users to interact with on-chain platforms for staking, swaps, lending, and others, with their private, shielded wallets.
The project team said it successfully tested the feature on CowSwap on Polygon POS and plans to roll it out across the DeFi ecosystem. The team billed the new feature as,
“A first-of-its-kind tool for privacy and is a huge leap in making private addresses as functional as public ones.”
For the unfamiliar, the legacy privacy platforms like Zcash [ZEC] only allow shielded transfers (hiding the balance) and keep it, with no ability to deploy capital across DeFi at scale privately. Railgun’s new feature may change and disrupt the current privacy landscape.
The markets will now shift to next week’s U.S Fed rate decision, scheduled for the 28th of January. With market pricing a rate pause despite the Trump-Powell conflict, it remains to be seen whether it will be hawkish or dovish.
Source: CME FedWatch Tool Final Thoughts Bitcoin tried holding $90k despite a four-day streak of ETF outflows of over $1.6 billion Railgun unveils plan to aggressively scale DeFi privacy as market shifts focus to next week’s Fed rate decision.
Railgun [RAIL] has hit a key milestone that could scale privacy for DeFi like never before. The privacy mania has been so loud on token price gains, but the underlying protocols haven’t been very useful or scalable until now.
From Zcash to Tornado Cash, users could only deposit funds and shield them (hide) from the public or explorers. You can only park the funds there with limited utility.
However, to swap into a DeFi or use a lending protocol, one had to unshield and move the funds, making it easy to correlate and track the activity – A zero usability apart from hiding balances that limits legacy privacy protocols.
Now, the Ethereum [ETH]-based project has successfully tested Railgun_connect on CowSwap, effectively allowing private wallets to use DeFi platforms without unshielding and moving funds.
The project said,
“RAILGUN_connect is a first-of-its-kind tool for privacy and is a huge leap in making private addresses as functional as public ones.”
The team billed the feature as a ‘universal plug-and-play’ that will ‘eliminate the heavy work needed to build an integration to use a DeFi application from a private balance.’
Railgun leverages zero-knowledge proofs for shielded transfers, so interactions with DeFi frontends don’t compromise decentralization or privacy.
Railgun traction hits record high The push for DeFi privacy at scale aligns with Ethereum’s vision and increasing appetite for such solutions.
In fact, the number of shields per day for tracking private wallets has been rising sharply since 2025. In early 2026, the daily average shield hit a record high of 326, further confirming the massive demand for privacy.
Source: X/Etherscan Additionally, the cumulative volume on the privacy protocol reached a record $4.5 billion, up from $2.4 billion a year ago. This translated into nearly 100% growth, or 2x, on a year-on-year (YoY) basis.
Source: Dune The native governance token, RAIL, didn’t fall behind amid this growing network traction. In fact, after the pullback earlier in the week, the token recovered 25%.
This was part of a broader privacy coins rally after the E.U.-U.S. tensions eased, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff pause in favor of a potential Greenland deal.
Source: RAIL/USD, TradingView Final Thoughts Railgun unveiled Raingun_connect, a ‘plug and play’ feature to scale DeFi privacy The privacy project has seen a record daily shield of 326 amid rising demand for privacy solutions.
In brief Researchers from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance have found that the use of coin mixers rose significantly last year, following the lifting of sanctions against Tornado Cash. Data indicate that most users have migrated to new mixing protocols, with Railgun now accounting for 71% of all transaction volume. The available metrics suggest that a significant proportion of mixer usage remains illicit, and that Tornado Cash usage remained high amongst bad actors even after the 2022 ban. Usage of coin mixers has reached its highest level since 2022, according to new research from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF).
In an article published on Tuesday, researchers Wenbin Wu and Keith Bear reported that transactions for coin mixers have been rising since the 2022 Tornado Cash ban, as users migrate primarily to more compliant platforms.
The report notes the massive impact sanctions had in 2022 and beyond, with Tornado Cash’s daily transactions falling by 97% in a matter of days, while transactions for mixers as a whole dropped by 48%.
Usage remained low between late 2022 and March 21, 2025, when the U.S. Treasury removed its sanctions against Tornado Cash.
While 2024 did record a modest rise in transactions in relation to 2023 (c. 21,000 vs 16,000), 2025 witnessed a significant increase in usage, as total transactions rose to approximately 32,000.
This compares with approximately 38,000 in 2022 (and 2020), while daily numbers climbed close to 300 in late 2025, having topped 450 just prior to August 2022.
Users on the moveNumbers have been steadily recovering, yet Wu and Bear report that users have shifted to alternative platforms, and that Tornado Cash’s formerly dominant market share has recovered only modestly since March of last year.
Railgun, which uses a ‘proof-of-innocence’ system to check deposits against blacklists, now accounts for 71% of all activity.
It’s followed by Tornado Cash (both Tornado Classic and Tornado Nova), which accounted for 25% of transactions in 2025, and then by Privacy Pools, which accounted for 5% of all mixer transactions.
Similar to Railgun, Privacy Pools employs association sets to prove that deposits came from non-blacklisted sources, although it checks provenance prior to withdrawals.
While the growth of Railgun and Privacy Pools indicates a shift to more compliant mixer protocols, the CCAF report notes that such platforms rely on external providers to flag addresses.
In other words, blacklists “are updated dynamically as new exploits are identified,” providing some opportunity for bad actors to move funds to (and from) them quickly, before it becomes impossible.
There is some indication that transactions to and from mixers have accelerated in the post-2022 landscape: most transactions now occur within 24 hours of wallet creation, whereas pre-2022 most transactions happened after 24 hours.
Noting that “users shifted dramatically toward fast deposits under 24 hours,” the article then goes on to state that such “fast behaviour is consistent with users seeking to avoid identification, a profile more likely to include illicit actors.”
Also pointing to a potentially illicit source of transactions is the fact that, after the 2022 sanctions against Tornado Cash, deposits from centralized exchanges—which generally have to comply with KYC and AML regulations—virtually vanished.
Most deposits now come from unlabelled sources, which are addresses with no recorded entity associations, and which now account for 95% of all funding to mixers (up from 76% in 2020).
While this may suggest that use of mixers remains predominantly illicit, the report’s authors do affirm that such platforms also attract significant numbers of legitimate users.
“Legitimate motivations for using privacy tools include personal financial privacy, protection from targeting (physical attacks on crypto holders are a well-documented and growing problem), and commercial confidentiality,” said Wenbin Wu, who is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge’s Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.
The effect of sanctionsSpeaking to Decrypt, Wu emphasized that blockchains are “radically transparent,” and that such transparency—and permanent visibility—can lead legitimate users to seek out mixers in certain cases.
Yet Wu also states that the 2022 sanctions had the somewhat perverse effect of scaring off legit users, while forcing bad actors to find new channels and protocols.
He said, “The key finding is that sanctions primarily deterred compliant users while illicit actors adapted, initially to alternative mixers, and more recently to cross-chain bridges and decentralised exchanges altogether.”
Having said that, Wu acknowledges that the sanctions imposed “meaningful operational costs” on illicit networks and precipitated the shift to compliant alternatives, providing less scope for bad actors to operate.
He added, “The newer protocols like Railgun and Privacy Pools, which screen deposits against known illicit addresses, are by design less attractive to bad actors.”
CCAF’s report cites research from the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, which in a 2023 paper concluded that only 30% of Tornado Cash traffic could be shown to have derived from illegitimate sources.
However, there’s no doubt that mixers remain popular among cybercriminals, with a 2025 paper from researchers at the University of Birmingham and the University of Sydney finding that hackers continued to use Tornado Cash in 78% of Ethereum-related security incidents between August 8, 2022 and March 21, 2025.
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April 1st — Onchain Lens monitoring reports Vitalik has again sold gifted meme tokens, with each fetching 14.5 ETH (valued at roughly $30,000). He also transferred 70,000 USDC and 44 ETH to Railgun for a private transaction.
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With the start of a new month, the activity of wallets belonging to Vitalik Buterin has once again attracted attention from the crypto community, amid a market recovery, particularly with Ethereum gaining nearly 8% since the beginning of the week.
Buterin continues to execute a strategy of offloading gifted meme coins and reallocating funds toward infrastructure and, apparently, charitable initiatives. According to Onchain Lens, which cites Arkham data, several such transactions have been recorded in recent hours.
Specifically, Buterin sold another batch of unknown low-cap meme coins sent to him, receiving about 14.5 ETH, which is just over $30,000 at the current rate.
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Is new meme purge starting? Buterin's position here is clear, as he has repeatedly stated that he does not want to receive such tokens as gifts and urges developers to direct them to charity. Historically, he either "burns" these coins or sells them to fund ecosystem development and charitable causes, as seen when he donated $1 billion worth of Shiba Inu (SHIB) back in 2021.
This is why the context of SHIB resurfaced in today’s transactions. Buterin recently criticized how his previous donation in this token, ultimately valued at $500 million, was used by the Future of Life Institute to lobby politicians for AI.
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The last time Buterin sold Ethereum was at the end of February 2026, when he offloaded 17,696 ETH worth $35 million. Whether today’s activity signals a similar move for April remains unlikely for now, as the nature of these transactions differs.
study producing major crypto privacy news found that zero-knowledge proof systems including Railgun, PrivacyPools, Aleo, and Aztec are mathematically immune to quantum attacks, because they rely on information-theoretic security rather than encryption, meaning they remain safe even against infinitely powerful attackers including future quantum computers.
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The study was shared with DL News and concludes that zero-knowledge proof systems “rely on information-theoretic systems which are secure even against infinitely powerful attackers because of how information is structured and shared, not because of encryption.” That distinction is not a matter of degree. It is a categorical difference between computational security and information-theoretic security.
Why Zero-Knowledge Proofs Are Structurally Immune Standard blockchain security, including the protection on Bitcoin wallets and Ethereum accounts, relies on computational hardness: the assumption that breaking the underlying math problem requires more computation than any attacker possesses. Quantum computers using Shor’s algorithm can in theory solve certain categories of these math problems exponentially faster than classical computers, which is why Bitcoin’s elliptic curve signatures are considered potentially vulnerable.
Zero-knowledge proofs work differently. They allow one party to prove knowledge of a secret without revealing the secret itself, and the security guarantee comes from information-theoretic principles rather than computational difficulty. Even a computer with infinite processing power cannot extract more information than the proof was designed to reveal. That structural property makes ZK-based privacy tools immune to Shor’s algorithm and to any quantum attack that targets computational hardness.
What This Means for Railgun, Aztec, Aleo, and PrivacyPools Railgun is a privacy protocol that shields transaction amounts and addresses using ZK proofs on Ethereum. PrivacyPools is a protocol designed to allow compliant privacy by letting users prove their funds do not come from sanctioned sources without revealing their full transaction history. Aleo is a Layer 1 blockchain built natively around ZK proofs. Aztec is an Ethereum Layer 2 with private smart contract execution via ZK proofs.
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The Broader Implication for DeFi Privacy Infrastructure The finding arrives as the broader Bitcoin quantum risk debate is producing governance friction across the ecosystem. The quantum threat debate in Bitcoin has centered on whether to force coin migration or rely on optional upgrades. ZK-based privacy infrastructure sidesteps that debate entirely, because its core security model was already quantum-immune by design.
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The Ethereum-based privacy project Railgun and its native token RAIL have attracted significant attention after a dramatic surge in 2026. Since the beginning of the year, RAIL’s price has soared by over 128 percent, approaching its all-time high of $4.51 before settling down to $4.05. Meanwhile, daily trading volume has rocketed to $7.5 million—roughly ten times its normal levels.
Interest in privacy-focused projects growsRAIL’s rally comes as privacy returns to the spotlight in the crypto world. The renewed rise in privacy-centric projects like Zcash (ZEC) and Monero (XMR) has highlighted a growing demand for such coins. Increased social media activity and influencer engagement have further fueled this upward momentum.
With the statement, “The era of privacy in crypto has officially begun,” Grayscale’s president Barry Silbert brought renewed attention to privacy-focused projects in the sector.
According to Messari data, RAIL’s social media impact jumped by 208 percent in a short period, reflecting a clear surge in public interest in the token.
Trading volume and liquidityRAIL’s total supply stands at 100 million tokens, with 57 million currently in circulation. Most trading occurs on decentralized exchanges, with over 60 percent of total volume attributed to Uniswap. RAIL has yet to be listed on any centralized exchange but is seen as a leading privacy layer within the Ethereum ecosystem.
Quick glossary: Railgun is an Ethereum-based smart contract privacy solution that allows users to conduct transactions discreetly. By pre-approving certain addresses or applying blocklists, the protocol enables privacy for user transactions.
At one point, RAIL surpassed $5 in price and appeared poised for price discovery, but market volatility prompted a slight correction. The highest trading pairs include WETH, USDC, and USDT.
Project fundamentals and recent developmentsUnlike its competitors, Railgun does not operate as entirely permissionless; instead, it employs address approval and blocklisting mechanisms. This allows transfer sources to be checked in advance. While the approach can lessen abusive activity in attacks, identifying addresses to blacklist can sometimes be delayed.
There are currently over $97 million in assets locked within the Railgun ecosystem. Over the past year, the protocol has shown remarkable growth in its space, generating a total of $4.13 million in transaction fees.
Recently, Railgun announced integration with Ethereum’s Kohaku SDK, making direct integration with popular wallets more accessible. MetaMask and other wallets have signaled their support for this feature, though widespread adoption and concrete results have yet to materialize.
Project/TokenSupply (Total/Circulating)All-Time High24h VolumeExchangesRailgun (RAIL)100M / 57M$4.51$7.5MUniswap, On-chainZcash (ZEC)21M / 16M$276.7$150MBinance, CoinbaseMonero (XMR)18.4M / 18.4M$542.3$63MBinance, KuCoinOutlook and future expectationsBeyond Ethereum, Railgun can offer privacy support on networks such as Polygon and Binance Smart Chain. If wallet integration expands in the near future, private transactions could move closer to mainstream adoption. Currently, WETH, USDC, and USDT are the most prevalent tokens in Railgun’s mixing operations. Going forward, more tokens and DeFi platforms may join the ecosystem.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
PeckShield: WUSD/GLOVE liquidity pool attacked, resulting in losses of approximately $207,000.
PANews reported on May 25th that, according to PeckShield monitoring, the WUSD/GLOVE project on Ethereum suffered an attack, resulting in a loss of approximately $207,000. After obtaining the funds, the attackers converted the stolen assets into approximately 98 ETH and transferred them to the privacy protocol Railgun.
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May 25 update: According to monitoring from blockchain security firm PeckShield, the WUSD/GLOVE deployment on the Ethereum network was exploited in an attack, resulting in approximately $207,000 in losses. The attacker converted the stolen assets into roughly 98 ETH, then transferred these funds to Railgun—a privacy protocol—apparently aiming to obfuscate the flow of money through coin mixing and privacy-enhancing tools.
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The Ethereum Foundation's Kohaku Initiative released an SDK enabling seamless integration of shielded pool protocols like Railgun, Tornado Cash, and Privacy Pools directly into wallet interfaces, with 4337 relaying now operational.
The Ethereum Foundation's Kohaku Initiative announced the release of its SDK for integrating privacy protocols into Ethereum wallets without intermediaries.
The team achieved a major milestone with v0.0.1-alpha.21 of the kohaku-eth/railgun integration, which now features operational 4337 mempool relaying for private transactions. Tornado Cash and Privacy Pools integrations are in development.
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Wallets in the worksThe initiative is actively demonstrating practical applications of the SDK beyond theoretical research. Developers have created a CLI-based wallet that consumes the Kohaku SDK to showcase real-world functionality. Wallet integrations are underway, with production wallets including Ambire preparing implementations. A browser extension experimental wallet developed in collaboration with breadcoop is also in progress.
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The SDK documentation is being expanded to improve developer experience, with the team emphasizing that wallet integration timelines require patience as production implementations move forward.
The Kohaku Initiative represents the Ethereum Foundation's focus on bringing privacy solutions from the research phase to real user adoption. Code is available on GitHub, and vision documentation for the CLI wallet component is publicly accessible. The team plans to showcase progress at Berlin Blockchain Week.
Sources: Ethereum Foundation Kohaku GitHub | Kohaku CLI GitHub Repository | Kohaku Vision Documentation | X Announcement
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Manifold Finance's FOLD token crashes to 64 cents from a $87 peak amid product disappointment.Founder Sam Bacha goes quiet, responds to concerns with memes and jokes.Once-promising startup raised $2.5 million from VCs before downward spiral.Manifold Finance, a onetime buzzy crypto project, has plunged into turmoil.
Its erratic founder is unreachable, the price of its token is plummeting, and frustrated supporters are pleading for updates.
Manifold’s token, FOLD, hit an all-time low of 64 cents on November 8 — 98% off its 2022 peak of $87 — even as crypto markets surged on the election of Donald Trump as the US president.
Fold’s worth peaked at more than $87, and it was trading above $30 as recently as April. In 2022, the venture’s market value topped $128 million. Now it’s only $2 million.
Disappointing responseThe token has crashed amid a disappointing response to Manifold’s year-old liquid staking product, which was meant to compete with the likes of crypto giants Lido and Rocket Pool.
It has also suffered as a prominent backer stopped providing liquidity for the token on decentralised exchange SushiSwap earlier this year.
Meanwhile, founder Sam Bacha has not provided regular updates on a forthcoming product meant to reverse Manifold’s declining fortunes. Self-imposed deadlines have come and gone.
Bacha has occasionally commented in a 2,500-person Telegram chat without offering any explanation as to his whereabouts or Manifold’s progress, instead cracking jokes and sharing irrelevant memes, infuriating some supporters.
Lost supportEven one of Manifold’s most prominent investors, crypto influencer Jordan Fish, better known as Cobie, said in the group Telegram chat that he has lost faith in the company.
“I invested in it in 2021, and at the top, it was worth like $5m and now it’s worth 0,” Fish told DL News. “I don’t know what to tell you, yeah, seems like it failed, crypto investments are risky, maybe I should’ve sold the top, it is what it is.”
‘When did you last talk to Sam? He still alive?’
— Supporter on TelegramPhilipp Zahn, a co-founder of Manifold partner 20squares, declined to comment to DL News, but called the company a “former client.”
Bacha and Alexander Bradley, Manifold employee, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Manifold isn’t Bacha’s first project to go sideways.
His last crypto startup, Block Array, appears to be defunct, and has been dogged by allegations of fraud. What’s more, this isn’t the first time he’s gone weeks without providing the status updates that are de rigueur in the crypto industry.
But with the collapse of Manifold’s token and supporters’ anger boiling over, Bacha’s behaviour has taken a more ominous tone.
It’s the latest example of the pitfalls that come with crypto’s freewheeling culture.
Past troubleBacha graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2013, according to his LinkedIn account, which noted he had stints at AT&T and Amazon before founding his first blockchain-based startup in 2017.
Block Array’s website and white paper were inaccessible on Friday. The X account for its Freight Trust product has been suspended. Freight Trust’s token, EDI, is seldom traded and, despite a total supply of 600 million, had no market value Friday, according to Etherscan. Block Array’s token, ARY, is also worthless, according to Etherscan.
Malicious botsManifold was founded in 2021 to help crypto traders avoid front-running from malicious bots. It raised $2.5 million from P2P.org, Marshland Capital, and several other venture investors.
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After forays into other crypto middleware, Manifold eventually pivoted to liquid staking, a multibillion-dollar business long dominated by DeFi giant Lido.
But Manifold’s liquid staking token, mevETH, saw little uptake after its launch a year ago; the market value peaked at $36 million in March.
Certain transactionsSince then, it has been working in collaboration with German research firm 20squares on a new product, XGA.
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— Supporter in Telegram channelCrypto security firm KebabSec had started an audit of XGA’s code, Bacha said in a September 2 update shared in the Telegram group chat. It is unclear whether that audit has been completed.
Bacha also said Manifold would begin testing XGA on an Ethereum-based test network September 17. A revamp of FOLD’s so-called tokenomics would be detailed by the end of that month, he added.
None of that appears to have happened.
“When did you last talk to Sam? He still alive?” one supporter asked in the Telegram chat on October 28.
Later that day, Bacha broke his silence to ask for feedback on Manifold’s revamped website. And he promised he would promptly share more information.
“I will post the long awaited update today comrades,” he wrote.
That update never came.
Dim moodOn October 30, Bacha took to Manifold’s seldom-used governance forum to propose the Manifold community move its conversation to social media app Discord.
The proposal was panned by supporters, who said that was the least of their concerns.
“Where were you for the last 30 days? Why not a single reply here in the channel? The mood is pretty dim,” one wrote.
“I was being vetted to become Trump’s new Crypto Czar,” Bacha replied in an apparent joke.
Missed deadlinesIn a subsequent message, he took aim at supporters who had accused him of blowing past self-imposed deadlines.
“Deadlines proclaimed by me in Telegram do not constitute any sort of binding agreement,” he wrote.
After the November 5 election, Bacha returned to the chat to share a meme derived from the film “Superman II” in which a supervillain commands, “Kneel before Zod!”
Supporters fear the worst.
“We don’t know if Sam is even coding. We don’t even know if there’s anything happening,” one wrote.
Two possibilitiesThere were two possibilities, the commenter continued: either the company was about to fold and “they don’t know how to tell us,” or “they’re working tirelessly” to release XGA.
On November 11, Matthew Land, a partner at Marshland Capital, an investor Manifold, said in a separate Telegram channel he had spoken with Bacha over the preceding weekend.
Land declined to comment when contacted by DL News Friday.
In his Telegram message, Land said he had told Bacha of “the importance of communication” and of resolving FOLD’s liquidity issue.
“As I said before, ball’s in Sam’s court and on Sam’s timeline,” Land said.
“He understands what’s up imo but we have no impact on his decisions/timeline to address them unfortunately.”
Correction, November 15: A previous version of this story stated that Matthew Land spoke to Sam Bacha about FOLD’s price. It has been corrected to state they spoke about FOLD’s liquidity issues. This story was also updated to note that Land declined to comment.
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The Bitcoin price is once again at the center of attention as it continues its upward climb in what appears to be the final phase of the current bull cycle. Riding on the back of macroeconomic optimism and institutional interest, Bitcoin is showing renewed strength, with technical analysis forecasting a final pump to a new ATH above $120,000. Once the flagship cryptocurrency completes this move, its price is forecasted to crash down to $60,000, signaling the onset of the bear market.
Bitcoin Price To Surpass $120,000 In 2025 Xanrox, a crypto analyst, has shared a new Bitcoin price prediction on TradingView, forecasting a bullish run to a new all-time high and a subsequent crash to major lows. Expanding on his optimistic projection, the crypto analyst has confirmed that Bitcoin is in the final stages of this bullish cycle, meaning that the cryptocurrency is gearing up for its most explosive price surge yet.
The analyst shared an Elliott Wave technical chart, indicating that Bitcoin is currently in Wave 3 of a five-wave pattern forming an ending diagonal. This structure typically marks the final stage of a bullish cycle, just before a major correction.
Xanrox predicts that Bitcoin will eventually enter two final wave stages (Wave 4 and 5) before reaching a cycle peak. According to his analysis, the ideal range for this bull run lies between $120,000 and $125,000. More precisely, he highlights a Fibonacci Extension target of 1.618 at $122,069 as the potential top of this bull cycle.
Source: Xanrox on Tradingview The TradingView analyst also notes that this Fibonacci target is the best price to sell and prepare for the bear market that’s projected to follow. Notably, this price level aligns with a long-term trend line that stretches from Bitcoin’s 2017 peak to the 2021 top and the next forecasted 2025 ATH.
Strengthening the analyst’s conviction of a potential rally to $122,069, Bitcoin’s historical price behavior reveals a consistent relationship with the 50-week Simple Moving Average (SMA). The analysis highlights that the cryptocurrency has repeatedly bounced off or corrected to this moving average during key turning points in past cycles. This pattern adds further credibility to the bullish outlook.
Next Up: 50% Price Crash To $60,000 Despite Xanrox’s optimistic price projection for 2025, the analyst warns of an impending Bitcoin market crash in 2026. Once the cryptocurrency completes its final bullish wave and tops out, the analyst anticipates a steep correction, potentially dragging the price down to $60,000. This projected 50% drop mirrors past cycle declines, particularly the sharp correction seen in the 2018 and 2022 bear markets.
The analyst’s chart identifies this looming price crash as part of the natural end to Bitcoin’s 4-year cycle, emphasizing that buying at the projected peak of $122,069 could expose investors to significant downside risk. Instead, Xanrox recommends preparing for this bearish transition by exiting the market within the previously outlined sell zone and waiting for a re-entry opportunity during the expected 2026 dip.
BTC trading at $103,462 on the 1D chart | Source: BTCUSDT on Tradingview.com Featured image from Getty Images, chart from Tradingview.com
An analyst has reignited bullish expectations for XRP, pointing to a historical fractal pattern that could catapult the asset to more than 50 times its current price.
The analysis suggests XRP could reach as high as $123, a level not seen in any previous cycle.
Hints from XRP Historical Fractal In his commentary on XRP’s performance, analyst Javon Marks shared a chart comparing XRP’s recent breakout to a similar technical pattern from 2017. At that time, XRP broke out of a pennant formation that spanned about two years.
XRP rallied from consolidation lows, where it traded with two leading zeros, to above the 2.618 Fibonacci extension, translating to a peak above $2.10.
During this climb, XRP formed local tops at the $0.0364 price mark (the 1.00 Fibonacci level), consolidated briefly, and broke out to the 1.618 Fibonacci level, equivalent to $0.1726. It then consolidated for several weeks before completing the bull run. Ultimately, XRP surpassed the 2.618 Fibonacci level and reached highs above $3.
XRP chart by Javon Marks Meanwhile, XRP entered a more prolonged consolidation phase that lasted over seven years. Marks’ chart confirmed that XRP has now completed the breakout from the multi-year pennant pattern, which formed in 2018.
This breakout has already pushed XRP into the $2+ range, slightly above the 1.00 Fibonacci level. Interestingly, the pattern XRP is forming now mirrors the early stages of the 2017 price explosion.
In particular, XRP has slipped into a ranging phase following the initial momentum from its breakout, cooling off the frenzy. Marks believes the second phase of a full-scale bull run is about to take shape.
According to his chart, the next target before another period of consolidation is the 1.618 Fibonacci extension, equivalent to a price of $9.63.
Why $123 Is on the Radar By applying the same Fibonacci logic to the current structure, Marks forecasts that XRP could again climb to the 2.618 Fibonacci extension, which this time sits around $123, after surpassing the 1.618 level. According to his estimation, this would represent a more than 50X increase from current price levels.
If such a move were to materialize, it would not only mark XRP’s highest valuation in history but would also place it among the top contenders in market capitalization, rivaling Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Specifically, at a $123 price, XRP’s market cap based on the current circulating supply of 58.55 billion tokens would be approximately $7.2 trillion. This is larger than the current combined market caps of Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as the overall crypto market.
Caution Amid the Hype While the technical setup is compelling, other analysts have cautioned that history doesn’t always repeat itself. In particular, some members of the XRP community believe the 2017 fractal is no longer relevant for future projections.
Critics of the $123 price target argue that such an audacious valuation, and the implied $7 trillion market cap, represent an overestimation of XRP’s potential in the current cycle. As a result, they advise holders to take profits strategically rather than waiting for these extreme price levels to materialize.
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Analyst notes Pepe coin price is eyeing a 103.77% rally, targeting a new all-time high of $0.000028364 in the coming weeks.
According to markets expert @LLuciano_BTC, a notable fractal pattern emerged on the one-day chart that indicates if history rhymes, the price of PEPE could rally past previous highs. The bullish structure was accompanied by a 40% surge in derivatives trading volume, which saw them reach $2.4 billion.
Pepe Coin Price Eyes $0.000028364 ATH, Says Expert As per a Pepe Coin price analysis by @LLuciano_BTC, PEPE is positioned for a potential rally towards its previous all-time high of $0.00002825, a move that could spark a 103.77% breakout to a new ATH at $0.000028364.
The meme token is currently trading just below a key resistance zone, consolidating within a broadening wedge. This bullish continuation pattern forms in trending markets and typically precedes sharp upward price expansions once the asset breaches the resistance.
For the aforementioned market structure, the upper boundary of the wedge lies near the $0.000017000 mark, acting as the immediate breakout level. A successful push above this threshold, notes the analyst, especially if supported by rising volume, could trigger a rally targeting the ATH set in December 2023.
According to the expert, the measured move for the breakout is derived from the wedge’s depth, projected upward from the breakout point to an upper target of $0.000028364.
If PEPE confirms this breakout, says the expert, the Ethereum-based meme coin will not only reclaim the previous ATH but also position itself for price discovery in the coming weeks.
PEPE Price Chart by LLuciano_BTC PEPE Futures Trading Volume Rockets to $2.44B Crypto futures data by Coinglass shows that derivative activity across PEPE markets has intensified in the last 24 hours. The data shows trading volume accelerated by 40% to reach $2.4 billion, while open interest increased by 16% to $600 million.
The increasing trading activity across the futures markets further complements the bullish and long-term Pepe Coin price forecast 2025-2030, suggesting that a new ATH could be in line thanks to the rising volumes.
Pepe Coin derivative volumes by Coinglass Final Take In conclusion, Pepe Coin (PEPE) price has great potential to rally to a new all-time high in the coming weeks if the technical market structure, outlined by the analyst, plays out as expected. Accelerating volumes across the derivatives markets suggest traders are accumulating PEPE and preparing for the next potential rally.
An analyst has identified a hidden Solana (SOL) price fractal that suggests the altcoin could rally to between $400 and 500 this cycle. The analyst’s bullish forecast on Solana price aligns with a recent research report stating that the SOL blockchain outperformed all layer one networks after recording the highest app revenue.
Analyst Forecasts Solana Price Rally to $400 This Cycle SOL price remains under bearish pressure today, June 5, as the downtrend that started last week continues after concerns of a Solana whale moving 2.8 million tokens to exchanges. At press time, SOL trades at $153 with a 4% intraday loss.
Despite the ongoing price decline, analyst Cas Abbe on X notes that Solana’s 3-day price chart shows a hidden price fractal that could fuel an upside. He observed that the price of SOL had yet to achieve its peak this cycle.
Abbe stated that the current choppy price moves that commenced in late 2024 mimic the performance of this altcoin in Q3 2023. During this period, Solana consolidated within a symmetrical triangle pattern before breaking out and rebounding. This rebound sparked an over 5x rally for the Solana price.
In November 2024, Solana broke out of a similar bullish triangle pattern before the price retreated in the last three months, similar to what happened in Q3 2023. Now, SOL is showing signs of breaking out, and once this is confirmed, the analyst stated that the price may rally past $400 this cycle.
Solana Price Chart This bullish outlook aligns with a recent analysis by CoinGape identifying the formation of a V-shaped recovery pattern. Per the analysis, Solana price eyes a bullish reversal to $295 once this V-shaped recovery pattern matures.
Network Activity Surges As the bullish technical structure on SOL price takes shape per analyst forecasts, a recent report by Blockworks Research has noted that the Solana blockchain has outpaced all layer one networks. Last month, this network toppled Ethereum and other rival networks in terms of revenue and other data.
During the month, revenue generated by apps on Solana surged by 22% month on month to $214 million. Most of these volumes came from the PumpFun meme coin launchpad.
Meanwhile, DEX volumes also increased by 32% month-on-month, while Real Economic Value surged by 37% to $121 million. This growth was notably higher than that of other competing networks.
Bottomline A top analyst on X forecasts that the Solana price could rally to between $400 and $500 this cycle. The analyst observed a price fractal that could spark a 2x to 3x rally for SOL if history repeats itself. Meanwhile, the Solana blockchain recorded significant growth in May 2025 and outperformed other networks in app revenue and DEX volumes.
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TLDR: Ethereum retests $2,500 support, echoing a bullish fractal seen earlier in 2024. Weekly candle patterns signal rising buyer strength and possible rally continuation. ETH market cap crosses $345B as whale accumulation and volume surge return. Open interest hits record highs, reflecting rising market participation in ETH trades. Ethereum is once again mirroring a previous bullish pattern, rekindling optimism for a rally. After weeks of sideways trading, ETH has retested the $2,500 support level and held firm.
This structural move follows a historical setup from early 2024, which led to a breakout toward $4,000.
Momentum indicators are now shifting, with market activity hinting at an ongoing expansion phase. Traders are watching as Ethereum builds strength in both price and market structure.
Ethereum Price Holds $2,500 as New Support Ethereum’s weekly chart now shows a confirmed retest of the $2,500 zone, previously a key pivot level. Crypto analyst Rekt Capital highlighted the similarity between the current pattern and the early 2024 setup.
In both cases, ETH posted a weekly gain exceeding 13% after testing this zone, signaling renewed buyer interest.
This breakout lifted ETH above $2,800, reinforcing bullish sentiment. According to CoinGecko, the ETH price stands at $2,763.69, reflecting a 5.62% rise over the past seven days.
ETH price chart on CoinGecko Although ETH dipped slightly by 0.77% in the last 24 hours, traders are closely monitoring the structure for continued momentum.
Rekt Capital noted that Ethereum’s recent price action has produced a weekly candle closely resembling its early-year breakout. That earlier fractal took ETH from the $2,500 range to near $4,000 within weeks.
The structure signals aggressive buyer activity around current support, potentially setting up another upward leg.
$ETH
Not only has Ethereum repeated early 2024 history with a successful retest of ~$2500 into new support
But #ETH has also produced a near-identical Weekly Candle stemming from that successful retest of almost +14%
Early 2024 saw Ethereum rally to ~$4000#Crypto #Ethereum https://t.co/rFa26mpLuu pic.twitter.com/g5myTXX20p
— Rekt Capital (@rektcapital) June 11, 2025
Traders now eye the $3,200 to $3,500 region as the next challenge. This range could either slow down the move or pave the way for a retest of the $3,900 to $4,000 resistance zone. The latter remains a key macro supply level that capped gains earlier this year.
ETH Market Activity Shows Renewed Interest ETH’s total market cap recently reclaimed the $345 billion mark, as highlighted by trader Alexia.
This follows a breakout from prolonged consolidation, reinforcing the bullish setup. The ongoing Wyckoff reaccumulation pattern suggests market readiness for a broader price expansion.
Whale activity has also returned, with one high-profile wallet reportedly accumulating 16,500 ETH after a profitable exit. Meanwhile, open interest in ETH has hit an all-time high, reflecting surging participation and positioning strength relative to Bitcoin.
Ethereum is heating up — here’s what just happened:$ETH just reclaimed a $345B market cap and broke out of weeks of consolidation. The Wyckoff reaccumulation pattern is holding momentum is building fast.
Meanwhile,a whale who made $30.45M profit on ETH just bought back 16.5K… pic.twitter.com/iMMbQR6dUG
— ALexia (@Alex1i9) June 12, 2025
As Ethereum maintains structure above the $2,500 support level, technical indicators point toward sustained upside. Market confidence appears to be growing, with rising volume and renewed capital inflows.
Should this fractal continue unfolding, a retest of yearly highs remains within reach, keeping ETH in the spotlight.
TLDR: ONDO price holds near ascending channel support, signaling bullish continuation. Analysts spot a fractal pattern mirroring a past breakout from similar levels. The current pullback is seen as a healthy correction before the next upward price move. Price could climb toward $3 if momentum confirms a breakout from the current range. The ONDO price has lately retraced to a key support zone within an ascending channel.
Recent observations point to a bullish fractal forming, mirroring a previous pattern that led to a major breakout. This setup, paired with a healthy pullback, has prompted renewed calls to “buy the dip.”
While the token dipped over the past 24 hours, analysts believe ONDO may be gearing up for its next upward leg. Optimism remains high as both technical patterns and previous behavior suggest further gains may follow.
ONDO’s Ascending Channel Offers Strong Structural Support Recent chart analysis shows ONDO trading inside a well-defined ascending channel. The price has repeatedly bounced between the channel’s lower support and upper resistance lines. This upward-sloping structure has helped maintain a bullish bias in recent weeks.
Market watcher Alex Clay pointed out that ONDO is currently sitting near the lower boundary of this channel.
According to him, this positioning marks a potential accumulation zone. He described the setup as being consistent with a bullish fractal that previously led to a sustained rally.
#ONDO Buy The Dip🔥
1 – We are accumulating at the bottom of Massive Ascending Channel
2 – $ONDO is following the Bullish Fractal from previous year
[1 Downtrend – 2 Swing Low – 3 Higher Low – 4 Rally] These 2 reasons are more than enough to pump straight up to the… pic.twitter.com/avQXBJeki5
— Alex Clay (@cryptclay) June 11, 2025
The fractal described outlines four key stages: a downtrend, a swing low, a higher low, and a rally. ONDO has followed this same pattern before during earlier price expansions. The current chart aligns with these phases, showing signs that history could be repeating.
Analysts believe this structure reinforces the idea of a bullish continuation. The higher low, in particular, points to buyers stepping in earlier than before, showing growing market confidence. This pattern often leads to a breakout toward the upper boundary of the channel.
ONDO Pullback Viewed as a Healthy Setup for Buyers Following a sharp rise, ONDO saw a moderate pullback to around $0.84. CryptoED noted that this correction appears “healthy,” especially when compared to similar setups in the past. He recalled a nearly identical structure forming before ONDO’s previous rise to $2.
Picking up more $ONDO around $0.84 — this pullback looks healthy after that big move up.
Feels like $ONDO is having the same setup we saw before the run to $2.
Next leg up loading… Target: $3. pic.twitter.com/ZPAhOssveW
— CryptoED (@Crypto_ED7) June 12, 2025
At press time, ONDO trades at $0.845, according to CoinGecko. Over the past 24 hours, the token declined by 5.31 percent but remains up 2.53 percent over the last week. It has been moving within a range of $0.7704 to $0.9161.
With support from both the ascending channel and the bullish fractal, analysts suggest the ONDO price could target higher levels soon. Alex Clay expects a move toward the top of the channel. Meanwhile, CryptoED sees a potential rise toward the $3 mark if momentum builds.
Historical patterns and structural support continue to shape the ONDO price outlook. Traders should remain alert for confirmation of the next breakout move.
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Despite failing to break out of its downtrend, ONDO could be preparing for a surge above the $2 barrier. Some analysts suggest it could repeat its 2024 playbook if it continues to hold its current levels.
ONDO Breakout Eyes $2 ONDO, the native token of the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) platform Ondo Finance, is attempting to reclaim a key area amid the market pullback. Notably, the cryptocurrency has struggled to hold the $1 mark since losing the area as support over three months ago.
In December, the RWA token hit its all-time high (ATH) of $2.14 after US President Donald Trump’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), purchased 134,216 ONDO tokens for 250,000 USDC.
This propelled ONDO’s price above the $2 barrier for the first time, but the late 2024 and Q1 2025 corrections halted its bullish momentum, sending its price to the $0.60-$0.70 range.
Following the late April market recovery, ONDO’s price reclaimed the $0.85 area and broke out of its multi-month downtrend. The cryptocurrency then hovered between the $0.85-$1.10 levels throughout May, hitting a three-month high of $1.13 nearly a month ago.
Since then, the token has been in a one-month downtrend, dipping below its local range after the recent market pullback. However, the cryptocurrency has been attempting to reclaim this range for the past week, hitting a one-week high of $0.92 on Wednesday.
Crypto analyst World of Charts highlighted the token’s performance, affirming, “after a long correction, Finally Looking Good For Midterm.”
ONDO eyes 130% breakout. Source: World of Charts on X As ONDO attempts to reclaim the $0.90 area, the analyst anticipates that the cryptocurrency will soon break out of its current range and the downtrend line, forecasting a 130% rally toward the $2 barrier.
2024 ATH Repeat Coming? On Thursday, analyst Sjuul from AltCryptoGems noted ONDO’s performance over the past year, asserting, “Not sure there are many other charts looking as good on high time frames like ONDO.”
He explained that “The King of RWA” is “basically holding a bullish structure since its launch,” making a series of higher lows for over a year while maintaining its ascending support trendline.
Meanwhile, analyst Alex Clay suggested that ONDO could see a parabolic run based on its performance in 2024.
The market watcher noted that the token is currently accumulating at the bottom of a 15-month ascending channel, which previously served as a crucial bounce point for its rally toward its ATH.
As Clay explained, after reaching the channel’s upper boundary last year, ONDO saw a multi-month downtrend toward the lower boundary, before printing a higher low. This was followed by a massive rally toward the channel’s top.
This year, ONDO is “following the Bullish Fractal from the previous year” after falling to the channel’s lower boundary, breaking out of the downtrend line, and registering a higher low.
“These 2 reasons are more than enough to pump straight up to the channel’s top,” the analyst concluded. If history repeats, the cryptocurrency could surge toward the $2.8-$3 area.
At the time of writing, ONDO trades at $0.84, a 5.2% decline in the daily timeframe.
ONDO’s performance in the one-week chart. Source: ONDOUSDT on TradingView Featured Image from Unsplash.com, Chart from TradingView.com
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Crypto analyst X Force has drawn the crypto community’s attention to a key fractal from 2023, which paints a bullish picture for the Bitcoin price. However, the analyst suggested that a drop to $90,000 could still be on the cards for BTC, although that won’t invalidate the macro setup.
Key Fractal Shows Bitcoin Price Is Still Bullish In an X post, X Force highlighted a key fractal from the early phase of the 2023 bull market and noted why it supports the view that the current trend remains bullish. He remarked that the price structure that was observed back then could offer insights relevant to the current analysis, as history often rhymes even though it might not repeat itself exactly.
X Force then noted that in 2023, a larger degree wave 1 terminated, followed by a shallow wave 2 that retraced only to the 23.6% to 38.2% Fibonacci levels. The analyst then declared that this interpretation wasn’t just hindsight but it was the only valid count even in real-time. He also raised the possibility of the Bitcoin price creating another low.
Source: XForce on X X Force explained that the context of the micro timeframes is losing weight as every bounce and dump is extremely sensitive to the overall creation of the wave structure. Meanwhile, the analyst indicated that the Bitcoin price could still drop to as low as $90,000 but noted that it is important that BTC remains above this critical support level.
In an X post, the crypto analyst stated that as long as the Bitcoin price stays above the $90,000 level, the implications of the shorter-term price action have zero impact on the overall macro trend. X Force added that pullbacks and choppiness are not only healthy but vital to any bull market.
A BTC Price Crash Imminent? Veteran trader Peter Brandt has raised the possibility of a Bitcoin price crash happening soon. In an X post, he questioned if November 2021 was happening all over again for the flagship crypto. His accompanying chart showed how that period formed the cycle peak for BTC, following a double top formation.
The Bitcoin price then crashed from its all-time high (ATH) of around $69,000 and consolidated for over two years before witnessing another breakout in 2024. The chart indicated that BTC may have formed a double top again following the recent rally to a new all-time high of $111,900. If so, this could mark the end of the cycle’s bull run, with a crash set to follow. However, the chart suggested that BTC could sustain this bull run if it holds above $104,612.
At the time of writing, the Bitcoin price is trading at around $106,700, up in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
BTC trading at $106,976 on the 1D chart | Source: BTCUSDT on Tradingview.com Featured image from Pixabay, chart from Tradingview.com
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Amid the chaos that was sparked by Israel’s attack on Iran, Bitcoin has climbed again, shaking off the losses triggered by the conflict. Not only has the price seen an increase from its last week’s lows, but there has also been a notable change in the cryptocurrency’s daily trading volume. This points to continued interest despite global factors and could mean that the expectations of war are already getting priced in for the crypto market.
Bitcoin Sees Almost 100% Jump In Volume According to data from Coinglass, there has been a turn in the tide for the Bitcoin trading volume after starting out the new week in a slow trend. Sunday and Monday had seen the Bitcoin daily trading volume come out under $50 billion. However, as the Bitcoin price rose leading up to Tuesday, so did the trading volume.
At the time of writing, the Bitcoin daily trading volume had already crossed $88 billion for Tuesday, leading to an almost 100% increase in the trading volume during this time. This follows the trend of high volatility coming with increased volumes as the Bitcoin price swung wildly between $105,000 and $108,000.
Source: Coinglass The sharp jump in volume comes as the Bitcoin open interest remains high at near all-time highs while the rest of the market struggles. Coinglass data shows the current open interest at $71 billion, less than $10 billion away from the $80 billion all-time high recorded in May 2025.
In light of altcoins continuing to trend low while Bitcoin remains close to all-time highs, it suggests that most of the attention in the crypto market is now being focused on Bitcoin. As a result, the leading asset continues to dictate the direction of the market, with dominance remaining high above 64%.
How War Could Affect This Trend The positive developments surrounding Bitcoin are coming as there seems to be a cooldown in the conflict in the Middle East. But with so little time having passed, expectations are that the war may only be starting, with some calling it the start of ‘World War 3.’
The Kobeissi Letter has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to address these World War 3 predictions, revealing how the markets would react if there really was a possibility of this happening. The first thing was that a 50% chance of World War 3 would’ve seen the S&P crash not 2%, but more of a 30% crash. Gold would be $5,000/oz, and oil would go for $100/barrel.
Furthermore, a 90% chance of World War 3, as explained in the post, would likely cause the S&P to crash 50%, with the prices of gold and oil surging to $10,000/oz and $200/barrel, respectively. Given Bitcoin’s correlation with the stock market so far, there is no doubt that such a crash would have carried over, triggering disastrous losses for the crypto market.
Given these, The Kobeissi Letter explains that the markets are saying the chances of World War 3 are slim. At this time, they expect a resolution to the conflict. “Futures all around the board this morning saw de-escalation coming,” the post read.
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Bitcoin has continued to hover above the $100,000 mark over the past few days, and its price action has stabilized around $105,000 in the wake of recent market tensions and despite inflows into Spot Bitcoin ETFs.
A new analysis shared by crypto market commentator Gert van Lagen suggests that this current phase is going to precede an explosive move similar to those seen in previous market cycles. Backing his prediction with historical data and Glassnode’s AVIV Ratio chart, the analyst noted that the current on-chain structure echoes moments before Bitcoin’s major rallies in past bull markets.
AVIV Ratio Flashes Familiar Pattern Before Market Top Bitcoin’s price volatility has slightly cooled since the initial surge to a new all-time high above $111,800 in May, and the latest candlestick structure suggests it may be preparing for another leg higher.
Taking to the social media platform X, Gert van Lagen revealed a Bitcoin price prediction that centers around the true market Deviation metric known as the AVIV Ratio. This orange-colored line on the chart tracks a specific deviation in Bitcoin’s market behavior and has always crossed a red line denoting +3 standard deviations at or just before cycle tops.
Source: Gert Van Lagen on X The current AVIV behavior can be compared to previous price points before market tops in previous cycles. For instance, in 2013, the AVIV Ratio flagged a major rally when Bitcoin was trading near $200, shortly before the price pushed past $1,200. In 2017, the metric behaved similarly when Bitcoin was trading at $3,700 and later peaked near $20,000. The current AVIV Ratio can also be compared to when Bitcoin was priced at $13,000 in the 2021 bull market run, before its surge to an all-time high of $69,000.
According to the analyst, today’s AVIV ratio level is closely aligned with those previous mid-cycle breakouts. The current ratio has not yet crossed the red +3σ line, which the analyst refers to as the cycle top trigger. As such, its current reading suggests Bitcoin may be in the early phase of a major bull market expansion. If history repeats itself, a 3x move from today’s levels would be a standard price move in line with previous price action.
$300,000 Target Within Sight If AVIV Behavior Holds Crypto analyst van Lagen stops short of calling for an immediate top, but his analysis implies that Bitcoin could be preparing for a new parabolic surge to the upside. Using the AVIV model as a reference, a conservative 3x multiplier on the current Bitcoin price places a possible target around $300,000.
At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $104,997, having decreased by 1.4% in the past 24 hours. This decline has brought its price down from an intraday high of $106,795 back into its consolidation range around $105,000.
BTC trading at $104,728 on the 1D chart | Source: BTCUSDT on Tradingview.com Featured image from Pixabay, chart from Tradingview.com
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