Author: Oguz Ozdemir
XRP price entered January 2026 after a strong recovery attempt but remained capped below $3. The recovery came after a prolonged decline in the preceding year that saw prices lose the pass of $3 in 2025. Selling activity however came back when the XRP was approaching some familiar resistance zones. Simultaneously, the follow-through was still being constrained by restrictive market structure. Therefore, current price behavior invites a closer look at why XRP price still struggles to sustain momentum above key levels. Profit Taking Activity Around Key Levels XRP price extended its broader downtrend after losing the $3 level, which reshaped…
By the time most people finish their first coffee, the market will already have picked a direction for the day, and Bitcoin will have reacted, overreacted, and possibly reversed.Friday, January 9 has that familiar feeling traders dread and secretly crave, the kind of calendar where the headlines are close enough together that one story bleeds into the next. If you’re holding Bitcoin today, you’re basically watching a live experiment in how fast markets can reprice fear, hope, and interest rates.Here’s what’s on deck, and why it matters.8:30 a.m. ET, the jobs report sets the first shockwaveAt 8:30 a.m. Eastern, the…
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Coinbase has updated its official asset listing roadmap to include four digital assets that the exchange has decided may be listed in the future. According to an update on its blog, the assets newly added to the Coinbase roadmap include the Solana network Raydium (RAY) and Energy Dollar (ENERGY). Two additional assets from the Base network are also featured on the roadmap: Elsa (ELSA) and Sport.fun (FUN). Coinbase says asset transfers and trading for the listed assets are not supported until an official trading announcement is made. The exchange also warns that depositing these assets into a Coinbase account before…
Zcash developers exit ECC to launch a wallet and company. Developers behind privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash have announced plans to launch a new wallet and form a new Zcash-focused company. The latest development comes just a day after the team resigned en masse from the Electric Coin Company (ECC) following a governance dispute. New Wallet Push Former ECC CEO Josh Swihart announced that the team responsible for launching Zcash and developing the Zashi wallet will now create a new Zcash wallet, code-named cashZ, by utilizing the same Zashi codebase. He explained that the group is not launching a new token…
Peter Zhang Jan 09, 2026 18:08 Explore the seven AI trends expected to redefine industries by 2026, enhancing teamwork, security, and infrastructure efficiency according to Microsoft. As we approach 2026, several emerging trends in artificial intelligence (AI) are poised to significantly reshape various industries. According to Microsoft, these advancements will enhance teamwork, bolster security, and drive research momentum and infrastructure efficiency. Quantum Computing and AI Integration Quantum computing, a field once considered the realm of science fiction, is now on the brink of practical application. Microsoft’s Jason Zander, Executive Vice President of Microsoft…
Q4 2025 broke crypto’s long-standing seasonal script. Instead of a year-end rally, the market sold off hard, dragging the total crypto market cap down to roughly $2.9 trillion. It pushed Bitcoin from October highs into the low-$80,000s. The new 99Bitcoins Q4 2025 State of Crypto Market Report, in collaboration with Crypto.com, frames the move as a risk-off “distributions” quarter – high volume, falling prices, and cautious positioning across spot ETFs and derivatives. According to the report, “Investors this quarter were more focused on preserving their capital than trying to trade the market.” In 99Bitcoins’ estimate, total crypto market cap fell…
VanEck is in the news today after it made a bold Bitcoin price projection. According to VanEck, the crypto could rally by 32x from its press time price of $90k to $2.9 million per coin by 2050. The asset manager’s Head of Digital Assets Research, Matthew Sigel, cited the likely adoption of BTC as a settlement currency and reserve asset for the ambitious target. He said, “Our Base case model has Bitcoin reaching $2.9 million by 2050, driven by its adoption as a settlement currency for 5-10% of global trade and a reserve asset comprising 2.5% of central bank balance…
The market capitalization of stablecoins on the Solana layer-1 blockchain surged by $900 million over a 24-hour period on Tuesday.Stablecoins, blockchain tokens backed by fiat currency or debt assets, surged to a market cap of $15.3 billion on the Solana network, according to DefiLlama. The dramatic surge came as decentralized finance platform Jupiter launched its JupUSD stablecoin, developed in partnership with synthetic stablecoin issuer Ethena. The Solana stablecoin market cap surges. Source: DefiLlamaSolana’s stablecoin ecosystem is dominated by Circle’s USDC (USDC), a dollar-pegged token, which accounts for over 67% of the network’s total stablecoin market cap.The surge in stablecoins on Solana…
In an era where centralized exchanges dominate cryptocurrency trading, Vexl stands out as a peer-to-peer (P2P) application designed to connect Bitcoin users within their personal networks for direct, non-custodial trades. The app facilitates buying and selling Bitcoin without intermediaries, emphasizing in-person meetings for cash exchanges while also supporting fiat transfers arranged privately between users. As Viliam Klamarcik, CEO of Vexl, explained in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine, “we are an application that helps people to buy and sell Bitcoin directly with each other, without any intermediaries, without KYC. Vexl works without custody, so peer-to-peer, but what’s most important is that…