XRP’s retreat toward $1 is testing whether one of the cryptocurrency market’s largest tokens can hold a level that has become increasingly important after months of declining prices.Data from CryptoSlate shows that the digital asset fell to $1.02 on Friday, its weakest price since February, as a market-wide selloff prompted traders to reduce exposure to digital assets.XRP recovered slightly afterward, but the rebound did little to dispel concerns that the decline may be entering a more damaging phase.However, these Strains are emerging across several parts of the market. Leveraged positions are disappearing, derivatives activity has contracted, and investors who once…
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Gold cracked first. Silver followed. Then the digital-gold trade started wobbling. On June 25, spot gold slipped below 4,000 dollars per troy ounce to a seven-month low as the dollar pushed higher and traders leaned into fresh Fed hike bets. That same session, silver traded in the mid 50s, miles off its January peak. Bitcoin did not escape the crosswind either, with on-chain pain and ETF outflows showing up in the tape. So the question writes itself: if everything people call a hedge is selling, what is the hedge right now? We are in a classic dollar-up, liquidity-down week. When…
XRP is at $1.05. Flat-ish on the day. Down almost 8% on the week. Still clinging to $1 (live XRP price on CoinGecko). But the price is not the most interesting thing happening to XRP right now. The most interesting thing is a fight. Ripple’s CEO just publicly blamed one of Bitcoin’s biggest names for hurting the entire crypto market. And honestly? He has a point. Let me break it down. The feud: Garlinghouse vs Saylor Brad Garlinghouse runs Ripple, the company behind XRP. This week he went on the record and pointed a finger straight at Michael Saylor’s Strategy.…
Congress just blocked the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC, and the companies benefiting most are private stablecoin issuers like Circle and Tether.The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act passed the Senate 85-5 on June 22 and cleared the House 358-32 the next day, and folded inside that housing package is a four-year ban on a Fed-issued central bank digital currency.On the surface, it’s a clean win for crypto, because a government digital dollar would have competed head-on with private dollar tokens, and now it can’t arrive until 2031 at the earliest.But the catch is that the Fed was never…
Bitcoin briefly dipped below $60,000 during the final week of June before buyers stepped in, capping a turbulent seven days driven almost entirely by macroeconomic forces rather than anything crypto-native. As of the latest data, Bitcoin trades at $59,873, Ethereum at $1,564, XRP at $1.04, and Solana at $70.37.What Drove the SelloffExpectations of higher interest rates for longer, a stronger US dollar, continued ETF outflows, and broad deleveraging across derivatives markets combined to push the market lower. More than $1 billion in long liquidations amplified the move, a reminder of how leverage continues to magnify short-term price action.Where Each Asset…
The price of XRP does not reflect its current or near-term utility. That is the central claim of Versan Aljarrah, founder of Black Swan Capitalist, who told Coinpedia in an exclusive interview that layered suppression mechanisms have engineered a persistent information gap between what XRP is worth and what the public market shows.The Suppression FrameworkAljarrah’s argument begins with the 2020 SEC lawsuit against Ripple. In his view, that case did not simply create legal uncertainty. It handed exchanges regulatory cover to restrict or algorithmically deprioritise XRP. What followed, he says, was years of fragmented liquidity, spoofing, wash trading on certain venues,…
You could feel it in the tape. AI darlings kept cruising, but the boring stuff that actually moves goods and builds things got hit. The split wasn’t subtle. On June 26, eight of eleven S&P 500 sectors finished lower, with Industrials among the worst, down roughly 3.41% that session — a quick gut punch to real‑economy names even as the AI story stayed hot (Reuters). And yet… the macro beats keep coming. ISM’s May Manufacturing PMI printed 54.0, the best since May 2022, with New Orders at 56.8 and Production at 54.3 — a clear expansion signal (Institute for Supply…
The RWA landscape is making staggering progress, as shown by the growth in tokenized asset value. In this respect, the leading 12 Real World Asset (RWA) platforms have reached the $26B milestone in terms of tokenized asset value while excluding stablecoins. As per the data from RWA Foundation, Securitize, Ondo, and Circle are the leading companies in this list. Subsequently, the other names on the list include Franklin Templeton, Tether Holdings, Spiko, Paxos, Centrifuge, Maple, STOKR, Libeara, and WisdomTree. Securitize, Ondo, and Circle Lead Top Twelve RWA Platforms Based on Tokenized Asset Value Securitize is the dominant player in the…
Author Ahmed Barakat Author Ahmed Barakat Part of the Team Since Aug 2025 About Author Ahmed Balaha is a journalist and copywriter based in Georgia with a growing focus on blockchain technology, DeFi, AI, privacy, digital assets, and fintech innovation. Share Last updated: June 27, 2026 ChatGPT AI just made the case that XRP price prediction worst chapter is finally closing even though the chart has not caught up yet. The model predicts a climb to $3.50 to $5.00 by the end of 2026, with an extreme scenario stretching as far as $6.50.The bull case treats XRP as a coin…
The Bank of England has dropped the piece of its stablecoin plan that the industry hated most, the proposed £20,000 limit on how much sterling stablecoin any one person could hold, along with the £10 million ceiling for businesses. In their place, the central bank’s June 22 policy statement set a single £40 billion cap on how much of each systemic sterling stablecoin can exist in the UK, and loosened the reserve rules so issuers can finally earn a decent yield on the money backing their coins.Households and companies can now hold as much of a regulated pound stablecoin as…
