🔍 🟡🙂 Market Analysis: 01-01-15

As the new year dawns, the crypto market is shaking off December’s doldrums with a modest uptick, total capitalization up 0.5% to $3.08 trillion. Amid this fresh momentum, a seismic shift is coming from China: regulators have announced the digital yuan will soon become interest-bearing under a ... ... Read full 🟡🙂 Market Analysis: 01-01-15

Solana Quietly Dominates as Network Usage Surges While SOL Price Stalls Below $130

Solana Quietly Dominates as Network Usage Surges While SOL Price Stalls Below $130

Crypto markets started 2026 with a strong attention on Solana, even though the SOL price has been consolidating below $130 for weeks. According to recent on-chain data, whales accumulating Solana-related tokens was the most discussed trend in the market. Additionally, SOL’s network usage and transac…

Dogecoin Mirrors AMD’s Setup From Last Year, Analyst Claims

Dogecoin Mirrors AMD’s Setup From Last Year, Analyst Claims

Dogecoin’s pullback is starting to look like a setup, not a breakdown, at least according to crypto analyst Cantonese Cat (@cantonmeow), who says the meme coin is behaving the way AMD did before its turn higher last year.Can Dogecoin Replicate The AMD Rally?In a X post on Dec. 31, the analyst argued…

Is 1.12% of XRP Supply Gone?

Is 1.12% of XRP Supply Gone?

Is 1.12% of the XRP supply gone? If "gone" means burned, lost or removed from existence, then no. If it means it has been absorbed into ETF holdings and not being traded like usual, that is what the dashboard by SoSoValue is showing.According to the latest U.S. XRP spot ETF data, the total net asset…

Cardano (ADA) Records First Golden Cross of 2026, but There's a Catch

Cardano (ADA) Records First Golden Cross of 2026, but There's a Catch

Cardano has posted its first golden cross of the year 2026, signaling that the coin might have potential for a recovery.Cardano golden cross emerges as volume spikesAs per CoinMarketCap data, the golden cross formation comes amid a spike in Cardano’s trading volume in the last 24 hours. The asset’s…

Bitcoin at $60,000? Brutal BTC Prediction for Q4 2026 Issued

Bitcoin at $60,000? Brutal BTC Prediction for Q4 2026 Issued

Amid growing anticipation about Bitcoin’s potential price movement in 2026, renowned early Bitcoin investor Michael Terpin has predicted that the asset will return to 2023 levels in the new year.According to the analyst, the last quarter of 2026 will mark a major accumulation phase for retail and in…

Crypto ETFs head into 2026 with regulatory tailwinds as issuers brace for a crowded year ahead

Crypto ETFs head into 2026 with regulatory tailwinds as issuers brace for a crowded year ahead

Crypto exchange-traded funds are entering 2026 with faster approval timelines, a pipeline of new products, and growing institutional attention despite a bit of late-year market weakness.Bitcoin and ether ETFs continued to dominate flows in 2025, while a wave of altcoin-linked products expanded inves…

Is Bitcoin Disqualifying Strategy From S&P 500? Peter Schiff Thinks So

Is Bitcoin Disqualifying Strategy From S&P 500? Peter Schiff Thinks So

Peter Schiff has once again criticized Strategy’s Bitcoin-heavy corporate approach, raising fresh questions about whether the company’s performance would even qualify it for inclusion in the S&P 500.In a post on X, the economist that if Strategy were part of the benchmark index, its 47.5% decline in…

Buterin Says Ethereum Has to Be Usable and Decentralized

Buterin Says Ethereum Has to Be Usable and Decentralized

In his latest social media post, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argues the network must now pass the "walkaway test" and avoid becoming just another subscription service.He claims that the network must focus on resisting censorship and centralization after a year of successful scaling. The netw…

$1.6 Trillion Asset Manager Goes Deep Into XRP, Shares Reason Behind The Move

$1.6 Trillion Asset Manager Goes Deep Into XRP, Shares Reason Behind The Move

A major institutional player in global finance has made its position on XRP clear, placing the cryptocurrency at the center of its digital asset strategy. Franklin Templeton, an asset management firm handling over $1.6 trillion worth of assets, used a recent post on the social media platform X to ex…

Ethereum Posts Fourth Worst Q4 Ever With -28.28% Return, What's Next?

Ethereum Posts Fourth Worst Q4 Ever With -28.28% Return, What's Next?

Ethereum just closed the fourth worst Q4 in its history. According to CoinGlass data shared by Wu blockchain, Ethereum closed Q4 2025 with a 28.28% loss to mark the fourth worst Q4 performance in its history.Ethereum declined from September to December, marking a bearish end to the year 2025. The se…

Trust Wallet browser extension knocked offline by Chrome Store 'bug,' CEO says

Trust Wallet browser extension knocked offline by Chrome Store 'bug,' CEO says

The Trust Wallet browser extension for Google Chrome Web Store is “temporarily unavailable,” delaying the release of a new version that includes tools for victims of a recent hack, according to Trust Wallet CEO Eowyn Chen. “We hit a Chrome Web Store bug while releasing a new version,” Chen said in a…

Crypto Investors Celebrated for Most of 2025. Then Came the Hangover. — WSJ

Crypto Investors Celebrated for Most of 2025. Then Came the Hangover. — WSJ

By Vicky Ge HuangThe festive mood that powered the crypto market in early 2025 gave way to a hangover.Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, finished the year below $88,000 after retreating more than 30% from early October, when it peaked at above $126,000. Since then, digital assets have lost more th…