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XRP is struggling to break above the $3 target on Monday, October 6, following a short rally late last week.  However, its market capitalization is still up over 4% over the past seven days, sitting at approximately $179.15 billion at the time of writing, according to CoinMarketCap . While the asset is nowhere near the top weekly gainers like Zcash (ZEC), which is up 140% , the weekend uptick was enough to help XRP briefly overtake BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) in terms of value on Sunday, October 5. Indeed, the world’s largest crypto fund had a market cap approaching $180 billion, while the cryptocurrency managed to climb near the $183.4 billion mark before dropping again on Monday. XRP market value. Source: CoinMarketCap Is another XRP rally coming? While XRP may have cooled down at the start of the week, some technical indicators suggest another breakout might be on the way.  The crypto continues to consolidate inside a symmetrical triangle, with re...

As the third quarter of 2025 draws to a close on September 30, XRP faces a turbulent backdrop marked by ETF delays, sector-wide deleveraging, and volatile technicals. The token, which currently trades at $2.83, has dropped more than 8.8% in the past week, erasing over $17 billion from its market capitalization. XRP 1-day price chart. Source: Finbold Finbold’s AI Signals, which combines multiple large language model (LLM) tools and momentum-based indicators, has generated a blended forecast for XRP’s price into the quarter’s end. The system projects an average price of $2.75, implying a 2.83% decline from current levels. XRP end of Q3 price prediction. Source: Finbold Signals Among the individual model outputs, the most bullish scenario came from GPT-4o, which pointed to $2.85 (+0.71%), while the most bearish came from Claude Sonnet 4, projecting $2.65 (-6.36%). Grok 3 aligned with the average at $2.75. The forecast arrives at a time when XRP sentiment is un...

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Shiba Inu (SHIB) rocked the crypto world within months of its launch. The asset’s price skyrocketed by many million percent, hitting an all-time high of $0.00008616 in October 2021. Early investors made millions of dollars in profit with minimal investments. People with regular jobs could retire and live their dreams thanks to SHIB’s incredible performance. Shiba Inu soon gained the moniker of “millionaire-maker.” However, the popular dog-themed crypto has lost significant steam over the last few years. Let’s discuss if SHIB has lost its “millionaire-maker” status. Can Shiba Inu Still Make You a Millionaire? Source: Pixabay One of the primary reasons for SHIB’s incredible rally in 2021 was Vitalik Buterin’s token burn. The burn was highly talked about and almost every SHIB investor knows about it. Buterin burned about 410 trillion tokens from the asset’s circulation after receiving half the supply. However, there are still abou...

The cryptocurrency market is going through one of its most significant bull phases. The global crypto market cap breached the $4 trillion mark for the first time on Friday, July 18. Dogecoin (DOGE) is following the larger crypto market surge with double-digit gains across the board. The original memecoin has rallied 17.5% in the last 24 hours, 25.4% in the last week, 46.5% in the 14-day chart, and nearly 45% over the previous month. DOGE’s price has also risen by 101% since July 2024. Source: CoinGecko What’s Pushing Dogecoin’s Price? Can It Hit $0.35 Next? Source: Watcher.Guru DOGE’s rally comes amid a larger market upswing. The general bullishness has aided the memecoin in its massive turnaround. Bitcoin (BTC) hit a new all-time high of $122,834 on July 14. BTC’s climb to a new peak has instilled a new rejuvenated sentiment. Today’s DOGE and the larger market rally could be attributed to the US House of Representatives passing the GENIUS, Clarity, a...

The United States government has transferred a notable amount of Ethereum (ETH) to cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, fueling speculation about a potential sell-off for the second-ranked digital currency. Specifically, on July 7, 2025, a wallet labeled “US Government: FBI” completed a transfer of approximately 86.56 ETH, valued at around $219,000 at the time, to Coinbase Prime, according to data provided by Arkham Intel.   U.S. government ETH transfer to Coinbase. Source: Arkham The shift followed a small $10 test transaction sent just minutes earlier, a common precursor to larger liquidations, custody transfers, or internal accounting moves. Arkham noted that the wallet still holds over 100,000 ETH, originally seized from NFT scammer Chase Senecal in October 2022. Until this transfer, the address had remained dormant since the seizure was made. The deposit is being closely monitored, as it appears to indicate that the government may be preparing to sell part of...

Shiba Inu price target has reached new heights as the SHIB burn rate exploded by an impressive 3,484% in just 24 hours, and also removed 537 million tokens from circulation. This massive burn event, combined with an ongoing Shibarium transaction surge activity, positions SHIB for a potential rally to the SHIB $0.000022 prediction level. The SHIB price breakout patterns suggest an 86% upside move could be imminent right now. SHIB-USD 24 Hour Chart – Source: CoinDesk Also Read: Why Some Still Say The Best Is Yet To Come For Shiba Inu (SHIB) Shiba Inu Price Target Rises As Burn Rate And Volume Explode Source: Watcher Guru The SHIB ecosystem experienced unprecedented burn activity as one wallet alone destroyed over 521 million tokens across three rapid transactions. The mysterious wallet ending in -82019a ignited this burn frenzy, and also pushed the total weekly burns to 687 million SHIB tokens and increased the seven-day SHIB burn rate by 481.17%. Record Burns Drive Shiba Inu Price ...

Nexo, a leading digital asset institution, has announced a major rebrand, transitioning from a crypto lender to an all-encompassing digital asset wealth platform, as revealed to Finbold on Wednesday, October 31.  The rebrand coincides with the Bitcoin Whitepaper Day and shows Nexo’s commitment to empowering investors with the sophisticated tools necessary to build, safeguard, and leverage digital wealth. The Nexo rebrand After 20 months of extensive research and involving 5,000 users in almost two dozen countries, Nexo is evolving its platform to accommodate the needs of sophisticated crypto investors.  Picks for you Bitcoin set to make the highest monthly close ever 58 mins ago Pudgy Penguins and Mythical Games reveal  Pudgy ...

JPMorgan’s bank’s digital asset division, Onyx, spearheads a collaborative effort focused on blockchain interoperability use cases for portfolio manage ment. The legacy bank is developing a proof-of-concept project under “Project Guardian”, an initiative from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) built around swap services for tokenized assets on decentralized networks. Project Guardian’s thesis argues for building a one-stop shop for managing digitized real-world assets across multiple blockchains by leveraging solutions like account abstraction and Layer 2 settlement. JPMorgan’s Onyx teamed up with wealth managers like Apollo and WisdomTree for the initiative . Blockchain native entities like Provenance, LayerZero, Axelar, Oasis Pro and Biconomy were announced as part of the joint effort according to Tyler Lobban, Head of Blockchain and Onyx Digital Assets at JPMorgan. *Announcing!*: Onyx by @jpmorgan & @apolloglobal collaborate on next-gen solution in the $5.5T port...

In March, the platform claimed to have successfully onboarded over 560,000 new users. Decentralized multichain digital Wallet solution BitKeep Wallet has announced that it has surpassed 10 million users as of April. The platform has seen tremendous growth in recent months, with over 560,000 new users onboarded in March alone. The surge in users can be attributed to several success ful campaigns with popular blockchains like Arbitrum and Sui. BitKeep's Arbitrum campaign saw the successful launch of ARBK. This native token recorded 708,800 on-chain transactions and was airdropped to over 100,000 users participating in campaign-related tasks and activities. During the campaign period, ARBK was exchangeable for ARB, the official native token of the Arbitrum chain, and ranked first on Arbitrum's ecosystem popularity chart with 150,000 token-holding addresses, with an interaction volume of 330,000. Following BitKeep's recent success, cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Bitge...