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XRP is trading near the $2 level, but something bigger than daily price movement is happening behind the scenes. Data from the XRP Ledger shows a sharp rise in the number of wallets holding XRP, suggesting many holders are choosing to move tokens off exchanges and keep them in private custody.

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Institutions are increasingly betting on bitcoin's bullish moves and moving away from sophisticated 'arbitrage' bets.

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Renowned economist and market commentator Peter Schiff warned in an interview aired Thursday of an impending dollar crisis that could crush Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) value, while promoting precious metals such as gold and silver as reliable investments. A Looming Crisis Like The 2008 Meltdown?

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Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has declared that blockchain protocols must perpetually “iterate” to survive.

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Analysts see a green 2026 as likely if BTC secures strong monthly closes above $105K and holds $90K support.

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XRP continues to trade in a corrective environment after the sharp rebound earlier in the month. Against USDT, the asset has stabilized above the major demand region while failing to reclaim the broader distribution zone.

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Bitcoin continues to consolidate just below a major resistance cluster after a strong recovery from the December lows. The price chart shows a clear sequence of higher lows, while on-chain data indicates that the percentage of supply in profit has undergone a deep reset and is now recovering.

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DeFi Fund monitors BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, and XRP based on liquidity quality and institutional capital flow

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has declared 2026 a crucial year for the blockchain network, openly acknowledging that the blockchain has lost sight of its founding principles, which are self-sovereignty and trustlessness. In a lengthy post on X, he expressed concerns about the long-term trajectory of the blockchain's development as the chain grows more complex.

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Ethereum's biggest risk may no longer be competition, regulation, or scaling. According to Vitalik Buterin, the real threat is something more subtle: complexity. In a recent warning, Buterin argued that Ethereum's long-term goals, trustlessness, self-sovereignty, and resilience, are being quietly undermined as the protocol grows larger, more technical, and harder to understand.

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ETH staking absorbs 46.6% of supply, reducing sell pressure as validator exits define volatility risk.

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Going into the weekend, the price of Bitcoin was unable to sustain the bullish momentum it displayed earlier in the past week. Since Friday, January 16th, the world's leading cryptocurrency, repudiated by the price resistance above, now trades in a tight consolidatory bracket.

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Bitcoin has been approaching a milestone, nearing $100,000 after surpassing $97,000 on January 14. This surge was influenced by a delay in Supreme Court decisions on tariffs and tensions between the Federal Reserve and former President Donald Trump.

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More than 36 million ETH is now staked in Ethereum's proof-of-stake system, close to 30% of the circulating supply and worth over $118 billion at recent prices.

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Bitcoin hovered between $94,869 and $95,115 per coin at 9 a.m. EST on Jan. 18, 2026, while derivatives traders remained anything but idle. Futures and options markets show crowded positioning, heavy open interest, and a growing fixation on a narrow band of price levels just below $100,000.

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Announced as a historic breakthrough, the strategic Bitcoin reserve desired by the United States remains at a standstill today. Nearly a year after the decree signed by Donald Trump in March 2025, no BTC acquisition has been made.

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Ripple CEO says that, while the crypto market-structure bill is imperfect, it provides much-needed clarity and is preferable to continued regulatory uncertainty.

 

With bitcoin priced at $95,101 on Sunday, its market cap holding strong at $1.89 trillion, and a 24-hour trading volume humming at $19.02 billion, traders are watching a tight intraday range between $94,869 and $95,543 like hawks. The mood? Restless. The charts are calling out indecision with the subtlety of a marching band.

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It was a strange week in crypto. XRP supply just got thinner, with U.S. spot ETFs locking up 1.20% of the token's total market cap — $1.52 billion that is now off the open market and in cold compliance storage.

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Bitcoin demand conditions have shown improvement recently; however, they are still weak despite bitcoin's latest rally.

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XRP price moved into a correction after falling by over 15% from its highest level this year despite the encouraging Ripple news. Ripple (XRP) token dropped to $2.0520, much lower than the year-to-date high of $2.4.

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XRP outpaces Ethereum in X mentions, signaling surging market interest.

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The price of Litecoin (LTC) has fallen below the moving average lines after being rejected at the $84.77 high.

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The Cost Basis Distribution heatmap highlighted the importance of the $1.96-$2.0 area as support.

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Fresh money poured back into US spot Bitcoin ETFs this week, giving the market a clear jolt after a quiet month. The inflows totaled about $1.42 billion, the biggest weekly pickup since early October.