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Bitcoin is testing its largest supply wall at $80,000, a price zone that sits close to the average cost basis of spot ETF holders and now stands as the market's most closely watched resistance level.
XRP ETF volume has climbed to a record high while Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin has pushed past the $2 billion mark, giving traders two separate but connected signals to weigh in the same news cycle.
Bitcoin was holding near the $80,000 level as traders positioned into the speech, according to CoinDesk reporting . For a market that treats macro liquidity as its oxygen, a single Fed appearance can reset risk appetite in minutes.
Ripple (XRP) is back in the conversation this week as two narratives circulate side by side: talk of Mastercard involvement touching the XRP ecosystem, and fresh chatter around changes to the XRP ETF picture.
A new batch of three exchange-traded funds is arriving with unusually different pitches: one built around small-cap stocks, one tied to Bitcoin, and one structured as a buffered strategy linked to Cathie Wood.
The top crypto news for Aug. 26 is led by XRP, which has rebounded roughly 32% from the $1 level as ETF money keeps flowing and large holders reposition, even as the token slipped in the past 24 hours.
Bitcoin is taking a breather after adding 23% in seven days, with steady spot ETF demand cushioning the pause and keeping the broader bullish setup intact.
A roughly 3% token move set off about $36 million in Ethereum DeFi liquidations, forcing leveraged positions to unwind in quick succession and putting the fragility of on-chain leverage back in focus for traders.
Arcus has introduced a set of ETF-style tokens that give holders on-chain exposure to a leveraged 3X Bitcoin position and to Robinhood, packaging traditional market bets into tradable digital wrappers rather than direct spot ownership.
In this context, "overtakes XRP" refers to relative positioning between the two assets inside the U. S.
The headline number and the inflow number are measuring two different things. Total assets under management climbed by roughly $23 billion across U.
The core of the announcement is a corporate identity change: Orangekloud intends to operate under the name VeVe Inc. , a move disclosed in a company press release filed with the SEC .
Zcash (ZEC) climbed to an eight-year high this week, with the privacy-focused token's rally driven by a broader crypto market upswing and mounting speculation over a potential ETF approval.
A Cleveland Fed experiment found that simply showing people Bitcoin's past 12-month gains made them roughly 2. 5 percentage points more likely to say they would buy crypto, a result that reframes momentum, not fundamentals, as a driver of new-buyer conversion.
A Federal Reserve research experiment suggests that bitcoin rallies do more than move prices: they appear to pull first-time buyers into crypto, with investor beliefs and recent returns shaping who enters the market. The finding reframes a price surge as an onboarding event, not just a trading story.
The Sandbox said it identified and contained a vulnerability in the SAND cross-chain bridge on Base and BNB Smart Chain, disabling bridging in both directions and isolating the affected tokens, according to its official statement on X . For related coverage, see Term Finance Loses Estimated $8.
Weekly flow data is watched closely because it aggregates thousands of individual allocations into one read on how much fresh capital is entering regulated Bitcoin products.
Term Finance, a DeFi lending protocol, lost an estimated $8. 5 million in a governance exploit, marking another reminder that the control layer securing decentralized protocols can itself become the attack surface.
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has floated a $500,000 Bitcoin scenario, but only if the U. S.
US prosecutors have expanded a long-running Iran-linked hacking case to 17 defendants, tying six of them to HBO's 2017 breach and a Bitcoin extortion demand that briefly turned one of television's biggest content leaks into a crypto ransom drama.