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According to blockchain analytics platform Dune, the total assets under management (AUM) of all tokenized stocks is currently sitting just over the $1 billion mark, with Solana’s xStocks accounting for over 57% of it. 🎯
Once more, a trader, who we’ll call Rundeep for dramatic flair, has managed to pull off a stunt on Polymarket, cashing in on bets that dance dangerously close to the next big Israeli military showdown with Iran. It’s almost as if he’s got a crystal ball, or perhaps just a really good source at a top-secret dinner party!
As our dear Faryar Shirzad, the Chief Policy Officer of Coinbase, took to the social platform X to share his lamentations on January 7, he warned us all. The grand $360 billion banking revenue machine is poised for a tumultuous upheaval as lawmakers once again dust off the old blueprints for stablecoin rewards and the destiny of U.S. dollar payments poised to sway like a leaf in the wind.
Such sustained exuberance suggests that demand is strutting about with a newfound swagger, and price stability at these lofty heights is, well, trying its best not to trip over its own shoelaces.
The grand total of the crypto market value slipped to about $3.14 trillion, which sounds like a hefty chunk of change until you realize it dropped just over 3% in a day. Oh, what fun! 🎢
Now, this fourth biggest cryptocurrency is still hanging out below the midline of those Bollinger Bands, currently chilling at $2.4254. Until XRP decides to get its act together and close above that level, the market is just going to see this bounce as a mere counter-trend move-like a kid trying to impress their parents with a half-hearted cartwheel.
President Monica Long, with the poise of a Tolstoy heroine, declared on January 6 that Ripple shall remain private. “Why dance in the public’s gaze,” she mused, “when our coffers overflow with $500 million raised in November 2025 at a $40 billion valuation? Our balance sheet is as robust as a Russian winter, and we shun the burdens of disclosure like a nobleman avoids taxes.” 😏
Behold, it tumbled from $2.41, shattering the fragile $2.32 support like a heart broken by the whims of fate. A precipitous plunge to $2.21 was met with the desperate embrace of buyers, allowing it to stagger back to its current perch. The question now hangs heavy in the air: will XRP ascend to reclaim $2.31-$2.32, or shall it be condemned to wander in the downward spiral of despair? 🌀
On Wednesday last, our dear Ethereum experienced a vital metamorphosis akin to that of a caterpillar into a butterfly-if, of course, the butterfly were inclined to engage in blockchain transactions. The blob limit has ascended from a modest 15 to an extravagant 21 as part of the second Blob Parameter-Only (BPO) hard fork. How delightful!
The sell-off follows a failed attempt at breaking above $94,500 on Tuesday, the third in the past five weeks. One might say the market is as persistent as a broken record. 🎶