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As August begins, XRP finds itself in familiar territory — consolidating in a tight range around $1.06, trading roughly 71% below its all-time high of $3.65 set in July 2025. Yet despite sluggish price action, a growing chorus of analysts argues that XRP is coiling before a significant breakout.
Crypto
Falling spot volume and extreme bearish online engagement highlighted the severity of Bitcoin market sentiment.
Tether just had a very good quarter. The stablecoin giant posted a $1.
Dogecoin (DOGE) price is up today by 1.23% today, August 1, to trade at $0.070 at the time of writing. The gains come after DOGE ETFs recorded their first monthly outflows since they started trading in November 2025.
Bitcoin appears to be entering a long-term uptrend, a move set to provide traders with opportunities to capitalize on surges for strategic returns.
The snapshot tracks direct bridge use, not stranded supply, while self-custodied tokens and protocol positions face separate action paths.
Galaxy Research flagged a third wave of sweeps tied to weak Coldcard-generated keys, with the attacker now targeting smaller balances and changing how funds are collected onchain.
Andrey Poroshin, a financial analyst at Bitbanker, an exchange with a presence in Russia, the UAE, and Kyrgyzstan, stresses that bitcoin will retest $60K lows as excess liquidity is withdrawn to recover $70K later, a price still below the base cost of mining in the U.S.
Will BTC's largest whale affect the market with its selling plans?
Strategy's co-founder, Michael Saylor, has clarified that his company's plan to sell up to $5 billion of Bitcoin was what they authorized under the previously announced BTC monetization program. This follows reports today that the Bitcoin treasury firm had authorized a BTC sale of up to $5 billion after it posted a quarterly loss of
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model family delivers unmatched reasoning and cost efficiency, with Luna priced 80% lower and Sol leading on benchmarks.
The Hyperliquid (HYPE) price traded at $52.06 at press time, down nearly 1%, while daily trading volume remained subdued at around 26.97K HYPE. Despite maintaining a multi-billion-dollar market capitalisation, the token has extended its recent correction after failing to hold above a key support zone near $54, shifting market sentiment toward sellers.
The Vice President of Bitcoin Strategy at Strive, Joe Burnett, described the past week as “possibly one of the worst weeks in the history of Bitcoin.” The statement suggested that large holders ought to trust institutional custodians more than hardware wallets.
Lookonchain said the former employee bought nearly 80% of ASTEROID's supply for $10,000 before selling most of the tokens for about $638,000.
The SEC's pause on Nasdaq's Bitcoin options highlights ongoing regulatory challenges, impacting future Bitcoin derivatives market dynamics. SEC freezes Nasdaq's Bitcoin options approval as CME wages jurisdictional turf war.
The leaders were already dominant before the cutoff, and aggregate data do not identify a destination for SBI's lost pool hashrate.
Pi Coin (PI) rose 8% on Saturday to $0.0870. The move pushed the token onto CoinGecko's trending list, days before a hard deadline for Pi Network.
Bitcoin has historically followed a four-year cycle of boom and bust, with three good years followed by one bad year. After 10 months of steep losses, Bitcoin could finally be in recovery mode.
The CLARITY Act could redefine stablecoin regulations, boosting compliant platforms like Circle and Hyperliquid, but faces legislative hurdles. Circle and Hyperliquid identified as CLARITY Act infrastructure winners by Bob Diamond.
The Mantle ecosystem is expanding in a direction that its token price simply isn't reflecting. While MNT continues to bleed on the charts and heads toward a historical demand zone around $0.31-$0.33, the network itself is quietly strengthening its position in the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) sector.
