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Bitcoin price hovered near $63,000 on Aug. 1 as US ETF outflows, weakening momentum and regulatory uncertainty kept buyers on the sidelines. Bitcoin price struggles to hold $63,000 According to data from crypto.
Crypto
ALGO is buried below every major moving average at $0.079 while a 1.60 taker buy/sell ratio and a 6.28% OI spike suggest smart money is quietly loading. The bear case tracks toward $0.
The XRP Ledger's node software, xrpld 3.3.0, is set for release next week, with the update slated to introduce five new features to the network. This article focuses on the software release itself, not XRP market price action, and covers only what the available evidence confirms.
Pump.fun cut a significant chunk of its workforce right before handing out million worth of PUMP tokens.
XRP is entering one of its toughest months with a four-year August losing streak hanging over its price. Crypto trader Zach rector still expects the token to fall below $1. But on the flip side, a major on-chain signal now suggests selling pressure is fading.
With every short-term moving average compressed to a single point at $0.21 and CRV hugging its lower Bollinger Band at $0.2057, the volatility squeeze is maxed out.
More than $323.23 million worth of cryptocurrency tokens are scheduled to enter circulation across August 2026, spanning 141 blockchain projects, extending a third straight month of decline from July's $376.39 million and June's $580.33 million. The month's releases are led by YZY, PROVE, and KAITO, with YZY alone accounting for close to $35.5 million in scheduled unlocks. As new tokens become transferable, market participants will be watching whether the additional supply affects liquidity and short-term price action across the affected assets.
Ethereum (ETH) options positioning tilted modestly bullish even as overall exposure shrank, suggesting traders are reducing risk while keeping upside bets in place. Call options continued to dominate open interest, and near-dated flow leaned slightly toward calls—an indication of cautious optimism rather than an outright risk-on stance.
Celestia ships a key upgrade for modular data availability, supporting independent rollups as Bitcoin holds at $63,021 and market cap sits at $2.25T.
Will BTC survive these key headwinds in H2 2026?
TON's MACD has zeroed out and price is pinned below every meaningful short-term moving average, while thin spot volume exposes an overextended futures positioning structure.
Coinkite says an attacker used AI to find a flaw its own AI review missed, exposing 500 wallets to a seed generation bug that reduced 128 bits of entropy to 40.
Tether earned $1.5 billion in three months while its safety cushion fell by half, raising questions about whether the world's largest stablecoin can sustain its reserve strategy through a rate cycle. Summary Tether reported $1.
Bitcoin mining difficulty has dropped 19.9% from its peak in the third deepest ASIC era decline on record, as miners sell bitcoin at record rates and redirect power capacity toward artificial intelligence data centers.
XRP (XRP) continued to trade in a tight range around $1.06 on Friday ET, with traders weighing a cluster of catalysts—from Ripple's newly secured EU regulatory clearance under MiCA to a proposed $1 billion corporate treasury-style accumulation plan by Evernorth—against stubborn technical resistance and a seasonally weak August backdrop. The market's immediate focus remains the $1.10 area, which multiple technical desks describe as a “confluence zone” where the 50-day and 100-day moving averages compress.
Coinbase told investors on Thursday that 88% of its second-quarter net revenue came from something other than Bitcoin spot trading. The same release reported a $359.5 million net loss under US accounting rules, the company's third consecutive losing quarter.
SHIB's 4.95% intraday surge is running straight into upper Bollinger Band resistance with MACD printing zero conviction behind it.
Solana (SOL) is hovering around a critical technical inflection point near the mid-$73 range, with traders watching whether the market can defend a key support level after repeated failures to reclaim overhead resistance. The standoff matters because a decisive break in either direction could set the tone for short-term price action, even as ecosystem headlines—from a Korean payments push to a major 2026 protocol overhaul—pull sentiment in opposite directions.
WLD is trapped at $0.31 beneath every major moving average, with aggressive sellers overwhelming buyers at a 1.3-to-1 ratio in the futures tape — the path of least resistance leads to $0.
With SUI compressed into a $0.01 intraday range at $0.68, stochastics screaming oversold and smart money positioned 70% long, a 60/40 probability favors a relief rally toward $0.
