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🪙 Rockets 214% in Volume as Market Sell-Off Liquidates $745 Million
The crypto market is mostly trading in red on Monday, with $745 million recorded in liquidations in the last 24 hours.
XRP reached a low of $1.83 early Monday after dropping to $1.80 on Sunday as crypto markets fell in thin weekend trading, extending a pullback that has dragged on since the past week.
At press time, XRP was down 0.70% in the last 24 hours to $1.88 as cryptocurrencies fell ahead of a busy week, with the Federal Reserve's two-day FOMC meeting starting on Wednesday and major technology players announcing earning

📊 2 Altcoins to Watch In The Final Week Of January 2026
The crypto market took a turn for the worse in the last few days and while the macro financial conditions are showing signs of improvement. Nevertheless, altcoins are leaning more on the external network developments to turn for the better.
🔸 Hedera ($HBAR )
HBAR trades near $0.1058 at the time of writing, extending a downtrend that began more than three months ago. Persistent bearish market conditions have slowed Hedera’s growth. Price action remains under pressure, reflecting cautious sentiment as investors assess whether the prolonge

🎰 On January 24, the meme token Nietzschean Penguin (PENGUIN) on the Solana network surged in price dramatically - from $0.01 to $0.16, showing an increase of about 1500%.
The catalyst for the growth was a post from the White House with a photo of Donald Trump next to a penguin.
For unknown reasons, users of the crypto community associated this image with the PENGUIN token.
Presumably, the reason was the visual similarity with the AI-generated pictures used in the project's promotion.
The meme coin itself was launched on January 16.
Before the publication, the asset's capitalization

🔵 $ADA to $0.5? Cardano's Classic Pattern Hints at 30% Move if Validated
Cardano eyes a potential major move, which might culminate in a 30% price gain as a classic chart pattern takes shape.
This comes despite a continued sell-off in the market, with Cardano's price trading in the red. At the time of writing, ADA was down 1.23% in the last 24 hours to $0.354.
According to Ali charts, Cardano is consolidating in a triangle on its hourly chart with potential for a breakout. A triangle chart pattern sees the price moving into a tighter and tighter range as time goes on before a breakout either

🟣 Solana's Price on the Verge of Retesting $119: Details
The crypto market is down, and the negative trend has seen Solana’s price continue to plunge in the deep red territory amid rising selling pressure.
On Jan. 25, popular crypto analyst Ali Martinez has shared insights suggesting that Solana is attempting more downside pressure, which could see it retest 2025 lows.
🔸 Solana forms new support zone
According to the analyst, Solana is showing signs of an extended correction phase, and its on-chain movement has pushed its price to potentially forming new support around $119.
After surging as

📊 $BTC is making gains, metals are holding their value
The chart from 2016 shows a simple fact: Bitcoin has delivered exponentially higher returns than gold and silver. But it also fluctuates much more dramatically.
Metals are not about gains, but about preserving value.
‍#BTC | #Bitcoin

📣 Dogecoin Leaves Shiba Inu Behind in Spot ETF Race After SEC Approval
Dogecoin pulls ahead of Shiba Inu after its spot ETF gains SEC approval and begins trading, highlighting a growing gap in meme coin ETFs.
🔸 Dogecoin Secures First SEC-Approved Meme Coin ETF
Dogecoin strengthened its position after a spot ETF tied to the token received approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Earlier this week, the 21Shares Dogecoin ETF began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker TDOG, according to regulatory filings. The approval makes Dogecoin the first and only meme coin with a standalone

⚡️ Render holds above $2 – Will bulls face one more shakeout?
Render [$RENDER ] saw a good start to 2026. It saw a price growth of 85% in the first week of January, far outstripping its artificial sector peers Chainlink [LINK] and Bittensor [TAO].
Since then, the Open Interest has tailed off by nearly 30%, Coinalyze data showed. While the breakout past the psychological $2 former resistance was encouraging, the price has come back to the same demand zone.
A recent measured the on-chain metrics of RENDER against another AI token, Artificial Superintelligence Alliance [FET]. The report found th

🇯🇵 Japan to Regulate $XRP as a Financial Asset in 2026
Japan Moves to Classify XRP as a Financial Product, Eyeing Q2 2026 Implementation
Japan, a global crypto leader, is reportedly set to formally classify Ripple’s XRP as a financial product under its updated regulatory framework.
Market analyst Xaif Crypto notes the change could take effect by Q2 2026, bringing XRP under the country’s Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA).
Japan’s proposed classification of XRP under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act marks a major step in formalizing digital asset regulation. By clarifyin

⚡️ Can $XRP Overtake Bitcoin? Analyst Warns of Global Liquidity Crisis
Crypto analyst Jake Claver believes XRP will overtake Bitcoin as the top digital asset. In Part 4 of his “XRP Domino Theory” series, he explains how a global financial crisis could force markets to adopt instant settlement infrastructure.
Claver calls it “the largest wealth transfer in our lifetimes.”
Here’s a deep dive.
🔸 Oil Shock Could Break the Yen Carry Trade
Claver points to rising geopolitical tensions involving Iran, Venezuela, China, and Russia. A 20-40% spike in oil prices, he says, would break the Japanese yen

📊 Analysis Company: ‘Bitcoin’s Major Rally May Depend on This News Coming from Japan’
In its latest assessment, cryptocurrency asset analysis company Delphi Digital pointed to a striking negative correlation between Bitcoin and Japan’s 10-year government bonds.
According to the analysis, tensions in the Japanese bond market are putting pressure on Bitcoin prices, but a potential central bank intervention could reverse this trend.
A Delphi Digital report notes that while Bitcoin prices are trading sideways, gold continues to rise, arguing that the primary reason for this could be Japanese gove

📣 Bitcoin vs Gold.
On the chart, it can be seen that the indicator of Bitcoin's undervaluation is at historically low levels.
At the same time, gold is historically greatly overvalued.
This divergence foreshadows a potentially impressive growth for $BTC in the long term ↗️
‍#GOLD #BTC $BTC

📌 Cardano Founder Hoskinson Warns of U.S. Recession
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson warned that the United States faces a significant risk of recession if several global forces converge.
In a recent commentary, he said a potential AI bubble burst, combined with long-time U.S. allies shifting trade and investment toward China, could push the economy into recession.
As a result, Hoskinson argued that prolonged economic decoupling would sharply reduce U.S. consumption and could become economically catastrophic without timely policy intervention.
🔸 What Could Drive US Into Recession
The Cardan

🔘 Hedera ($HBAR) price drops toward $0.10 despite McLaren F1 partnership
Hedera’s price fell alongside other cryptocurrencies on Friday, reaching intraday lows near $0.10.
After seeing a sharp decline on January 19, HBAR rebounded slightly to around $0.115.
However, sell-off pressure across the risk assets market has pushed bulls into the woods to leave the brief upside as a mask of a likely deeper rot.
It’s an outlook mirrored across the altcoin ecosystem as Bitcoin struggles below $90,000.
Due to profit-taking amid macroeconomic and geopolitical headwinds, BTC has touched lows of $87,700 an

🟠 Bitcoin surges to $91,000, showing signs of life on suspected Bank of Japan intervention
Bitcoin $BTC $90,657.36 reclaimed the $91,000 level in early U.S. afternoon hours on Friday, continuing volatile action and threatening to sustainably break out of its tight week-long range of roughly $88,000-$90,000.
Possibly behind the quick 2% move off of the morning’s lows was suspected intervention in the foreign exchange market by Japanese authorities. The Bank of Japan overnight left monetary policy unchanged, but was somewhat hawkish in its policy statement. That had the yen modestly stronger v

🐸 $PEPE Coin Price Eyes 45% Rebound as Buyers Regain Control on Spot Markets
PEPE Coin price prediction has reached the stage of definite phase as the price stabilized above the recent demand. The market has since moved on a narrowed range following the lack of downside momentum as it approached structural support.
This stabilization comes after a definite change in participation behavior which, in turn, pits price under a distinct resistance band. The structure has now become a directional resolution where structure, as opposed to sentiment, is the key factor to the next move.
🔸 PEPE Coin P

Retrodrops - next level 🧠
Someone decided not to skimp and assembled a real farm of Solana Phones, ordering 100 phones (~ $500 each).
Yesterday, the owners received a drop of the SKR token - an average of $500 per account, and those who actively engaged in on-chain activity received $2,000-5,000 each.
As the crypto enthusiasts write on Twitter, the guy who assembled this farm ended up earning about $200k just from the SKR drop - and this is not counting all the previous drops that came to the phone owners from various ecosystem projects.
#SOL #Solana $SOL ‌

📊 BTC 2023 vs BTC 2026.
A chart showing the similarity of Bitcoin's price movement in 2023 and at the current moment is actively being spread online.
If history repeats itself, the upward trend of BTC will continue ↗️
#BTC #bitcoin $BTC

🪙 U.S. first spot $XRP ETF crashes over 20%
The first U.S. spot XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) has fallen more than 20% from its post-launch peak, despite strong early institutional demand.
In this context, the Canary XRP ETF, which trades on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPC, closed the last session at $20.26, leaving it down about 23.9% from its launch.
Notably, the ETF rallied into the mid-$26 range shortly after launch before reversing lower. At the same time, XRPC has fallen about 8.5% in the latest session and is down more than 10% over the past five trading days.
While the ETF remains margi