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Currently sitting under $1.5, the XRP price is projected to reach $100, representing a more than 6,500% increase. While this bullish forecast may seem ambitious given the cryptocurrency’s low price and slow growth over the years, analysts and market participants still believe a surge to $100 is inevitable. They base their outlooks on the expansion of the tokenization industry, predicting that such growth could become a catalyst for XRP, which recently entered this new and thriving market via its XRP Ledger (XRPL). Tokenization Growth To Fuel $100 XRP Price In a recent analysis report, market expert X Finance Bull made…

American Bitcoin Corp. has announced a major expansion of its Bitcoin mining operations, adding 11,298 new miners that will increase the company’s total owned capacity by roughly 3.05 exahash per second (EH/s).  This move raises the company’s total mining fleet to approximately 28.1 EH/s across 89,242 miners, with an average efficiency of 16 joules per terahash (J/TH). The new machines, operating at ~13.5 J/TH, are expected to be delivered and deployed at the Drumheller site in March 2026, the company said. Once energized, the operational fleet will consist of 58,999 miners running at an estimated 25 EH/s with an efficiency…

The Aave Chan Initiative (ACI), a major governance delegate and service provider within the Aave ecosystem, said it will not renew its engagement with the Aave DAO and plans to wind down over the next four months.In a statement on Tuesday, ACI founder Marc Zeller said the organization would continue governance activity and complete outstanding commitments before transferring its infrastructure and responsibilities to the DAO or successor providers. “The Aave Chan Initiative was built for Aave. Without a future in the Aave ecosystem, the name no longer applies. ACI will wrap up as our obligations conclude,” Zeller wrote. ACI said its decision…

Global payment giant Visa is expanding its stablecoin card partnership with Stripe-owned Bridge, expanding the rollout of stablecoin-linked Visa cards worldwide and testing onchain settlement.Visa and Bridge are expanding their joint card program to 18 countries, with plans to reach more than 100 across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East by the end of the year, according to a Tuesday announcement.The expansion follows the program’s initial launch in April 2025, which first supported markets in Latin America, including Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Chile.In addition to the expansion, the companies are testing stablecoin settlement through Visa’s pilot program,…

After weeks of back-and-forth, the Aave Chan Initiative is ending its work on the $27 billion lending protocol, Aave.Marc Zeller, the founder of ACI, announced the move on Wednesday via a governance post. In the post, he outlined that his firm, which conducts business development and manages governance for the wider Aave community, will wind down its operations over the next four months. Zeller pointed to a crucial governance vote that passed on Saturday, which moved forward a proposal to grant Aave Labs, the core development firm behind the protocol, “the largest budget in DAO history.” A decentralised autonomous organisation…

Bitcoin’s BTC$67,214.36 volatility is likely to remain elevated in the near term, and prices could fall further, as crypto markets grapple with a liquidity squeeze and deeply fractured sentiment, according to Sygnum Bank chief investment officer Fabian Dori.But the longer-term picture, he argues, remains intact.“We can see volatility remaining high in the short term, and prices could even go lower from here,” Dori told CoinDesk in an interview. “Sentiment has collapsed. Trust and confidence for investors to build exposure are very limited.”The recent divergence between gold, which has held firm, and innovation assets such as Nasdaq tech stocks and bitcoin…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Historically, the Ethereum price has been very bullish for the first quarter of the year, with a few exceptions, and the month of March has been no different from the first two months of the year. Therefore, as the market ushers in another month of March, this report takes a look at the performance of Ethereum this month, and if this historical performance can point out where the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap could be headed. Ethereum Is Ushering In A Bullish Month, But There’s A ‘But’…

Bitcoin has returned to an extreme technical zone that has historically marked major cycle bottoms for the BTC price. According to crypto analyst @DurdenBTC, the Harmonic Oscillator has now printed its lowest possible reading, a level that previously preceded outsized one-year gains. The signal raises a direct question: Does history imply that Bitcoin is positioned to double from here? Bitcoin Harmonic Oscillator Signals BTC Price Could More Than Double A chart shared by the analyst highlights a striking signal for Bitcoin, showing the Harmonic Oscillator at -100, the lowest point on its long-term decaying price range, which spans from -100…

Citrea, a Bitcoin application platform backed by Founders Fund and Galaxy Ventures, announced the creation of the Citrea Foundation, an independent organization aimed at accelerating the growth and decentralization of Bitcoin’s programmable ecosystem. The foundation will serve ‘as the steward’ of the Citrea Network, supporting open-source development, fostering community growth, and expanding access to Bitcoin applications focused on self-custody, privacy, and capital market activity. Orkun Kilic, director of the Citrea Foundation and co-founder of Chainway Labs, said the initiative will guide research and ecosystem development to shape a future where interactions with Bitcoin rely on secure self-custody, privacy, and efficient…

The Bank of Japan will conduct technical experiments using blockchain technology to settle deposits held at the central bank by financial institutions, according to BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda. In a speech posted Tuesday titled “The New Financial Ecosystem and the Role of Central Banks,” Ueda said a sandbox project is underway to test settlement using central bank money “in the form of current account deposits on a system that uses blockchains.”The experiments will explore “methods of connection with the existing system” and examine use cases, including “domestic interbank settlement and securities settlement.”The project centers on settlement using central bank current account…