The logic? Well, it’s as simple and brutal as factory math: XRPL, they say, might someday handle $5 trillion in daily labor, and with the world’s tired pockets holding 50 billion tokens, each XRP should carry the muscle and dignity of a $100 note. A poetic vision, no? The kind you dream up after your fourth glass of hope and a bad shift at the ledger.
88% of Bitcoin’s supply is cruising in profit below $95K. Looks like investors are adjusting their hopes and dreams. 😅
As Friday, May 2, moseyed on by, Blackrock strutted onto the market floor like it owned the place (hint: it practically does). The ishares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) lassoed an eye-popping $674.91 million all by its lonesome—other bitcoin ETFs couldn’t so much as find a penny under their couch cushions. Yet, that solo act tipped the whole wagon, ringing the day’s total net inflow for bitcoin ETFs at, you guessed it, $674.91 million.
The result? An announcement as grandiose as it was fraudulent: “First CRV airdrop!” sang the account, radiating the intoxicating scent of free money and hope. It even promised a brief window to join the festivities: one week, a mere snap of the fingers, until that magical Sunday at midnight UTC. The link? Oh, dear friends, what better bait than the familiar “curve.fi”—because surely you can trust everything with a dot and two letters at the end, da?
With Bitcoin’s bullish momentum taking center stage, it’s entirely plausible that it could serve as a propellant for Solana’s performance. Below, we present the crème de la crème of analysts who foresee Bitcoin smashing the $1 million mark in the next five years. Could Solana follow suit in style? Time will tell.
They’ll gather from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (that’s four-and-a-half hours of jargon, PowerPoints, and hopeful dreams of not accidentally nuking the economy). If you’re the sort who enjoys watching modern-day philosophers debate whether a digital cow is as good as a real one, you can tune into the SEC website’s livestream. Bring popcorn, and perhaps a stiff drink.
Panic at the blockchains! Based on the rankings over at RWA.xyz (a place that really exists), our heroine Stellar claimed the glittering bronze medal—third place on the podium, just shy of Ethereum and zkSync Era, probably side-eyeing both on the blockchain balcony. Ethereum, ever the overachiever, towers at a casual $6.55 billion in locked value (because, obviously), with zkSync Era strutting at $2.23 billion. As for Stellar, she’s holding her own with $475.73 million—despite a tiny 1.45% wardrobe malfunction (or, well, a decrease in value in the past 30 days, but let’s not nitpick).
The analytic folks, proud holders of many useless graduate degrees, muttered with a satisfied sort of resignation: “Builders are building. Users are using.” There’s poetry in it, or at least some grim wisdom scraped out at the end of a long day—like putting your last potato in the stew and hoping that stew will feed you. These builders lay their code like farmers plant seed, not knowing what storm or pest may come. The users? They’re out there breaking your stuff, pressing buttons they shouldn’t, getting lost and found again. Progress marches, either way.
In what can only be described as the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Blitheringly Absurd, a band of remarkably modern miscreants managed to pilfer $243 million in Bitcoin—an amount that, according to most financial calculators, is a tad more than you should keep under your digital mattress. And if you assumed this was just a digital drama, it promptly spilled into the beige reality of Connecticut suburbia, causing chaos that would have baffled Ford Prefect.
Let’s start with something we all know: stablecoins are growing like a weed in a sunny garden. Yes, these charming little tokens pegged to the almighty dollar might be the harbingers of crypto’s adoption—at least according to some. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, for Max Keiser, the Bitcoin sage, has thoughts. And they’re not entirely cheerful.
