While the prices may be akin to a wobbly chair at a dinner party-fluctuating and precarious-the on-chain momentum of XRP behaves as a diligent butler, steadily gaining pace. After enduring a languorous intermission, the transaction velocity has decided to don its dancing shoes once again.
Now, this Ripple-linked fiasco is flirting with the idea of dropping below Circle’s USDC stablecoin in market cap. I mean, what a fall from grace!
A public debate has erupted like a bad case of gas over Bitmine Immersion Technologies’ ethereum holdings. One brave soul on X claimed that Bitmine’s ETH position is down about $6.6 billion on paper. That’s right, folks-$6.6 billion! They even suggested that if Bitmine sold, it could weigh down Ethereum’s future price like a ton of bricks. Who knew Ethereum was so sensitive?
Once a beacon of hope, the Ripple (XRP) token now languishes at the abyssal low of $1.3495, a level reminiscent of a long-forgotten tale of prosperity, having plummeted from its grand height of $3.6650. What a comedy of errors!
Bitcoin, the erstwhile czar of the crypto realm, has fallen below the symbolic threshold of $69,000, a number once revered as its 2021 zenith. Ethereum, too, has been humbled, dropping beneath $2,000 for the first time since the halcyon days of May 2025. XRP, ever the loyal vassal, has followed suit, its losses as steep as the cliffs of the Caucasus. The total market capitalization, once a towering $2.3 trillion, has shriveled by more than 7% in a single day-a testament to the fragility of human ambition.
At the hour of reckoning, BTC languished at $67,400, a pitiful wretch shedding 7.5% of its valor in a single day. The $72,000 support zone, once a bastion of resilience on 4 February, crumbled like the illusions of a man who believes in the permanence of wealth. January’s consolidation, it seems, was but a fleeting dream, a mirage in the desert of speculation.
Midweek trading was about as pleasant as a dentist appointment for crypto ETF investors. The selling pressure was broader than the buffet line at an all-you-can-eat restaurant, dragging total assets lower once again, while only XRP kept waving the flag in this otherwise gloomy session.
As we meander through the gloomy exchanges, it appears traders have taken a leaf out of a particularly pessimistic novel-there’s barely a whiff of demand for our floppy-eared friend. Instead, with the fervor rivaling a summer’s day flea market, selling pressures continue to rise, leaving one to ponder if the only thing being exchanged is resignation.
The selloff, like a plague, remains confined to digital assets and metals. Gold, that ancient king, has fallen below $4,900 per ounce. Silver, its loyal vassal, has plummeted over 10%, to under $80 per ounce. Yet the U.S. equity markets stand firm, as if protected by some divine intervention-or perhaps just blind luck.
The decline, it seems, was fed by a rather unattractive cocktail of macroeconomic gloom and a headlong rush to deleverage across derivatives markets. In the last 24 hours, cascading liquidations reached about $451 million, a sum that could make even a cautious spreadsheet collapse into a helpless giggle.
