Ripple has secured a $500 million strategic investment led by Fortress Investment Group and Citadel Securities, valuing the company at $40 billion. The capital injection signals growing institutional interest in Ripple’s payments, stablecoin, and custody infrastructure.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency market recorded $52.17 million in liquidations over the past four hours. Of this, long positions accounted for $13.76 million, while short positions saw $38.41 million cleared.

The spike in short liquidations suggests aggressive short covering as volatility picks up across major assets.

Every time this level was reached the market flipped.
It’s the zone where fear peaks and smart money reloads.

History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes.
We’re sitting exactly where previous major rallies were born.

👉 The crowd sees pain.
The pros see positioning.

This kind of structure often precedes a trend reversal or relief rally, especially when the market is showing early signs of bottoming with a rounded retest pattern forming.

If GMX holds above $8.3–$8.5, a move toward $10.8 looks highly probable, with potential continuation toward $16+ if the breakout confirms.

The setup hints that sellers might be running out of momentum, this could be the early phase of a mid-term recovery wave.

A coalition of major blockchain projects, including Solana, Fireblocks, Monad, Polygon and Ton, has formed the Blockchain Payments Consortium (BPC) to define a universal framework that allows seamless cross-chain payments and liquidity across networks.

This initiative could significantly reduce friction in multi-chain transactions, enabling wallets and services to route payments across chains without manual bridging or switch-overs.

Right now, price is forming a potential rounded bottom structure inside the channel, a classic sign of slowing bearish momentum and early accumulation.

If the price retests the lower zone around $0.68–$0.70 and holds, it could trigger a reversal toward $0.87 first, with a possible continuation toward $1.30+ once a confirmed breakout occurs.

It’s one of those setups where patience pays, a breakout above that grey zone could mark the start of LDO’s next bullish leg.

Arx Research has secured a $6.1 million seed round, led by Castle Island Ventures with backing from Inflection, Placeholder, Seed Club Ventures and 1kx.

The funds will help develop the “Burner Terminal”, a handheld, EMV-certified point-of-sale device designed to accept stablecoins, crypto and fiat payments, targeting small merchants like food trucks and salons.

The device supports contactless cards, chip + PIN, mobile tap and QR-payments over WiFi/LTE, marking a major step in bringing crypto payments into physical retail.

However, price action is now approaching the bottom support zone, where previous reversals have started, signaling that a potential accumulation phase could be underway.
If IMX manages to hold around the $0.37–$0.39 area, we could see a strong rebound toward $0.47 first, and eventually $0.81–$0.90 if momentum continues.
This setup looks like it’s preparing for a rounded bottom reversal, where one strong breakout above the upper trendline could flip market sentiment completely bullish.

The government of Kazakhstan is set to establish a national crypto-asset reserve fund valued between $500 million and $1 billion, funded primarily by confiscated overseas assets and investments from regulated crypto-mining operations.

The fund is expected to become operational by early 2026 and will initially invest in ETFs and shares of crypto-related companies, rather than direct token holdings—a cautious but notable step for a sovereign reserve.