Kalshi’s market-tracking betting odds of government shutdown in 2026 have dropped 33 points overnight to just 4% on September 1. The move came even as Senate negotiators said they were making progress toward a stopgap funding deal. For Bitcoin and crypto readers, the market provides a snapshot of uncertainty around the funding deadline. It does …
In Goldman Sachs crypto news, the financial institution maintained buy ratings on Coinbase Global and Robinhood Markets on August 25, raising its Coinbase price target to $196 from $173 and setting a new $124 target on Robinhood, according to a report by analyst James Yaro. The call landed as Bitcoin ripped roughly 26% higher over …
In Bitcoin ETF news, Ethereum Staking products are drawing significant attention away from BTC, having become an important feature in crypto exchange-traded products that allow investors to seek blockchain rewards through a brokerage account rather than managing the process directly. 21Shares describes staking as locking up an amount of an asset to verify transactions on …
XRP Ripple on-chain activity jumped sharply in August, while the token sits near $1.43, up +42% over the past seven days, according to CoinGecko data. Average daily active addresses on the XRP Ledger rose +35% month over month to roughly 35,700, up from about 26,400 in July, while new-address creation barely moved at all. This …
Ripple Prime closed an upsized $275 million private placement of senior unsecured notes, with Piper Sandler acting as lead placement agent. It is reported that there is no documented pledge of escrowed XRP or any explicit XRP-linked guarantee sitting behind these notes, despite Ripple’s XRP treasury being central to how rating agency KBRA framed the credit. …
Cardano would need to more than triple from here just to get back to where it traded last autumn. A Meta AI price prediction says that round trip is on the table, and the model predicts $0.68 as its base case for the end of 2026. The wider range runs $0.55 to $0.85. Everything depends …
In XRP news today, Ripple has agreed to buy back $750M in shares from employees and early investors, a deal that values the privately held company at roughly $50Bn, up from about $40Bn in November 2025. That makes Ripple worth nearly twice as much as stablecoin issuer Circle, even as the XRP token trades roughly …
Hyperliquid native HYPE token jumped from around $62 to as high as $72 today in a move of more than 20%. It was all happening after President Donald Trump said regulators were working on a compliant U.S. pathway for the decentralized exchange. But the price action wasn’t the only signal worth watching as options trading …
Solana spent years being defined by memecoin volume, and $3.73B in tokenized real-world assets is starting to change that label. ChatGPT AI predicts that the shift carries price higher, and the price prediction targets $150 to $190 by the end of 2026, with $165 as a realistic base case. Alpenglow is the strongest catalyst. Its …
Ripple has partnered with Jeonbuk Bank to deploy Ripple Payments for cross-border business remittances. This is making the lender the first regional bank in South Korea to adopt the service. Ripple also stated that the deal is its third Korean partnership this year, following agreements with KBank and Kyobo Life Insurance. The service is intended …
