Author: Benjamin Lee
The team behind President Donald Trump’s crypto operations is on an aggressive accumulation spree of crypto assets before and during the 2025 inauguration ceremony. According to blockchain intelligence and “de-anonymizing” platform Arkham, World Liberty Financial (WLFI) – the Trump family’s crypto project – bought over $50 million worth of cryptocurrencies in the hours leading up to the new President being sworn in. Trump’s purchases include blockchain oracle service Chainlink (LINK), lending platform Aave, Justin Sun’s TRON (TRX), synthetic dollar protocol Ethena (ENA), top smart contract Ethereum (ETH) and the Ethereum-based Bitcoin Wrapped BTC (WBTC). “TRUMP’S WORLD LIBERTY FI BUYING $50M+…
Top US-based crypto exchange platform Coinbase has added President Donald Trump’s official memecoin to its listing roadmap. In a post on the social media platform X, Coinbase announces the addition of Official Trump (TRUMP) – which launched late last week – to its roadmap. Being added to Coinbase’s listing roadmap means that the crypto exchange is considering supporting the asset in the future. Coinbase uses the listing roadmap to prevent insider trading and the front-running of tokens prior to them being listed. TRUMP is trading around $58.45 after a parabolic run-up since launch. According to data from CoinGecko, TRUMP’s fully…
Prominent crypto analytics platform Santiment is alerting that several altcoins may be flashing a bearish signal. In a post on the social media platform X, Santiment says that some altcoins – including Sam Altman’s digital identification platform Worldcoin (WLD) and memecoin SPX6900 (SPX) – are being sent to exchanges in relatively large volumes. Generally speaking, coins being sent to exchanges is bearish since it implies more of the supply is available to be sold off on the open market. Other coins flashing the bearish signal include the governance token of the cloud-based blockchain platform Onyxcoin(XCN), the native asset of the…
A widely followed trader who nailed the crypto bull market top in 2022 believes the altcoin market is gearing up to spark an upside burst. Pseudonymous analyst Pentoshi tells his 843,900 followers on the social media platform X that he’s keeping a close watch on the OTHERS chart, which tracks the market cap of all crypto excluding the 10 largest coins and stablecoins. According to Pentoshi, OTHERS is flashing a bullish continuation signal as it threatens to take out its final resistance at around $500 billion. “Say what you will, but alts look great as a whole here. Bull flag/consolidation…
Venture capitalist Chris Burniske believes crypto is about to enter uncharted territory as the United States welcomes a second Donald Trump presidency. Burniske tells his 317,600 followers on the social media platform X that he thinks Bitcoin’s (BTC) four-year cycle may witness an abrupt end with the installment of a pro-crypto US government. BTC’s four-year cycle is based on halving events when Bitcoin miner rewards are slashed in half every four years. In the past, halvings have correlated with parabolic rallies for Bitcoin as the reduction in new BTC emissions created an imbalance between supply and demand. Says Burniske, “Continue…
A relatively new Ethereum (ETH) layer-2 scaling solution has soared to the top of Santiment’s rankings of ERC-20 coins in terms of recent development activity. The crypto analytics firm notes that Starknet (STRK) clocked 401.97 notable GitHub events over the past 30 days. Starknet is a decentralized validity rollup, otherwise known as a zero-knowledge (ZK) roll-up. Rollups are solutions that execute transactions outside of Ethereum’s blockchain but record the transactional data. The project launched its token last February. STRK is trading at $0.455 at time of writing. The 119th-ranked crypto asset by market cap is up more than 7% in…
A closely followed crypto strategist and trader thinks one Ethereum (ETH) competitor is gearing up for a breakout. Pseudonymous analyst Inmortal tells his 223,100 followers on the social media platform X that Solana (SOL) may be forming a bullish pattern on the daily chart and could surge more than 18% from its current value. “If you ask me, SOL is starting to look good again. Only thing we need now is a higher high [price] to confirm a break in MS (market structure.)” Source: Inmortal/X Looking at his chart, the trader suggests SOL will surge to $240 and retrace to…
A widely followed analyst and trader is leaning bullish on a top-30 altcoin by market cap while outlining the path forward for three other crypto assets. The analyst pseudonymously known as Sherpa tells his 239,700 followers on the social media platform X that the utility token of the decentralized open financial system, Hyperliquid (HYPE), is likely to surge by at least 116% from the current level before the end of this cycle. “…I still think HYPE is a great project and will go to $50+ later this cycle. It just hits too many narratives and I have a bag of…
Cryptocurrency trader and analyst Ali Martinez believes Ethereum (ETH) could have a massive breakout due to one key factor. Martinez tells his 114,500 followers on the social media platform X that crypto whales are loading up on Ethereum, adding buying pressure that could cause the altcoin to increase more than 100% above its current value. The analyst says that on-chain data is shows whales made more than $1 billion in total ETH purchases in the past seven days alone. “Whales have accumulated over 330,000 Ethereum in the past week, valued at more than $1 billion!” Source: Ali Martinez/X The analyst…
A widely followed cryptocurrency analyst and trader is leaning bullish on Bitcoin (BTC). The analyst and trader pseudonymously known as Bluntz tells his 309,200 followers on the social media platform X that Bitcoin has witnessed “savage price action” after falling to around $89,200 and then quickly recovering. According to the analyst, Bitcoin is primed to rally by at least 17% from the current level. “Take the lows, make everyone capitulate and then up only with no dips forcing sidelined traders and investors to chase price higher. This next leg up should be the one that takes us to $120,000+ in…