Big news around XRP and the wider crypto market.
XRP is up and holders are feeling confident. Momentum is picking up, sentiment is improving, and bigger traders are watching closely.
When XRP starts moving, altcoins often react too. Here’s why it matters:
XRP can move before the rest of the altcoin market
Money can rotate into other coins after
Retail traders jump in quickly
Volatility usually increases
Main question: is this the start of a real breakout, or a quick move before a pullback?
Either way, the market is waking up. Are you already in, or still waiting?
Comment: 🚀 Ready to move
⚠️ Waiting for confirmation
#xrp $XRP
X to launch Smart Cashtags for stocks and crypto within weeks
X head of product Nikita Bier said Smart Cashtags will roll out in the coming weeks, enabling users to view stock and crypto data directly from their timeline.
The feature will support near real-time pricing for onchain assets, including smaller-cap tokens, and expands the current $TICKER tagging system by letting users link specific assets or smart contract addresses. Tapping a cashtag will show live price charts, related posts, and trading links. The platform clarified it will not execute trades or act as a brokerage.
Bier also said new enforcement measures are coming to curb crypto-related spam, bot activity, and harassment-driven engagement apps across the platform.
Smart Cashtags are part of X’s broader financial push, alongside its X Money wallet initiative and payments partnership with Visa, backed by owner Elon Musk.
$FOGO Well, I spent some time today looking at the chain from an ops and reliability angle, and the discipline stands out.
No incident flags in the last 24h, no halts, exploit alerts, or emergency rollbacks. Just steady uptime.
Recent upgrades appear focused on validator behavior and network health: tightening configs, improving peer communication, and hardening stability so performance doesn’t come at the cost of fragility.
That kind of work rarely trends, but it’s what keeps a network dependable under real load.
I respect L1 teams that prioritize operational efficiency over noise.
#fogo @fogo $FOGO
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AUSDT Surges 2.75% After Withdrawal Feature Launch and Gold-Backed Stablecoin Coverage Boosts Activity
AUSDT's price increased by 2.75% over the past 24 hours, rising from 0.0873 to 0.0897 according to Binance data. This price change can be attributed to the recent enabling of AUSDT withdrawal features, which has improved user liquidity and accessibility. Additionally, news coverage of AUSDT as Tether's gold-backed stablecoin, alongside discussions about stablecoin market growth and regulatory support, has likely contributed to heightened interest and trading activity. Current market metrics indicate a 24-hour trading volume of approximately $51,760, with slight price fluctuations and a circulating supply of 50 million AUSDT. The asset has seen a modest weekly price increase and remains actively traded on both centralized and decentralized platforms.
Benchmark cuts COIN price target to $267, keeps buy rating
Mark Palmer of Benchmark lowered his price target for Coinbase shares to $267 from $421, citing worsening crypto market conditions, while reiterating a buy rating.
He reduced his full-year 2026 EPS estimate by 21% to $5.34, with first-half projections coming in well below Wall Street consensus. The revision followed Coinbase’s weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter results, where both revenue and earnings missed estimates and the company posted a GAAP net loss due largely to unrealized crypto portfolio losses and strategic investment write-downs.
Despite the cuts, Palmer said the quarter showed a more diversified business mix. Institutional trading revenue rose sharply, supported by contributions from Deribit, while stablecoin revenue increased and average USDC balances reached a record high. Subscription and services revenue accounted for about 43% of net revenue in the quarter.
Management, led by CEO Brian Armstrong, highlighted derivatives, stablecoins, equities trading, and prediction markets as key growth drivers going forward. The company ended the year with $11.3 billion in cash and expanded its share buyback authorization.
Most influencers on CT are just permabull price cheerleaders.
Nothing wrong with that as over the long term, bears sound smart and bulls make money.
But there is a difference between a price cheerleader and someone trying to manage risk in the markets.
Price cheerleaders are always bullish, will always tell you to buy the dip, and will mock anyone who ever considers downside.
Big money coming into the market always has to consider downside risks, even if it’s not the popular thing to talk about.
Just learn to distinguish between people trying to provide insights into the market, and price cheerleaders.
Morpho signs cooperation deal with Apollo
Morpho Association has announced a cooperation agreement with affiliates of Apollo Global Management to support the growth of onchain lending markets built on the Morpho protocol.
Under the agreement, Apollo or its affiliates may acquire MORPHO tokens through a mix of open-market purchases, OTC trades, and other contractual arrangements. The total ownership is capped at 90 million MORPHO tokens over a 48-month period, with transfer and trading restrictions applied.
Both sides will work together to strengthen onchain lending activity and liquidity across the Morpho ecosystem, including curator-managed vaults.
Galaxy Digital UK Limited acted as exclusive financial adviser to Morpho.
Morpho is an open network for onchain lending, providing infrastructure for lending markets and vaults governed by MORPHO token holders.
Back at the 2019 bear market bottom, confidence in altcoins was basically nonexistent.
Then in 2022, when $SOL was sitting around $8, very few people had the conviction to step in.
Not every altcoin makes a comeback, but historically, these low-confidence periods have often been the best times to start allocating capital to the space.
#MarketRebound
If you bought $100 of Bitcoin every Valentine’s Day from 2009 to 2026
You have invested: $1,800 in total
This is what each individual $100 buy is worth today
2009 → $6,900,000,000
2010 → $69,000,000
2011 → $6,800,000
2012 → $1,360,000
2013 → $262,000
2014 → $10,700
2015 → $26,400
2016 → $16,700
2017 → $6,800
2018 → $714
2019 → $1,877
2020 → $659
2021 → $139
2022 → $160
2023 → $308
2024 → $131
2025 → $71
2026 → $100
Together this would be ~$6,977,487,659
stop buying flowers, start buying BTC