Core retail spending, the largest contributor to U.S. GDP, dropped by −0.1% in December, marking its slowest pace in eight months.
Expenditures fell across sectors such as clothing, furniture, electronics, and auto dealerships during the holiday period, while only a few areas, including building materials and sporting goods, recorded gains.
Households with lower incomes are cutting back the most as budgets tighten and essential expenses claim a larger portion of their spending.$BTC
Wage growth decelerated to roughly 0.7% in Q4, the slowest increase since 2021. Since retail activity feeds directly into GDP calculations, this decline points to weakening consumer demand and a slowdown in economic growth.
🚀 $ASTER
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is showing strong momentum Up over 7% in the last 24 hours, pushing past $0.65 with strong volume surging to $348M.
After a solid week of gains (nearly 9% up), buybacks are kicking in, CZ's backing is fueling the hype, and whales are stacking hard for February pumps. This Perp DEX gem is primed for takeoff.
Don't sleep on this, stack while you still can
$TWT
That silence before the storm feels like the market pretending everything’s fine… then TWT dumps and the mood shifts instantly. TWT at $0.4916 with -7.75% is a clean shakeout move — the kind that either becomes a springboard or becomes the first crack in structure.
I’m watching: volume (does it spike on the sell-off?), dominance (is money hiding in BTC/stables?), and whale behavior (do bids step in and defend a zone, or do they let it slide?). If you see quick wick recoveries near support, that’s often the market telling you “someone bigger is buying.”
What I’m watching next: a hold in support, then a reclaim and grind — the best reversals build, they don’t just bounce once.
• Support zone: $0.4572 – $0.4719
• EP: $0.4646
• TP: $0.4916 / $0.5309 / $0.5801
• SL: $0.4480
I’m ready for the move —
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$SOLV
The silence before the storm is when people stop paying attention — and that’s exactly when the market loves to strike. SOLV at $0.004620 and -7.97% is a warning shot: liquidity is being tested, and only strong structure survives.
I want the data to tell the truth: is volume rising into the sell, then cooling (flush), or staying heavy (more downside)? If dominance is rotating back into BTC/stables, SOLV bounces can be quick but fragile. Whale activity shows up as absorption — price keeps dipping into a zone, but it refuses to break.
What I’m watching next: SOLV stabilizing in support and reclaiming — a bounce with follow-through, not a dead-cat hop.
• Support zone: $0.004297 – $0.004435
• EP: $0.004366
• TP: $0.004620 / $0.004990 / $0.005452
• SL: $0.004211
I’m ready for the move —
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$PIPPIN delivered — trade closed Fam,
I shared the levels two days ago.
Price reacted perfectly from $0.24 and exploded straight into $0.40 — a clean +35% move.
Target hit, Trade closed.
Execution done.
Liquidity did the work, structure respected, and the move played out exactly as planned.
Who caught this one with me? 👀🔥
Drop a "LIKE" and comment if you were in — let’s see who was ready for it.
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$BTC at the range of 69,000$ with $RIVER bangs over 15$ What will be the next moves? Stay tunned for the next Post for the insights!!
There’s something about watching an old craftsman fix broken porcelain with Kintsugi gold that just hits different. It made me realize everyone’s so caught up in the AI arms race, chasing raw intelligence, but nobody talks about the real secret sauce: experience that actually sticks around.
Look at most on-chain AI agents right now. They’re basically stateless workers sure, they’re fast and sometimes impressive, but every time they start a new task, it’s like rebooting from scratch. No memory, no context, nothing carried over. That’s why these things look slick in a demo, but when it comes to real-world finance, they just fall apart.
Vanar’s Neutron API isn’t some miracle. It’s just solid infrastructure for continuity. It gives agents a way to keep a verified history, reuse decisions, and actually get smarter over time instead of tripping over the same mistakes.
That’s the real turning point for 2026: AI grows up. It stops being a shiny toy and becomes actual labor. Labor doesn’t have to wow you it needs to show up, follow the rules, and not screw up.
People look at VANRY’s price and think it’s dead money. But infrastructure always looks boring, right up until everyone realizes they can’t live without it. In the next wave, it won’t be the flashiest or smartest agents that win. It'll be the ones that remember.
@Vanar #Vanar $VANRY
Rebuilding Into the Downturn: How Vanar Uses AI Infrastructure to Withstand the Zeroing Cycle
As the altcoin market bleeds and countless projects cling to hollow narratives, Vanar (formerly Virtua) has taken a different route. Rather than defending the fading metaverse vision, it has fully restructured itself around AI-focused blockchain infrastructure.
At the core of this shift is the V23 protocol, powered by Soroban smart contracts, which dramatically improves execution efficiency while lowering deployment costs—creating an infrastructure-level moat suited for real commercial use. Neutron technology compresses AI datasets by orders of magnitude into on-chain “data seeds,” solving one of blockchain’s most persistent storage constraints. Kayon enables genuine on-chain reasoning, where AI computation is transparent, verifiable, and traceable, addressing the trust deficit surrounding black-box AI systems.
Vanar further strengthens its stack through CUDA integration, granting developers access to high-performance NVIDIA GPU acceleration, while Google Cloud contributes enterprise-grade stability as a network node. These integrations reflect technical validation rather than marketing alignment.
Instead of chasing speculative momentum, Vanar is positioning itself as a foundational operating layer—one where AI applications can execute efficiently, store data securely, and compute with reliability. In a market-wide reshuffling, Vanar’s strategy is to survive by rebuilding at the protocol level, wagering on the long-term convergence of AI and blockchain.
$VANRY #VANRY @Vanar
hello guys
I’ve been quietly watching Plasma for a while, mostly because it’s trying to solve a very unglamorous problem: making stablecoins actually work as financial infrastructure, not just trading instruments.
What stands out is how deliberately the chain is designed around settlement rather than speculation. One concrete example is its approach to gas. Plasma allows stablecoin-first gas payments and supports gasless USDT transfers for simple payments, which removes a real friction point for users who don’t want exposure to volatile native tokens just to move value. That’s not a marketing feature — it’s a design choice aimed at everyday use.
On the protocol side, sub-second finality through its custom BFT consensus reflects the same mindset. Payments don’t benefit much from theoretical decentralization if settlement feels slow or uncertain. Anchoring state to Bitcoin adds another layer of long-term security thinking, even if it introduces complexity.
Plasma feels less like a “next big chain” and more like an attempt to quietly professionalize stablecoin rails. The question is whether this kind of pragmatic design can scale without losing its discipline over time.
@Plasma #Plasma $XPL
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Ripple Launches Enhanced Custody Solution to Accelerate Institutional Adoption of Digital Assets
Ripple announced a series of upgrades to its Ripple Custody platform on February 9, 2026, with a focus on strengthening security, ensuring regulatory compliance, and introducing staking capabilities. Through strategic partnerships with cybersecurity firm Securosys and staking service provider Figment, Ripple aims to streamline operational processes for financial institutions entering the digital asset space.
These developments build upon Ripple’s recent integration with blockchain analytics company Chainalysis and its acquisition of wallet technology provider Palisade, collectively contributing to a more robust and comprehensive ecosystem tailored for institutional users.
$XRP #Ripple