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XRP a atins 1,53 USD pe 4 februarie și a fost tranzacționat aproape de 1,60 USD, păstrând nivelul de 1 USD în centrul atenției, deoarece prețul rămâne departe de maximul de 3,65 USD din iulie 2025.
Cu toate acestea, TVL XRPL este de 54,6 milioane USD și a scăzut cu 32% de la începutul lunii ianuarie, în timp ce fluxurile ETF XRP din luna trecută s-au redus la 15,59 milioane USD.
XRP și-a extins declinul săptămânal pe 4 februarie, scăzând la 1,53 USD înainte de a reveni la aproximativ 1,60 USD. Acțiunea prețului a marcat o scădere de peste 15% în șapte zile și a avut altcoin-ul tranzacționându-se mult sub vârful său din iulie 2025 de 3,65 USD.

Poziționarea derivatelor a jucat de asemenea un rol în cădere. Pozițiile lungi cu efect de levier au fost eliminate pe măsură ce prețurile au scăzut, accelerând declinul. În ultimele 24 de ore, au avut loc lichidări lungi de peste 528 de milioane USD pe piețele cripto și aproape 6,65 milioane USD în lichidări lungi de XRP.

A crucial amendment that was expected to delay passage of the CLARITY Act, also known as the crypto market structure bill, could be scrapped ahead of a vital committee vote this week, potentially simplifying the bill’s path forward.
Senate Crypto Bill Clears Key Hurdle
According to a report by Politico, Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas has agreed not to offer a proposed amendment targeting credit card swipe fees during the Senate Agriculture Committee’s markup of the crypto legislation, scheduled for Thursday, January 29. 
Three people familiar with the private discussions said the decision was made over the weekend and could help secure broader backing for the bill from the cryptocurrency industry.
Marshall had filed the amendment just last week, seeking to force payment networks to compete on credit card swipe fees. The proposal closely mirrors the long‑running Credit Card Competition Act, which Marshall has championed for years alongside Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois. 
However, in private conversations on Saturday, Marshall reportedly agreed not to bring the amendment forward during the markup, according to those with knowledge of the matter.
Marshall’s swipe‑fee amendment, which is also supported by Durbin and Senator Peter Welch of Vermont, was widely seen as a potential obstacle. Some Republicans who are inclined to support the crypto bill oppose the credit card provision, which would place major financial institutions in direct conflict with large retailers.
Durbin is not currently expected to introduce the amendment himself during the markup, according to a person familiar with the situation, although a final decision has not been confirmed.
Amendments Still Loom
The issue has reportedly drawn attention from the White House as well. Several people with insight into internal deliberations said administration officials became involved out of concern that the swipe‑fee amendment could derail the legislation. 
One person described the amendment as something that would have “jeopardized” the bill’s passage, at a time when the White House is pushing for the measure to advance out of committee.
While the Marshall amendment may be off the table, other changes could still emerge. Journalist Eleanor Terrett noted on X (previously Twitter) that several amendments remain under consideration. 
These include proposed ethics rules for US officials, a requirement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) maintain at least four sitting commissioners following consultation with the minority party, anti‑fraud measures targeting crypto ATMs, and limits on participation by foreign adversaries in crypto markets.
Despite two additional weeks of bipartisan negotiations—negotiations that already delayed an earlier planned markup from January 15—the bill remains sharply divided along party lines. So far, only Republican members of the Senate Agriculture Committee have publicly expressed support for the legislation.
Nonetheless, the committee’s latest draft, posted on Wednesday, January 21, has received a positive response from the broader crypto industry. Industry participants have praised the text for providing explicit protections for noncustodial software developers and blockchain infrastructure providers. 
The bill is seen as narrowly targeting intermediaries, rather than protocols or end users, a distinction many in the sector consider essential for maintaining innovation.
The draft also excludes provisions that would regulate stablecoin yields, a decision viewed as particularly significant following Coinbase’s recent withdrawal of support for the Senate Banking Committee’s version of the legislation. 
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Chainlink Labs has joined the Global Alliance for KRW Stablecoin to expand the adoption of stablecoins backed by the Korean won.Chainlink will enable the Alliance to establish global standards and deploy digital assets for institutional use cases.
Chainlink Labs has joined a South Korean industry organization dedicated to promoting the adoption of stablecoins backed by the Korean won. Known as the Global Alliance for KRW Stablecoin (GAKS), the organization was launched last year and pushes for the real-world adoption of KRW stablecoins, including working with regulators to lobby for friendly regulations.
Chainlink Labs is now the newest member of the Alliance, which includes other heavyweights like blockchain security leaders CertiK and Chainalysis. It was founded by WeMade, a Korean game developer whose platforms boast over 600 million users across gaming, blockchain protocols and payments systems.
Chainlink Labs has joined the Global Alliance for KRW Stablecoins (GAKS) led by WEMADE, a 600M+ user platform.https://t.co/PdTxmFvSbjThe alliance is advancing stablecoin standards in Korea by leveraging Chainlink’s data, interoperability, compliance, & privacy standards. pic.twitter.com/QPTuTH4mEo— Chainlink (@chainlink) January 27, 2026
WeMade Vice President, Kim Seok-hwan, commented:
Chainlink’s participation marks a significant milestone for GAKS in securing global-level technical excellence and trust. Through close collaboration with Chainlink, we will continue to build a sound KRW stablecoin ecosystem.
Stablecoins have become a vital part of Korea’s vibrant digital asset ecosystem. As reported by CNF, Avalanche partnered with Woori Bank last year to pilot the KRW1 stablecoin, Korea’s first won-backed token. Unlike in many other countries, commercial banks have taken an interest in stablecoins in Korea and continue to be highly involved, as detailed by CNF.
🔸Chainlink to Power Korea’s Stablecoin Rise
According to WeMade, GAKS will rely on Chainlink’s infrastructure to establish global standards for Korean won-backed stablecoins. The Alliance has been promoting these stablecoins as global tokens and not just local solutions as it seeks to offer competition for USD-backed rivals, which have dominated by up to 99%.
Chainlink’s oracle network will also be used to ensure that KRW stablecoins maintain data integrity and market stability.
“Through the strategic alliance with WEMADE, Chainlink is providing industry expertise and key opportunities for GAKS members to leverage the Chainlink platform as they continue to develop stablecoin and tokenized asset initiatives in the Korean and APAC region,” commented Johann Eid, the chief business officer at Chainlink Labs.
GAKS believes that Chainlink will accelerate global trust in KRW stablecoins. The oracle network is now the world’s largest and has been integrated into every other network as a bridge between onchain records and real-world data.
As reported by CNF, Chainlink announced partnerships with 3 services across 8 different blockchains this week, including BitMEX and QuickSwap. It has now enabled over $27 trillion in total transaction value and transmitted 19 billion messages, and targets bringing over $867 trillion worth of global finance onchain, as CNF detailed.
LINK trades at $11.95, gaining 1% in the past day, despite the trading volume dropping by 36% to settle at $306 million.
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Lansările Stellar SCF Growth Hack Cohort 1 pentru a ajuta echipele mainnet Stellar să desfășoare strategii de piață și achiziție de utilizatori pentru adoptarea în lumea reală.

Cohortul include plăți stabile, cross-chain și proiecte Soroban ZK-ready, pe măsură ce rețeaua desfășoară upgrade-ul Protocol 25 X-Ray.
Stellar a lansat Stellar Community Fund Growth Hack Cohort 1, un program destinat ajutării companiilor deja desfășurate pe mainnet să își întărească execuția pe piață și să atingă potrivirea produs-piață. Inițiativa se concentrează pe campanii de achiziție a utilizatorilor și este poziționată ca o pistă de suport pentru echipele care construiesc aplicații destinate consumatorilor și afacerilor care utilizează stablecoins și plăți bazate pe blockchain.

Retail traders aren’t just bouncing between memecoins and AI tokens anymore. They’re stepping outside the crypto casino entirely and drifting back toward something ancient, heavy, and famously analog: precious metals.
Over the past few weeks, online chatter has shifted noticeably away from Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the usual speculative darlings and toward silver — with gold riding shotgun. Social sentiment data shows that on many days, precious metals are now generating more hype than crypto itself. That’s a meaningful shift in a market where attention is often the most valuable currency of all.
This isn’t just a trend. It’s a reversion to a narrative that predates crypto by thousands of years: when people start worrying about the value of money, they reach for assets that feel “real.”

The chart from Santiment visualizes this rotation in real time. Social media mentions of crypto, gold, and silver are plotted against Bitcoin’s price, and the pattern is almost painfully on-the-nose. As Bitcoin peaks and begins to slide, gold-related chatter surges — a classic “risk-off” reflex. When Bitcoin traders attempt to buy the dip, crypto mentions briefly spike again, only to fade as the price fails to recover. That’s when silver takes over the spotlight, with social volume exploding just as silver prices push into new highs. The image effectively maps retail psychology: attention migrates from speculative assets to perceived safety, then back to higher-volatility plays, all driven less by fundamentals and more by momentum, price action, and crowd behavior.
The Eternal Fear: Currency Debasement
Gold and silver don’t rally in a vacuum. They tend to move when confidence in fiat currencies starts to wobble.
For years, the dominant retail narrative was that Bitcoin was the debasement hedge — digital gold for a world drowning in money printing, government debt, and financial repression. That story hasn’t disappeared, but it’s been diluted by a thousand side quests: NFTs, memecoins, yield farming, AI tokens, and speculative mania that made crypto feel less like a macro hedge and more like a hyperactive tech stock sector with memes.
Precious metals, by contrast, are boring in the most reassuring way possible. No founders, no tokenomics, no Discord servers, no rug pulls. Just scarcity, physicality, and a track record that stretches back through empires, currency collapses, and financial crises.
When inflation fears resurface, interest rate policy looks unstable, or geopolitical risk creeps back into headlines, retail traders often rediscover the “hard money” trade — and silver tends to be the gateway drug. It’s cheaper per ounce than gold, feels more accessible, and carries a kind of populist appeal as “the people’s metal.”
Why Silver, Not Just Gold?
Gold is the institutional hedge. Central banks buy it. Sovereign wealth funds hoard it. It sits quietly in vaults as a symbol of monetary credibility.
Silver is the retail trader’s metal. It has a speculative edge, bigger percentage swings, and a strong narrative tied to industrial demand — solar panels, electronics, batteries, and the broader electrification of the global economy. That gives it a dual identity: part inflation hedge, part green-tech commodity.
For traders raised on crypto volatility, silver feels familiar. It moves. It spikes. It crashes. It trends on social media. And when it breaks out, it pulls in the same kind of momentum crowd that used to chase altcoin pumps.
The Attention Economy at Work
This rotation isn’t necessarily about deep conviction. It’s about where the action is.
Retail traders, by nature, follow momentum — not just in price, but in narrative. When Bitcoin goes quiet or grinds sideways, attention drifts. When silver starts ripping and headlines start flying about shortages, industrial demand, or “the next big macro trade,” the crowd pivots.
What’s different this time is that the pivot is crossing asset classes. This isn’t just crypto money rotating into another token sector. It’s speculative energy flowing into commodities, equities, and traditional macro trades — the same playgrounds that used to feel “too slow” for the TikTok generation of traders.
That alone says something about the current market mood: people are starting to think less about 100x moonshots and more about protecting purchasing power.
The Dangerous Part: Hype as a Contrarian Signal
There’s an uncomfortable truth about retail attention — it usually arrives late.
When social chatter explodes around an asset, it often means the easy gains have already been made. Hype tends to peak near local tops, not at the quiet accumulation phase. That’s as true for silver as it is for dog-themed cryptocurrencies.
The sudden surge in precious metals discourse could be a sign of genuine macro anxiety — or it could be another short-term speculative wave chasing the last candle of a rally. The line between “hedging against systemic risk” and “FOMO with a different aesthetic” is thinner than most traders like to admit.
Crypto vs. Metals: Same Fear, Different Skin
At a deeper level, this isn’t a battle between Bitcoin and silver. It’s the same trade expressed in different languages.
Both camps are responding to the same underlying concern: the long-term credibility of fiat money in a world of ballooning government debt, persistent inflation pressure, and financial systems that feel increasingly engineered rather than organic.
Crypto wraps that fear in software, decentralization, and ideology. Precious metals wrap it in weight, history, and physical scarcity. Retail traders are simply oscillating between two versions of the same instinct — to step outside the system, even temporarily.
The Bigger Signal
If this rotation sticks, it may hint at something broader than a short-term trade. It suggests retail investors are starting to think in macro terms again — not just narratives, memes, and momentum, but inflation, central banks, and currency stability.
That’s a more serious mindset. And ironically, it’s the same mindset that originally fueled Bitcoin’s rise in the first place.
The difference now? Crypto isn’t the only “escape hatch” in town anymore. When the fear trade heats up, the crowd is remembering that before there were blockchains and wallets, there were coins you could actually hold in your hand.
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Ethereum ar putea fi reevaluat la 15.000 USD în 2026, pe măsură ce finanțele tradiționale accelerează în direcția tokenizării, stablecoinurilor și blockchainurilor Layer 2 personalizate construite pe Ethereum, conform lui Vivek Raman, CEO și cofondator al Etherealize.
Într-un articol invitat de 5 ianuarie, Raman a prezentat 2026 ca punctul în care ETH trece de la o perioadă de construire a credibilității de un deceniu la o eră de implementare comercială, argumentând că „începând cu 2026 – Ethereum va deveni cel mai bun loc pentru afaceri”, deoarece poziția regulatoare, precedentul instituțional și maturitatea infrastructurii se întâlnesc.

Prețul Solana arată semne timpurii de inversare a tendinței după ce a rupt o tendință descendentă pe mai multe luni, cu analiștii observând o creștere puternică pe lanț și o posibilă recuperare a rezistenței de 160 $.
Prețul Solana arată semne timpurii de îmbunătățire structurală după ce a ieșit dintr-o tendință descendentă pe mai multe luni, cu prețul acum tranzacționându-se în apropierea regiunii 134 $–135 $. Această mișcare a atras o atenție reînnoită din partea traderilor, deoarece atât structura tehnică, cât și activitatea pe lanț încep să se alinieze mai constructiv.
Această schimbare de moment vine în contextul în care piețele cripto mai larg rămân într-un interval, punând un accent mai mare pe activele individuale care arată forță relativă. Pentru Solana, combinația de ruperea liniilor de tendință, îmbunătățirea indicatorilor de moment și creșterea volumelor pe lanț conturează o perspectivă pe termen scurt mai optimistă.

PEPE conduce discuțiile de weekend cu creșteri de preț și impuls de retail pe principalele platforme sociale.
BTC și ETH rămân în centrul atenției pe măsură ce activitatea instituțională, fluxurile ETF și nivelurile tehnice cheie alimentează discuțiile.
Pe măsură ce piețele cripto parcurg weekendul, Pepe (PEPE), Bitcoin (BTC) și Ethereum (ETH) înregistrează cea mai mare activitate pe X, Telegram și Reddit.

Creșterea atenției pentru PEPE a rezultat din raliul său remarcabil, cu o creștere de 19,72% în ultimele 24 de ore și un profit de 51,2% în ultimele șapte zile. Această tendință ascendentă, combinată cu o volatilitate accentuată, creșterea volumului de tranzacționare și comparări cu raliile anterioare ale memecoinurilor implicate DOGE, SHIB, BONK și FLOKI, a făcut din PEPE una dintre cele mai trenduri criptomonede

Atacul american asupra Venezuelei reprezintă evenimentul principal cel mai important din noul an până acum. În mai multe dezvoltări legate de acest incident, reprezentantul Ritchie Torres ar fi în curs de a introduce un proiect de lege care vizează tranzacțiile interne în piețele de predicție, în contextul în care tranzactorii au realizat profituri mari pe baza predicțiilor privind capturarea președintelui Nicolás Maduro.
Presiunea pentru integritate în piețele de predicție
În data de 3 ianuarie, președintele american Donald a anunțat o misiune militară reușită în Venezuela, care a dus la capturarea președintelui Maduro și a soției sale, Cilia Flores. Administrația condusă de republicani din Washington acuză pe Maduro și soția sa că au condus o "organizație narco-teroristă", iar amândoi au fost aduși în fața instanței pentru a fi judecați pentru trafic de droguri în New York.