A new study by the Bitcoin Policy Institute shows that frontier AI models overwhelmingly prefer digitally-native monetary instruments, with Bitcoin emerging as the dominant choice. Researchers conducted 9,072 controlled experiments across 36 models from five leading providers, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, and DeepSeek. The experiments tested AI agents’ preferences in scenarios involving transactions, store of value, unit of account, and settlement, offering a first-of-its-kind look at how AI approaches monetary decision-making when given full autonomy. The study presented each model with monetary decisions without any prior context or suggestion toward a specific currency. Across all experiments, 48.3% of responses…
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The total open interest (OI) for XRP futures across major crypto exchanges has plunged 70% from its peak five months ago, settling at $203 million on March 3, 2026. The sharp drop in unsettled contracts mirrors levels seen in April 2025, a period that immediately preceded a significant price rally for the digital asset, raising questions about whether the market is once again flushing out excess leverage. Open Interest Collapse Mirrors April 2025 Setup Data compiled by market analyst Amr Taha shows that XRP’s aggregate open interest has cratered from $660 million in October 2025 to just $203 million today.…
A technical analyst known as ‘V’ has shared a striking Elliott Wave Theory-based Bitcoin price outlook on X that he believes most market participants are completely overlooking. The chart, plotted on Bitcoin’s weekly timeframe, outlines a multi-year roadmap that could first subject the cryptocurrency to significant downside pressure, potentially triggering a price crash to $40,000 before setting the stage for an explosive rally that could shock investors and traders. Elliott Wave Pattern Points to $40,000 Bitcoin Price Dip V’s analysis on X begins by identifying a completed five-wave structure that carried Bitcoin from its 2022 lows to an early 2025…
American Bitcoin Corp. has announced a major expansion of its Bitcoin mining operations, adding 11,298 new miners that will increase the company’s total owned capacity by roughly 3.05 exahash per second (EH/s). This move raises the company’s total mining fleet to approximately 28.1 EH/s across 89,242 miners, with an average efficiency of 16 joules per terahash (J/TH). The new machines, operating at ~13.5 J/TH, are expected to be delivered and deployed at the Drumheller site in March 2026, the company said. Once energized, the operational fleet will consist of 58,999 miners running at an estimated 25 EH/s with an efficiency…
The sharp increase in XRP flowing to Binance hints that the price may head south in the near term. Ripple continues to draw attention due to important developments concerning its entire ecosystem. The company’s native token, XRP, has posted a minor recovery over the past week, but some indicators suggest a renewed downfall could be knocking on the door. Ripple & Hidden Road The firm made the headlines in April last year when it announced it would purchase the brokerage platform Hidden Road for a whopping $1.25 billion. The official conclusion of the deal occurred in October 2025. Some…
Bitcoin has returned to an extreme technical zone that has historically marked major cycle bottoms for the BTC price. According to crypto analyst @DurdenBTC, the Harmonic Oscillator has now printed its lowest possible reading, a level that previously preceded outsized one-year gains. The signal raises a direct question: Does history imply that Bitcoin is positioned to double from here? Bitcoin Harmonic Oscillator Signals BTC Price Could More Than Double A chart shared by the analyst highlights a striking signal for Bitcoin, showing the Harmonic Oscillator at -100, the lowest point on its long-term decaying price range, which spans from -100…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Historically, the Ethereum price has been very bullish for the first quarter of the year, with a few exceptions, and the month of March has been no different from the first two months of the year. Therefore, as the market ushers in another month of March, this report takes a look at the performance of Ethereum this month, and if this historical performance can point out where the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap could be headed. Ethereum Is Ushering In A Bullish Month, But There’s A ‘But’…
One of the project’s co-founders weighed in on perhaps the hottest and most controversial part of Pi Network. Although it has been around for over half a decade in one form or another, and its Open Network was officially released over a year ago, Pi Network continues to be the center of tons of controversy related to its KYC procedures, as users are quite vocal about their failed migration processes. Now, though, Dr. Nicolas Kokkalis, one of the project’s co-founders, spoke about some key details, including what could be next for Pi. Pi’s KYC System The exec began by…
Institutional investors just bought an overall total of $1 billion in Bitcoin and crypto assets in one week, according to a new update from Coinshares. The inflows mark a reversal from a five-week streak of outflows totaling $4 billion. Bitcoin dominated the buying, drawing $881 million. Ethereum followed with $117 million in inflows, marking its strongest week since mid-January. Among altcoins, Solana led with $53.8 million. The rebound was broad-based geographically. The US accounted for the bulk at $957 million, Canada saw $34.1 million, Germany $31.7 million and Switzerland $28.4 million. CoinShares attributes the shift to recent price weakness and…
Versan Aljarrah of Black Swan Capitalist is making a broader case for XRP than the usual market-cycle prediction. In a X post titled How XRP Becomes a Global Reserve Asset, he argues that XRP’s long-term role is not limited to payments or bridge liquidity, but could extend to becoming a neutral settlement layer inside a digitized global financial system. Aljarrah’s central point is that the XRP debate has been trapped in the wrong frame. “The conversation around XRP is usually clouded by speculation and price predictions,” he wrote. “But beneath all the noise lies a far more fascinating story, one…