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19 Jan 2026, 13:05
Market Strategist: XRP Is At the Point for Major Price Expansion. Here’s the Signal
Markets rarely announce their biggest moves in advance. They compress, frustrate participants, and diverge from broader trends before resolving with force. Uncertainty is normal in crypto. XRP is in one of those tricky phases where the price is stuck , the market’s noisy, and traders are waiting for a breakout. That tension intensified after STEPH IS CRYPTO shared a technical comparison that drew immediate attention across XRP circles. The strategist highlighted structural similarities between XRP’s current multi-day setup and the positioning of major U.S. equity indices before their post-2022 upside expansions. While traditional markets already completed those moves, XRP has not yet followed, creating a divergence that now anchors the debate. The Technical Parallel Driving the Narrative Steph based his thesis on XRP’s three-day chart, which shows prolonged consolidation near historically significant levels. He compared this structure to the basing phases seen in the NASDAQ, S&P 500, and Dow Jones before those indices transitioned into sustained bullish expansions. In each case, price compressed for extended periods while participation remained muted, only to accelerate sharply once liquidity conditions improved. LOOK AT $XRP This is the same stage where the NASDAQ, S&P 500, and DOW JONES were right before their major upside expansion. Those markets already moved. XRP hasn’t — yet. pic.twitter.com/kNLpH9HpZ8 — STEPH IS CRYPTO (@Steph_iscrypto) January 18, 2026 XRP currently trades near the $2 region as of mid-January 2026. Despite repeated attempts, the asset has failed to deliver a decisive expansion. That delay, according to Steph, mirrors the same “lag phase” equities displayed before repricing higher, leaving XRP with what appears to be unresolved upside potential. Macro Shock and the January Sell-Off The bullish comparison came up before XRP took a hit, dropping to around $1.84 on January 19, 2026. Currently, XRP is trading at $1.98, with a market cap of $124.82 billion. XRP’s price dropped due to renewed fears of tariffs and uncertainty around the Federal Reserve’s next move, putting pressure on risk assets and triggering around $40 million in liquidations across XRP derivatives markets. The decline injected short-term bearish momentum but did not dismantle the broader structural framework. We are on X, follow us to connect with us :- @TimesTabloid1 — TimesTabloid (@TimesTabloid1) June 15, 2025 Market analysts continue to treat the drop as a volatility event rather than a trend failure. Many now focus on the $2.18 level as a key resistance zone. A sustained reclaim of that area would signal recovery and reassert bullish control. Why XRP’s Lag Still Matters XRP’s delayed response stands out, especially after the formal conclusion of the Ripple–SEC case in 2025 removed a major regulatory overhang. While equities and other risk assets already repriced higher, XRP has yet to fully reflect that shift. This lag suggests the price is just stuck, not fundamentally flawed. What the Signal Actually Implies Steph’s comparison does not promise an immediate rally. XRP’s price is compressed and could be due for a breakout. If history offers guidance, such phases often end with expansion rather than stagnation, making the next move critical for defining XRP’s medium-term trajectory. Disclaimer : This content is meant to inform and should not be considered financial advice. The views expressed in this article may include the author’s personal opinions and do not represent Times Tabloid’s opinion. Readers are urged to do in-depth research before making any investment decisions. Any action taken by the reader is strictly at their own risk. Times Tabloid is not responsible for any financial losses. Follow us on Twitter , Facebook , Telegram , and Google News The post Market Strategist: XRP Is At the Point for Major Price Expansion. Here’s the Signal appeared first on Times Tabloid .
19 Jan 2026, 13:00
3-Wave Correction Sets XRP Price On Bearish Course – Another Major Crash Is Coming
XRP’s price action in recent days has taken a softer turn, with the token now trading below $2 after failing to hold recent recovery attempts. That move has changed the near-term momentum back in favor of sellers, especially as price action is printing closes beneath short-term dynamic support on the higher timeframes. A technical analysis shared by CoinsKid on X looks at a broader corrective structure developing on the 5-day chart, one that could place XRP on a more pronounced bearish path if important price levels are not reclaimed. 3-Wave Correction: Structure And Significance Technical analysis of XRP’s price action since mid-2025 shows an interesting corrective sequence that can be described in terms of waves. According to CoinsKid, what appeared to start as a corrective advance into the cluster of moving averages on the 5-day chart has failed to sustain itself once meeting resistance at the marked sell signal, which is shown in the chart image below. Related Reading: Bitcoin Flashes Near-Identical Fractal Before The 2021 Bull Run Started According to CoinsKid’s interpretation of the 5-day candlestick chart, XRP price action appears to be tracing out a three-wave corrective move. The significance of this interpretation lies in its implication that the most recent bounce to $2.4 was not a true shift back to bullish control but a retracement within a larger downward corrective pattern that still has more moves to play out. An important point in the analysis is the loss of a custom indicator called the CoinsKid ribbon on the 5-day timeframe. This band of moving averages had previously acted as a guide for trend strength for most of 2025, with sustained trading above it pointing to bullish control. However, XRP has repeatedly closed below this ribbon since the flash crash in October 2025, and sellers have maintained control of the broader structure since then. XRP Price Chart. Source: @Coins_Kid on X Multi-Year Trendline As Downside Magnet The bearish scenario outlined on the chart places XRP’s next major area of interest around the rising multi-year support trendline, which currently converges in the $1.30 to $1.40 range. This ascending white trendline, which is visible on the 5-day chart and extends back to 2020, coincides with zones where XRP found strong demand after pullbacks. The highlighted green zone on the chart centers on this $1.30 to $1.40 range. Related Reading: PEPE Price Could Soar 3,000% If The Bottom Is In; Analyst Explains At the time of writing, XRP is trading at $1.96, down by 4.7% in the past 24 hours. CoinsKid’s projection is that if the current corrective move continues to play out, the XRP price could rotate lower from the descending resistance line and travel toward this support area over the coming months. This would be the final move in an ABC wave correction that began after XRP peaked at a new all-time high of $3.65 in July 2025. According to the analysis, only a sustained move back above the 5-day ribbon would invalidate this bearish path and reduce the likelihood of price revisiting that lower support region. Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com
19 Jan 2026, 13:00
XRP price prediction: Will $40mln in liquidations spark a rebound?
The weekly, daily, and 4-hour timeframes agreed on the importance of $1.81-$2.0 as a demand zone.
19 Jan 2026, 13:00
Bitmine Immersion Continues Branching Out
Summary Bitmine is aggressively building an Ethereum stake, aiming for 5% of all ETH and currently holding 4.168 million tokens. To fund its purchases, Bitmine has heavily diluted shareholders, taking shares outstanding from 4.3 million to 455 million in under a year. Bitmine announced a $200 million equity investment in Beast Industries, marking its second venture investment after Eightco Holdings. During 2025, one of the more intriguing names in the market was Bitmine Immersion Technologies ( BMNR ). The company quickly went from a relatively small firm to one with a double-digit billion market cap in just a couple of quarters. Bitmine was initially focused on purchasing the cryptocurrency Ethereum, of which it hopes to one day own 5%, but it has started to branch out into other meaningful investments. With the company releasing some quarterly data last week as well as holding its shareholder meeting, I'm here today to update where things stand. Previous Coverage of the Name My most recent article on Bitmine Immersion came back in October, at which point the company had recently passed the halfway point of its target to own 5% of Ethereum. I discussed how the company had planned on selling a lot of its own shares to raise capital for these purchases and how management thought that Ethereum was undervalued compared to Bitcoin based on historical trading patterns. Since that article, Bitmine shares have lost more than 45% of their value, compared to a more than 4% rise in the S&P 500. Ethereum Stake Builds As of last Monday, the company was nearly 70% of the way to its goal of holding 5% of all Ethereum. At that time, Bitmine held almost 4.168 million Ethereum, as well as nearly $1 billion in cash, as well as some Bitcoin and its "moonshots", or other investments. The company has also staked more than 1.25 million Ethereum already, and it earns money from this process that could eventually get to around $500 million in pre-tax income a year or more. To achieve this large stake in Ethereum, Bitmine has significantly diluted investors over time. In last week's 10-Q filing , the company detailed that it had nearly 455 million shares outstanding as of January 12th, a more than 100-fold increase from the just over 4.3 million shares that were outstanding as of July 1st of last year. As of last week, the company had about $3.1 billion left on its equity sales program to raise additional capital when needed. The 10-Q filing also showed the company's results for the three-month period ending at the end of November 2025. Total revenues came in at about $2.3 million, nearly double what was seen a year earlier. However, due to large general and administrative expenses, along with a large write-down on its crypto holdings, the company's operating loss was nearly $5.5 billion. Cash burn was a little more than $228 million in the period, but I'm not worried about that in the near term since the company is constantly raising money through that equity sales program. A New Use of Capital Before the company's shareholder meeting started, we got major news from Bitmine. It was announced on Thursday morning that the company would be making a $200 million equity investment in Beast Industries. For those unfamiliar with Beast Industries, it is the company founded by YouTube creator Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast. In addition to its entertainment offerings, including Beast Games that is streamed on Amazon ( AMZN ) Prime, the company is likely in your local grocery store with its Feastables snack brand. This is the second investment for Bitmine, but a much bigger one, after its September 2025 purchase of $20 million in Eightco Holdings ( ORBS ), a company looking to hold 800 million Worldcoin tokens. According to Google, Eightco is advancing the AI revolution by building a technology infrastructure layer essential to the future of authentication, verification, and Proof of Human ("PoH"). So far, Bitmine has had a nice gain on its purchase of ORBS shares at $1.46, although they were doing much better a few months ago. Thoughts on the Shareholder Meeting The Beast Industries investment was made to coincide with the company's first shareholder meeting that took place last week, a livestream of which can be seen here . A good portion of the meeting was just reviewing updates of presentations that the company has shown off before, detailing why it thinks Ethereum prices will soar and such. While the company has not yet released totals for the votes that took place, it does appear that they suggested the initial results said all efforts passed. This would include dramatically increasing the authorized share count from 500 million to 50 billion, allowing for future stock sales to continue for more Ethereum and other purchases. Perhaps my biggest takeaway from the meeting is that Bitmine is going to have its "moonshots", or other bets, be up to 5% of its portfolio. It's already made the two investments I've detailed above, but that percentage of its current portfolio would mean about $750 million in total. That number should grow quite a bit more as the company gets to its 5% of Ethereum target, meaning it could eventually spend over $1 billion on other investments. For investors, this does provide some diversification when owning BMNR shares, as opposed to the stock being 100% reliant on Ethereum. The Current Valuation Picture Given last week's finish and the updated share count shown above, Bitmine finished last week with a market cap of about $14.15 billion. This assumes no shares were sold during the week, which would obviously push the number higher. Given the Bitcoin and Ethereum positions mentioned in last Monday's update that I cited above, the total value of Bitmine's cash, investments, and crypto holdings as of this weekend was a little north of $15 billion. This is before counting any gains or losses on any potential new positions that were added during the week. Interestingly enough, this basically means that Bitmine shares are trading at a little bit of a discount to their overall cash and crypto holdings. When I last covered the name, the stock was trading at a premium in the high teens, or even low 20s, percentage-wise, depending on what the share count actually was at that moment in time. When I first covered this stock a few months before that, the premium was more than double. Final Thoughts and Recommendation Last week was an interesting one for Bitmine Immersion, as the company made its first major investment outside of Ethereum. The company bought a $200 million stake in Beast Industries, the first of what appears to be many purchases that take aim at the continually changing financial landscape and today's largest creators. Bitmine is also making solid progress on its quest to own 5% of Ethereum, and it hopes to hit that target this year. Shares now trade at a discount to the entire asset base here, as investors have been a little wary of this space in recent months. I'm continuing to rate this stock as a hold here today. As I've said multiple times previously and with others like Strategy ( MSTR ), your view of the stock here depends on how you view the crypto space. If you are a long-term believer that the prices of Ethereum, Bitcoin, etc., will soar, then this is a name you may want to be in, although you might be better off just buying an ETF focused on a specific cryptocurrency.
19 Jan 2026, 12:56
Bitfinex Alpha | Market Structure Improves but Sell Overhang Persists
Review full report Subscribe to Bitfinex Alpha Subscribe to Bitfinex Alpha! Want to receive Alpha from Bitfinex every week? Subscribe if (document.cookie.indexOf('sticky-note-subscribe=1') === -1) { document.querySelector('#sticky-note-subscribe').style.display = 'block'}document.querySelector('#sticky-note-subscribe-cta').addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); document.querySelector('#sticky-note-subscribe').style.display = 'none' document.cookie = 'sticky-note-subscribe=1; max-age=7776000';}); .wp-block-buttons > .wp-block-button { flex: 1;}.wp-block-buttons .wp-block-button .wp-block-button__link { display: block; text-align: center;}.wp-block-buttons .wp-block-button:last-child .wp-block-button__link { background-color: #1ABC91; border-color: #1abc9c; color: #fff;} Bitcoin momentarily broke above the $94,000–$95,000 resistance zone last week, on strong spot demand, rallying to an intraday high of $97,850 on 14 January, its highest level in over two months. The move triggered a meaningful short squeeze, with the largest single-day short liquidations in almost 100 days , as open interest normalised with leveraged longs taking profit and shorts being forced out. Since the reclaim of the 2025 yearly open and trading more than 21 percent above recent lows, there has been a clear improvement in market structure, even with the price retracing around 6 percent from the highs. The breakout, even if temporary, remains constructive, reflecting reduced leverage overhang and improving conditions, provided spot demand persists. However, BTC is advancing into a dense long-term holder (LTH) supply zone between roughly $93,000 and $110,000, where previous recovery attempts stalled. While LTHs remain net sellers, the pace of distribution has slowed sharply , with realised profits down to around 12,800 BTC per week from cycle peaks above 100,000 BTC. This moderation, combined with supportive Q1 seasonality and stronger order-flow dynamics than prior rallies, improves the probability that BTC can absorb overhead supply. A sustained move through this zone would require further easing in LTH sell pressure, paving the way for a more durable recovery and a potential re-test of all-time highs . Recent economic data points to an increasingly complex global macro and financial backdrop, marked by persistent inflation pressures, uneven consumer resilience, and tightening regulatory oversight. In the US, December inflation appeared stable on the surface, but rising food and housing costs continue to strain household budgets , limiting the Federal Reserve’s room to cut interest rates quickly. At the same time, consumer spending held up in November, driven largely by higher-income households, with lower-income groups facing mounting pressure from higher essential prices, tariffs, and uneven tax benefits as refund season approaches, highlighting growing imbalances beneath headline strength. Beyond the US economy, regulators continued to assert greater control over digital asset markets, with Dubai banning privacy-focused tokens , tightening stablecoin rules, and shifting responsibility for token approval to firms. In South Korea, access to unregistered overseas crypto exchange apps via Google Play is being blocked , to comply with domestic regulatory requirements. Alongside these regulatory shifts, China’s cross-border digital currency initiative gained momentum , with transaction volumes on the mBridge platform surpassing $55 billion and domestic use of the digital yuan expanding rapidly, signalling a gradual move toward a parallel payment infrastructure that reduces reliance on dollar-based systems. These developments underscore a global environment where economic resilience is increasingly uneven, policy flexibility is constrained, and both traditional finance and crypto markets are being reshaped by tighter regulation and evolving payment architectures rather than short-term growth dynamics. The post Bitfinex Alpha | Market Structure Improves but Sell Overhang Persists appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
19 Jan 2026, 12:55
China promotes itself as a reliable trade partner at this year's Davos forum
As top government officials and business figures head to the Swiss town of Davos for the World Economic Forum startin g Mo nday, commentators say China will likely present itself as a dependable trade ally that backs cooperative global efforts, a message that stands in contrast to recent American actions under President Donald Trump. The gathering, carrying the theme “A Spirit of Dialogue”, comes at a time when international relationships face growing strains. Trump’s government has drawn attention for taking former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, pushing again to take control of Greenland from Denmark, and warning of possible military action against Iran. Beijing see s op portunity amid US criticism These shows of one-sided decision-making have brought widespread disapproval and criticism toward Trump , giving China a chance to position itself as a more responsible follower of global standards, according to those watching the situation. Sacha Courtial, who studies China at France’s Institut Jacques Delors think tank, said the country “could play the role of the ‘good student’ of international law, one that supports multilateralism.” Top Chinese leaders frequently show up at the Davos gathering. Vice-Premier He Lifeng, who handles economic matters for Beijing and led last year’s trade discussions with Washington, will give a main speech on Tuesday. Trump, bringing a large American group, plans to speak the following day. Concerns grow over global stability The forum continues through Friday and regularly brings together world political heads, business leaders, and respected academics. According to a report the forum release d We dnesday, people attending were asked about global conditions. Half said the coming two years would probably be “turbulent or stormy”, up 14 percentage points from 2025. Another 40% described the world as “unsettled” at minimum. Hong Kong will send representatives to the summit as well. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing chairman Carlson Tong Ka-shing and CEO Bonnie Y. Chan will attend, along with Nancy Ip Yuk-yu, who lead s Ho ng Kong University of Science and Technology. Each will participate in separate sessions, the official schedule shows. Claim your free seat in an exclusive crypto trading community - limited to 1,000 members.
