Solana price technicals hint at 40% crash by New Year’s

    Solana’s SOL price risks losing nearly half its value in the coming weeks as a classic technical setup puts a potential 40% crash into play. Bearish divergence limits Solana’s upside prospects As of Dec. 19, SOL is trading at around $76.35, up around 50% compared to its local price low of around $51 a month ago….

    Spot Bitcoin ETF ‘nailed on’ for next year: K33 report

    The approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF by January 10 appears to be set in stone, with a new spate of exchange-traded fund (ETF) updates only adding further to the likelihood of an approval, say K33 research analysts. In a Dec. 19 report, K33 head of research Anders Helseth and senior analyst Vetle Lunde said the…

    Trader gambles $226K on Solana memecoin, hits $1.69M in 5 days

    The Solana memecoin frenzy continues as a trader turns $226,000 into well over $1.6 million by gambling on a token with a beanie-wearing dog as its mascot. Between Dec. 13 and 15, a crypto trader bought over 19 million Dogwifhat (WIF) tokens, a dog-themed memecoin, as it debuted on the markets within the Solana network….

    Spot Bitcoin ETF will be ‘bloodbath’ for crypto exchanges, analyst says

    While the crypto community eagerly awaits the possible approval of a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States, some analysts are warning this could potentially trigger unwanted consequences for cryptocurrency exchanges. Several industry observers have predicted that a spot BTC ETF could start trading in early 2024, in an event that, when paired with Bitcoin’s…

    Why a gold rush for inscriptions has broken half a dozen blockchains

    The latest degen “gold rush” to inscribe everything from profile pictures to memecoins has led to at least half a dozen blockchain networks cracking under pressure over the past week. The last few days have seen Arbirtrum, Avalanche, Cronos, zkSync, and TON all suffering partial or full outages recently due to inscriptions, with modular data availability…

    Bitcoin fees hit 20-month high as miner revenues match $69K BTC price

    Bitcoin on-chain transaction fees are dividing opinion as the cost of sending BTC skyrockets. Data from the statistics resource BitInfoCharts puts the average transaction fee at nearly $40 as of Dec. 17. Commentators: High Bitcoin fees are inevitable The latest wave of Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions has resulted in elevated transaction fees for all network users — but some believe…