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Durov announced that Telegram will be the biggest validator for TON, explaining this decision is due to reduced network costs and a more promising development plan. He then stated:

The little time-frame chart reveals the current caper in breakout mode. After first sailing through the upper trendline of the bear flag, the price did dip back inside the flag for a brief cameo, but now it’s tiptoeing up in a small ascending channel, with the bottom of that channel proving a sturdy bit of support.

Apparently, this breakout hits the 0.236 Fibonacci retracement of some decline from August 2025 to February 2026. Yeah, because Fibonacci levels are the crystal ball of crypto. Daily volume also had its biggest party in seven months. Who brought the confetti? My uncle?

On a Monday that felt more like a Thursday, CEO Matt Cole, with a flourish worthy of a maestro, confirmed that Strive had acquired 444 BTC for nearly $34 million. The average price? A mere $76,307 per coin, a bargain in a world where the value of things is as fleeting as a snowflake in July. This purchase, a stroke of the brush on the canvas of their portfolio, pushes their total holdings to around 15,000 BTC, placing them ninth among the global treasury holders-just a step behind Coinbase and a leap ahead of Hut 8, the mining firm that seems to be digging more holes than Bitcoins.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies’ Tom Lee notes that current market behavior is similar to previous market shifts, with prices starting to rise even though investors are still cautious.

He’s now focusing on Tokenlon, a smaller decentralized exchange with about 17,000 followers on X, as part of his latest claims.

banning stablecoin yield could raise bank lending by about $2.1 billion, roughly 0.02%, suggesting only a marginal flutter in the wider credit sky.

Fees on the TON network, once a burdensome toll at the gates of the village market, have dropped sixfold to near zero, as if the wind itself had decided to carry every small transfer for free. And with this strange mercy, the platform becomes, to the eyes of the unobservant, a mere playground; yet the wise see the deeper truth: ease of exchange always invites both craftsman and dreamer, and often both perish in a single season of feverish speculation.

The Digital Asset eXchange Alliance, known to insiders as DAXA and to everyone else as a rather polite friction in a world that loves deadlines, submitted formal comments opposing proposed changes to South Korea’s anti-money laundering framework.

Jake Claver, the head of Digital Ascension Group, noticed a definite shift in how people viewed XRP at the conference.