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XRP is trading below critical technical levels after losing the $2 mark, a 
breakdown that has shifted market sentiment decisively toward fear. Bulls are 
struggling to find reliable support as price action weakens, and recent 
attempts at stabilization have failed to attract sustained demand. The loss of 
this psychological and structural level has left XRP vulnerable, with traders 
increasingly positioning defensively amid broader uncertainty across the 
altcoin market. Related Reading: Why $100,000 Is Bitcoin’s Most Important 
Resistance Level According to analysis shared by Darkfost, selling pressure on 
XRP has intensified materially over recent weeks. The data shows that the 
current move is not a minor pullback, but part of a deeper corrective phase. 
XRP has declined by roughly 50% from its cycle peak near $3.66, falling toward 
the $1.85 region. This magnitude of decline reflects a clear shift in market 
behavior, as earlier optimism has given way to risk reduction and capital 
preservation. Darkfost’s assessment suggests that the increase in selling is 
driven by a combination of profit-taking from older positions and capitulation 
from more recent buyers who entered at higher levels. As the price moves 
further away from prior highs, confidence has deteriorated, reinforcing the 
downside momentum. Exchange Inflows Highlight Rising Sell-Side Pressure 
Darkfost further explains that the recent surge in selling pressure becomes 
especially clear when examining XRP inflows to exchanges, with Binance 
standing out as the primary focal point. As the exchange that concentrates the 
largest share of XRP trading volume, Binance often serves as an early 
indicator of shifting market intent. Rising inflows to exchanges are commonly 
interpreted as a signal that holders are preparing to sell, particularly when 
the increase is sudden and sustained. After several weeks of relatively calm 
conditions, characterized by stable and moderate inflows, this pattern changed 
sharply around December 15. Since then, XRP transfers to Binance have 
accelerated, with daily inflows consistently ranging between 35 million XRP 
and a pronounced spike of roughly 116 million XRP recorded on December 19. 
This marks a clear break from the prior holding-oriented behavior observed 
through much of October and November. The shift in inflow dynamics suggests a 
change in investor psychology. Longer-term holders appear to be taking profits 
after XRP’s strong run earlier in the cycle, while more recent entrants are 
increasingly capitulating and selling at a loss as the price continues to 
slide. This combination amplifies downside pressure and reinforces the current 
corrective trend. As long as elevated exchange inflows persist, conditions for 
accumulation remain unfavorable. Without a meaningful slowdown in deposits, 
XRP is likely to struggle to form a durable base, increasing the risk that the 
correction extends further in both time and depth. Related Reading: Trust 
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Details: Testing Demand XRP continues to trade under clear technical pressure, 
with price hovering near the $1.87–$1.90 zone after a prolonged downtrend on 
the daily chart. The structure shows a decisive loss of bullish control 
following the rejection from the $3.00–$3.50 region earlier in the year. Since 
that peak, XRP has consistently printed lower highs and lower lows, confirming 
a bearish market structure that remains intact. From a trend perspective, the 
price is trading below all major moving averages. The short-term moving 
average has turned sharply lower and now acts as immediate dynamic resistance, 
while the medium- and long-term averages are also sloping downward, 
reinforcing the broader bearish bias. Each recent attempt at a relief bounce 
has failed below these averages, suggesting that sellers continue to dominate 
rallies. Related Reading: Bitcoin and Ethereum Coinbase Inflows Collapse While 
Binance Retains Relative Activity – Details The $1.80–$1.85 region is now a 
critical support area. This zone has absorbed several tests in recent weeks, 
indicating short-term demand, but the lack of a strong rebound highlights weak 
buying conviction. A clean break below this level would expose XRP to a deeper 
retracement toward the $1.50 region, where historical demand previously 
emerged. Unless XRP can reclaim the $2.10–$2.20 range and hold above it, the 
path of least resistance remains to the downside, with risks skewed toward 
further consolidation or continuation of the correction. Featured image from 
ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com

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Silver has staged a historic, late-December breakout, surging from roughly $50 
an ounce in mid-November to an intraday all-time high above $83, before easing 
slightly as traders took profits. Will Dogecoin follow its lead? At press 
time, spot silver was holding near $76 after pulling back from the earlier 
record high of $83.62, with the metal up roughly 181% year-to-date in 2025, an 
outsized move for the precious-metal. The rally is attributed to a mix of 
macro and market-structure drivers including expectations for easier US 
monetary policy in 2026, strong industrial and investment demand, persistent 
supply shortfalls, and silver’s recent designation as a US “critical mineral,” 
which added a policy-sensitive supply narrative to an already tight market. 
The ‘Silver Fractal’ Pitch For Dogecoin That silver move is now being used as 
a visual analog in crypto. X analyst Cantonese Cat (@cantonmeow) posted a 
side-by-side TradingView comparison suggesting Dogecoin’s 6-month chart 
resembles silver’s 3-day structure from three weeks ago, implying DOGE could 
be positioned for a similarly persistent advance if the fractal holds. In the 
shared DOGE 6-month panel, Cantonese Cat shows a large selloff candle and 
frames it as a potential cyclical low. Based on the silver comparison, the 
interpretation is not “DOGE pumps next week,” but “DOGE trends for years.” 
Related Reading: Dogecoin Triangle Formation Breakdown Spells Trouble As 15% 
Move Nears – Time To Be Cautious? In the proposed fractal path, the current 
6-month candle would mark the bottom, followed by eight additional 6-month 
candles spanning roughly four years where seven are green and only one is red. 
The lone red candle is mapped as the third in the sequence, implying the first 
half of 2027 could be a down half-year even within an overarching uptrend. If 
the pattern were to track silver “exactly,” the projected cycle peak would 
land in the second half of 2029, with a peak price “above $11” in that window. 
Related Reading: Dogecoin Is Repeating Its 2020 Accumulation Cycle, Analyst 
Says How It Fits His Earlier Wave Framework The comparison follows Cantonese 
Cat’s earlier Dec. 20 post outlining a longer-horizon DOGE roadmap on the 
weekly chart. “We’ve already had a 13 month bear market for DOGE, with my 
working hypothesis of this being likely a wave 2 correction prior to wave 3 
explosion,” the analyst wrote. The accompanying weekly DOGE chart labels the 
prior advance as “Wave 1” and the subsequent decline as “Wave 2,” with a 
descending trendline drawn across the multi-year structure. The Dec. 20 weekly 
snapshot shows DOGE around $0.13160 with retracement levels including 0.382 at 
about $0.11771, and 0.236 at about $0.08427, with the base (“0”) around 
$0.04909. Above the current price, the analysis maps 0.5 at about $0.15422 as 
the next resistance, followed by 0.618 at about $0.20205, 0.707 at about 
$0.24770, 0.786 at about $0.29681, and 0.886 at about $0.37315, before the 1.0 
level near $0.48442. Above the prior high, the same map plots extension 
targets often used in Elliott Wave projection frameworks, labeled near 1.272 
($0.90288), 1.414 ($1.24968), 1.618 ($1.99344), 2 ($4.77927), and 2.272 
($8.90771). The implication is conditional: the extensions matter only if DOGE 
completes the corrective phase and reclaims the prior impulse high. At press 
time, DOGE traded at $ Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from 
TradingView.com

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shifting trader behavior have pushed perpetual futures into a more central 
market role.

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