As XRP attempts to climb to higher levels, an analyst affirmed that the 
altcoin is “doing what it needs to do” to continue its bullish rally, 
highlighting multiple key structures in key timeframes. Related Reading: 
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DOGE Rally XRP Enters Inflection Point After retesting the $1.90 area on 
Friday morning, XRP saw a 4.6% intraday bounce toward the mid-zone of its 
local range. Over the past five days, the cryptocurrency has been hovering in 
the $1.85-$2.00 price range, failing to hold the upper zone of this range. 
Market watcher ChartNerd pointed out a key reversal pattern that could signal 
a massive price expansion may be around the corner, noting that the altcoin is 
at a “critical inflection point” as it retests a macro support zone. He 
explained that a running flat ABC correction formation is “a sophisticated 
structure where the failure of the ‘C’ wave to breach previous lows signals 
underlying bullish strength.” XRP has been mirroring the same structure over 
the past 400 days, which would point “toward a structural breakout, marking 
the transition from a yearly long base into a new primary uptrend” if it 
resolves. As the chart shows, “the wave counts repeating toward the structure 
are evident in XRP’s price action,” and as long as the macro support holds, 
around the $1.80 area, the C wave “could be working in the bulls’ defense.” We 
could be just building a base above $1.80, marking the C wave in this running 
flat correction before the major breakout. ChartNerd added that there could be 
a scenario in which XRP deviates below its major support before a V-shape 
recovery. However, he warned that losing this area would not be healthy, 
detailing that the only way to invalidate the pattern would be for the price 
to close below the structure’s support, retest it as resistance, and drop to 
lower levels. XRP&#8217;s Price Defends Macro Support The analyst emphasized the 
importance of the $1.80 level, noting that XRP has been defending this 
territory for over a year and could lead to a new all-time high (ATH) rally. 
“This is a macro accumulation zone, and we evidently also have two major 
levels of descending resistance for XRP,” he detailed, highlighting that when 
the first multi-month descending resistance broke, the altcoin rallied to a 
new all-time high. It’s pretty simple: we have descending resistance on our 
heads at the moment, and we once had a point of contact on this resistance at 
the $2.40 high (…) So, at this moment in time, the simplicity tells us: break 
the descending resistance, and this is where XRP really starts gearing up for 
further expansion. Based on this, ChartNerd asserted that if the altcoin 
defends the $1.80 macro support, then a similar rally is likely. Similarly, he 
pointed to a bullish reversal structure building below the key $2.70 
resistance on XRP’s chart. Related Reading: Bitcoin To $80,000? Analyst Warns 
Of Potential Free Fall As BTC Erases 2026 Gains Per the post, the 
cryptocurrency formed a three-month falling wedge pattern that was broken out 
of during the early January rally. Now, the price is retesting the pattern’s 
breakout level as support and could be preparing to climb toward the level it 
started forming. “So XRP just needs to defend the guard at $1.80, and this is 
where we could be looking for that sort of major expansion and looking to 
press back up to the target of $2.70,” before potentially challenging its 
pre-Q4 range, he concluded. Featured Image from Unsplash.com, Chart from 
TradingView.com

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Dogecoin is potentially following a Falling Wedge right now, and this 
cryptocurrency analyst thinks a breakout from it may be a &#8220;powerful&#8221; one. 
Dogecoin Could Be Trading Inside A Falling Wedge Pattern In a new post on X, 
analyst Ali Martinez has shared a Falling Wedge that Dogecoin is potentially 
trading inside on the weekly timeframe. A &#8220;Wedge&#8221; is a pattern from technical 
analysis (TA) that forms whenever the asset&#8217;s price trades between two 
converging trendlines. A &#8220;Triangle&#8221; consolidation channel also involves 
converging trendlines, but the difference from a Wedge is that it either 
involves one trendline that&#8217;s horizontally flat or trendlines that converge 
with an opposite slope. On the other hand, a Wedge involves trendlines sloped 
in the same direction. Related Reading: Bitcoin Supply Overhang Likely To Cap 
Rallies Above $98,400, Glassnode Says When these lines point in the up 
direction, the pattern formed is known as a Rising Wedge. Similarly, their 
being sloped downward creates a Falling Wedge. The latter is the Wedge of 
interest in the current discussion. Like other consolidation patterns in TA, 
the upper line of a Falling Wedge is also likely to be a source of resistance, 
while the lower one is that of support. A breakout of either of these bounds 
can signal a sustained move in that direction. Wedges are generally considered 
to be either continuation or reversal patterns, depending on the prevailing 
price trend. When a Falling Wedge is preceded by an upward price trajectory, 
the pattern is assumed to be one pertaining to a bullish continuation. 
Similarly, it acts as a reversal pattern during a downtrend. Now, here is the 
chart shared by Martinez that shows the Falling Wedge that Dogecoin has been 
stuck inside for the past year: As displayed in the above graph, Dogecoin&#8217;s 
weekly price has retraced to the lower level of the Falling Wedge recently, 
suggesting the pattern&#8217;s support is being retested. In the same chart, the 
analyst has highlighted some Falling Wedges that Dogecoin traveled through in 
the past. It would appear that each of these ended up holding as bullish 
continuation patterns and led to upward breakouts. In terms of the width, the 
latest Wedge has been the largest among these. Related Reading: Bitcoin 
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$DOGE tends to respect wedge structures, and a breakout from this one could be 
powerful,&#8221; noted Martinez. It now remains to be seen whether the support line 
of the channel will hold for the memecoin this time and if a breakout will 
follow. DOGE Price At the time of writing, Dogecoin is floating around $0.125, 
down more than 9% over the last seven days. Featured image from Dall-E, chart 
from TradingView.com

Dogecoin Wedge Breakout Could Be “Powerful,” Analyst Says

XRP has given back all of its early‑year gains, sliding toward the $1.90. 
Despite the pullback, several on‑chain and market indicators are pointing to a 
possible breakout from current levels, driven largely by a sharp decline in 
XRP held on exchanges. XRP Exchange Balances Slide To 1.5B Market analyst Sam 
Daodu notes that over the past months, a substantial portion of XRP has 
steadily moved off centralized trading platforms and into long‑term storage 
and institutional custody. On‑chain figures indicate that XRP exchange 
balances dropped from roughly 4 billion tokens in early 2025 to about 1.5 
billion by late December. This 57% decline represents the steepest annual 
reduction in XRP exchange supply on record. Related Reading: Binance Forms New 
Company In Greece, Moves Forward With MiCA Licensing Data from CryptoQuant 
reinforces this trend, showing shrinking XRP reserves on major trading 
platforms such as Binance, where balances continued to fall into early 2026. 
At the same time, wallet accumulation has increased, particularly among 
institutional custody accounts. Daodu argues that with fewer tokens available 
on exchanges, buying pressure that previously moved XRP only marginally can 
now drive gains of 10% to 15% within days. When combined with approximately 
$1.37 billion in XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) inflows recorded since 
November 2025, Daodu believes the conditions favor a potential breakout toward 
the $4 to $5 range, rather than another rally that stalls below $3. Bullish, 
Base, And Bearish Scenarios Looking ahead, Daodu outlines three broad price 
paths for XRP, each tied to how exchange balances and ETF inflows evolve. In a 
bullish scenario, the altcoin could move into the $4 to $5 range if monthly 
ETF inflows average $300-$500 million and exchange balances fall below 1.5 
billion tokens. A more neutral outcome would see XRP trading between $2.50 and 
$3.50. This scenario assumes ETF inflows slow to roughly $50 million to $70 
million per week and exchange balances continue to decline at a steadier pace. 
Related Reading: Expert Analyzes XRP, Ethereum, And Solana: Predictions For 
The Next Altcoin Season The bearish case hinges on the possibility that the 
supply contraction thesis proves overstated. If rapid transfers refill 
exchange order books, escrow releases increase selling pressure, or ETF demand 
slows due to tighter macroeconomic conditions, XRP could lose support. In that 
scenario, prices may fall below $2.00 and revisit the $1.60 level during 
periods of risk aversion. Prolonged uncertainty could see XRP trading between 
$1.50 and $2.00 for much of 2026, according to the analyst. At the time of 
writing, the altcoin was trading at $1.94. This represented losses of 4% and 
8% over seven and fourteen-day periods, respectively. This positions the 
fifth-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market cap 46% below the current all- 
time high of $3.64 reached back in July of last year. Featured image from 
DALL-E, chart from TradingView.com

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