While pontificating about everything and nothing at The Bridge conference in New York City (don’t ask about the bridge’s toll prices), Hougan shared that a spike in crypto markets at the end of 2025 would have fit neatly into the four-year cycle theory. Basically, this means we’d be setting up for a potential bear market in 2026, echoing the not-so-glorious years of 2022 and 2018. Familiar territory, right?
Folks been waitin’ on this one. Years, they have. Now, the Nasdaq’s lookin’ to list this here XRP exchange-traded fund, the Canary XRP ETF (ticker: XRPC), come November the 13th. Seems like everyone wants a piece of the digital pie now, alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, and that Solana thing. Makes a fella wonder what all the fuss is about. 🤷♂️
The board voted on this earth-shattering decision last month, with 78.4% in favor. Which, coincidentally, is the exact percentage of people who think Delaware is just a boring rest stop between New York and Washington.
XRP is hovering around 2.39, desperately eyeing its 2.35 support like it’s the last donut at a meeting. CoinMarketCap, our ever-reliable psychic, tells us this is a make-or-break moment.
Lo, details of this betrayal-or was it fate?-remain shrouded in mystery! Did the stars align against them? Did the lawyers quibble over the price of a cup of coffee? We may never know. 🤷♂️
Current market patterns suggest this “late-year cheer” is merely the calm before a Q4 correction so dramatic it could make a Greek chorus weep. 🎭💸
Well, it’s basically a party-pooper for crypto’s wild promise of “censorship resistance.” Foundations now have a magic “bank-like” button to control your funds. How very centralized.
So, Franklin Templeton-you know, the $1.5 trillion asset manager that’s always late to the party-finally decided to expand its blockchain-based Benji Technology Platform to the Canton Network. 🎉 Big deal. Now they can offer their tokenized funds to more institutional investors. Yawn. 😴
BTC, that incorrigible flirt, merely dipped 10%-a languid yawn compared to DATs’ operatic plunge into the abyss (40%-90%, with room service). 🎢
