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The number of traders expecting a rate cut at the March Federal Open Market Committee meeting rose following fears of a hawkish Fed nominee.

Stablecoins are set to reshape banking by offering a safer, more efficient alternative for deposits.

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AI's rapid growth is reshaping job markets and raising concerns about economic stability.

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Crypto expert Cypress has highlighted developments that XRP holders should be paying attention to. The expert alluded to Ripple’s roadmap for institutional DeFi on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), with the firm noting that XRP is at the core of all these plans. 

Developments XRP Holders Should Focus On

In an X post, Cypress stated that every holder should pay attention to the developments Ripple outlined in its institutional DeFi roadmap. The expert highlighted features such as native on-chain privacy, permissioned markets, and institutional lending, which are set to live in the coming months on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). 

Ripple noted that with these features, the XRP Ledger isn’t just positioning itself as a chain for tokenization but as an end-to-end operating system for real-world finance. Meanwhile, Cypress highlighted Ripple’s statement about how the indirect impact that they can focus attention on is through how XRP is used in base-layer operations. 

These operations include reserve requirements, transaction fees, which result in burning XRP, and bridging currency in FX and lending flows. Ripple also mentioned that each feature, both the ones that are already and the upcoming ones, is not a silo but a building block for “composable financial ecosystems,” which is tied together by XRP. 

Ripple declared that institutional DeFi is no longer theoretical as the XRPL is delivering the infrastructure these institutions need with programmable lending, privacy-preserving collateral, and regulated token markets. 

The firm added that XRP sits at the center of that infrastructure as a transactional asset and also as a utility-rich protocol token that connects the pieces together. Ripple added how stablecoin FX, tokenized treasuries, on-chain loans, and smart escrows all depend on XRP’s functionality. 

Ripple’s Roadmap Boosts Market Sentiment Towards XRP

Ripple’s institutional roadmap appears to have boosted market sentiment towards XRP, with the token one of the top gainers among the top cryptos by market cap. Specifically, this may have contributed to the spike in whale transactions during the recent dip, with 1,389 whale transactions of $100,000 or more, which is the highest in four months, according to Santiment. 

Furthermore, the number of unique addresses on the XRPL has surged to 78,727 in just one 8-hour candle, which is the highest in six months. This suggests a bullish sentiment not just among whales but also among retail investors. 

Meanwhile, Santiment noted that the increase in whale accumulation and spike in unique addresses are both major signals of a price reversal for any asset. As such, there is the possibility that the drop to $1.15 may have marked the bottom for XRP. 

At the time of writing, the XRP price is trading at around $1.47, up 15% in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

For decades, SWIFT has served as the backbone of global payments, enabling banks to message one another across borders but not to settle value in real time. As global commerce becomes faster, more digital, and more interconnected, the limitations of legacy messaging-based systems are becoming increasingly visible. This has brought renewed attention to XRP and Ripple’s payment infrastructure that aims to enable near-instant, low-cost settlement of value.

From Bank Messaging To Real-Time Settlement Rails

A massive 1.5 quadrillion financial shift is quietly unfolding, and it’s already shaking the foundations of global banking. Crypto analyst Archie has mentioned on X that SWIFT, the decades-old backbone of cross-border payments, is copying Ripple’s playbook for a real-time transfer system and testing the XRP Ledger integration that could flip the script on slow, outdated cross-border payments.

Meanwhile, analysts are suggesting that if XRP captures even a fraction of SWIFT’s estimated $150 trillion annual flow by 2030, the upside could be enormous, while some stated that the altcoin might surge to $3,000+. With Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin integrating directly into core banking and treasury platforms, the bridge between crypto rails and fiat liquidity is rapidly taking shape.

Currently, there’s a speculation that XRP is being reviewed as a full SWIFT replacement in the US document, and trillions are flowing into the XRP Ledger. Meanwhile, banks like Citi are tokenizing, and Ripple technology is capable of leading the charge. Archie believes that Citi is already somewhere running on Ripple technology.

How The Last Major XRP Breakout Took Shape

A side-by-side comparison chart of XRP’s historical and current market cycles suggests that history may be rhyming once again. Analyst Archie has also pointed out that in the 2016 to 2018 cycle, the price started trading at a low level around $0.003, gradually building along a rising trendline, then dipping in the orange box, before the price exploded to highs near $3.50.

During that period, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) formed a clear low around the 50 level, signaling a momentum reset rather than a breakdown. The current 2025 to 2027 cycle is showing a structurally similar pattern. XRP is consolidating around the dollar mark, following a similar trend line, with a dip marked in an orange box to $0.70, and the formed bottom closer to the 40 mark. 

Archie noted that the patterns in price action, the dips, and the indicator signals across cycles are repeating almost identically. While history never repeats perfectly, these recurring fractal patterns suggest that XRP may be priming for an epic bull run phase, from fractions to dollars, now potentially from dollars to triple digits, like the projected $117 range. Archie is bullish because the riddlers were right all along, and believes Phoenix will rise.

The following is a guest post and analysis from Vincent Maliepaard, Marketing Director at Sentora.

A year ago, tokenized equities barely registered as an asset class. Today, the market is approaching $1 billion—a nearly 30x increase—and December 2025 may have delivered the regulatory clarity needed for institutional adoption to accelerate.

What changed? Three things: a small group of platforms moved fast to capture market share, regulators started building actual frameworks instead of issuing warnings, and traditional finance players began treating blockchain settlement as infrastructure rather than an experiment.

The Race to Scale

When Ondo Global Markets launched in September 2025, it became the largest tokenized stock platform within 48 hours. That kind of velocity doesn't happen by accident; it reflects pent-up demand from investors who wanted exposure to U.S. equities through blockchain rails, particularly from outside the United States, where 24/7 market access is a meaningful advantage.

The market is now dominated by three players. Ondo holds roughly half of all tokenized equity value with 200+ assets. Backed Finance, acquired by Kraken in December 2025, controls about a quarter of the market. Securitize rounds out the top three with a single asset: Exodus, the first U.S.-registered company to tokenize its common stock. Together, these three platforms account for over 93% of the market.

Source: Sentora Research – Tokenized Equities

Growing Faster Than Tokenized Treasuries

Tokenized treasuries remain the larger market at $9.3 billion, but equities are growing roughly 30x faster. The divergence reflects different buyer profiles. Treasury tokenization attracted institutions seeking yield-bearing, stable value—a relatively conservative use case. Equity tokenization is capturing more speculative and access-oriented flows.

The trading patterns support this interpretation. Monthly transfer volume for tokenized equities reached $2.4 billion against roughly $860 million in assets under management—a volume-to-AUM ratio of nearly 3x. That’s active trading, not passive holding.

Where the Assets Live

Ethereum still leads with 38.5% of tokenized equity value, but its dominance is eroding. Solana has captured 18.5% as the primary chain for xStocks, benefiting from sub-second finality and integration with lending protocols like Kamino Finance. Algorand holds 15% through Exodus alone, reflecting its focus on compliant securities infrastructure rather than general-purpose DeFi.

Source: Sentora Research – Tokenized Equities

The December Regulatory Shift

December 2025 delivered two developments that could reshape the market. First, the SEC authorized a three-year DTCC pilot enabling tokenization of Russell 1000 equities, U.S. Treasury securities, and major index ETFs. Expected to launch in H2 2026, this creates a pathway for traditional market infrastructure—central clearing, regulated exchanges, broker-dealer intermediation—to interoperate with blockchain settlement.

Second, the SEC clarified that broker-dealers can maintain custody of tokenized equities if they control private keys and implement appropriate security policies. This removes a barrier that previously complicated institutional participation. Nasdaq has also proposed trading tokenized securities on its exchange while maintaining national market system oversight.

Internationally, Ondo received approval to offer tokenized U.S. stocks across all 30 EEA countries through Liechtenstein’s regulator—a distribution channel reaching 500+ million potential investors. The SEC closed its investigation into Ondo without charges in November 2025, removing regulatory overhang.

What to Watch From Here

Tokenized equities have gone from idea to working market infrastructure in less than a year. What comes next hinges on two things: whether regulatory momentum continues, and whether traditional market infrastructure actually migrates onto blockchain rails or keeps blockchain in a separate sandbox.

Forecasts for tokenized assets span a wide range—from roughly $2 trillion to nearly $19 trillion by the early 2030s, depending on the methodology. If equities maintain their current share of tokenized real-world assets, that implies a $20 to $190 billion market by the end of this decade. Reaching that scale would require sustained 50% to 100%+ annual growth—ambitious but not inconsistent with what the category has already demonstrated over the past 12 months.

One meaningful catalyst for that growth could be tokenized stocks as usable collateral in DeFi, effectively enabling retail investors to borrow against publicly traded equity in a programmable, on-chain way.

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The crypto market that surged on Donald Trump’s campaign promise of a friendlier US posture is now back near where it started, after an 18-month round trip that added close to $2 trillion in value and then erased roughly the same amount.

Data compiled by CryptoSlate put the total crypto market value at about $2.4 trillion in October 2024, weeks before the US election.

By November 2024, the market had pushed toward $3.2 trillion as traders priced in a “policy premium,” the expectation that a pro-crypto White House would mean lighter enforcement pressure, clearer rules, and broader access for both retail and institutional investors.

By early October 2025, the market peaked at $4.379 trillion.

As of press time, CryptoSlate's market cap page showed the global market at about $2.37 trillion after a steep selloff.

Bitcoin, the sector’s bellwether, briefly fell to around $60,000 this week before recovering to about $65,894. Ethereum, the second-largest crypto asset, traded near $1,921 after sliding close to $1,752 earlier in the week.

A pro-crypto pivot in the office

After Trump took office, the administration moved quickly to signal a reset, but those steps proved to be a shift in tone, not an instant fix.

In late January 2025, Trump ordered the creation of a cryptocurrency working group to draft a regulatory framework for digital assets and to evaluate a potential national digital asset stockpile.

The order also targeted a US central bank digital currency, reflecting early emphasis on limiting federal involvement in retail digital money while expanding room for private-sector tokens.

Banking policy also moved. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rescinded Staff Accounting Bulletin 121, guidance that the crypto and banking industries had argued raised the cost of custodying customer crypto assets.

In March 2025, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued Interpretive Letter 1183, reaffirming that national banks may provide crypto-asset custody.

This allowed these institutions to participate in certain stablecoin activities and engage with distributed ledger networks, removing a prior requirement for supervisory nonobjection before proceeding.

At the same time, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) rescinded a 2022 notification requirement for FDIC-supervised institutions and clarified that banks may engage in permissible crypto-related activities without prior FDIC approval.

By April 2025, the Federal Reserve withdrew certain guidance on bank crypto-asset and dollar token activities, including rescinding a 2023 supervisory letter that established a nonobjection process for such activities.

Notably, the FDIC and the Fed also withdrew two joint statements on banking organizations’ crypto-asset-related activities.

Meanwhile, a central legislative milestone arrived with stablecoins, the dollar-pegged tokens used widely as settlement rails across crypto markets.

Congress passed, and Trump signed into law, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act (the GENIUS Act) on July 18, 2025.

The law established a federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, defined categories of permitted issuers, and set requirements and oversight for stablecoin issuance.

Interestingly, stablecoins were not the only target of the Trump administration.

The US House passed the industry-backed CLARITY Act in July 2025, a market-structure bill aimed at creating a clearer federal framework for digital assets and expanding the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) oversight.

All of these developments helped create an environment in which Bitcoin and the crypto industry thrive.

As a result, BTC's value reached a new all-time high of more than $126,000, and the broader crypto industry market cap peaked at over $4 trillion.

From peak to retracement, as leverage and flows turned

Since the crypto industry peaked, the market has shed about $2 trillion, with more than $1 trillion lost in the past month.

Market participants and analysts have largely described the latest leg down as a mechanical unwind rather than a repricing of a single headline.

Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise, argued that the drawdown should be read as a pileup of forces, not a single culprit. According to him, markets are complex, and pullbacks are usually the result of multiple factors acting in concert.

Considering this, Hougan’s starting point was cyclical, not political. He said long-term investors have been selling to front-run what many expect from crypto’s four-year pattern, three big up years followed by a down year.

The dynamic can become self-fulfilling, he said, because investors who fear the cycle will repeat may decide to take gains early rather than hold through a potential pullback.

While he acknowledged that measurement is imperfect, Hougan estimated that those investors sold well over $100 billion in Bitcoin last year.

At the same time, he described a fading of retail-style “attention” flows that often prop up speculative corners of markets in good times.

Crypto, in his view, has faced stiffer competition for the spotlight, with AI stocks and, more recently, precious metals drawing capital that might otherwise have rotated into the most volatile digital assets.

While those investors can return, they are currently a source of demand that has partially stepped back from the industry.

Meanwhile, Hougan also pointed to how leverage turned this downshift into a cliff. He cited the Oct. 10 $20 billion liquidation episode, which is the largest leveraged blowout in crypto’s history.

According to him, this was caused by Trump's surprise announcement of a 100% tariff on all Chinese goods at 5:30 p.m. ET on a Friday, when many traditional markets were closed, and by traders using crypto to hedge risk.

This caused a marketwide sell-off that the crypto market has yet to recover from.

At the same time, Washington's broader policies and the macro backdrop have impacted Bitcoin.

Hougan cited Trump’s Jan. 30 nomination of Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, a pick he said was viewed as hawkish.

He also flagged a separate source of hesitation within Bitcoin itself, with rising concern among some advocates that the community is not moving fast enough to address the future risk posed by quantum computing.

Hougan said quantum is a long-term risk and a solvable problem, but he argued that until the development community takes concrete steps, a portion of long-term capital will remain cautious.

Finally, he said the pullback has been reinforced by broad risk-off sentiment, pointing to a session in which BTC fell alongside sharp declines in gold and silver, with large technology stocks also down significantly.

In that environment, crypto still behaves like a high-beta proxy for risk appetite, becoming vulnerable when portfolios de-gross.

Who are the winners in the boom and casualties of the bust?

The boom phase rewarded the core plumbing of crypto, businesses that monetize activity when prices and trading volumes rise.

Exchanges and derivatives venues benefited as speculation returned. CoinGecko’s 2025 annual report estimated that centralized exchanges processed $86.2 trillion in perpetual futures volume in 2025, while decentralized perpetuals hit $6.7 trillion.

In a boom, that structure operates like a toll road, with greater volatility bringing higher fees and more liquidations.

Stablecoin issuers also emerged as winners, as they are expected to continue growing even when token prices decline. This is because traders and institutions still need dollar-denominated rails to move cash, settle trades, and park funds during volatility.

In fact, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent believes these assets will become a crucial buyer of US Treasuries in the coming years as they continue to rapidly expand.

Meanwhile, the bust phase has been harsher on businesses with embedded financial leverage and retail investors exposed to the industry.

Public companies that stockpiled BTC and other tokens as a strategy became a focal point as prices fell.

Shares of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), the bellwether of the corporate Bitcoin trade, fell from $457 in July 2025 to as low as $111.27 on Thursday, the lowest since August 2024.

Strategy held 713,502 bitcoin at an average cost of $76,052 per coin and posted a $12.4 billion quarterly loss as bitcoin’s decline forced a repricing of its crypto-heavy balance sheet.

Other listed buyers also fell, including the UK’s Smarter Web Company, Nakamoto Inc., and Japan’s Metaplanet, alongside firms tied to Ethereum and Solana strategies and a company that said it would stockpile a Trump-family token.

That dynamic captures the core contradiction of the cycle.

Trump’s pro-crypto posture helped anchor the post-election bid and validated parts of the political thesis through early executive actions, shifts in banking guidance, and a stablecoin law.

But the market’s surge also accelerated the structures that made crypto more sensitive to macroeconomic conditions, ETF flows, and leverage-driven bubbles. So, when those forces turned, the same “policy premium” that lifted valuations proved easy to unprice.

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Tether, the issuer of the world’s most widely traded stablecoin, has frozen more than $500 million in digital assets.

The funds are linked to a massive illegal gambling and money-laundering syndicate in Turkey.

Tether Marks One of Crypto’s Largest Crackdowns

The freeze targets assets reportedly owned by Veysel Sahin, an individual Turkish prosecutors accuse of orchestrating a sprawling illegal betting network.

Notably, this move marks one of the largest single-asset seizures in the cryptocurrency sector to date.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino confirmed the company’s role in the crackdown, emphasizing the firm’s increasing cooperation with international law enforcement.

“Law enforcement came to us, they provided some information, we looked at the information and we acted in respect of the laws of the country. And that’s what we do when we work with the DOJ, when we work with the FBI, you name it,” he reportedly said.

Meanwhile, the enforcement action highlights a significant pivot for the British Virgin Islands-incorporated firm. Once criticized by regulators for a perceived lack of transparency, Tether has repositioned itself as a proactive partner to global police agencies.

Earlier this year, the company froze more than $180 million worth of its USDT token. In total, Tether has now frozen more than $3 billion in assets since its inception.

With a circulating supply exceeding $187 billion, Tether’s USDT token serves as the primary source of liquidity for the global cryptocurrency market. BeInCrypto previously reported that this asset serves more than 534 million users globally.

Its widespread use allows traders to move funds quickly between exchanges without relying on traditional banking rails.

However, the speed and scale of recent interventions have dismantled the “censorship-resistant” reputation that once defined the digital asset sector.

Beyond enforcement, Tether has been aggressively diversifying its USDT reserves over the past year.

The company recently announced a $150 million investment in Gold.com, and a $100 million strategic investment in Anchorage Digital, America’s first federally regulated digital asset bank.

Meanwhile, these investment follows a record-breaking financial year for the stablecoin giant.

Buoyed by $10 billion in 2025 profits, Tether has expanded its reach beyond stablecoins. The firm is now deploying capital across a diverse portfolio of internal initiatives, ranging from sports to Bitcoin mining, decentralized communications, and artificial intelligence.

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Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek is steering the company into the artificial intelligence sector, unveiling a platform for personalized AI agents.

A $70 million acquisition of the “ai.com” domain supports the initiative, which debuts February 8 during a Super Bowl LX commercial.

Crypto.com CEO Takes on OpenAI and Google With Decentralized AI Push

The launch represents a significant strategic pivot for Marszalek. His firm previously made headlines—and drew skepticism—for spending $700 million on naming rights for the Los Angeles arena formerly known as the Staples Center.

Nonetheless, the move signals a high-stakes capital commitment to the convergence of blockchain technology and generative AI.

According to the company, the new platform allows retail users to deploy “agentic” AI tools in under 60 seconds without technical coding knowledge.

These agents are designed to execute autonomous tasks, such as organizing workflows, sending messages, and managing cross-application projects.

The interface targets mainstream consumers, though Marszalek described the long-term vision as a “decentralized network” where billions of agents self-improve and share capabilities.

“Ai.com is on a mission to accelerate the arrival of AGI by building a decentralized network of autonomous, self-improving AI agents that perform real-world tasks for the good of humanity,” he stated.

Notably, this structure mirrors the distributed ethos of the cryptocurrency industry.

The company said agents will operate in a “dedicated secure environment” where data is encrypted with user-specific keys. This architecture ostensibly limits the platform’s access to personal information.

The move underscores a broader trend of crypto executives seeking new growth narratives as the digital asset market matures.

By launching with a Super Bowl spot, Marszalek is betting that mainstream appetite for automated personal assistants will outpace fatigue around crypto-adjacent projects.

The platform plans to roll out financial services integration and an agent marketplace in future updates.

This trajectory points toward a hybrid business model that blends subscription tiers with transaction-based economics.

However, the venture faces a steep climb.

The venture must compete in an increasingly crowded market dominated by well-capitalized incumbents such as OpenAI and Google.

Simultaneously, it faces the challenge of convincing users to trust a crypto-native firm with their intimate personal data.

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Market expert Umair Crypto has released an updated technical analysis on the Solana price from last week. In his new report, the analyst highlighted that Solana’s market structure still remains decisively bearish, especially after its recent crash to two-year lows. Despite the downtrend, Umair Crypto believes that Solana could still build enough momentum to reach higher levels. He has shared multiple bullish and a few bearish targets for the cryptocurrency, depending on its next price movements. 

Solana Price Faces Sharp Downtrend Amid Key Support Losses

In his recent X post, Umair shared a chart analysis, predicting that the Solana price could recover and potentially climb back above $150. He provided detailed insights into the cryptocurrency’s recent downtrend and highlighted what a potential recovery might look like if the price breaks through key resistance levels.

According to Umair, Solana’s price action turned sharply bearish after breaking key support levels and crashing below $80 earlier this week. The analyst noted that SOL lost the $100 Point Of Control (POC) from the January 2024 range. As a result, the price quickly dropped toward the next POC zone between $67 and $73. This decline represented a clean move downward of about 27%, highlighting how fragile higher price levels have become amid broader market weakness. 

Following the price drop, Umair reported that Solana staged a modest 12% bounce from the lower zone. This movement confirmed the area as a volume-heavy region capable of temporarily attracting buyers. Despite this, the chart still signals caution, as Solana is already pulling back while trading volume continues to increase. The analyst emphasized that the combination of rising volume and price declines typically indicates a downside conviction rather than a V-shape recovery setup. Consequently, it suggests that SOL’s decline could continue, making a quick price reversal unlikely. 

Path To Recovery And Higher Price Targets

While the broader technical picture supports a bearish outlook for Solana, Umair Crypto still believes the cryptocurrency can stage a recovery to new highs, albeit slowly. He marked the former point of control near $100.93 as a key level to watch, noting that it now acts as a resistance. 

According to the analyst, the best-case scenario for Solana would be to build a base within its current range, flip its daily bullish structure, and use that structure as support for any future price recoveries. Without this, any sustained trend reversal is unlikely. 

If SOL breaks above the $100.93 level, Umair Crypto predicts the next price targets would be $120.59, $128.43, $138.77, and $150.36. In his original analysis, the analyst shared an even higher target, forecasting a surge to between $200 and $210 if Solana can maintain momentum above $150.36. 

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Ethereum is quietly setting up for a potentially decisive move as the Libra formation remains active on the weekly chart. While confirmation is still pending, the structure has not been invalidated, keeping the upside scenario firmly on the table. With key resistance levels overhead and momentum beginning to stabilize, ETH may be entering a critical phase where the next major directional move starts to take shape.

Weekly Libra Formation Keeps The Bullish Case Alive

On the X platform, Kamile Uray highlighted that Ethereum is currently forming a Libra pattern on the weekly chart. With the weekly candle yet to close and no invalidation so far, the bullish formation remains active and continues to be a valid scenario.

According to the update, confirmation of a reversal would open the door for a move toward the $4,956 high, but the price may face notable resistance along the way, particularly around the $3,445 level. Kamile Uray noted that a daily close above $2,475 would serve as the first technical signal that upside momentum is strengthening and that the recovery could continue. Failure to sustain movement above this area could delay further progress and keep the price vulnerable to pullbacks.

Since the Libra formation is developing on the weekly timeframe, the pattern would only be considered invalid if Ethereum breaks below the $1,388 low, underscoring the broader, long-term nature of the setup.

Ethereum Stretches Higher At $2,086 After A Sharp 22% Run

According to Can Özsüer, Ethereum is currently trading around $2,086, marking a strong rally from the $1,730 area. From that level to the current price, ETH has surged roughly 22% without a meaningful correction, which increases the likelihood of short-term profit-taking. After such a sharp move, light selling pressure typically emerges as the market cools off.

Can Özsüer notes that any selling from this region is expected to remain controlled rather than aggressive. The ideal pullback zone lies between $1,950 and $2,000, where the price could reset without damaging the broader bullish structure. A dip into this range would be considered healthy and could set the stage for the next leg higher.

Once that corrective move plays out, the next upside objective comes in around the $2,200 level. However, if price pushes straight toward the target without offering a pullback, the strategy would need adjustment. In that scenario, chasing a long position becomes less attractive, as a stronger selling wave could follow once the target is reached. If a correction does materialize, Can Özsüer suggests that a long position on the pullback would be the preferred approach.