XRP Could Hit $24 If This Ultra Rare Golden Cross Is Confirmed on XRP vs. Bitcoin Chart

Metaplanet has pushed its Bitcoin holdings past the $3 billion mark after completing another large purchase, as it deepens into a hybrid model of the Bitcoin treasury and income business.

The Tokyo-listed firm on December 30 that it acquired an additional 4,279 Bitcoin at a total cost of about $451 million, lifting its total holdings to 35,102 BTC.

*Metaplanet Acquires Additional 4,279 BTC, Total Holdings Reach 35,102 BTC* — Metaplanet Inc. (@Metaplanet)

At current market prices, the stack is valued at roughly $3 billion, placing Metaplanet among the world’s largest publicly listed Bitcoin holders.

The latest purchase was made at an average price of ¥16.33 million per Bitcoin, bringing the company’s cumulative cost basis to ¥559.73 billion, or an average of ¥15.95 million per coin. Bitcoin Pays Off for Metaplanet as Income Unit Outperforms Expectations

The acquisition capped a quarter marked by continued accumulation through a mix of direct market purchases and Bitcoin option-related activity.

Metaplanet said the strategy reflects its long-standing plan to treat Bitcoin as a core treasury asset rather than a short-term trade.

Alongside the treasury expansion, the company reported that revenue from its Bitcoin Income Generation business has significantly exceeded expectations.

In a regulatory filing, Metaplanet operating revenue from the segment is now expected to reach ¥8.58 billion, or about $54 million, for fiscal year 2025.

That figure is well above the company’s initial guidance of ¥3.0 billion and its revised October forecast of ¥6.3 billion.Source:

The income business relies on option-based strategies that use a dedicated pool of Bitcoin to generate recurring cash flow.

According to the company, these activities are fully segregated from its long-term Bitcoin holdings, which are intended to be held indefinitely.

The derivatives portfolio generates revenue through option premiums and trading outcomes, while the core treasury remains untouched. Any capital generated may later be added to long-term reserves, but the reverse is not permitted.Source:

However, even with the announcement, Metaplanet’s shares are still trading at ¥405 on Tuesday, down nearly 8% on the day. The Japan Firm Bitcoin Revenue Takes Off as Treasury Strategy Scales

Also, revenue growth accelerated sharply through the year as its Bitcoin income generation revenue rose from ¥691.6 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024 to ¥770.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2025.

It then climbed to ¥1.13 billion in the second quarter, ¥2.44 billion in the third, and ¥4.24 billion in the fourth quarter.

Over that period, the compounded quarterly growth rate reached about 57%, with the strongest gains recorded in the second half of the year.Source:

Metaplanet’s broader Bitcoin strategy formally began in December 2024, when treasury operations were designated as a core business line.

Since then, holdings have grown from about 1,762 BTC at the end of 2024 to more than 35,000 BTC by late December 2025.

The company tracks its treasury strategy using proprietary metrics such as BTC Yield and BTC Gain, designed to measure Bitcoin accumulation relative to shareholder dilution.

While BTC Yield has declined as the company’s asset and share base expanded, Bitcoin per fully diluted share continued to rise through the end of December, reaching 0.02405 BTC per 1,000 shares.

To fund its expansion, Metaplanet has leaned heavily on capital markets. During the fourth quarter, it entered into Bitcoin-backed credit facilities totaling $280 million under a broader $500 million program.

It also raised ¥21.25 billion through the issuance of Class B preferred shares to overseas institutional investors while fully redeeming outstanding ordinary bonds.

🚀 Metaplanet raises $135M for Bitcoin acquisitions as Saylor defends treasury strategy, saying Strategy can withstand 80-90% drawdowns. — Cryptonews.com (@cryptonews)

Metaplanet’s growing exposure has also attracted international attention, with the company recently launching a sponsored American Depositary Receipt program to give U.S. investors easier access to its shares.

Bitcoin , the largest cryptocurrency, will rally by 67% and hit the $150,000 milestone in 2026. The stablecoin segment will also be rocketing together with the prediction markets scene, while AI usage outside tech will remain limited — that is how the top VC investor sees 2026 in Web3.

Bitcoin price to surpass $150,000 in 2026, Haseeb Qureshi says

Bitcoin , the biggest cryptocurrency asset, has all the chances to blast past $150,000 by the end of 2026 despite its dominance shrinking. Ethereum and Solana will expand its dominance in the segment of smart contract platforms for dApps while minor chains — even stablecoin-centric ones — will underperform, Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner in Web3 VC firm Dragonfly Capital, shares on X.

Also, we should expect more tech companies, including Fortune Top 100 heavyweights, to be releasing their own blockchain ventures. The segment will become concentrated, with a number of top-tier banks dominating here. In terms of infrastructure, more chains will leverage DoubleZero architecture.

In the segment of on-chain perps trading, maximum three venues will be dominating; the same will work for decentralized prediction markets. Almost all liquidity will be routed to Polymarket, Kalshi and Robinhood front-ends.

The sphere of stablecoins will also grow at an impressive pace. The stablecoin supply will expand by 60% YoY, with USD-pegged stablecoins still controlling 99%+ of the market. USDT dominance will drop to 55%.

Changes in the political landscape in the U.S. might affect the audience of PolitFi meme coins and 1 ecosystems.

This segment set to rocket by 1,000%

Qureshi indicated the segment that still can rally by over 10x from its current state — it is stablecoin-based cards. They will cement themselves as the main driver for retail stablecoin adoption, with Rain being an influential player.

The synergy between AI and Web3 will still remain controversial. While we are set to see more and more ultra-small teams (with less than 10 employees) delivering popular products, the full-scale agentic payments adoption will not happen next year.

Also, as security remains in focus for teams of all sizes, the number of big crypto hacks will drop compared to 2026, the VC veteran concluded.

As revealed by Arkham's data, a total of 485,106,817,819 SHIB was transferred from a Coinbase Prime hot wallet to one untagged address over just two days. This was not a single, big-deal transaction, as the accumulation was broken into three smaller parts. Once the transfers were done, the receiving wallet was left holding 485.1 billion SHIB as its main asset, with a valuation just above $3.47 million.

There are only a few realistic options here. One is that the owner plans to keep Shiba Inu off-exchange, which would remove the immediate sell-side supply from Coinbase and let them bet on later repricing. Another is that the wallet acts as an operational hub, a pause before distribution to other venues, liquidity routes or structured positions.

The withdrawal happened during a period when SHIB was trading closer to weekly lows around the $0.0000072 zone, rather than during a price spike. That is basically the line where dips get bought by optimists and sold into by tired holders, so seeing coins pulled off-exchange here reads like someone accepting short-term heat for a longer hold.

Shiba Inu price is key

Price-wise, if SHIB holds above the $0.0000071 to $0.0000072 zone, the next upside targets will be $0.0000074 first and then the $0.0000078 area, mostly because that is where recent weekly rejection tends to cluster. 

Should SHIB lose that band and print lower weekly closes, the market will start hunting for the next demand pocket around $0.0000068.

The next phase will be visible soon. If the wallet sits idle, the market story will start to shift toward accumulation and a longer-term strategy. If the SHIB starts moving in pieces again, the story will switch to staging and execution. Either way, the numbers speak for themselves.

Grayscale is seeking to convert its Bittensor Trust into an exchange-traded fund, just weeks after the network’s native token underwent its first halving event.

On Tuesday, the digital asset investment firm filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the Grayscale Bittensor Trust (TAO). The filing marks the first attempt to launch a U.S spot ETF offering direct exposure to Bittensor. 

"We’re pleased to take this early step as we continue to expand the tools available to investors and further develop Grayscale’s product platform to meet the growing investor demand for digital asset exposure," a Grayscale spokesperson said in a statement sent to The Block.

The Grayscale Bittensor Trust, which had been private since 2024, became more accessible to a broader set of investors via public quotation earlier this month. Grayscale's Bittensor ETF would trade on NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol GTAO. Coinbase Custody Trust Company LLC and BitGo Trust Company, Inc., would be the custodians, according to Tuesday's filing. 

TAO is the native token of Bittensor, a decentralized, AI-focused network built on a hub-and-spoke blockchain architecture that supports application-specific subnets. Participants earn TAO by contributing computing resources that help improve and support these AI-driven networks.

Bittensor's halving occurred in mid-December, reducing the rate at which new TAO tokens are made in the Bittensor network — a mechanism similar to bitcoin's halving events, which occur roughly every four years. After Bittensor's halving, the price of TAO dipped, but has since leveled to a value of about $222, according to The Block's price page. 

Bittensor (TAO) price chart. Source: The Block/TradingView

Grayscale operates some of the largest ETFs tracking major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, and over the past year has converted several altcoin trusts into ETFs — like the more recent launch of the Grayscale LINK fund, the first Chainlink ETF to market.

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Every recent Dogecoin recovery attempt has met overhead pressure, and this has kept the price action capped below $0.15. A look at the price chart shows the recent price action is part of a broader downtrend that has been playing out for the past three months, and the meme coin is about to end the year in red. However, a longer-term technical analysis suggests that the calm phase could be part of a much larger setup.

According to the analysis, Dogecoin may be following a recurring fractal rhythm tied to the number seven. This repeating timing structure points to a much larger upside target for the meme coin over the coming years, stretching as high as $10.

A Recurring Seven Rhythm Across Markets

The foundation of the technical analysis is based on the idea that different assets tend to pivot in repeating time-based fractals of seven. This phenomenon has been observed in markets ranging from gold to the S&P 500, where important tops and bottoms often align around similar intervals of seven. Bitcoin’s historical behavior is highlighted as a key reference point, particularly the 2021 double top, which formed seven months apart and is an important transition in its cycle.

This same rhythm becomes apparent when mapped onto Dogecoin. Particularly, Dogecoin topped roughly seven months before Bitcoin during the last cycle, then lagged Bitcoin by another seven months during subsequent phases. Even Dogecoin’s rise from the start of its macro Elliott Wave 1 is framed within this same seven-month timing structure, showing that its major turning points have been surprisingly consistent.

The chart shared alongside the analysis shows a sequence of price expansions and consolidations that unfold in roughly seven-month blocks since July 2023, each characterized by either uptrends or downtrends. 

Now that the traditional four-year crypto cycle shows signs of losing its influence, the analyst proposed that a transition may be happening toward a longer, seven-year rhythm from macro bottom to macro top. Under this lens, Dogecoin’s current position is more like a mid-cycle consolidation.

How The Fractal Points To A $10 Target

Using the same fractal spacing projected forward, the analysis extends Dogecoin’s long-term trajectory into the next major cycle window. The green projection box on the chart illustrates a future expansion phase that mirrors earlier rallies but on a larger scale, consistent with the idea of a bigger seven-year cycle. If Dogecoin continues to respect the same timing and channel structure, the projected upside region converges between the $7 to $10 zone over the next few years.

The first move in this case would be a return to bullish momentum over the coming months, and then a reclaim above the resistance trendline just below $0.4.

XRP held above a key demand zone that has provided support for its price throughout 2025. Will holding this level and a reducing balance on exchanges trigger the start of a sustained recovery in 2026?

Key takeaways:

• XRP supply on exchanges has dropped to an 8-year low, signalling reduced selling pressure.

• XRP price bulls look to establish strong support at $1.78 for the next leg up.

XRP supply on exchanges fall to seven-year lows

As Cointelegraph reported, there has been a sharp decrease in the XRP supply on exchanges over the last 60 days, according to data from Glassnode.

Related: XRP price below $2: Negative sentiment signals ‘strong rebound’ ahead

The XRP balance on exchanges dropped by 2.16 billion tokens to 1.6 billion on Tuesday, from 3.76 billion on Oct. 8, levels last seen in August 2018.