XRP has faced significant volatility in recent weeks, with price action lacking clear momentum. Altcoin struggled to maintain upward momentum as broader market conditions remained bearish.
Despite attempts to recover, investor sentiment has remained weak, preventing any substantial movement. The result has been a lack of strong support, with many investors hesitant to make decisions.
XRP Is Losing Investor’s Interest
XRP’s market sentiment reflects the ongoing uncertainty, with active addresses showing a significant drop in participation. Over the past few days, investor conviction has been waning, largely due to bearish market cues. As a result, the number of active addresses has fallen from a recent high of 530,000 to just 123,000, indicating quickly declining interest in the altcoin.
The decline in participation highlights the reluctance of investors to fully engage with XRP. As investors pull back, liquidity becomes increasingly limited, which further dampens the potential for any substantial price rebound.
The macro momentum of XRP has also been affected by broader market conditions, although long-term holders (LTHs) remain a critical force in supporting the price. The MVRV Long/Short Difference shows that LTHs are sitting on considerable profits at the moment. These investors have been holding onto their positions rather than selling at low prices, providing support for XRP and preventing further price declines.
Their continued holding behavior has become crucial for maintaining the price above critical support levels. As the last line of defense for XRP, these LTHs are preventing a potential crash below $2.
XRP’s price currently stands at $2.17, holding above the support level of $2.14. Despite a 22% crash in recent weeks, the altcoin has managed to maintain its position above the critical $2.00 mark. While the current level is promising, breaching the $2.33 barrier may prove difficult due to the lack of strong bullish signals in the market.
Given the current market conditions and investor sentiment, XRP is likely to continue consolidating within the range of $2.33 and $2.14. A breakout in either direction will depend on the ability of the broader market to regain momentum. Until then, XRP may remain stuck in this narrow range.
However, if XRP falls below the support level of $2.14, the price could slide to $1.94. Such a decline would invalidate the neutral outlook, pushing the altcoin into a more bearish trend. A drop to $1.94 would signal a further loss of confidence, making a recovery even more challenging.
Cardano (ADA) shows renewed strength, up more than 10% in the last 24 hours. Its market cap is now at $26.5 billion. Trading volume has surged 50% over the same period, reaching over $900 million, signaling rising interest and activity.
As ADA forms an early-stage uptrend, technical indicators like ADX and EMA suggest growing momentum and the potential for a bullish breakout. However, a six-day decline in whale wallets raises caution, highlighting a possible divergence between price action and large-holder behavior.
Cardano ADX Rises: Is a Stronger Move Coming?
Cardano’s ADX (Average Directional Index) has climbed to 18.08, up from 14.88 a day earlier, signaling growing trend strength.
This shift comes as ADA starts forming an early-stage uptrend, with higher lows beginning to appear on the chart. While the price hasn’t broken out decisively yet, the rising ADX suggests that underlying momentum is building.
Traders often monitor these early ADX increases as potential signals of a larger move ahead, especially when paired with bullish structure.
The ADX is a widely used technical indicator that measures the strength, but not the direction, of a trend. Readings below 20 typically indicate a weak or ranging market, while values between 20 and 25 signal that a trend is forming.
A move above 25 confirms a strong, active trend. With ADA’s ADX now at 18.08 and steadily rising, the indicator is approaching the critical threshold that could validate a strengthening uptrend.
If the ADX crosses above 20 and price continues to climb, it could attract more bullish momentum and increase the chances of a sustained rally.
ADA Whale Wallets Drop for Sixth Day—Caution Ahead?
Despite Cardano forming an early-stage uptrend, the number of ADA whale wallets holding between 1 million and 10 million ADA has been quietly declining.
There are 2,426 such addresses, down from 2,438 just six days ago. This marks a six-day consecutive drop, following a recent peak that represented the highest whale count since mid-March.
While the price shows signs of strength, the quiet exit or redistribution among large holders could raise caution for short-term momentum.
Tracking whale wallets is crucial because large holders can significantly influence price direction through accumulation or distribution behaviors. When these addresses grow in number, it often signals confidence in the asset and a potential for sustained rallies.
Addresses Holding Between 1 Million and 10 Million ADA. Source: Santiment.
Conversely, a consistent drop in whale activity—especially during a forming uptrend—may suggest profit-taking, reduced conviction, or capital rotation into other assets.
At current levels, the ongoing decline in ADA whales may be an early warning sign that not all large investors are backing this rally. If the trend continues, it could limit Cardano’s upside potential, or at least slow down the pace of gains.
Traders should watch closely whether this divergence between price action and whale behavior widens or begins to realign.
Cardano Eyes Golden Cross as Price Approaches Key Resistance
Cardano’s EMA lines are tightening, suggesting a golden cross could form soon—a bullish signal that occurs when the short-term EMA crosses above the long-term EMA.
If confirmed, and if Cardano price breaks above the $0.73 level, it could open the door to test the next resistances at $0.746 and $0.774.
A sustained breakout would put $0.80 in play, a level not seen since March 8, potentially reigniting broader bullish momentum for ADA in the short term.
Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation, is looking beyond meme coins to establish Solana as the infrastructure for what she calls “internet capital markets.”
In an exclusive interview with BeInCrypto and a presentation at the 2025 Web3 Festival in Hong Kong, Liu outlined her vision for blockchain technology’s role in democratizing financial access.
From Meme Coins to the “Everything Chain”
“Solana has evolved from being the DeFi chain to the NFT chain, the gaming chain, the payment chain, and recently the meme coin chain,” Liu explained. “When you sum all that up, Solana is the everything chain.”
While meme coins drove Solana’s price to an impressive $290 high in January before falling 60% to around $120 today, Liu views them as just one transient asset class in a much broader ecosystem. “Meme coins are just one type of asset. There will be something else—there’s always going to be the tulip market and the beanie baby market. That’s been going on for a really long time. That’s just what humans do with or without blockchain,” Liu noted.
Despite price volatility, Solana’s Total Value Locked (TVL) reached an all-time high in April 2025, demonstrating continued investor confidence in the ecosystem beyond speculative assets.
The Crisis of Capital Access for Young Generations
Liu, who previously co-founded Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase in 2018) and served as CFO of Chinaco Healthcare Corporation, brings significant experience from building businesses in both the US and China to her current role at Solana. Her background in traditional finance gives weight to her critique of current capital markets.
“Fifty years ago, it took 25 hours of labor to buy one share of the S&P 500. Today, it takes 195 hours,” Liu noted in her presentation, highlighting how capital gains have become less accessible to average workers while losses are increasingly socialized through national debt.
This inaccessibility to capital markets has created anxiety among young people globally. Liu pointed to challenges in Korea and China, where housing prices have skyrocketed beyond what young professionals can afford without parental support.
“In Korea and China, the parents’ generation has retained the upside of a major asset class like housing. Young people’s ability to convert hours of labor into capital and freedom later in life has become extremely limited,” she observed. “In China, it creates huge anxiety for families where young men are culturally expected to own an apartment before marriage, yet average professional salaries make this impossible without parental help.”
Blockchain as Global Financial Infrastructure
Liu sees blockchain’s core purpose as creating a unified global financial infrastructure, similar to how the internet unified attention. “What crypto is doing is providing this unified infrastructure to unify the wealth, the transactions, the financial coffers of five and a half billion people,” she explained.
This infrastructure enables what Liu calls “internet capital markets,” making the full range of financial assets available to anyone with an internet connection. She contrasts the simplicity of downloading a crypto wallet against the complex paperwork of traditional banking and investment systems.
Lily Liu, President of Solana Foundation. Source: 2025 Web3 Festival Hong Kong.
For Liu, this infrastructure is particularly valuable in expanding access to equities and other assets that have both fundamental value and price discovery—currently reserved primarily for accredited investors even in developed markets.
Community-Based Capitalism and the Ownership Economy
Liu argues that blockchain offers an alternative to traditional economic systems. “In the last 100 years, we’ve come to accept that the dominant ownership models are either capitalist or communist—corporate ownership or state ownership,” she explained. “What Bitcoin proposed is that those aren’t the only choices.”
This has evolved into what Liu calls “community-based capitalism,” a term she uses to describe economic models where value accrues to network participants rather than just shareholders or the state. “Instead of universal basic income, which is essentially a welfare economy, crypto proposes universal basic opportunity,” she said. This model allows early participants in network building to share in the upside.
Liu contrasts this with traditional platforms like Uber, where early drivers who helped bootstrap the network received hourly pay but no equity upside. Her “ownership economy” concept refers to this more inclusive approach to capital formation where contribution and ownership are more closely aligned.
Solana’s governance reflects this philosophy, which was recently demonstrated in a controversial proposal to reduce inflation. Liu actively participated in this discussion, explaining that inflation reduction might seem efficient from a network security perspective but would potentially harm Solana as a yield-generating asset.
“Dynamic yield on an asset makes it a worse asset,” Liu emphasized. “If you have an asset yielding a fixed percentage annually, you price that very differently than an asset yielding at variable rates.”
Looking five years ahead, Liu envisions Solana enabling an ownership economy where blockchain creates new pathways for individuals to convert labor into capital, bringing “more inclusivity for five and a half billion people on the internet into capital markets.”
“The end state is moving into assets that have value, can also command price, and bring more inclusivity around the world,” Liu concluded. “This is where crypto is going.”
Japanese Corporation Metaplanet has announced the appointment of Eric Trump, son of US President Donald Trump, as the inaugural member of its newly established Strategic Board of Advisors.
The announcement made on March 21 highlights Metaplanet’s strategic intent to strengthen its influence within the global Bitcoin economy.
Eric Trump Joins Metaplanet to Strengthen Bitcoin Strategy
According to the official statement, Eric Trump’s appointment aims to leverage his vast experience in real estate, finance, brand development, and strategic business growth. Beyond his business credentials, Eric Trump has positioned himself as a key advocate for digital assets and blockchain innovation.
“His business acumen, love of the Bitcoin community and global hospitality perspective will be invaluable in accelerating Metaplanet’s vision of becoming one of the world’s leading Bitcoin Treasury Companies,” said Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich.
Alongside Eric Trump, Metaplanet’s Strategic Board of Advisors will include other renowned industry leaders and financial experts. These individuals will remain committed to advancing the company’s Bitcoin mission and fostering financial innovation in the digital asset sector.
The appointment comes as Metaplanet intensifies its Bitcoin investment strategy. On March 18, the company announced the issuance of 2 billion yen ($13.4 million) in zero-coupon ordinary bonds. The proceeds will be dedicated to acquiring more Bitcoin.
This aligns with Metaplanet’s ambitious roadmap. The company aims to amass 10,000 Bitcoins by the end of this year and 21,000 BTC by the close of 2026.
According to the latest data from Bitcoin Treasuries, Metaplanet currently holds 3,200 BTC, acquired at an average cost of $83,107 per coin. While this has resulted in a modest 1.8% profit, the firm remains vulnerable to Bitcoin price fluctuations.
The company faced potential losses multiple times in March 2025, when Bitcoin’s price fell below its acquisition cost. In fact, last week, Bitcoin dipped as low as $76,555—its lowest price since November 2024—putting downward pressure on Metaplanet’s portfolio. Nonetheless, the market has seen a slight recovery since.
At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading at $84,414. According to BeInCrypto data, this reflected a 1.54% decline over the past 24 hours. This offers a narrow margin of safety for Metaplanet’s holdings but underlines the ongoing volatility of the cryptocurrency market.
