The Mantra team has addressed the crypto community following the Mantra (OM) token price crash of over 80% in the last 24 hours. Despite the statement, the community is still concerned that this might have been a rug pull by the team, which controls a huge amount of the token’s total supply.
Mantra Team Responds Following Token Crash
In an X post, the Mantra team assured the community that the token is “fundamentally strong” despite the crash that occurred in the last 24 hours. The team blamed the crash on “reckless liquidations” and denied it had anything to do with the project.
They further assured that this had nothing to do with the team and revealed that they were looking into the Mantra price crash and would share more details about what happened as soon as possible.
In an X post, the project’s co-founder, John Patrick Mullin, further revealed that there was a massive forced liquidation from a large OM investor on a Centralized Exchange (CEX). However, he didn’t reveal whether it was one of the top crypto exchanges.
In another X post, Mullin tried to set the record straight. He stated that they didn’t delete the Telegram channel. He further remarked that the team’s tokens all remain in custody and provided a wallet address (mantra…..quam) for community members to verify this claim.
The Mantra co-founder added that they are actively figuring out why these massive forced liquidations occurred and will provide more information as soon as possible. He assured that they are still here and not going anywhere.
Mantra Price Crashes By Over 80% In 24 Hours
CoinMarketCap data shows that the Mantra price has crashed by over 80% in the last 24 hours. The token sharply dropped from an intra-day high of $6.3 to as low as $0.4. However, it has reclaimed the $1 price level following the team’s statement.
However, amid this statement, some community members still seem convinced that this was a rug pull, as the team controls a huge amount of the token’s supply. Crypto commentator Sjuul described the OM token as the LUNA of this cycle.
He further explained why the community believes the crash was a rug pull, stating that the crash began when a wallet believed to be connected to the team suddenly deposited 3.9 million OM tokens to the OKX crypto exchange. This deposit led to significant selling pressure, which caused the Mantra price to crash.
Besides the token’s crash, the broader crypto market is witnessing a downtrend following US President Donald Trump’s statement in which he debunked reports of an exemption. This comes just a day after the crypto market rebounded following reports that the US president had exempted computers, phones, and chips from his tariffs on China and other countries.
Bitcoin may be on the edge of a breakout, as the highly anticipated Bitcoin 2025 Conference kicks off May 27 in Las Vegas. While traders set their sights on a potential all-time high near $135,000, one critical support level could decide everything.
Analyst CrypNuevo warns that if Bitcoin loses this zone, a sharp drop to the $100K mark might follow. Here’s what’s happening with Bitcoin’s chart right now.
Retesting Support: A Bullish Flip in Action
According to CrypNuevo, Bitcoin has successfully flipped a former resistance level into support, a promising structure known in technical analysis as an R/S (resistance/support) flip.
This move is crucial because holding this level could keep the bullish momentum alive. If Bitcoin manages to stay above this level in the next few days, it could climb even higher.
At the same time, well-known crypto expert Wise Advice believes that if Bitcoin follows the movement of the money supply (M2), its price could rise by about 24%, reaching $135K by July.
Liquidation Zones Hint at $115K Target
Looking at longer timeframes, CrypNuevo points out a cluster of liquidations between $112K and $114K. These areas tend to attract price movement, especially since they are above Bitcoin’s recent highs.
If Bitcoin can break through this zone, a rise to $115K, a new all-time high, might happen.
This level also matches where many traders’ long leveraged positions could be forced to close, which might speed up the price jump.
Key Support Test Around $106K
However, the short-term picture tells a slightly different story. There’s some liquidation pressure around $105,700, which suggests the price may dip and retest support near $106,000. If Bitcoin holds that level, it could offer a fresh and more favorable entry point for traders.
However, if $106K fails, the price could fall further to the psychological $100K level. CrypNuevo notes this dip could shake weak hands but might also attract long-term buyers.
As of now, Bitcoin is trading around $$109,700, reflecting a slight rise in the last 24 hours, with a market cap hitting $2.18 trillion.
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Bitcoin may be on the edge of a breakout, as the highly anticipated Bitcoin 2025 Conference kicks off May 27 in Las Vegas. While traders set their sights on a potential all-time high near $135,000, one critical support level could decide everything. Analyst CrypNuevo warns that if Bitcoin loses this zone, a sharp drop to …
At Paris Blockchain Week, BeInCrypto sat down with Andrey Fedorov, the Chief Marketing Officer and acting Chief Business Development Officer at STON.fi, to dive deep into the platform’s mission, roadmap, and broader views on the DeFi sector.
Andrey Fedorov shared insights into how Omniston, a liquidity aggregation protocol developed by STON.fi, aims to simplify and streamline decentralized liquidity access across the TON blockchain and beyond. It presents a unified integration point for DeFi apps, liquidity providers, and users alike.
Andrey Fedorov on Omniston
Omniston is a decentralized liquidity aggregation protocol that connects DeFi apps to TON liquidity. This protocol is built for the TON blockchain, which means that when users want to swap TON-based tokens, Omniston finds the best deals. I’d say this is a protocol and not an exchange in itself, but it does connect apps, for example, for some exchanges, wallets, games, some other apps that need to access liquidity. So, there are users in these apps who want to swap and trade tokens.
Andrey Fedorov at Paris Blockchain Week
Usually, DeFi apps need to find and integrate with various liquidity sources — a process that’s time-consuming, complex, and often expensive due to the integration work involved. That’s where Omniston comes in. Basically, instead of connecting to five or ten different liquidity sources one by one, you just integrate with Omniston once. It’s like this one plug-in point.
So when a DeFi app connects to Omniston, it automatically gets access to all these different liquidity sources that are already connected. And it works both ways — liquidity providers, market makers, and anyone who has liquidity, they also get access to the user base of those apps.
And the cool thing is, anyone can plug into Omniston. If you have access to liquidity, whether it’s on-chain (like liquidity pools or vaults) or off-chain (like private funds), you can integrate through Omniston. This makes your liquidity available to all the apps connected to Omniston.
As a result, users benefit from deeper liquidity, and liquidity providers can earn yield by serving those users. We use the term “liquidity providers” broadly — it includes market makers and any other entities that can supply liquidity.
About Omniston’s roadmap
Right now, Omniston is mainly focused on providing access — so we’re not charging anything at this stage. The idea is really to drive usage. We want people to connect and start building with it. Liquidity providers can already earn money, and the same goes for DeFi apps — they can build on top of Omniston and create their own revenue models.
As for monetization on our side, we think it’ll come, but probably not in the traditional ‘pay-to-use’ way. We just launched about a month ago, so it’s still very early. The priority right now is adoption. We want to get more apps plugged in, more liquidity providers onboarded. Once we scale that up, we’ll explore monetization options — but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll start charging across the board.
The STON.fi team is still finalizing KPIs. We’re testing everything live — this is a working product — so we’re figuring out the numbers as we go. But if I had to name one core metric right now, it’s connectivity. We want to connect as many applications as possible, and aggregate as much liquidity as we can. That’s the north star for us.
Looking at the roadmap, the next big step is cross-chain swaps. Omniston currently runs on the TON blockchain, but we’ve already built the architecture for cross-chain functionality, and we’re actively testing it. Over the next few months, we’ll be working on integration testing.
Of course, we’re taking it step by step. The next chain will likely be Tron, and then we’ll move into EVM ecosystems. But it’s not going to be all at once — we’re rolling this out gradually.
TON — The Ideal Blockchain for Omniston?
There are two reasons why we chose TON. First, it is a technically strong blockchain. Second, it’s rapidly becoming the native chain of Telegram, which has a massive user base of over one billion people.
TON helps us access these huge markets. A technically strong blockchain plus a huge market is a good fit. Additionally, the TON ecosystem offers solid developer support and growing resources, making it a compelling platform on which to build.
I would also add that the TON ecosystem is growing very fast, with strong support from the TON Foundation. Plus, with so many projects on the chain, they craft good documentation that shows the use cases and so on. For developers building on TON, this means they benefit not just from the strong support but also from the collective experience and momentum of the broader community — which is incredibly valuable.
The Impact of Crypto and Blockchain Regulation
First of all, I don’t think regulation is a limitation per se. It’s something we monitor closely, and we take all regulatory developments into account as we grow.
I would say that Europe has made some progress over here because of MiCA. Regulation in the United States is fragmented, but we still need to watch them closely. Our goal is to remain fully compliant — and we view that as necessary and inevitable.
Promising Crypto Trends
Everybody is speaking about AI agents. The concept is definitely compelling and has strong future potential, but the challenge is that there aren’t many clear, practical use cases yet. What we need to do now is find these good use cases, and currently, I would say that there are not so many. That’s the problem. But again, we need to watch this space closely.
From what I understand, AI agents are already being used to evaluate whether there is a balance in the market. It is interesting to use them for this specific test case, but this is only one. It is the most obvious one.
There’s definitely room to explore more impactful ways to combine AI with crypto. It’s an area worth studying closely, and while we’re still in the early stages, I don’t see any fundamental limitations holding us back.
The crypto market continue to waver this week as fears of a downturn in the United States remain. Ethereum has stalled below $1,500, while Bitcoin and Ripple have remained in a narrow range. In contrast, gold and the Swiss franc have continued to attract the attention of investors because of their safe-haven roles. This article provides a BTC, XRP, and ETH price prediction and what to expect.
Swiss Franc and Gold are Doing Well as Safe Haven Demand Rises
The Swiss franc (CHF) and gold (XAU) have maintained their role as good assets as concerns about a recession remain. Gold price has surged to $3,330, bringing the year-to-date gains to 25%. It has moved to its all-time high and is one of the best-performing assets this year.
The CHF has also soared in the past few months. The USD/CHF exchange rate rose for five consecutive weeks and is trading at its highest level since 2021.
These two assets have surged because investors see them as safe-haven assets. Gold has a long heritage as a safe asset, and is seeing more demand from central banks and institutional investors.
On the other hand, the CHF is seen as a safe haven because of the strength of the Swiss economy and the fact that the country is neutral on geopolitical issues.
Bitcoin is also gaining its strong credentials as its price has remained at $84,000 this week. It has dropped by 8% while the Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 indices have fallen by 13% and 12%, respectively.
Bitcoin vs S&P 500 vs Nasdaq 100
ETH Price Prediction
Ethereum price has crashed this year. On the 1D chart, it has slumped below the crucial support level at $2,140, the neckline of the triple-top pattern. On the positive side, the coin has formed a giant falling wedge pattern, which happens when there are two falling and converging trendlines.
These two lines are about to converge, meaning that a breakout is possible. If it does, the most likely ETH price forecastis bullish, with the initial target being at $2,140, the neckline of the triple-top pattern. The bullish outlook will be cancelled if the coin drops below $1,385, the lowest point this year.
ETH Price Chart
BTC Price Technical Analysis
Bitcoin price has remained in a tight range above $84,000, after it formed a double-bottom pattern at $76,650 in March and April. It is attempting to move above the 50-day moving average.
A move above that level would confirm the bullish outlook of the double-bottom and point to more gains to the neckline at $88,745. A surge above that level means that the BTC price may surge above $90,000.
The alternative scenario is where it pulls back and retests the double-bottom at $76,650.
BTC Price Chart
XRP Price Forecast
Like BTC, the XRP price has remained in a tight range in the past few days. It has stalled at a key resistance level where the descending trendline connects the highest swings since January. Also, the coin has found a strong resistance at the 50-day moving average.
XRP Price Chart
Therefore, a strong XRP price rallywill be confirmed if it rises above the descending trendline and the 50-day moving average. If this happens, the coin will then soar to $2.90, which coincides with the neckline of the head and shoulders pattern.
