Pi Coin is under pressure, currently trading just below $0.60 after dropping over 4% in the past 24 hours. The price is sliding toward lower support near $0.55, even as the overall crypto market trends upward.
One of the warning signs is the RSI (Relative Strength Index), which has fallen to 30 — a level that suggests oversold conditions. This means Pi may struggle to bounce back unless buying pressure increases. As long as Pi stays below its key trend line, analysts say the downtrend could continue in the short term.
What’s Driving Interest in Pi?
Despite the recent dip, Pi Network is making moves behind the scenes. Reports suggest the team is in talks with smaller e-commerce platforms in Southeast Asia and Africa. Their aim? To position Pi as a cross-border micro-payment option in regions where traditional banking is still limited.
Pi is reportedly in talks with small e-commerce platforms in emerging markets (such as Southeast Asia and Africa). The goal is to position Pi as a cross-border micro-payment tool, ideal for regions with underdeveloped banking systems. #PiNetwork#Ecommerce
At the same time, there’s growing speculation that HTX (formerly Huobi) — one of the top global exchanges with over $1.7 billion in daily trading volume — might be planning to list PI$PI soon. HTX recently posted a mysterious graphic featuring the Pi Network logo, sparking excitement across the community.
If the listing is confirmed, a major price rally could follow — especially given Pi’s large community and use-case potential in emerging markets.
Conclusion:
Pi Coin is facing short-term pressure, but strong fundamentals and exchange rumors could change the story quickly. Keep an eye on $0.55 support and any updates from HTX.
MicroStrategy is lacing up for a potential Bitcoin purchase after Michael Saylor flashed the tell-tale buy signal. The incoming purchase will be the company’s first in Q2 after pausing Bitcoin purchases at the start of April in an eyebrow-raising move.
Michael Saylor Flashes Bitcoin Buy Signal
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor has dropped clues that the software company will continue its Bitcoin accumulation spree. In an X post, Saylor shared MicroStrategy’s portfolio tracker revealing the company’s Bitcoin holdings and valuations.
Michael Saylor’s previous posts sharing Microstrategy’s portfolio tracker over the weekend have resulted in purchases at the start of the week. Investors are lapping up Saylor’s portfolio tracker post and the accompanying caption as cues for a BTC purchase on Monday.
“No tariffs on Orange Dots,” said Saylor, taking a jibe at brewing tariff wars between the US and China.
MicroStrategy had previously halted its Bitcoin purchase spree at the start of April leading to a slump in MSTR price. At the time, there was significant chatter that MicroStrategy may be forced to offload its Bitcoin holdings to cover obligations following a dip in prices.
Per the portfolio tracker, MicroStrategy holds 528,185 BTC on its balance sheet valued at $44.7 billion. Michael Saylor hinting at a potential Bitcoin purchase follows a small dip in prices with BTC holding the $83K mark.
Will Bitcoin Price Rally?
Saylor’s hint at buying Bitcoin has triggered a small bump in prices as the top cryptocurrency surpassed $83K. However, an actual purchase will trigger a significant price action for BTC in line with previous accumulations.
MicroStrategy’s last Bitcoin purchase of 22,048 BTC jolted the markets in line with investors’ expectations. However, there are fears that macroeconomic events like the US-China tariff war may affect a potential BTC rally following MicroStrategy’s incoming purchase.
Bitcoin price has rebounded after a previous bloodbath, sparking fresh optimism in the markets. Crypto Joao Wedson predicts that Bitcoin is not out of the woods yet and a grim drop to $65K is still a possibility for the top cryptocurrency.
“We’re not ruling out the possibility of the price dipping below $65K, as several metrics point to that region as strong support – such as the True Market Mean Price and Alpha Price, both sitting exactly around $64,700,” said Wedson.
Crypto analyst Doctor Profit warns that a BTC price drop to these levels may force MicroStrategy to sell MSTR to avoid liquidation.
In the latest XRP news update, Teucrium CEO Sal Gilbertie addressed the Ripple token as the cryptocurrency with the highest utility. After launching the first-ever XRP ETF, the investment firm’s CEO remains vocal about the token’s utility and real-world use cases.
While hailing XRP as the most useful crypto asset, Gilbertie underscored its unique value proposition and strong development backing. Let’s explore the token’s unique use cases through the lens of the Teucrium CEO.
XRP News: Why Did Teucrium Choose Ripple Token? CEO Explains
In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Teucrium CEO Sal Gilbertie praised the XRP token for its real-world utility. For him, XRP stands unique among other cryptocurrencies due to its dual strengths: a tradable asset with a clear function and robust development support. Gilbertie cited,
We chose XRP because we believe it’s the coin with the most utility. It’s not just speculation; it facilitates real transactions. Ripple is a team of true professionals.
Bitcoin or XRP?
Furthermore, the Teucrium CEO shared a comparative study on XRP and Bitcoin. Contrasting XRP with BTC, the CEO described the former as a practical tool for transferring value. He posited, “Bitcoin is a store of value, and that’s valid. But XRP has a real use case.”
Teucrium CEO Praises Ripple Team
Investment giant Teucrium recently launched the first-ever XRP ETF, sparking optimism within the Ripple community. After a week, the CEO came forward, expressing the platform’s enthusiasm for the project.
In addition, CEO Gilbertie praised Ripple and its team for their endeavors over the past years. He hailed the Ripple team as “professional people working really hard.”
According to Gilbertie, both Ripple and XRP are paving the way for a significant shift in the financial landscape. He added that the platform envisions a future where everything is tokenized.
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.
