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XRP Ledger Key Metric Jumps 535% in Two Days: What It Means for Price
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XRP Most Likely to Hit $1.70 This September, According to Kalshi
Traders on the Kalshi prediction market are betting that XRP will reach a multi-month high of $1.70 by the end of September. XRP recently broke through resistance near $1.60 and is currently trading around $1.53, meaning it would need to gain over 11% in three days to hit that target. The article also notes XRP's roughly 47.6% gain in Q3 2026, its best quarterly performance of the year, reversing two straight quarters of losses. Price analyses for Solana, Zcash, Chainlink, and Cardano are included as well.
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XRP Ledger Key Metric Jumps 535% in Two Days: What It Means for Price
XRP Ledger saw a sharp surge in on-chain activity over two days, with new accounts up 535.2% to 2,900, active accounts up 218.1%, successful transactions up 80.8% to 1.7 million, payments up 108.9%, transfer value up 894.3% to about 704 million XRP, and network fees burned up 225.7%. However, active users fell 70.6%, suggesting the growth may be driven by a small number of high-frequency users. XRP rebounded from around $1.05 in late August to $1.70 before pulling back to near $1.53, and it remains above a key moving average.
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Pump.fun Transfers $5.83M in SOL to Kraken
Pump.fun has moved another 47,994 SOL, worth roughly $5.83 million, to the Kraken exchange. On-chain analytics platform Lookonchain estimates that since launching, Pump.fun has sold about 5.236 million SOL for a total of roughly $848 million, at an average price of around $162. Official Pump.fun data shows it had spent $463.5 million on PUMP token buybacks and burns by the end of September. Following the transfer, SOL traded at about $121, up roughly 1% over 24 hours. The move follows a series of similar transfers to Kraken, typically tied to treasury conversions.
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Dogecoin's Ten-Cent Dream Back in Play as Elon Musk Returns to the Crypto Spotlight
Dogecoin is once again testing the key $0.10 resistance level, with Elon Musk back in the crypto conversation after a DOGE-tagged post drew attention. DOGE briefly touched $0.10 this week before pulling back, having repeatedly failed to break through. A clean break could open the door to $0.11, $0.14, and even $0.18 or $0.20, though the daily MA200 has capped price action since October 2025. On-chain data shows a 365-day MVRV of -19.26%, meaning traders active over the past year are still underwater, but downside risk looks limited and a rebound is possible if demand holds up.
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Hongguo Takes On Four Rivals as iQIYI, Youku, Tencent Video and Mango TV Stay Silent
ByteDance's short-drama platform Hongguo has surged to 168 million daily active users, surpassing iQIYI, Youku, Tencent Video and Mango TV combined, with users averaging 125 minutes per day. Its free model, ByteDance ecosystem synergy and low-cost AI-generated content have driven rapid expansion, with AI micro-dramas now accounting for over 95% of the industry. Yet 90% of players are losing money amid severe overcapacity and a hit rate of just 0.47%.
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Goldman Sachs on Rate Hikes: Is the Market Overpricing Them? The Fed May Only Need One More
Based on an interview with Robert Kaplan, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs and former Dallas Fed President, on the Goldman Sachs Exchanges podcast, this article discusses the Fed's policy path after its September rate hike. Kaplan believes the Fed may need only one more hike to 4%-4.25% before pausing, and that the market may be overpricing the extent of tightening, with risk premiums tied to oil price trends and uncertainty over new Chair Warsh's policy reaction function. The article also examines structural issues including U.S. economic divergence, the mismatch between AI infrastructure investment and rate-sensitive sectors, and the impact of fiscal deficits on long-term Treasuries.
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Polygon Burns Just $100M of a $10B Supply — Is the POL Deflation Story a Joke?
Polygon burned 100 million POL tokens — about 1% of total supply — but the coins came from a network fee collection contract, not a change to issuance policy. The one-time burn barely dents the roughly 2% annual inflation, and POL still trades near $0.1. The piece also covers Polygon's $24.5M in 2026 revenue, stablecoin transfer volumes, a Visa settlement pilot, co-founder departures, repeated layoffs, the scrapping of zkEVM, and the Coinme and Sequence acquisitions as the company pivots to payments. The market, it argues, cares more about whether annual issuance changes and whether quarterly burns can consistently outpace new minting.
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Claude Just Made a Breakthrough in Theoretical Physics—With One Prompt and a Few Thousand Dollars
Anthropic announced that its Claude model, running nearly unsupervised for days on the Claude Science platform, computed nine-loop six-particle scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, breaking an eight-loop record that had stood for three years. The entire calculation required just a single task description and roughly one to two thousand dollars. Lance Dixon, who set the previous eight-loop record, personally verified the result and said Claude understands his team's papers better than anyone. A Chinese team led by Song He achieved most of the same results around the same time with GPT-6's help. The article explores the limits of AI's capabilities in basic research and the compute bottleneck.
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XRP Batch Upgrade Fixed in Latest XRPL Release as Community Resets Vote
The XRP Ledger has rolled out xrpld 3.4.1, fixing a minor issue with the Batch feature and introducing the fixBatchV1_2 amendment. After validators coordinated to switch their votes from yes to no, the Batch amendment's activation timer was reset so it can activate alongside Batch. The amendment now holds 94.29% consensus and is set to default yes, requiring no manual vote. Developers say the mainnet was unaffected and no user funds were lost.
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Ripple Pioneer Approves: Nik Bougalis Returns to Rewrite XRP Ledger Core
Nik Bougalis, one of Ripple's earliest core developers, has officially returned to the XRP Ledger project after nearly four years away, submitting PR #8300 titled "I'm back, baby." The update focuses on modernizing the underlying core, including migrating base data types to 64-bit elements and removing unsafe raw pointers and unchecked runtime constructors to improve compile-time code safety and network stability under heavy load. Ripple's CTO Emeritus David Schwartz publicly voiced his support on X, saying working with Bougalis again is the only reason he'd return to coding. Bougalis was Ripple's eighth employee, led key XRPL protocol development, holds core cryptography patents, and served as CTO of the Algorand Foundation in 2025.
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