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Claude predicts substantial 2026 rallies for XRP, Shiba Inu, and Solana, projecting multi-hundred to thousand percent gains as institutional demand, technical patterns, and expanding blockchain ecosystems signal renewed bullish momentum across key crypto assets. The post Leading AI Claude Predicts the Price of XRP, Shiba Inu and Solana By the End of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Users are getting Grok to generate non-consensual images of women. Elon Musk's AI platform says this is just another form of free speech.

Smart money could be positioning behind a key technical shift – Cardano price predictions could be in for a bullish 2026. The post Cardano Price Prediction: First Golden Cross of 2026 Appears – Is Smart Money Already Buying the Move? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Polymarket has entered real estate via a partnership with Parcl, launching markets that settle on Parcl’s daily housing price indices for major U.S. cities. Traders can position for index rises, declines, or threshold levels over set periods without owning property. Settlement uses Parcl index data. The post Polymarket Rolls Out Real Estate Bets – Crypto Traders Can Now Speculate on Housing Prices appeared first on Cryptonews.

Goldman Sachs issued a new price target for Coinbase on Monday, while upgrading the exchange to "Buy" from "Neutral." COIN jumped 8%.

Famed rapper Drake is one of the named defendants in a new RICO class-action lawsuit involving his actions on crypto casino Stake.

The total NFT market capitalization dropped significantly in 2025, from about $9 billion in January 2025 to just over $2.7 billion in 2026. The organizers behind nonfungible token (NFT) and real-world asset (RWA) conferences in Paris have cancelled the events with a month’s notice, citing market forces. In a Monday post, the event’s X account said NFT Paris and RWA Paris, initially set for February, would not be happening as scheduled in 2026. Although the organizers did not explicitly say events would not take place in the future, the message to attendees signaled that they are “clos[ing] this chapter” on conferences. “The market collapse hit us hard,” reads the post. “Despite drastic cost cuts and months of trying to make it work, we couldn't pull it off this year.” Read more

Bitcoin surged past $94,000 on Monday to a 30-day high as crypto stocks rallied, with Coinbase, Robinhood, and BTC miners all rising.

AI narratives are reshaping crypto-linked equities: Bitcoin miners tout AI/HPC hosting in hundreds of megawatts and long-dated contracts, yet shares still swing with BTC risk-on and risk-off flows. Tracking NVDA with MARA, RIOT, HUT and CORZ separates compute mood from Bitcoin beta in markets today. The post When Bitcoin Runs, These “AI” Stocks Often Run Too: The Hybrid Crypto-to-AI Trade appeared first on Cryptonews.

For years, the institutional playbook for the crypto industry was simple: buy Bitcoin, perhaps dabble in Ethereum, and ignore the rest. In 2025, that playbook was rewritten. While Bitcoin retained its crown as the largest asset by total volume, the real story of the year was a dramatic structural shift in where new capital chose […] The post XRP and Solana dethrone Bitcoin and Ethereum as institutional favorites in 2025 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

“China’s Ethereum” co-founders clash on New Year’s Eve over Neo’s treasury, major Asian economies warm up to Bitcoin ETFs. Asia Express Neo co-founders Erik Zhang and Da Hongfei clashed on New Years Eve in a heated public exchange, accusing each other of mismanaging the blockchains treasury and misrepresenting years of internal governance decisions. Neo is a long-running smart contract network founded in 2014 that rose to prominence during the 2017 bull market, when it was widely dubbed Chinas Ethereum. The nickname reflected its early focus on smart contracts and regulatory-friendly design, similar in ambition to Ethereum but marketed as a domestic alternative for Chinas tech ecosystem. Zhang said he originally stepped away from Neo leadership after Da argued that joint oversight of the foundation was slowing the project.  Read more

Parcl’s native PRCL token surged over 100% following news of the partnership, which brings housing price indexes into prediction markets. Parcl and Polymarket have partnered to launch real estate prediction markets that will settle against Parcl’s daily housing price indexes, bringing housing price data into prediction markets for the first time. Under the partnership announced Monday, Polymarket will list and operate markets tied to movements in housing price indices, while Parcl will supply the index data used to determine market outcomes and settlement values. Each market will link to a Parcl resolution page showing the final settlement value, historical index data and the methodology used to calculate the index, providing a standardized reference for verifying outcomes once markets close. Read more

Industry figures argue that insider trading on prediction markets is a “feature, not a bug,” as they face growing scrutiny from lawmakers.

Claims that Bitcoin mining wastes energy or destabilizes grids are contradicted by university research and real-world grid data.

The once-daily Wegovy pill became the first oral GLP-1 approved for weight loss in the U.S., offering an alternative to injectable treatments that have driven soaring demand.

Bakkt, Figure and Hut 8 were among numerous crypto-related stocks posting double-digit percentage gains.

The White House defended the release of Ilya Lichtenstein, who stole over 119,000 Bitcoin in 2016, from prison to home confinement—but didn’t take credit for the action.

After holiday leadership shifts, the two U.S. markets regulators — the SEC and CFTC — are now run only by pro-crypto Republicans, with Congress still debating.

The Gemini Trust Company and parent company of Crypto.com sent millions of dollars to the Trump-supporting PAC in September and October. Two major cryptocurrency exchanges have contributed more than $21 million to a political action committee (PAC) supporting US President Donald Trump.  In a Friday filing with the Federal Election Commission, the MAGA Inc. Super PAC reported receiving 1,500,000 liquidated USDC (USDC) from the Gemini Trust Company and two $10 million contributions from Foris Dax, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com. The exchange has deepened ties with Trump’s media company since 2025 as part of a digital asset treasury strategy. Other contributions related to the crypto and financial industries included $1 million from an executive at payment processing provider Shift4 and more than $4 million from JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. The funds contributed to the PAC’s $294 million stockpile. Read more

XRP and Solana posted massive triple-digit growth in 2025, while Bitcoin-focused crypto investment funds struggled.