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Last week, the USDT pair looked like it was about to hit the lottery-pressing against that descending channel like it owed money. RSI was flirting with 65, and for a hot second, we all believed in magic. Spoiler: It didn’t. XRP couldn’t even muster a candle close above the channel, which is basically the crypto version of failing gym class. Now the 100-day MA is playing both hero and villain at $1.40, and RSI is back to the 40s, because optimism is a luxury only bears can afford.

Following the report, stocks for IBM, GlobalFoundries, D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, and Infleqtion – trading under the symbols IBM, GFS, QBTS, RGTI, and INFQ respectively – all saw activity in premarket trading. These companies appear to be the most immediate winners in the US stock market as a result.

A popular technical indicator, the TD Sequential, recently flashed a buy signal for Cardano, adding to the growing optimism. However, it’s still unclear if Cardano has hit its lowest price for this cycle, or if this is just a short-term recovery before the price potentially drops again.

One might marvel at the poetic symmetry of it all: in a year where France’s soil trembles with the footsteps of digital desperadoes-dozens of crypto-millionaires stalked like game in a Bond villain’s preserve-the irony is as thick as a Bordeaux vintage. The incident, a sardonic ode to the perils of virtual wealth, now joins the annals of our age: where fortunes flicker like mayflies in a blockchain breeze, and even a sandbox becomes a battleground for the crown jewels of the internet.

The altcoin sector, bless its cotton socks, remains a bit of a mixed bag. Hyperliquid (HYPE), the young whippersnapper, rose for a fifth straight day, adding 6.5% and notching a 53% gain over the past week. Privacy coins, however, gave back a portion of Wednesday’s gains. Can’t win ’em all, I suppose.

A recent technical issue coincided with a significant increase in palladium demand from China. Reports show China imported a record 8.6 tons of palladium in April – nearly three times the usual amount for that time of year – likely due to higher local prices drawing in more imports.

Peter Schiff, that eternal Cassandra of fiscal doom, waltzes into the arena with a definition sharper than a Cossack’s saber: “Ponzi finance” is when you borrow to pay old lenders, not to fund your “visionary” crypto cult. Applied to Strategy, it’s a ballet of absurdity-if Saylor clings to his Bitcoin like a miser’s gold, the only way to fund those “dividends” is to con new fools into the debt pyramid. Saylor’s defense? “But we told everyone it’s a Ponzi!” Schiff’s rebuttal: announcing your pyramid scheme doesn’t make it a cathedral. Disclosure is the lipstick on this pig.

Altcoin Daily, those clever chaps, have recently pointed out that several major altcoins could experience a most dramatic upside should the CLARITY Act pass before Congress adjourns for their little August holiday. How utterly thrilling!

On the hallowed grounds of Deribit, a single-block trade materialized like a phantom, its magnitude so great that it dared not disturb the delicate balance of the market. This was no ordinary transaction, but a pact with the devil-a “short straddle” that binds XRP to its current perch, lest the trader be forced to pay the piper.

The act, with a name as long as a Steinbeck novel, promises to simplify the tax rules for digital assets. Imagine that-simplicity in the land of red tape. Lawmakers, led by Congressman Steven Horsford and his band of merry representatives, claim it’ll cut through the bureaucratic bramble like a sharp knife. But will it? Or will it just add another layer of confusion, like a second coat of paint on a leaky roof?