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Samsung Just Bet $408 Million On South Korea’s Top Crypto Exchange — And It’s Not Alone

Samsung Just Bet $408 Million On South Korea’s Top Crypto Exchange — And It’s Not Alone

Three Samsung affiliates — Samsung Securities, Samsung SDS, and Samsung Card — announced on May 28 the combined acquisition of a 4% stake in Dunamu, the operator of South Korea’s dominant crypto exchange Upbit, for approximately 612.8 billion won or $408 million — the latest in a growing wave of South Korean financial institutions racing to secure strategic positions inside the country’s most valuable digital asset company. Related Reading: Worldcoin’s FOMO Rally Cracks After On-Chain Activity Explodes The shares will be purchased from a group of Kakao-affiliated funds including Kakao Investment and Kakao Ventures, at a per-share price of approximately 439,250 won — a valuation implying Dunamu’s total corporate worth at approximately 15.3 trillion won, or roughly $11.1 billion, per Wu Blockchain and Korea Times. Samsung Securities will acquire a 2% stake, while Samsung SDS and Samsung Card will each take 1%, with the transaction scheduled to close June 19, per Korea Times. Three Affiliates, Three Strategic Rationales Each Samsung entity entered the deal with a distinct operational agenda, per Korea Times. Samsung Securities cited plans to strengthen cooperation on token securities issuance, distribution, and virtual asset services. Samsung SDS — the group’s IT and cloud arm — said it will combine its artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and data management capabilities with Dunamu’s blockchain operational infrastructure. Samsung Card, the group’s payments unit, aims to build a digital asset payment ecosystem with Dunamu including potential integration with Monimo, Samsung Financial Networks’ unified financial platform, contingent on the introduction of won-based stablecoins in Korea. The three objectives — securities tokenization, blockchain infrastructure, and stablecoin-enabled payments — map directly onto the pillars of South Korea’s Digital Asset Basic Act, which is expected to be finalized in 2026, per Korea Times. A Crypto Race That Was Already Underway Sam

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Worldcoin’s FOMO Rally Cracks After On-Chain Activity Explodes

Worldcoin’s latest rally drew a sharp increase in on-chain activity, with whale transactions, active addresses and new wallet creation all surging as WLD briefly climbed above $0.408 to an 11-week high. The move has since reversed, with live market data showing WLD back near $0.31 after a double-digit 24-hour drop, making the rally look increasingly FOMO-driven rather than a clean trend shift. Santiment’s chart tracks WLD price action against three network indicators: whale transactions, daily active addresses and network growth. According to the firm, whale transactions rose to 64 in 24 hours, the highest level of 2026. Active addresses jumped to 1,309, the second-highest reading of the year, while network growth reached 379 new wallets in 24 hours, also the highest level of 2026. Why Has Worldcoin Rallied And Dumped? That combination is notable because the activity did not come from one segment alone. Whale transactions point to large-holder movement, active addresses capture broader usage or trading activity, and network growth reflects new wallets entering the ecosystem. When all three rise alongside price, it usually indicates that large investors and smaller participants are engaging with the asset at the same time. Related Reading: Worldcoin Drops 10% Even As Sam Altman Doubles Down On Human ID Tech Santiment, however, warned that the timing looked speculative. “Worldcoin’s on-chain activity has exploded alongside its climb to an 11-week price high above $0.408, showing a major increase in both retail and whale participation,” the firm wrote. “When whale activity, active addresses, and new wallet creation all rise together, it usually signals that both large investors and smaller traders are becoming increasingly engaged with a project at the same time. That said, these spikes all appear to be somewhat FOMO-related, and coincided with the huge WLD price surge that just occurred.” The reversal gives that warning more weight. After pushing above $0.408, WLD fel

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XRP Flashes TD Sequential Buy Signal, Analyst Eyes Rebound

A crypto analyst has highlighted how the Tom Demark (TD) Sequential has flashed a buy signal for XRP recently, a potential sign that a short-term rebound may be coming. TD Sequential Has Formed A Bullish Setup For XRP In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez has talked about a TD Sequential signal that has appeared on the 4-hour price of XRP. The TD Sequential here refers to an indicator from technical analysis (TA) that’s generally used for spotting trend reversals in the asset’s price. It involve two phases, but in the context of the current discussion, the first phase called the setup is the one of relevance. Related Reading: Bitcoin Pulls Back, But Futures Traders Turn Bullish: Long Squeeze Setup? During the setup, the TD Sequential counts candles of the same color up to nine. Once the nine candles are in, the indicator gives the signal for a potential reversal. Naturally, the signal is a bullish one if the setup finished after nine red candles while it’s a bearish one if green candles were involved. Now, here is the chart shared by Martinez that shows the TD Sequential setup that has appeared in the 4-hour price of XRP: As displayed in the above graph, a downtrend in the price has led to the formation of this TD Sequential setup. Thus, the indicator is now flashing a buy signal for XRP. “I think a rebound toward $1.35 could come before trend continuation,” noted Martinez. It now remains to be seen how the asset’s price will develop in the coming days, given this signal. In some other news, the recent XRP buyers are currently in an immense degree of pain, as on-chain analytics firm Santiment has highlighted in an X post. The metric cited by Santiment is the Market Value to Realized Value (MVRV) Ratio, which is a popular indicator that tracks the profit-loss status of the investors or addresses on the network as a whole. Related Reading: Chainlink Whales Are Accumulating: Wallets Hit New All-Time High As the below chart shared by the analytics firm shared by the

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Hyperliquid (HYPE) In The Spotlight: Grayscale’s Latest Report Says What Comes Next

Hyperliquid (HYPE) In The Spotlight: Grayscale’s Latest Report Says What Comes Next

On Tuesday, the Hyperliquid token (HYPE) surged to a new all-time high of $65, briefly propelling the cryptocurrency into the top ten by market capitalization and drawing fresh attention to the platform’s underlying momentum. Grayscale Research released a new report 24 hours later on Wednesday, breaking down why Hyperliquid has worked so well so far, what has helped it expand beyond crypto trading, and what investors may look for next. Hyperliquid Beyond Crypto Perps In its report, Grayscale said Hyperliquid’s scale and growth can now be compared with the largest crypto derivatives venues, pointing to activity that has grown alongside its open interest and fees. The firm noted that Hyperliquid handled about $2.9 trillion in perpetual futures (perps) volume in 2025 and currently holds roughly $7 billion in open interest. Related Reading: Will XRP Price Ever Reach $200? Top Expert Discloses What Must Happen First The asset manager also ranked Hyperliquid as the third or fourth-largest perpetual futures exchange by open interest, emphasizing that volume, open interest, fees, and market awareness have risen together even as the platform has started expanding from crypto-native products into a wider range of tradable exposures. One of Grayscale’s key themes was that Hyperliquid hasn’t limited its expansion to traditional crypto perps. Instead, it has moved toward a broader set of products through an open architecture approach. HIP-3 And HIP-4’s Success New functionality is introduced via Hyperliquid Improvement Proposals (HIPs), and those products are built and deployed by third-party teams rather than by Hyperliquid’s original creators. Grayscale highlighted HIP-3 as a major step in this direction. HIP-3 enables builders to launch new perpetual markets, including non-crypto assets such as stocks, commodities, and index-based products. Grayscale said the volume data support that view. During the February silver spike, silver HIP-3 perps reportedly reached more than $4 bi

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Bitcoin Has Outpaced XRP Since 2017, According To Analyst

XRP could fall another 59% to 62% against Bitcoin before finding solid ground, according to technical analysis shared by chart analyst Chart Nerd. That target sits in the 0.0000071 to 0.0000065 range on the XRP/BTC pair, a level that has historically drawn buyers back into the market. Related Reading: Crypto Market Sees $1.46B Fund Exodus As Traders Turn Cautious A Pattern Of Lower Highs The XRP/BTC pair has been printing lower highs since 2017 — nearly a decade of consistent underperformance against Bitcoin. Each recovery attempt has fallen short of the previous one, with peak readings near 0.000097 in January 2019 giving way to 0.0000426 in November 2020, then 0.0000390 in May 2021, followed by 0.0000297 in July 2023, and most recently 0.0000257 in January 2026 — all stopped out beneath a long-running descending resistance line. I’m sorry to break this to my $XRP community. i’m just tired of the constant hopium: we have been underperforming #Bitcoin since 2017, with NO signs of any major rotation. In fact, over the last 3 months, BTC has climbed 60K-80K while $XRP/BTC has lost its 20 MEMA. Back to green. https://t.co/24IB42ZWsW pic.twitter.com/CeJibNhoMx — 🇬🇧 ChartNerd 📊 (@ChartNerdTA) May 25, 2026 Despite the consistent pattern, XRP has not been completely left behind in dollar terms. Reports indicate the token climbed 37% from its February low of $1.12 to a May high of $1.54, a recovery that looks respectable on its own. But measured against Bitcoin, that move failed to hold above the 20-month exponential moving average, a sign analysts read as weakness. Capital Staying In Bitcoin Bitcoin gained 38% over the past three months, rising from a yearly low of $60,000 to $82,800. XRP did not keep pace on the BTC trading pair, and Chart Nerd says that tells a bigger story about where money is flowing. When major tokens like XRP trail Bitcoin during a rally, it typically signals that investors are staying put in Bitcoin rather than rotating into altcoins. Capital eit

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Cathie Wood Doubles Down On $1.25 Million Bitcoin Target

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood has defended her bull case for Bitcoin reaching $1.25 million within five years, arguing that institutional allocation, digital-gold substitution and Bitcoin’s hard-coded scarcity remain the central pillars of the forecast. Speaking on Fox Business In Depth: The Crypto Campaign on May 26, Wood said ARK’s $1.25 million projection represents the firm’s bull case rather than its base case. The base case, she said, is “closer to $750,000.” But she framed the more aggressive target as a product of several overlapping shifts: younger investors treating Bitcoin as a digital store of value, emerging-market users seeking protection from monetary instability, and asset allocators beginning to treat crypto as a distinct investment category. “The biggest reason is institutional adoption,” Wood said. “This is a new asset class. It has very low correlation to other asset classes in terms of risks and returns. And so every asset allocator has a responsibility to examine it because it will increase risk-adjusted returns over time.” Why Bitcoin Could Hit $1.25 Million Within Five Years That allocation argument has long sat at the center of ARK’s Bitcoin thesis. In Wood’s framing, Bitcoin’s role is not limited to speculative upside. She described it as a potential substitute for gold as generational wealth changes hands, with younger investors more likely to adopt “a digital store of value.” She also called Bitcoin “an insurance policy,” especially in emerging markets facing what she described as “fiscal and monetary neglect at best or corruption at worst.” Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Worst Outflow Week Of The Year Just Happened — And The Timing Is Alarming Wood also tied Bitcoin’s potential growth to the expanding stablecoin market, though not in the way some crypto maximalists might expect. Rather than predicting an immediate displacement of the dollar, she argued that stablecoins could strengthen dollar distribution globally because major dollar-backed to

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Solana (SOL) Plunges Lower, Market Sentiment Turns Sharply Bearish

Solana (SOL) Plunges Lower, Market Sentiment Turns Sharply Bearish

Solana failed to settle above $85 and trimmed most gains. SOL price is now consolidating losses above $80 and might continue to move down. SOL price started a fresh decline below $84 and $82 against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $82 and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There was a break below a declining channel with support at $82 on the hourly chart of the SOL/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The price could start a recovery wave if the bulls defend $80 or $78.50. Solana Price Dips From $85 Solana price failed to remain stable above $84 and started a fresh decline, like Bitcoin and Ethereum. SOL declined below the $82 and $81.50 levels. Besides, there was a break below a declining channel with support at $82 on the hourly chart of the SOL/USD pair. The bears even pushed the price toward $80. A low was formed at $79.92, and the price is now consolidating losses below the 23.6% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $84.65 swing high to the $79.92 low. Solana is now trading below $82 and the 100-hourly simple moving average. On the upside, immediate resistance is near the $81.10 level. The next major resistance is near the $82.20 level or the 50% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $84.65 swing high to the $79.92 low. The main resistance could be $82.80. A successful close above the $82.80 resistance zone could set the pace for another steady increase. The next key resistance is $84.50. Any more gains might send the price toward the $85 level. More Losses In SOL? If SOL fails to rise above the $82.80 resistance, it could continue to move down. Initial support on the downside is near the $80 zone. The first major support is near the $78.50 level. A break below the $78.50 level might send the price toward the $72 support zone. If there is a close below the $72 support, the price could decline toward the $70 support in the near term. Technical Indicators Hourly MACD – The MACD for SOL/USD is gaining pace in the beari

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Bitcoin’s 4-Year Rhythm Is Still Playing Out, Says Crypto CEO

A countertrend rally that pushed Bitcoin to $82,800 has done little to change one analyst’s bearish outlook — because he says the bounce itself is proof the pattern is repeating. Related Reading: When Bitcoin Gets Ignored, It Tends To Rally The Hardest, Analyst Says What The Charts Are Showing Benjamin Cowen, founder and CEO of Into The Cryptoverse, points to a recurring rejection at the 200-day simple moving average as a key signal. The same thing happened in 2018 and 2022, and both times it came just before the final leg down. Cowen also noted that some countertrend rallies in past cycles ran longer than 20 weeks. The current one clocked in at 16 weeks, which he says undercuts the argument that Bitcoin has already found its floor. The four year cycle for Bitcoin is not dead. Bitcoin topped when it always topped (to within 1 week when measure from low-to-high), so why can’t it bottom near the end of the midterm year, just as it generally has? (1/x) pic.twitter.com/Spoh4s6NRG — Benjamin Cowen (@benjamincowen) May 25, 2026 Bitcoin Peaked On Schedule According to Cowen, Bitcoin’s run-up to $126,200 in October 2025 landed within the expected cycle window when measured from the previous low to the high. That kind of timing at the top, he argues, makes it harder to dismiss the same framework when looking at where the bottom might land. Past cycles put their lows in the closing months of the midterm year — December 2018 and November 2022, specifically. Based on that pattern, Cowen believes the bottom is still ahead, likely toward the end of 2026. Two charts he shared support the view. One tracks the return on investment from the market cycle peak to the bear market low. The other tracks the multiplier from bear market lows to the next bull market peak. Both are following the shape of prior cycles, even if the raw numbers are smaller this time around. When The Drop Could Come Cowen had previously flagged May and June as the window when the next significant decline would be

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XRP Price Slides Sharply Lower As Selling Pressure Intensifies Rapidly

XRP price extended losses and traded below $1.30. The price is now consolidating losses and faces hurdles near $1.30 and $1.340. XRP price started another decline and traded below the $1.30 zone. The price is now trading below $1.30 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a bearish trend line forming with resistance at $1.340 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The pair could continue to move down if it stays below $1.340. XRP Price Dips Below $1.30 XRP price failed to stay above $1.340 and extended its decline, like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The price declined below $1.3250 and $1.3120 to enter a short-term bearish zone. The price even extended losses below $1.30. A low was formed at $1.2677, and the price is now consolidating losses well below the 23.6% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $1.3638 swing high to the $1.2677 low. The price is now trading below $1.30 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. If there is a fresh recovery move, the price might face resistance near the $1.290 level. The first major resistance is near the $1.30 level. The main resistance could be $1.3150 or the 50% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $1.3638 swing high to the $1.2677 low. A close above $1.3150 could send the price to $1.3275. The next hurdle sits at $1.340. There is also a bearish trend line forming with resistance at $1.340 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair. A clear move above the $1.340 resistance might send the price toward the $1.3550 resistance. Any more gains might send the price toward the $1.3750 resistance. More Losses? If XRP fails to clear the $1.3150 resistance zone, it could start a fresh decline. Initial support on the downside is near the $1.2675 level. The next major support is near the $1.2550 level. If there is a downside break and a close below the $1.2550 level, the price might continue to decline toward $1.2320. The next major support sits near the $1.220 zone, below which the

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