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XRP is entering the final two months of 2026 under pressure, struggling to regain key technical levels despite signs of continued institutional interest. At press time, XRP was trading at $1.25, up approximately 0.3% over the past 24 hours. XRP seven-day price chart. Source: Finbold At its current price, XRP is below both its 50-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) of $1.39 and its 200-day SMA of $1.28. This positioning indicates a bearish trend, with the token struggling to regain its short- and long-term moving averages.  Advertisement The 50-day SMA represents immediate resistance, while the 200-day SMA is another key level XRP needs to reclaim to signal a potential trend reversal. XRP price prediction  Now, according to ChatGPT’s price prediction, XRP could recover to $1.45 by December 31, 2026, representing a potential 16% increase from its November 1 price. ChatGPT’s base-case forecast places XRP at $1.45 by year-end, although the ...

11K new tokens launched across blockchain networks over the past 7 days, ending 2026-10-26. Most activity occurred on BSC, which saw 9,003 new contract deployments. Yet only 37.8% of BSC tokens gained measurable liquidity, underscoring the high churn and speculation in weekly token issuance. The data paints a stark picture of a market saturated with new projects, most of which fail to attract meaningful users or capital. Which chains launched the most tokens? Token launches remain heavily concentrated on Binance Smart Chain. The network accounted for 9,003 of 11,109 total new issuances—the vast majority of all activity. This dominance reflects BSC's lower deployment barriers, minimal transaction costs, and its reputation as a hub for retail trading and decentralized finance experimentation. Developers building speculative tokens, legitimate projects, and experimental protocols predominantly choose BSC as their launch platform. Ethereum and BASE each attracted a smaller but still...

According to Finbold’s predictive artificial intelligence (AI) system, the downturn gripping XRP since the start of October is likely to halt, but not reverse, by November 1, 2026. Indeed, after examining a variety of technical Analysis (TA) indicators, including oscillators, moving averages (MA), and the relative strength index (RSI), the Finbold AI agent determined XRP is likely to descend 0.23% – effectively remain flat – to $1.31 by the start of next month. Finbold AI XRP price target for November 1, 2026. Source: Finbold Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) model, Google Gemini, proved the most bearish out of the five included in the system, as it forecasted a 4.2% drop to $1.26 as the most likely trajectory for the popular cryptocurrency. ChatGPT-5.6 Terra was close behind, since its XRP price target for November 1, 2026, stood at $1.29, 1.91% below the October 19 press time price of $1.31. China’s most recognizable AI platform, DeepSeek, was the third ...

According to the advanced artificial intelligence (AI) analyst of XRP prompted by Finbold, the popular cryptocurrency is generally unlikely to end 2026 in the green. To begin with, Anthropic’s platform, Claude AI, determined that the late 2026 conditions are not favorable for a breakout. The model highlighted the hawkish Fed, the fact that the CLARITY Act stalled, and the ‘nervous mood’ from the now-patched decade-old XRP Ledger bug as contributing – and detrimental – factors. Finally, Claude highlighted Bitcoin (BTC) rejecting the range between $86,000 and $90,000 and the ‘steady but small’ exchange-traded fund (ETF) demand as the final causes for it setting its XRP price target for December 31, 2026, at just $1.45; 4.32% above the press time price of $1.39. Claude AI predicts XRP price at end of 2026. Source: Finbold & Claude Meanwhile, Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) AI platform, Google Gemini, proved somewhat more optimistic. This model highlighted th...

Stablecoin Development Corp, which has been trading around a minimal $50 million marketcap for months, has suddenly seen its price jump tenfold in a matter of two weeks for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Tether is a major investor in the company, whose primary business appears to be earning interest off of USDS — not a necessarily lucrative business opportunity. While the $50 million market cap for Stablecoin Development Corp was perhaps low for a company with over $150 million in assets and little debt, the company was, for a brief moment in time, trading at nearly $10 today — a $500 million market cap for a stablecoin treasury company with far less than $500 million in assets. Its stock has since fallen to roughly $4.50 per share , also on no news. Tether has publicly listed a company that partially controls USDS Read more: What the Tether audit means for the crypto industry Short sellers can’t short, Tether warrants due soon While sh...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday that bans state public officials from launching memecoins. In addition to the ban on state officials, California Assembly Bill 2409 also prohibits crypto service providers from offering California residents the sale of any memecoin launched in association with federal, state or local public officials. That second stipulation applies to memecoins issued on or after January 1, 2027. Newsom, considered a prominent potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2028, targeted President Donald Trump in a press release announcing the bill’s signature. “While the scam that is Donald Trump continues to hurt American families, California is fighting to make our economy work for people, not the powerful. No official should profit off their office — and we’re putting stronger protections in place to ensure it doesn’t happen in our state.” Trump controversially launched the “Official Trump” memecoi...