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Image generated by CariGold Which Is More Likely to Be a Millionaire Maker? XRP vs. MicroStrategy Key Points Does it make more sense to buy an investment directly, or to invest in a company that's taking out loans to accommodate another investment? That's the (somewhat confusing) question facing investors considering XRP (CRYPTO: XRP), the native token of its own chain, and MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), a company that has effectively stapled its fortunes to trading debt and equity for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). These assets sport multibillion-dollar market caps, so neither looks like a moonshot. Still, each has a compelling narrative that could, in theory, propel it far enough to mint new millionaires. Let's analyze both of them and...

Image generated by CariGold Financial technology, or fintech, was one of the worst performing parts of the stock market in the 2022 bear market and for the roughly two-year period that followed. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy turned to online payments, cashless money transfers, and cryptocurrency interest surged. When the pandemic-era restrictions ended, interest rates rose, and inflation hit the U.S. hard, many fintech companies struggled. However, we're slowly but surely starting to see a resurgence of fintech stocks in 2025. Just to name a couple of examples, banking disruptor SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI) has seen member growth accelerate recently, and PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has returned to user growth after a multiyear lull...

Image generated by CariGold 3 Factors That Could Cause a Cryptocurrency Boom in the Second Half of 2025 Key Points With major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP outperforming the stock market by a significant margin during the past three months, there's a handful of factors that suggest the remainder of the year is going to be a very profitable time for many cryptocurrency holders. In particular, three significant tailwinds are lining up at once. Put together, they could ignite one of the sharpest rallies since 2021. Let's dig in and examine each. 1. Policy tailwinds are blowing in the right direction After a long period of regulators and politicians eschewing or fighting crypto, Washington is now handing the...

Image generated by CariGold Key Points Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) shares have advanced 1,080% since January 2023 as demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure has surged. Nevertheless, the hedge fund billionaires listed below sold Nvidia in the first quarter and bought shares of the iShares Bitcoin Trust (NASDAQ: IBIT), a BlackRock fund that could soar in the coming years if certain Wall Street experts are correct. These details come from Forms 13F filed with SEC. While those forms provide insight into what hedge fund managers are buying and selling, the information is somewhat outdated because the trades were made at least four months ago. Here's a more current look at Nvidia and the iShares Bitcoin Trust. 1. Nvidia Nvidia...

Image generated by CariGold Key Points The flow of information is constant and sometimes overwhelming on Wall Street. Trying to interpret an onslaught of earnings reports and monthly economic data releases each quarter can easily allow something of importance to go unnoticed. For example, May 15 marked the deadline for institutional investors with at least $100 million in assets under management to file Form 13F with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This is a required filing no later than 45 calendar days following the end to a quarter that provides investors with an up-close look at which stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and select options Wall Street's smartest asset managers have been buying and selling. As you might...

Image generated by CariGold Key Points With only so many XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) tokens floating around today, and even fewer likely to be available in the future, investors eyeing fresh upside may need to move quickly. Priced at roughly $3.18 per coin, XRP is already up 53% this year (as of July 24), yet three converging forces could make the second half even spicier. Between an impending exchange-traded fund (ETF) approval by regulators, a brand new wave of companies stockpiling the token, and its expanding role as a settlement backbone for traditional finance, the squeeze could easily intensify from here into 2026. This mixture of tailwinds is squeezing the float The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is scheduled to rule on...

Image generated by CariGold News Background • XRP traded in a 7.85% range between $2.96 and $3.26 over 24 hours starting July 24 at 05:00. • Coinglass data showed over $18 billion in total crypto liquidations during the session. • XRP long liquidations topped $105 million, contributing to rapid declines. • Nature’s Miracle announced a $20 million XRP treasury plan. • Brazil-based VERT deployed a $130 million blockchain solution built on the XRP Ledger. Price Action Summary The session opened at $3.13 and saw a sharp drop to $2.96, followed by a bounce to a $3.26 high at 15:00 on 175.94 million volume — more than double the average. However, resistance at $3.24–$3.26 capped gains. Price collapsed again late in the session...

Image generated by CariGold Bitcoin's (BTC) price dropped early Friday, marking a bearish resolution to the recent range play as the U.S. equity markets showed signs of an uptrend exhaustion at key price resistance. The leading cryptocurrency by market value slipped over 2.5% to $115,170, hitting the lowest since July 10, according to CoinDesk. The move marked the downside break of the recent consolidation between $116,000 and $120,000. The so-called range breakdown follows bearish hints from key technical indicators and has increased the possibility of prices revisiting the former resistance-turned-support at $11,956, the high clocked in May. The broader cryptocurrency market wilted, with ether (ETH), Solana (SOL), and XRP (XRP)...

Image generated by CariGold Ark Invest, the investment firm led by Cathie Wood, offloaded $12 million worth of Coinbase (COIN) on Thursday, continuing the trend of taking profit from its investment in the crypto exchange. Recently, Ark has been selling its Coinbase stake and diversifying into other crypto plays. Last week, the firm invested $116 million into the Peter Thiel-backed ether (ETH) treasury firm, Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR). The investment firm sold a total of 30,501 COIN shares from its two funds. It also sold 11,262 shares of Robinhood (HOOD), worth around $1.1 million based on Robinhood's last close on Thursday. In addition to Coinbase and Robinhood, Cathie Wood's firm also offloaded 123,169 shares of Jack...

Image generated by CariGold Crypto Exchange OSL Gets $300M Equity Finance For Growth Hong Kong-listed digital assets firm OSL Group has secured a new round of funding as it pursues international expansion. Its CFO Ivan Wong discusses the company's plans for the funds raised with Yvonne Man and David Ingles on "Bloomberg: The China Show." This article has been published in bloomberg.com via Yahoo News. https://finance.yahoo.com/video/crypto-exchange-osl-gets-300m-032556802.html

Image generated by CariGold Michael Saylor Amps Up Bitcoin War Chest With $2.8 Billion Sale Michael Saylor’s unique capital markets machine has expanded significantly. As crypto prices continue to soar, Saylor's Bitcoin holding company, Strategy, introduced a new kind of preferred stock, which was quickly increased from $500 million to $2.8 billion. The security, known as "Stretch," offers a substantial 9% annual payout with no attached end date, which is atypical in the realm of preferred stock offerings. This move showcases Saylor’s strategic prowess on Wall Street, as he aims to elevate his enterprise into a financial powerhouse centered on the acquisition of Bitcoin. Strategy has amassed approximately 600,000 bitcoins, valued...

Image generated by CariGold Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is partnering with regulated prediction market Kalshi to bring its chatbot Grok into the world of real-money event forecasting, the companies said Thursday. The collaboration will allow Grok to analyze news, historical data, and economic indicators in real-time to support users trading on Kalshi’s federally regulated platform. Kalshi traders can place bets on specific outcomes of events like Federal Reserve interest rate decisions, Senate control, or monthly inflation figures — making Grok’s ability to summarize information quickly a potential edge. “Kalshi and xAI are partnering to bring Grok to prediction markets. Two of the fastest-growing companies in...

Image generated by CariGold X to test using Community Notes to find the posts everyone likes Elon Musk’s X will begin experimenting with a new way to use Community Notes, its crowdsourcing fact-checking system, to highlight well-liked posts from users with different perspectives. On Thursday, the Community Notes X account announced the launch of a pilot test where select contributors would be able to rate posts by answering questions about why they either like or don’t like that particular post. The system is similar to how Community Notes fact-checking works. Instead of simply allowing users to upvote or downvote posts for accuracy, Community Notes uses something called a “bridging algorithm.” This attempts to find consensus among...

Image generated by CariGold Ripple co-founder moves $140M in XRP to exchanges amid historic rally Chris Larsen, co-founder of Ripple, has moved an estimated $140 million worth of XRP to exchange-linked wallets over the past week, according to well-known onchain investigator ZachXBT. Starting July 17, a wallet associated with Larsen reportedly transferred 50 million XRP — worth approximately $161 million — in a series of transactions. Of this, about $140 million was funneled into three addresses connected to centralized trading platforms. Another 10 million XRP was sent to two newly created wallets, each holding 5 million XRP and showing no prior activity. This isn’t the first time Ripple executives have come under scrutiny for large...

Image generated by CariGold Is Coinbase Stock a Buy, Sell, or Hold After Trump Signed the Genius Act? President Donald Trump’s signing of the GENIUS Act into law creates a clear regulatory framework for stablecoins, positioning Coinbase (COIN) as a primary beneficiary alongside Circle (CRCL) in the evolving crypto landscape. One Seeking Alpha analyst identified Coinbase and Circle as “the biggest immediate winners in the public markets” from the landmark legislation. The Act establishes full reserve backing, real-time redemption, and transparency standards for U.S. dollar-pegged tokens, effectively launching what analysts refer to as the “Web3 economy.” The GENIUS Act should also benefit platforms like Coinbase that integrate...

Image generated by CariGold 6,220 Reasons to Buy MicroStrategy Stock This Week The first public Bitcoin (BTCUSD) treasury business MicroStrategy (MSTR) is back in the news again after buying 6,220 more BTC for nearly $740 million between July 14 and July 20. The acquisitions have increased its Bitcoin reserves up to a staggering 607,770 BTC and place the company even further ahead as the top corporate Bitcoin holder. The latest comes hot on the heels of President Donald Trump’s signing of the Genius Act, which has rekindled the crypto world by offering regulatory and legal clarity on digital assets, with specific focus on stablecoins. Institutional interest has reared up again too with Bitcoin back above the level of $119,000. MSTR’s...

Image generated by CariGold FTX, the crypto exchange that went bankrupt in November 2022, announced on July 23 that the record date for claim holders is Aug. 15 and it will begin the next round of creditor claim distribution on Sep. 30. The exchange also said that the bankruptcy court has lowered the disputed claims reserve from $6.5 billion to $4.3 billion — a reduction of $1.9 billion. It means these funds, not considered disputed claims anymore, can be distributed among claim holders in the upcoming batch. FTX is required to distribute $14.7 billion to $16.5 billion among the claimants out of which it has already paid $6.2 billion in two previous batches: $1.2 billion in February and $5 billion in May. The third batch of...

Image generated by CariGold Risk assets are back in favor says Bitdeer exec Bitcoin’s recent climb to fresh highs stems from a convergence of factors, Bitdeer CFA Jeff LaBerge tells TheStreet Roundtable. “Risk assets are becoming back in favor now,” he explains, citing clearer regulation and renewed macro appetite for growth assets. LaBerge notes that ETF inflows and the emergence of dedicated Bitcoin treasury firms have added further momentum — a combination that, if history repeats, could extend the current bull phase another 12 to 18 months. Looking beyond the traditional four-year bull-bear cycle, LaBerge argued that Bitcoin must evolve from a pure risk-on asset into a true store of value. He pointed to April’s volatility in...

Image generated by CariGold New token surges 200% after Musk teases revival of nostalgic video app Vine Coin (VINE), the native cryptocurrency of the now-dormant Vine video app, logged a significant rally in the last few hours. The surge in the token's price was triggered after Tesla CEO Elon Musk indicated his plans to resurrect the app after it went into hibernation in 2017. VINE surged as much as over 200% following Musk's tweet to trade at $0.0825. The Vine app was founded in 2012 as a mobile app for video sharing by Rus Yusupov, Dom Hofmann, and Colin Kroll. Soon after its launch, Jack Dorsey-led Twitter (which Musk bought and renamed to X) purchased this app for reportedly $30 million. The first time Musk initiated a...

Image generated by CariGold Technical Analysis NEAR experienced notable price volatility over the 24-hour period ending July 24 at 15:00, with its token trading between $2.59 and $2.83. The sharp drop from $2.82 to $2.59 during early morning hours prompted high-volume trading of 7.91 million units, establishing a technical support level at the session low. This market dislocation attracted aggressive buying, which fueled a price recovery to $2.81 by the close, signaling strong interest from sophisticated investors capitalizing on discounted valuations. During the final hour of trading, NEAR sustained upward momentum, rising 2% from $2.72 to $2.79 despite profit-taking near resistance at $2.82. The session established a defined...