Open interest in Shiba Inu climbed 2.1% over the past 24 hours even as spot trading volume fell 18%, sending conflicting signals about where the token is headed next. Related Reading: History Shows Bitcoin ETF Outflows Favor Accumulation, Says Santiment What The Chart Is Showing SHIB is currently trading around $0.0000056, near its historic lows, after dropping 10% in the past seven days. That decline brought the token back down to a key support zone around $0.0000055 — a level that has cushioned price drops since the coin’s early days in 2021. Despite repeated tests, sellers have not managed to push the price into a sustained breakdown below that area. The broader chart structure is a contracting descending triangle that has kept a lid on SHIB since its 2021 peak. Each time the token tried to recover, it ran into the triangle’s falling upper resistance line and got turned back. That pattern has been in place for years, and it remains the dominant force on the weekly chart. A Wave Patt
Digital asset investment products shed $1.47 billion in a single week — the second consecutive week of outflows and the third-largest weekly withdrawal of 2026 — as Iran-related geopolitical risk collided with rising bond yields, a softening equity market, and the fading of a technical support structure that had kept Bitcoin pinned near $80,000 for most of the month, according to CoinShares’ latest Digital Asset Fund Flows report. Related Reading: XRP Crowd Fear Deepens As Santiment Points To Possible Rebound Bitcoin bore the brunt. The asset recorded $1.315 billion in outflows — the largest single-week Bitcoin withdrawal of 2026, surpassing the late January peak — pulling year-to-date inflows down to $2.6 billion from $3.9 billion the prior week, per CoinShares’ Volume 287 report authored by James Butterfill. The speed of the reversal underscores how quickly 2026’s cumulative inflow position can compress when risk appetite deteriorates. Two weeks ago that figure stood at $4.9 billion.
XRP derivatives traders are leaning bullish. Open interest in XRP futures jumped more than 1% in 24 hours to $2.86 billion, with activity climbing on both CME and Binance, signaling that traders with real money on the line are betting on a move up. Related Reading: Bitcoin Bull Thesis Goes Big: 39 Trillion Reasons To Buy, Says Gemini Founder A Familiar Pattern In The Data On-chain analytics firm Santiment flagged a shift in crowd mood on May 26, pointing out that the bullish-to-bearish comment ratio on social media had slipped to 1.1:1. That places sentiment at its most fearful in three weeks, a level that has historically been followed by short-term price stabilization or a bounce. Santiment’s reasoning is straightforward: when fear peaks, weak hands have already exited, and whales or institutions tend to step in and absorb the sell pressure. XRP was trading at $1.33 at the time of reporting, up about 1% from a 24-hour low of $1.32. Volume climbed 5% over the same period, adding some
XRP crowd sentiment has deteriorated to its weakest level in three weeks, according to a Santiment Intelligence chart shared on X, putting the token back in what the analytics firm described as a historically relevant “FUD zone.” Santiment said the ratio of positive to negative social media commentary around XRP has dropped to just 1.1 bullish comments for every bearish comment. In the chart, the positive-to-negative sentiment ratio sits near 1.104 on May 25, close to the lower fear threshold marked by Santiment, while XRP’s price line hovered around the mid-$1.30 area. Related Reading: Why Questions Are Being Raised about The XRP Ledger’s 300,000 Milestone “XRP’s crowd sentiment has swung sharply negative again, with the ratio of positive to negative commentary dropping to just 1.1 bullish comments for every 1 bearish comment,” Santiment wrote. “Historically, this kind of fear and skepticism has often acted as a contrarian signal for XRP’s price.” What This Means For XRP Price The poi
Bitcoin ETF outflows hit $1.74B, Coinbase Premium turns negative, and retail longs surge. CryptoQuant data shows weakening demand beneath a fragile rebound. The price chart says one thing. On-chain data says something else entirely. US spot Bitcoin ETFs have now recorded more than $1.74 billion in cumulative outflows, according to a CryptoQuant analysis published by […]
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