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When asked if XRP would get a shiny new price tag if the crypto legislation passes, Pandl didn’t beat around the bush. “I do,” he said, with all the confidence of a wizard predicting the weather. “We’d see a repricing across a range of assets, and XRP would be right there in the thick of it.” Bold words, indeed. His crystal ball? The growing demand for Grayscale’s GXRP product, which has institutional investors queuing up like dwarves at a gold mine.

In a missive dispatched via the ethereal realm of “X,” Crypto Bully proclaimed that the precise path of Bitcoin is as irrelevant as the nose on a Gogol character’s face-except, of course, for the immediate support and resistance levels, which are as crucial as a nose in a portrait. The analyst, with a flourish of his quill, observed that downside retests have been as effective as a toothless dog’s bark. He fixated upon the $85,000 mark, a “logical lower high,” as though logic and this market share a bed. This, he claimed, is the precipice before the next collapse, brought on by the frenzied selling of the panic-stricken.

Behold, the selloff doth reveal the whimsy of the market, where sentiment shifteth like a courtier’s allegiance at Versailles.

A notable shift may be unfolding around XRP that many market participants have yet to notice, possibly because they’re still trying to figure out what a “blockchain” is. Analyst XFinanceBull, whose Twitter handle is suspiciously close to “Finance Bull But With An X,” claims Flare’s metrics show over 132 million FXRP locked into DeFi protocols-80% of which is now trapped in digital vaults, presumably forever. The ecosystem has also secured over $149 million in value and processed 2.8 million transactions. For context, that’s about 2.8 million more transactions than most people have had hot dinners.

The DOJ, in a move analysts described as a poke in the eye to the Federal Reserve’s independence, found its efforts stymied by a federal judge who apparently had a penchant for fairness-or at least a fondness for keeping things amusingly orderly.

Now, why should you care? Industry bigwigs are chirping that this union could be the crypto equivalent of a Swiss Army knife-tightening standards and plugging loopholes faster than you can say “satoshi.” And let’s not forget the recent splashy investments like ICE’s $25 billion bet on OKX and Coinbase’s cool $2.9 billion Deribit acquisition. It’s like the crypto world is playing Monopoly with real money, and we’re all just spectators hoping for a free parking space.

The price of Bitcoin erased the gains it made on Friday when it reached $73,927, falling nearly 2% as risk sentiment weakened across markets. Despite this drop, Bitcoin ETFs continue to see inflows for the last 5 straight days, because nothing says “I’m a sophisticated investor” like buying a cryptocurrency that’s as volatile as a caffeine-addicted kangaroo.

And this, mind you, after the Core Team-those chaps who seem to be perpetually tinkering with the thing-had reportedly pulled off a rather crucial upgrade, whose deadline was, of course, March 12. One can’t help but wonder if they’ve been taking tips from Jeeves on meeting deadlines, though the results seem a tad less polished.

If there’s one thing Vitalik values more than decentralized ledgers, it’s clarity. On March 13, he took to X like a breakup text to exorcise rumors about his relationship status with FLI. Spoiler: It’s complicated, with a side of “I never signed up for this.”

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, in their infinite wisdom, decided not to rehear this thing. Seven to three. That’s not even close. That’s like when I suggested the Kramer guy for my movie and nobody agreed. Actually, that happened with my actual movie. Anyway…