#FOMCMeeting The Federal Open Market Committee The Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, is the Fed's chief body for monetary policy.The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC or the Committee) left the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25% – 4.50%, continuing a pause on the interest-rate-cutting cycle that started in September.
XRP could hit $5 under the right circumstances Suffice it to say XRP has a high degree of visibility, which makes greater adoption by banks and other financial institutions plausible. It also means spot XRP ETFs could unlock significant demand among institutional investors
$XRP WILL XRP reach $10 in 25?? According to current estimates, XRP's average price in 2025 could range between $5 and $10, depending on market conditions and the evolving regulatory landscape.
$XRP If XRP stays above its support level of $2.20, it could try to reach the next resistance level at $2.50. During April 2025, XRP price experienced some ups and downs. The potential appointment of a new SEC chair created uncertainty regarding Ripple’s legal status. Meanwhile, speculations of an XRP ETF (exchange-traded fund) sparked market excitement. However, the SEC has delayed judgments on ETF approvals, leaving investors waiting. Despite this, the crypto has grown in value.
$BTC Bitcoin Core developers have decided to remove a limit on transaction data in the next network upgrade, enabling more data to be included in a more efficient way.
“Bitcoin Core’s next release will, by default, relay and mine transactions whose OP_RETURN outputs exceed 80 bytes and allow any number of these outputs,” read the announcement on GitHub by Bitcoin developer Greg Sanders on May 5
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<div class="paragraphs"><p>The FOMC typically meets eight times annually to discuss matters related to US inflation and interest rates.
The United States Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is holding its scheduled meeting on May 6-7. This meeting of the US Federal Reserve, led by Jerome Powell, will evaluate current economic conditions of the world’s most powerful economy.
During this session, FOMC will consider whether changes to the interest rates are necessary, which could impact the direction of the US monetary policy. The current rates of 4.25% to 4.5% remain unchanged since December 2024.
#USHouseMarketStructureDraft U.S . House Drops Crypto Bombshell: "Not Securities!"** **🔥 Breaking: Game-Changing Draft Exempts Digital Commodities from SEC Clampdown** A bombshell new U.S. House market structure draft makes a HUGE clarification: ➡️ **Page 49 reveals:** Digital commodity trades **WON'T** be treated as securities... ✅ ...as long as buyers **don't get ownership stakes** in the issuing company!
$BTC Bitcoin’s recent rally is slowing after hitting a highly significant resistance zone. Three clear technical factors suggest a local top may be forming, with a short-term pullback increasingly likely. Bitcoin has spent the past week climbing steadily, but that momentum hit a wall at the upper boundary of a trend channel that’s been in place since late 2024. These levels often act as natural turning points, and this rejection could signal that the uptrend is losing steam.
WHY IS CRYPTO FALLING ??? The crypto market dropped as investors awaited the US Federal Reserve's rate decision. Bitcoin slipped 1.4%, Ethereum 1.5%, and altcoins also faced pressure. Market sentiment remains cautious with a potential rally if the Fed adopts a dovish stance.
$DOGE A Crypto X chart technical analyst just pointed out a pattern in Dogecoin’s price that could mean the meme coin is the underdog in crypto markets at the moment.Crypto Chart Trader Gives Dogecoin Thumbs Up
#Dogecoin consistently finds support at previous swing highs. It just rebounded from support matching a previous swing high.$DOGE may have completed its pullback and could surge again soon pic.twitter.com/dhfnblpj3v
$BTC IS BITCOIN POLITICAL ?? Bitcoin is becoming more political by the day, particularly after El Salvador began accepting the currency as legal tender. The country's president, Nayib Bukele, announced and implemented the decision almost unilaterally, dismissing criticism from his citizens, the Bank of England, the IMF, Vitalik Buterin and many others. Since the Bitcoin legal tender law was passed in September 2021, Bukele has also announced plans to build Bitcoin City, a city fully based on mining Bitcoin with geothermal energy from volcanoes.
Countries like Mexico, Russia and others have been rumored to be candidates also to accept Bitcoin as legal tender, but thus far, El Salvador stands alone.
On the flip side, countries like China have moved to heavily clamp down on Bitcoin mining and trading activities. In May 2021, the Chinese government declared that all crypto-related transactions are illegal. This was followed by a heavy crackdown on Bitcoin mining operations, forcing many crypto-related businesses to flee to friendlier regions.
Surprisingly, the anti-crypto stance of the Chinese government has done little to stop the industry. According to data by the University of Cambridge, China is now the second-biggest contributor to Bitcoin's global hash rate, only behind the United States.
$BTC What Is Bitcoin (BTC)? Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency originally described in a 2008 whitepaper by a person, or group of people, using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. It was launched soon after, in January 2009.
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer online currency, meaning that all transactions happen directly between equal, independent network participants, without the need for any intermediary to permit or facilitate them. Bitcoin was created, according to Nakamoto’s own words, to allow “online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.”
Some concepts for a similar type of a decentralized electronic currency precede BTC, but Bitcoin holds the distinction of being the first-ever cryptocurrency to come into actual use.
📊 21 Capital: $135K–$285K — based on breakout patterns and quant models.
📊 Fundstrat (Tom Lee): $250K — contingent on U.S. Fed returning to rate cuts.
📊 Chamath Palihapitiya: $500K — Bitcoin as “sovereign-level insurance.”
📊 VanEck: $180K peak before summer dip.
📊 10X Research: $122K early year rally based on technicals.
📊 GFO-X Survey: $150K median target among institutional investors.
Market Sentiment Update:
So far in 2025, BTC$BTC has experienced sharp swings—+9.5% in January, followed by corrections in February and March, and then a strong April comeback with +14.2%. At the time of writing, BTC is holding a steady upward trajectory, showing a +2.29% rise this week and +0.56% in the past 24 hours.
TRUMP'S INCREASING WEALTH !!! Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says.... President Trump's venture into crypto products has increased his family's wealth by billions in the last six months, according to a new report, as his administration continues to loosen the federal government's regulatory approach to the digital currency industry as a whole.
The group State Democracy Defenders Action estimated in a new report that the president's crypto holdings now represent nearly 40% of his net worth — or approximately $2.9 billion. That increase is due in part to his release of the $TRUMP and $MELANIA meme coins, in addition to a large stake in World Liberty Financial, a crypto exchange affiliated with the Trump family that launched in October 2024... The president's net worth is expected to get another bump, with World Liberty Financial's announcement this week that a Abu Dhabi-backed firm will invest billions of dollars in the Trump family-affiliated crypto fund.
TRUMP'S LOVE FOR CRYPTOCURRENCIES !!! An Abu Dhabi state-backed investment firm is making a major $2 billion investment in a crypto business deal that could serve as a major boost for Trump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial, according to Zach Witkoff, co-founder of World Liberty Financial.
USD1, World Liberty Financial's so-called "stablecoin" -- a digital asset designed to maintain a stable value -- is expected to be used to complete Emirati investment firm MGX's $2 billion investment transaction in crypto exchange Binance, Witkoff said during an appearance with President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump at a crypto convention in Dubai this week.
"We are excited to announce today that USD1 has been selected as the official stablecoin to close MGX's $2 billion investment in Binance," Witkoff announced in a video recording of the event posted on X. "We thank MGX and Binance for their trust in us, and I think it's only the beginning." After once deriding cryptocurrency as a "scam," President Donald Trump last September announced he and his sons Eric and Don Jr. were throwing their support behind World Liberty Financial, though its business model was largely unclear. This week's development is the latest example of a foreign entity making a major investment that could boost a Trump family business.
Cryptocurrency and ethics experts told ABC News that the timing and scope of the Trump family's foray into cryptocurrencies raise questions about whether investors -- including those from overseas -- could try to leverage their investments to curry favor with the administration. Critics have raised issues with the Trump administration's regulatory role over cryptocurrencies while he stands to personally benefit from cryptocurrency ventures. "Essentially, the president is taking the weakness in our current ethics laws that allow a president to continue to hold financial interests in businesses while he's in a position of presidency to just a whole new level in this administration," said Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project . .
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