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Remember the wild ride of 2017? When XRP went from a bargain-bin price of under $0.01 to a jaw-dropping $3.84? Well, it turns out that was just the trailer for the main event. Back then, the price surge was fueled by a cocktail of market bubbles, new exchange listings, and some feverish dreams about Ripple changing the world. The whole thing followed the Elliott Wave theory – five big waves, short breaks, and a pop! Kind of like your favorite balloon on a hot summer day. 😬

After keeping steady above $1,650, Ethereum suddenly felt the urge for excitement and started climbing, kind of like Bitcoin doing its thing. Bulls pumped the price past $1,750 — proof that optimism is alive, if a little misguided.

After refusing to tumbling below $88,000, Bitcoin decided to stretch its legs, hopping over $90,000 and $91,500 like an enthusiastic goat on a mountain trail.

Look, Falling Wedge sounds fancy, doesn’t it? It’s this neat little chart pattern that screams “Hey, maybe prices will go up!” after they’ve been going down like your grandma’s old elevator. Cardano’s been making these lower highs and lower lows since January 2025—basically limping along, hoping to catch a break.

According to data from our ever-trusty CompaniesMarketCap, Bitcoin has managed to outpace the market cap of both Silver and Amazon, the latter of which was strutting proudly at $1.837 trillion just this morning. Of course, the pride of Amazon did slip a bit, gaining a modest 3.50% to land at $173.18, while Silver, alas, took a small tumble, down 0.08% to $32.88. Meanwhile, Bitcoin had no such qualms—leaving Amazon’s strut behind, it marched forward with grandeur, and even tipped its hat to Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) whose $1.859 trillion market cap seemed just a little too comfortable. But don’t fret, Alphabet; Bitcoin’s coming for you.

This delightful price hustle aligns neatly with Pi’s impending mainnet migration, a saga that began in the ancient times of 2019. Yes, the same year we all learned to bake sourdough bread and how to Zoom with friends awkwardly in pajama bottoms.

Picture this: Bitcoin, once a humble peasant in the kingdom of finance, has somehow scrambled to the dizzy heights of the high $80,000s—a feat worthy of a Dostoevskian character teetering on the edge of madness and enlightenment. Amid the collapse of global equities, our digital Prometheus dares to whisper of independence, perhaps even liberty from the sordid dramas of traditional markets.

Diana, a seer of the X platform, unveils five reasons—which is indeed suspicious, for who can trust a list that is both four and five?—suggesting XRP’s inevitable ascendancy. First, she points to the ghostly echoes of 2024’s rally, the crossing of three dollars, a spectral apparition reminding us of days since 2017 long past. The Ichimoku cloud, that strange oracle of technical mumbo-jumbo, still hovers above the abyss, offering a sliver of hope—a 600% climb to $17.50, if madness permits.

And guess what? Roughly $300 million of that hot virtual cash has vanished into the ether, never to be seen again. CEO Ben Zhou (not running for office yet) spilled the tea on X (yes, Twitter had an identity crisis) about where these ill-gotten gains are chilling now.

But don’t get too excited just yet. Top analyst Ali Martinez, who probably spends his nights pouring over charts and muttering about TD Sequential indicators, dropped a bomb on that optimism. According to him, Solana’s doing that thing where it looks strong but then—bam—it’s ready for a short-term pullback. A sell signal just flashed on the 12-hour chart, signaling that we might be hitting a local top. History’s shown that this indicator isn’t the kind of thing you ignore unless you’ve got a death wish in the market.