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The cryptocurrency markets have started to show mild price action, considering the bullish wave ushered in by the passing of the Genius Act. At the same time, President Trump’s robust support towards the cryptocurrency domain has helped the markets to score new users, brimming with excitement. While the tokens continue to target fresh new peaks, here’s how prominent tokens like Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK), Solana (SOL), and Binance Coin (BNB). Also Read: Goldman Sachs: MAG7 Hits 7-Year Low Amid AI, Trade & Antitrust Fears Price Predictions Of Leading Cryptocurrency Coins By 2040 1. Cardano (ADA) Price Analysis Source: Capital.com Cardano is currently one of the leading cryptocurrency tokens to exist in the market as of now. The token is eyeing ambitious utilitarian targets, exploring the launch of the Midnight sidechain, touting it as a chain capable of onboarding stocks as one of the leading steps towards embracing real-world asset tokenization. Per CoinCodex, ADA is cu...

The Solana price slumped 9% in the past 24 hours to trade at $236.88 as of 02:36 a.m. EST on trading volume that dropped 51% to $18.6 billion. The Solana blockchain faced significant network congestion on Monday due to the rising popularity of Donald Trump-themed meme tokens, TRUMP and MELANIA. Their respective launches over the weekend have created an unprecedented surge in transaction volumes on the Solana network. We are now witnessing the issue with Solana$TRUMP, $MELANIA, $BARRON launched, everybody is buying them, every normie, aunties, uncles literally everybody and look how the chain responds Barely any transactions comes through even with high priority fees — Koki (@k0k1mania) January 20, 2025 The overwhelming network activity led to technical disruptions for Jito Labs, a key infrastructure provider for the Solana network. As MELANIA and TRUMP continue to encounter a surge in trading volume, Solana’s ecosystem is still trying to recover. Solana On A Price Co...

This week, Solana engineers confirmed that the ecosystem’s mainnet suffered its first major outage of 2024. In an incident report issued on Tuesday, Solana confirmed that “Engineers from across the ecosystem” were investigating an outage and according to blockchain trackers, blocks were last processed at just before 10:00 UTC. The network was restored within a few hours but that was still long enough for an avalanche of memes to flood social media. These included users making light of Solana ’s misfortune, bitter Ethereum rivalries, and a terribly-timed prediction from Ben Armstrong . Here are a few of our favorites. Solana outages are nothing new Solana devs making sure that’s nothing goes wrong with their blockchain pic.twitter.com/JuW0m5u5YC — Gordon (@AltcoinGordon) February 6, 2024 Read more: Solana mainnet down almost a year after last major outage One X (formerly Twitter) user was quick to compare Solana devs’ attempts to keep the block...

Until a day back, Bitcoin ETFs were the talk of the crypto town. Now, Europe gearing up to launch its first-ever spot BTC fund managed to re-ignite the spark. However, after the verdict in the SEC v. Ripple lawsuit was passed, the narrative shifted to how altcoins are not securities. Narrative just switched from 'spot BTC ETF' to 'altcoins aren't securities' — tedtalksmacro (@tedtalksmacro) July 13, 2023 Also Read: Europe: First Bitcoin ETF to Go Live After 1 Year Delay Leaving aside institutional sales, XRP was off the security hook. In recent lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance, the SEC deemed a host of other cryptos to be “securities.” The list included several top-ranked assets like MATIC, Solana, and Cardano. However, post the latest ruling, the community has started contending that “SEC cryptos,” with similar fundamentals, can also get away with the security label. In fact, right after XRP, the other three top altcoins on LunarCrus...