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• XLM price is up nearly 5% as it trades around $0.095.
• The Stellar price looks poised to retest resistance at $0.10, which could open a path for bulls to target $0.13.
• Sentiment is positive after latest news involving Stellar Development Foundation and US-based crypto-focused company Coinme.

Stellar (XLM) price is up 4.5% as a number of altcoins in the top 50 bracket by market cap record slight gains amid a lull for Bitcoin (BTC).

XLM is currently trading just above $0.095, about 9.3% up in the past week. According to CoinGecko data, $128 million worth of XLM has been traded in the past 24 hours, with the coin’s daily trading volume increasing by 27% in that period.

XLM price prediction as crypto cash exchange Coinme adds USDC on Stellar

The Stellar Lumens price, though not gaining as much as XRP, which spiked nearly 10% on Tuesday morning amid fresh upside momentum, could see a breakout of its own after recently validating a new support line. 

Stellar could also benefit from broader gains for crypto as bulls look to bounce from the downside catalysed by this week’s regulatory related news.

There has also been positive news for Stellar. 

On Tuesday, US-based cryptocurrency cash exchange provider Coinme announced it had partnered with the Stellar Development Foundation to integrate the stablecoin USDC on the Stellar network.

According to details in a press release, the collaboration will strengthen financial inclusion for millions of users. With USDC on Stellar, users of Coinme can now easily access borderless digital cash and P2P payments. People can send, receive and cash out USDC at thousands of Coinme locations across the US.

“By enabling USDC on Stellar in the Coinme wallet, anyone with cash can now utilise the Stellar blockchain to access a fully-backed dollar digital currency. People can now swap their cash for USDC on Stellar and send it in seconds for the cost of a penny,” Coinme CEO and co-founder Neil Bergquist said in a statement.

Bergquist added that the collaboration is a “game changer for the cash remittance and payments market.”

XLM price: technical analysis

The technical outlook for XLM price on the daily chart suggests bulls are facing stiff resistance near $0.10. While buying pressure that has characterised the crypto market in 2023 has seen buyers attempt to breach the massive supply wall, the lack of a decisive move means bears retain a slight advantage.

However, prices are above an ascending trendline support to suggest a potential bullish breakout should buyers take out sellers at $0.10. This will likely strengthen upside momentum that is currently indicated by the daily RSI above the 50 line. The daily MACD is also slightly bullish.

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• XRP price rose nearly 10% to highs above $0.50 on Tuesday.
• Ripple is set for a court decision in its battle with the SEC, with social dominance for XRP rising.
• XRP price is up amid increased volume, with support for the XRP/TUSD pair on Binance added on 29 March.

The price of XRP soared nearly 10% on Tuesday morning to break above $0.50 for its highest level since early November. The XRP price is up 32% this past week.

XRP’s gains came as the broader cryptocurrency market endured yet another slow day, with action muted as the community digested recent news around major cryptocurrency exchange Binance. 

As of 11 am ET on 28 March, the XRP token traded at $0.5045, the highest price for the Ripple cryptocurrency since 5 November 2022 when it sharply dropped from above 50 cents to lows of $0.33.

XRP price outlook amid volume spike

Today’s upside comes after a week of growing positivity for XRP, with expectations over the SEC vs. Ripple Labs case helping return huge volume to the top 10 crypto.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) terming Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin as commodities in its complaint against Binance has only helped to fuel sentiment that XRP will be declared a commodity and not security when its court battle with the US regulator concludes.

On Monday, John Deaton, the founder of Crypto Law and a blockchain enthusiast, suggested that XRP offers the best risk/reward ratio.

“The Judge’s ruling is coming down w/in the next few weeks (maybe this week). If the SEC wins, what’s the downside from .45? Ripple appeals and we get the status quo. Ripple wins and its made clear XRP isn’t a security? Upside?”

XRP has the most attractive risk/reward ratio IMO. The Judge’s ruling is coming down w/in the next few weeks (maybe this week). If the SEC wins, what’s the downside from .45? Ripple appeals and we get the status quo. Ripple wins and its made clear XRP isn’t a security? Upside? 🤔

— John E Deaton (@JohnEDeaton1) March 26, 2023

This outlook for XRP has persisted over the past few days, with trading volume spiking as the network experienced increased mainstream interest.

According to on-chain data platform Santiment, XRP’s breakout to a 50-week high coincides with XRP Network’s social dominance bursting to a new year-high level. This has only added to increased crowd recognition, suggesting the cryptocurrency could see further upside volatility as volume spikes.

👀 #XRPNetwork’s social dominance is at its highest point in a year following the surge above $0.49 for the first time since Nov. 6. Added $XRP crowd recognition means more volatile price swings caused by increased volume & mainstream interest. https://t.co/bMT66JTwmT pic.twitter.com/pUIWe9vGKu

— Santiment (@santimentfeed) March 27, 2023

Binance’s announcement that it will support for the XRP/TUSD pair starting 29 March, 2023 has also contributed the social chatter that’s seeing XRP price look to test new multi-month highs.

However, while bulls might have a chance to extend gains above $0.50, chances of a short term sell-off are likely given the outcome of the SEC case as well as prevailing market sentiment. If profit taking intensifies, its possible XRP could retreat to recent support near $0.36.

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• BlockFi filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 28.
• Some Califonia users continued to repay their loans between November 11 and November 22
• Users were not notified until November 22 that they could stop repaying their Loans “until further notice.”

California’s financial watchdog, the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI), had previously suspended BlockFi’s lending license for 30 days from November 11, 2022, before later revoking BlockFi’s CFC license on December 15, 2022.

BlockFi halted client withdrawals on November 2022 and requested clients to deposit funds to BlockFi wallets or Interest Accounts for lack of clarity around the FTX collapse. The crypto lender later voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on November 28, 2022, alongside its eight other subsidiaries.

The DFPI claimed that BlockFi failed to “provide timely notification to borrowers that they could stop repaying their BlockFi loans.” The watchdog claims that the crypto lender did not notify borrowers until November 2022 that they could stop repaying their BlockFi loans “until further notice.”

About 111 California BlockFi users to get refunded

According to a statement issued by DFPI on March 27, investigations showed that at least 111 BlockFi borrowers from California continued paying their loans between November 11 and November 22, 2022. These borrowers paid back about $103,471 in loan repayments between the said periods.

BlockFi requested permission from the bankruptcy court to return the payments to the borrowers in a motion filed on February 24, 2023. The crypto lender has agreed to refund more than $100,000 to the California customers that continued repaying their crypto loans even after trading halted operations on November 10, 2022.

The hearing for the request to refund the customers is scheduled for April 19, 2023. The refunds will go ahead if the motion is approved by the bankruptcy court.

In the meantime, BlockFi has agreed to an “interim suspension” of its California Financing Law (CFL) license while “the bankruptcy and revocation actions are pending.”

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• Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) made a surprise lawsuit against Binance.
• The lawsuit has labelled Bitcoin, Ether, Binance USD, Tether and Litecoin as commodities.
• CFTC also made allegations of market manipulation and a lack of compliance efforts.

Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao has rejected the allegations made by Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) against Binance and himself in the March 27 lawsuit.

On March 27, the US CFTC issued a 74-page complaint labelling Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Binance USD (BUSD), Litecoin (LTC), and Tether (USDT) as commodities and also accused Binance and Changpeng Zhao of market manipulation and lack of compliance.

CFTC has also accused Binance of not cooperating with the investigative subpoenas while also obscuring the location of its executive offices.

CZ calls CFTC’s claims incomplete recitation of facts

Binance’s CEO published a blog post arguing that the cryptocurrency exchange:

“Binance.com does not trade for profit or “manipulate” the market under any circumstances. Binance “trades” in a number of situations. Our revenues are in crypto. We do need to convert them from time-to-time to cover expenses in fiat or other crypto currencies. We have affiliates that provide liquidity for less liquid pairs. These affiliates are monitored specifically not to have large profits.”

In the lawsuit, the CFTC has accused Binance of trading on its own platform using 300 “house accounts” without properly disclosing the information to its customers in its Terms of Use. The CFTC says that the exchange has instead kept the information as a “top secret” and even refused to respond to the commission-issued investigative subpoenas looking for information about the said trading activity.

CZ also went ahead to disclose that he has two accounts with Binance: one for the card and one for crypto holding. He says in the blog post:

“Personally, I have two accounts at Binance: one for Binance Card, one for my crypto holdings. I eat our own dog food and store my crypto on Binance.com. I also need to convert crypto from time-to-time to pay for my personal expenses or for the Card.”

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• Disney had picked Polygon for the metaverse project.
• Disney was targeting NFTs for its next-generation storytelling and consumer experiences.
• The company is currently in the process of streamlining its business.

Disney started developing a metaverse strategy in mid-2022 and announced that they would tap the Polygon blockchain for the project. Earlier in October 2021, Citi released a report saying that Disney, Electronic Arts, and WWE were set to become some of the biggest beneficiaries of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

The company further appeared to ramp up resource deployment by posting a job post for an expert in-house counsel for DeFi and NFTs in September 2022. The person Disney was looking to hire was required to be an experienced corporate attorney who would “work on transactions involving emerging technologies, including NFTs, blockchain, metaverse, and decentralized finance.”

However, according to the Wall Street Journal, Disney’s metaverse plans appeared to be still unclear a year later.

Streamlining business

Disney is currently in the process of laying off about 7,000 employees as it tries to control costs and develop what the CEO Bob Iger calls a “streamlined business.” The layoff will affect the 50 metaverse project employees.

Disbanding the next-generation storytelling and consumer experiences shows Disney is questioning the continued value of Web3.

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