On Jan. 22, analytics firm Santiment said via X that XRP's social data has entered "Extreme Fear" after about a 19% decline from the Jan. 5 high. The firm argues such bearish crowd sentiment has often preceded rebounds. XRP last traded near $1.9498 following the early-January surge and subsequent pullback.

Fundstrat's Tom Lee, in an interview released Jan. 20, reaffirmed a $250,000 Bitcoin target while warning 2026 could be "jagged" for crypto adoption and broader risk assets. He cited potential S&P 500 drawdowns of 10%–20% and pointed to an Oct. 10 crypto deleveraging and market‑maker fragility as key variables. Lee views major pullbacks as buying windows.

CryptoQuant contributor Darkfost reports a clear drop in BTC whale inflows to Binance: after end‑November's panic phase saw nearly $8 billion in monthly transfers, current inflows have been cut to around $2.74 billion, signaling softer sell-side pressure. CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju says institutional demand remains strong, citing 577K BTC ($53B) added over the past year.

Bitcoin fell to $91,920 late Sunday in New York, down 3.8% from about $95,500, as risk-off flows struck crypto majors. President Donald Trump said 10% tariffs on imports from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland will begin Feb. 1, rising to 25% on June 1 unless a Greenland deal is reached. Coinglass reported $874.93 million liquidations in the past 24 hours.

XRPL developer Bird (@Bird_XRPL) said on X that XRP's hourly chart is coiling into a contracting triangle and could break "before the end of the week," with a measured upside objective near $2.69. He linked the setup to a broader "risk-on" tone in equities and strength in the Russell 2000. At press time, XRP traded around $2.06.

Keyrock, using data visualized with Dune, has released a “12 Charts to Watch in 2026” dashboard pairing live crypto market datasets with explicit forecasts for next year. The report highlights prediction markets, tokenized RWAs, x402 payments, onchain vaults, derivatives depth, buybacks, Solana MEV, Zcash privacy, Ethereum blobs, card spending, spot BTC ETFs, and stablecoin funding as key indicators of whether trading, issuance, payments, and funding are becoming more institutional. It also notes the total crypto market cap at $3.25 trillion at press time.

In early 2026, Bitcoin reclaimed $96,000. According to Glassnode's Week On-chain report, the move has run into a $93K–$110K long-term holder cost basis band formed during April to July 2025, while $98.3K is highlighted as the short-term holder line-in-the-sand. The note also warns that losing the True Market Mean near ~$81k could tilt risk toward deeper downside.

CryptoQuant contributor Darkfost reports Binance's Bitcoin futures open interest topped $15B on October 6, then fell more than 31% to about $10B as futures-led selling eased. He views the drop and an OI slide below the 180‑day average as a deleveraging signal, while Net Taker Volume has cooled to –$51M from a –$489M monthly peak. BTC last traded at $95,131.

In a Jan. 10 newsletter, analyst Will Taylor from CryptoinsightUK outlined a potential final long entry for XRP below its current support, contingent on Bitcoin forming a double-bottom-style retest that pulls major altcoins into deeper liquidity areas. Taylor's preferred buying zone for XRP sits around $1.90 to $1.82, while his minimum price target stands at $3.40, extending to $4.40 in the medium term and $8-$12 over the long run. At the time of writing, XRP was trading near $2.05, with Taylor noting that daily RSI conditions could still allow one more downside washout before a broader uptrend resumes.