
XRP crypto analyst price projection reaches $60—but one major hurdle comes first
XRP has slipped below $1.40 while a conditional $60 forecast and David Schwartz's comments about overtaking Bitcoin attract attention.
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XRP has slipped below $1.40 while a conditional $60 forecast and David Schwartz's comments about overtaking Bitcoin attract attention.

The XRP Ledger is on a path to another major software upgrade as the network looks forward to an upcoming release of its Lending Protocol: XRPL 3.4.0. To further bolster the network's Decentralized Finance (DeFi) capabilities, Lending Protocol v1.1 will be included in the upcoming release, marking another significant addition to the XRPL ecosystem.

Bitcoin has traded between $76,000 and $79,000 during the final weeks of Q3 2026, with repeated rejections at $80,000. The dominant explanation across analysis channels points to absent narrative, retail caution, or September seasonality. A different reading applies.

Bitcoin's outlook has strengthened amid positive September ETF flows and signs of greater risk appetite across altcoins. Following new PPI data, a 21Shares strategist said conditions could propel BTC toward $100,000 during a “potentially explosive Q4.

The US-Iran war escalations have brought back an Iran-backed study on Ripple's XRP and it's use for cross-border payments and XRP. The recent conflict has led brought sanctions and international transfers, as well as other financial issues into spotlight, which has turned heads towards XRP.

Forensics traced 10,281 payments from 4,011 sender wallets, but the attacker's exact route remains unproven and users need entirely new seeds.
The ETF's investors will be paid out in cash next month. Meanwhile, macroeconomic developments were generally unfavorable to cryptocurrencies.

Ripple is expanding GSmart with AI agents that monitor corporate treasury operations and recommend actions under company-defined policies. Financial calculations remain deterministic, while treasury personnel preserve approval authority over every transaction. Ripple Puts Guardrails Around Treasury Automation Corporate finance teams can automate more treasury analysis without transferring final decision-making authority to artificial intelligence.

Ripple on Thursday expanded GSmart, an AI layer built into Ripple Treasury, adding policy-governed capabilities across forecasting, liquidity, risk, reconciliation and reporting. Will GSmart Enhance Ripple‘s Offerings?

Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP resumed their declines on Thursday following new U.S. inflation data that raised expectations the Federal Reserve would hike rates at the next meeting. The September 15-16 FOMC meeting could be weighed on risk assets on the crypto market.

Liquid Network is back producing blocks. Sort of.

Venture capitalist Tim Draper warned Thursday that the U.S. dollar could eventually become unwanted money, urging families, companies, and governments to stock up on bitcoin before a potential rush out of dollars begins. Writing on Sept. 10, Draper reached back to a childhood lesson involving a Confederate banknote his father gave him.

Ran Neuner, Founder of Crypto Banter, joins Coindesk's Jennifer Sanasie on Markets Outlook with charts in hand to explain why Bitcoin's pullback from $82K is textbook post-golden-cross behavior, and why he thinks the real story is what comes next. Neuner breaks down Scott Bessent's Treasury buybacks as the engine of the rally, why ETH just broke a nine-year downtrend against Bitcoin, and why he's rotating out of layer ones and into apps with real users and revenue.

Ripple Treasury expands GSmart AI with policy-governed tools for forecasting, liquidity, risk, reconciliation, and reporting.

Liquid Network resumed transactions on Thursday, but the hacker who drained its federation wallet is still holding 598.5 BTC for a 10% bounty.