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We Asked ChatGPT: Is XRP Doomed to Fall Below $1 After the CLARITY Act Delay?
The delay of the US CLARITY Act announced at the end of the business week harmed several altcoins, but XRP’s price dipped the most among the larger caps.
BTC and ETH managed to hold support on Friday, remaining above or at key milestones at $64,000 and $1,900. XRP, on the other hand, slipped to just over $1. That’s why we decided to ask ChatGPT for its analysis of the matter and whether Ripple’s token will continue to face adverse consequences.
Why Such a Reaction, XRP?
The answer to whether the token will inevitably crash below $1, according to the popular AI solution, was “not necessarily, but the risk has increased.” It explained that the cross-border altcoin has become uniquely tied to US regulatory developments, dating back to the beginning of the lawsuit against the SEC nearly six years ago.
Unlike bitcoin, which has institutional and ETF demand, or Ethereum, which benefits from tokenization, stablecoins, and treasury accumulation from companies like Bitmine, much of XRP’s bullish narrative over the past few years has centered on regulatory clarity.
Passage of the CLARITY Act would likely cement its commodity status in federal law and provide greater certainty for banks, institutions, and ETF issuers. In contrast, delaying the process postpones those potential inflows rather than eliminating them.
OpenAI’s solution pointed out that XRP had historically rallied aggressively on regulatory optimism earlier in the cycle, making it more vulnerable to disappointment when the catalyst faded. Certain analysts agree with the thesis that XRP could indeed slip below $1 soon, but they believe this would open the door for a more profound rally.
Is Sub-$1 Inevitable?
Again, ChatGPT doesn’t believe this is the most probable scenario; instead, it thinks XRP has several catalysts that could prevent such a move. Perhaps the most significant support comes from the company behind the token and its substantial expansion experienced over the past few years, which included major partnerships, acquisitions, and regulatory wins, albeit in other jurisdictions.
The AI also noted that markets tend to overreact to legislative delays – after all, it doesn’t necessarily mean the bill will fail. If investors begin pricing in eventual approval rather than focusing solely on timing, Ripple’s token could stabilize before Washington returns in September.
Nevertheless, it didn’t completely rule out a dip below $1.00, especially if the broader crypto sentiment deteriorates and BTC loses key support. In addition, macroeconomic news or war escalation can trigger another leg down, and both of those factors are outside the scope of the regulatory delay.
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The CLARITY Act got stuck in political limbo at the end of the business week until lawmakers return from their August recess, and Grayscale laid out a potential plan ahead for the US crypto industry if Congress ultimately fails to deliver the highly anticipated market structure this year.
There’s no need to sugarcoat it: it would be a setback at first, but the company sees a path forward.
Crypto Will Survive
Grayscale has weighed in on several occasions on the bill’s potential, and its latest analysis admitted that an agreement this year still remains technically possible. However, the reality of the Senate calendar and the upcoming midterm elections have made official passage increasingly difficult.
Their report comes just as Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed cloture on the motion to proceed with the legislation before lawmakers left Washington last week. The procedural vote is scheduled for September 15 but still requires 60 votes. Importantly, it’s not a final vote on the bill, just to determine whether senators can advance toward formally considering it.
If they fail to do so, Grayscale argued that Washington has several other avenues to move crypto regulation forward even without comprehensive legislation from Congress. Perhaps the most significant path is the regulatory agencies themselves.
The CFTC and SEC have already become considerably more accommodating toward the crypto industry compared to previous years, as they can continue developing rules and interpretations governing the market even if Congress remains on the sidelines.
Nevertheless, these watchdogs are still limited in what they can accomplish without new legislation, particularly when it comes to establishing permanent jurisdictional boundaries between themselves. Yet, they can still address some major points of inflection within the industry, such as tokenized securities, custody, and trading.
On the plus side, institutional involvement has skyrocketed over the past few years through spot ETFs, stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, and growing Wall Street participation even as the CLARITY Act lingers. The GENIUS Act already provided a federal framework for payment stablecoins, which was a major win, added Grayscale’s Head of Research, Zach Pandl.
Odds Keep Slipping
The bill’s stagnation at the end of the business week was a blow for the industry, but Thune’s cloture brought some hope. However, several key issues remain, such as ethical disagreements, illicit finance rules, and language from the Senate Agriculture Committee.
Republicans don’t have enough votes to proceed alone, even if they all support the bill, as they need at least seven Democrats or independents. These difficulties, without a clear resolution in sight, have harmed expectations for passage this year, with Galaxy Research cutting the probability from 50% to just 30%.
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BTCPay Server has temporarily restricted public remote connections to Lightning Network nodes running Lightning Network Daemon (LND) software after attackers exploited a critical vulnerability to obtain credentials and move funds.
BTCPay said the restriction prevents external wallets such as Zeus from connecting through a BTCPay Server domain or Tor onion address on Docker deployments. BTCPay said Lightning payments can continue and that it plans to restore the remote-access option when it considers it safe.
Version 2.4.2 installs LND version 0.21.1 and automatically regenerates the macaroon credentials on standard BTCPay installations. The project advised operators to check for unauthorized payments, unexpected channel closures, unfamiliar peers and discrepancies in their onchain or Lightning balances.
The BTCPay breach is the latest security incident involving widely used Bitcoin products, following a Coldcard hardware-wallet flaw linked to more than $100 million in confirmed losses. The separate incidents affected software surrounding Bitcoin rather than the network’s underlying protocol.
Update automatically rotates Lightning credentials
BTCPay said the vulnerability allowed an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain “macaroon” credential files used to control LND, an implementation of the Lightning Network. The project said the exposed credentials could allow attackers to take control of an LND node and move its funds.
According to the project’s security advisory, version 2.4.2 installs LND version 0.21.1 and automatically regenerates macaroon credentials on standard BTCPay installations. It advised operators to check for unauthorized payments, unexpected channel closures, unfamiliar peers and discrepancies between their records and onchain or Lightning balances.
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BTCPay also said operators exposing LND through their own reverse proxy, Tor service, forwarded port, or another route outside BTCPay must rotate their credentials separately. The project said installing the update does not close access routes managed independently by the operator.
At least two operators publicly reported losses. Foundation CEO Zach Herbert said the hardware-wallet company’s Lightning node was drained overnight. He later clarified that its hot wallet was unaffected, while its Lightning channels were closed and the funds swept.
Bitcoin publication Citadel21 also reported that its Lightning node had been swept. Neither operator disclosed the amount lost.
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Bitcoin mining firm AntPool mined the first non-signalling block, which the rest of the network accepted and BIP-110 nodes rejected, and a miner using Ocean produced the alternative that the breakaway chain followed instead. (A miner is an entity that uses massive computing resources to maintain bitcoin and process its transactions, earning newly issued bitcoin and fees for the work.)
AntPool and Ocean are mining pools, where many operators combine their machines and share the rewards.
The stall has a mechanical cause that is hard to escape. Bitcoin recalculates how difficult mining is every 2,016 blocks, aiming to keep blocks arriving roughly every ten minutes.
The breakaway chain inherited bitcoin’s current setting but has a tiny share of the machines, so its blocks arrive at long intervals. It cannot make mining easier until it completes 2,016 blocks at that pace. The monitor puts that at 350 days away, against 14 days for bitcoin.
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XRPL has released version 3.3.0, which takes another step toward becoming infrastructure for institutional tokenization.
It introduces several proposed amendments focused on privacy, payments, and managing real-world assets (RWAs).
Confidential Transfers
Perhaps the most significant new feature is called Confidential Transfer. It’s designed to allow institutions to hide balances and transaction amounts for Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs) while keeping the accounts and the asset type involved visible. It uses cryptographic proofs to verify that transactions are valid without publicly revealing the underlying amounts.
According to the GitHub post and previous reports on the matter, this could address an important obstacle for financial institutions, which may want the transparency and settlement benefits of a public blockchain without exposing sensitive position sizes or transaction values.
Data from RWA.xyz shows that roughly $850 million out of the $1.38 billion in RWA distributed on the XRPL is from Ripple’s own stablecoin, RLUSD. This leaves approximately $530 million in other tokenized assets from other big names in the niche, such as Ondo, Archax, Societe Generale, and VERT Capital.
Other Proposals
Aside from Confidential Transfers, the other updates named in version 3.3.0 include Batch, Sponsor, and Permission Delegation. The first amendment would allow up to eight transactions to be grouped together, including an atomic mode in which either all transactions succeed or the entire batch fails. This is expected to benefit complex settlements, swaps, and institutional transactions.
Sponsor is designed to enable one account to cover another user’s transaction fees and reserve requirements. In other words, it could allow companies to onboard customers without requiring them to purchase XRP before interacting with an application.
The last one would enable account holders to grant another party pre-defined transaction permissions without surrendering full control of the wallet. It would align with Dynamic MPT and provide issuers with greater flexibility by allowing certain token characteristics to be modified after issuance.
It’s worth noting that these amendments are not live on the XRP Ledger Mainnet yet, as the governance process requires each to maintain support from at least 80% of trusted validators for two consecutive weeks before activation.
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