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Monica Ramires

Monica Ramires is the Altcoins and Markets Correspondent at The Chain Journal, tracking the altcoin space with a critical eye and separating genuine ecosystem development from hype cycles. She covers the Ethereum ecosystem, DeFi, NFTs, and emerging Layer-1 competitors, with a focus on distinguishing lasting innovation from short-lived market narratives.

ETH Builds Pressure, But $3K Is No Gift

Ether accumulation wallet balances increased by 33%: Is a rally to $3K next?

A Market That Refuses To Stay Quiet Ether is starting to look less like a dead chart and more like a coiled one. A confirmed cup-and-handle breakout and a sharp rise in accumulation wallet balances suggest that longer-term buyers are…

Bitcoin rallies, but the macro trap remains

Price predictions 4/17: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, HYPE, ADA, BCH, LINK

Relief Is Not A Trend Bitcoin’s move toward $78,000 is being treated like a breakout, but the deeper story is simpler and more fragile: markets are repricing geopolitical risk, not discovering a new structural bid. When Iran said the Strait…

Conflict tests Gulf capital’s conviction

UAE investors buy AI dip, keep crypto exposure despite conflict

Capital Does Not Flinch Easily The UAE’s investor base is doing something that looks simple on a screen and complicated in practice: it is treating the recent pullback in AI, chips and software as a buying opportunity while keeping a…

Coinone faces Seoul’s harder line

South Korea fines Coinone $3.5M, orders partial business suspension: Reports

Seoul Tightens the Screws Coinone’s latest penalty is not just another compliance headline. It is a reminder that South Korea’s crypto market is moving deeper into a phase where regulators expect exchanges to behave more like tightly supervised financial institutions…