larger – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com Latest Crypto News Fri, 29 Aug 2025 05:28:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.8 https://i0.wp.com/earlybirdsinvest.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cropped-New-Project-2024-12-17T235703.455.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 larger – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com 32 32 240146708 XRP Price Warning: Larger Correction Looms After Recent Weakness https://earlybirdsinvest.com/xrp-price-warning-larger-correction-looms-after-recent-weakness/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/xrp-price-warning-larger-correction-looms-after-recent-weakness/#respond Fri, 29 Aug 2025 05:28:19 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/xrp-price-warning-larger-correction-looms-after-recent-weakness/ XRP price is struggling to clear the $3.080 resistance zone. The price is now declining and might extend losses if it drops below $2.920.

  • XRP price is correcting gains from the $3.080 resistance.
  • The price is now trading near $2.9650 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average.
  • There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance at $3.020 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken).
  • The pair could continue to decline if it stays below the $3.050 zone.

XRP Price Faces Hurdles

XRP price started a downside correction from $3.0850, like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The price traded below the $3.0650 and $3.050 levels.

The bears were able to push the price below $2.980 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. Moreover, there was a spike below the 50% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $2.824 swing low to the $3.080 high.

The price is now trading below $2.9650 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is also a key bearish trend line forming with resistance at $3.020 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair.

XRP Price

If the bulls protect the $2.920 support, the price could attempt another increase. On the upside, the price might face resistance near the $3.00 level. The first major resistance is near the $3.020 level. A clear move above the $3.020 resistance might send the price toward the $3.080 resistance. Any more gains might send the price toward the $3.120 resistance. The next major hurdle for the bulls might be near $3.150.

More Losses?

If XRP fails to clear the $3.020 resistance zone, it could continue to move down. Initial support on the downside is near the $2.920 level or the 61.8% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $2.824 swing low to the $3.080 high. The next major support is near the $2.8850 level.

If there is a downside break and a close below the $2.8850 level, the price might continue to decline toward $2.80. The next major support sits near the $2.780 zone, below which the price could gain bearish momentum.

Technical Indicators

Hourly MACD – The MACD for XRP/USD is now gaining pace in the bearish zone.

Hourly RSI (Relative Strength Index) – The RSI for XRP/USD is now below the 50 level.

Major Support Levels – $2.920 and $2.840.

Major Resistance Levels – $3.020 and $3.080.

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The Apple Watch is expected to be part of Apple’s iPhone announcement that could take place on September 9. While a new Apple Watch Ultra 3 could be part of the announcement, we haven’t heard much about its new features, but apparantly, the latest iOS 26 beta provides a sneak peek.

According to a MacRumors report, the iOS 26 beta 5 that was released to developers on Tuesday includes an image that suggests that the Apple Watch Ultra 3 will have a screen resolution of 422-by-514 pixels. That’s a slight increase over the Apple Watch Ultra 2’s current 410-by-502 resolution.

The Apple Watch Ultra is already Apple’s largest watch at 49mm, so it’s likely that Apple will reduce the size of the screen’s bezels rather than increase the body of the watch in a meaningful way. This way, the watch can maintain its general size while offering more usable display space and still boasting a larger screen. Apple could also make the watch thinner, as it did with the Series 10, to make the watch feel smaller.

As for other new features, we have heard scant rumors about any new features or health sensors, other than the possibility of 5G cellular and satellite messaging. The upcoming watchOS 26 update will bring some Apple Intelligence features to the watch, and it’s also possible that Apple will add exclusive AI features to the Ultra 3 with a new chip. Learn more about the upcoming Apple Watch Ultra 3 and the Apple Watch Series 11.

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Kitely has added support for physically based rendering (PBR) materials in both its virtual worlds and on the Kitely Market, the company announced this week. The update also includes support for textures up to 2,048 by 2,048 pixels in size.

PBR materials allow for more realistic textures by simulating how light interacts with different surfaces, such as mud or metal, creating the appearance of raised and lowered areas with realistic light reflection.

(Image courtesy Kitely.)

The feature requires Firestorm 7.1.11 or newer to use.

Kitely is one of the first grids to support PBR materials, having ported the features from the upcoming OpenSim 0.9.3 release into their current OpenSim 0.9.2.2-based system.

“PBR isn’t yet supported in all OpenSim grids,” said Oren Hurvitz, Kitely co-founder and VP of R&D, in the announcement. “This is a feature that will be part of OpenSim 0.9.3, but that version of OpenSim isn’t finished yet so many grids — including Kitely — are still using the latest stable release, which is OpenSim 0.9.2.2. The reason that Kitely can support PBR now is that we ported the PBR features from OpenSim 0.9.3 into our version of OpenSim.”

The Kitely Market has been updated to accommodate the new feature, with the “Textures” category renamed to “Textures and Materials.” Merchants are advised to mention PBR usage in their product descriptions since items using PBR materials may not display correctly on grids that don’t support the feature. Alternatively, merchants can include regular textures as a fallback to ensure their products look okay on all grids.

“Kitely Market is the main marketplace serving the hypergrid so we decided to support the latest graphics options from OpenSim 0.9.3 even before they have been officially released,” Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner told Hypergrid Business.

The update also brings support for reflection probes through LSL scripting, with new PRIM_REFLECTION_PROBE parameters added to GetPrimParams and SetPrimParams functions.

PRB makes reflections seem more realistic. (Image courtesy Kitely.)

While PBR materials can technically be used for terrain textures, Kitely reports encountering several issues during testing. World maps will show objects using PBR materials but display only the basic color texture, not other PBR properties like normal maps or roughness. PBR terrain textures are not currently displayed in world maps.

For content creators, Kitely has added a new “Materials” folder to user inventories for storing PBR materials.

Creators interested in learning more about creating PBR materials refer to Second Life’s documentation on the subject.

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