According to Blockworks, a federal judge ordered Ripple to pay a civil penalty of $125,035,150 in its lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC had requested a payment of $2 billion, while Ripple had requested a maximum penalty of $10 million. Ripple is ordered to cease and desist from any further securities law violations, Judge Analisa Torres wrote in a court filing on Wednesday. Torres denied the SEC's request for disgorgement and prejudgment interest, saying the securities regulator failed to prove "monetary loss" that required such damages. Ripple did not violate federal securities laws by conducting programmatic sales of XRP to retail customers through its trading platform. But Ripple's 1,278 institutional sales transactions violated securities laws, and the fine of $125 million was far less than the $1 billion in disgorgement and prejudgment interest and $900 million in civil penalties sought by the SEC.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, according to data tracked by CryptoQuant, Bitcoin's "reserve risk" indicator is still entrenched in the green area below 0.002. Reserve risk is an indicator that measures the confidence of long-term holders, ranging from 0 to 1.

The lower indicator suggests that long-term holders are incentivized to hold on at Bitcoin’s prevailing market price rather than sell, implying favorable supply and demand dynamics and an attractive risk-reward ratio for users looking to make additional or new investments.

Indian cryptocurrency research firm MintingM said: "Reserve risk continues to remain in the green zone, which means that buying Bitcoin at current levels can still provide a high risk-reward. Investing in Bitcoin during green zone reserve risk periods can generate huge returns over time."