Not really surprising initial market reaction to this news. We've seen lots of news events like this impact the markets in a similar fashion before. My interpretation: news drops, before the market gets a chance to digest the meaning of it, there is a kneejerk reaction. I.e. bitcoin and the entire crypto space drops (clearly irrational an impulsive bots trading news like reaction). In other words, bitcoin and xrp coudl not be farther apart in terms of what they represent, with that said xrps bull markets do usually occur a midst bitcoin bull markets as the great reset crew realizes they have lost the fight on preventing bitcoins rise so their only option is to pump their side of the asset class (a similar dynamic occurrs in all alt coins as i've spoke nabout before). But I digress. So, basically, the news drops and market incorrectly prices it in as a negative for the whole space (or at least that's what some who influence the tape would want you to believe). Now here we are, bitcoin has fully retraced its drop, shrugged off the news (which makes complete sense), and is ready to continue on shattering all time highs. Let's talk about XLM (the point of this chart right?)...on the new droppign a similar knee-jerk market dynamic occurred with XLM. Something like this: Potential bad news or rumor with regard to XRP, XRP and XLM are assets of the same class, and the most similar out of the whole bunch...so xrp suffers the most, and using ignoratn bot like logic the thing most similar to the thing that suffers the most should also drop. Nowww, here is the moral of the story: the market is beginning to realize and think logically about the true implications of this news, this is actually the best possible narrative that could ever have hit XLM as a coin. What could be better news for a fork of ripple which essentially aims to exist for the sole purpose of "well maybe the xrp technology is good, but it would be better without the legal entity/company behind it who own most of the equity in it and control it's future" ...there literally could not be a better scenario for XLM. So now what? Well, if this is actually the perfect narrative for XLM, the way I see it is this is a beautiful buying opportunity for the coin. This pull back is an amazing setup. Could I be wrong? Sure. But I don't think so. If I am right I should be right in a BIG way. I think what that would look like is bitcoin breaking out above 24k (signalling the wider space coudl nto care less about this news) and then further, xlm prospective buyers starting to price in the reality of this narrative, and continuing to pile in on last months huge monthly cnandle inverse head and shoulders break out. We could potentially see a full retrace of this pullback turning the current monthly green, and who knows, given xlms past price action and momentum based trading, you could see it literally make new ATH's within the next week or so.
That's my take. COuld be wrong and xlm just goes to zero LOL. But I really don't think so. Would you really want to bet against the king? I say pack the trunk well u still can before we blast off into the stratosphere ^-^