The cryptocurrency market has lost $1.9 trillion six months after it soared to a record high. Interestingly, these losses are bigger than those witnessed during the 2007 subprime mortgage market crisis — around $1.3 trillion, which has prompted fears that creaking crypto market risk will spill over across traditional markets, hurting stocks and bonds alike. Stablecoins not very stable A massive move lower from $69,000 in November 2021 to around $24,300 in May 2022 in Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has caused a selloff frenzy across the crypto market. Unfortunately, the bearish sentiment has not even spared stablecoins, so-called crypto equivalents of …
Dogecoin (DOGE) shows the prospect of undergoing a strong price rebound after reaching a technical support confluence on May 12. DOGE price 25% bounce incoming? DOGE's 45% price drop to $0.065 this week, or a 90% decline from its record high of $0.76 a year ago, was met with decent buying sentiment. As a result, the token underwent a modest price rebound on May 12, rising over 10% to $0.078. Interestingly, Dogecoin's upside retracement move started near a confluence of two support levels: a multi-month downward sloping trendline and a horizontal line that preceded a 335% price rally in the …
ApeCoin (APE) has undergone a sharp recovery after falling to its lowest level in two months. But its strong correlation with Bitcoin (BTC) and U.S. equities amid macro risks suggests more losses could be in store. APE rebounds after 80% losses in two weeks APE rebounded by nearly 45% to $7.30 on May 12. The upside retracement move came after APE dropped circa 81% to $5 on May 11, from its record high near $27.50, established on April 28. The seesaw price action mirrored similar volatile moves elsewhere in the crypto market, led by the chaos around TerraUSD (UST) — …
Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), plunged to its lowest level in almost two months against Bitcoin (BTC) as a crypto market sell-off intensified on May 12. Macro headwinds catch up to ETH/BTC finally The ETH/BTC trading pair fell by 7.5% to 0.0663 in the past 24 hours. The downside move came as a part of a correction that began May 11 when the pair traded at the local high of 0.0768. That pushed Ether down against BTC by up to 13.75%. Cryptocurrencies have come under stress in recent weeks alongside stock markets. Notably, money managers, traders and investors show signs …
Algorand (ALGO) prices rallied higher on May 3 after becoming FIFA's official blockchain solution provider. Nonetheless, the ALGO/USD pair continues to face selloff risks. High-profile partnership ALGO's price jumped 20% to $0.74, its highest level since April 22. Its move upside came as a part of a broader rebound that started April 30, gaining 37.5% in just three days of trading. As visible in the chart above, a large portion of the ALGO's upside move took cues from FIFA's announcement. Late on May 2, the official football governing body revealed that it had teamed up with Algorand to develop its …
Spring is here and with it came a newfound awakening for nonfungible tokens (NFTs). In the last week of March, total sales volume rallied to $20 billion, but this metric took a dive from mid April to $17.6 billion. However, on April 16, the newly landed Moonbirds NFT, pumped over $280 million worth of liquidity into the market and this, compounded with rumors of Yuga Labs’ Otherside land drop, sent the total volume sales for NFTs into a steady upward trend. In the last seven days, the sector’s total market capitalization increased over 3% to approximately $18.6 billion and the …
Bitcoin (BTC) price flashed bullish for a brief moment, possibly tricking some traders into opening longs before plunging back below $40,000 in evening trading hours. Let’s take a quick look at what traders think about the current price action and whether or not today’s brief break out was nothing more than test of overhead resistance. Resistance remains at key moving averages Analysis of Bitcoin’s weekly price action was discussed by crypto trader and pseudonymous Twitter user Rekt Capital, who posted the following weekly chart noting that “Bitcoin is now hovering below the green 21-week & blue 50-week Bull Market EMAs.” …
Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero (XMR) rallied by nearly 9.5% in the past week compared with the crypto market's decline of 8.5% in the same period. What's more, the XMR/USD pair has broken above a strong, multi-month resistance trendline, hinting at more upside ahead. XMR price action XMR's price was down by a modest 0.87% on April 10 from its two-month-high of $245 established a day before. However, the cryptocurrency still outperformed its top rivals, including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), on a weekly timeframe. Speculations about entities using Monero to bypass sanctions could have boosted its appeal among investors. Meanwhile, The …
Three market catalysts suggest that Ethereum's native token Ether (ETH) is well-positioned to reach $4,000 this month. Google searches for "Ethereum merge" spike Internet users' interest in Ethereum's upcoming network upgrade, dubbed "the Merge," surged substantially in the week ending April 2, Google Trends' data shows. Searches for the keyword "Ethereum Merge" reached a perfect Google Trends score of 100 on a 12-month timeframe with most traffic coming from the U.S., Singapore, Canada, and Australia. Merge, also called ETH 2.0, refers to the Ethereum network's full transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) from Proof-of-Work (PoW), a development that had been touted as …
Dogecoin (DOGE) continues its rebound move four weeks after bottoming near $0.10 and is now promising more upside moves in Q2/2022. Dogecoin price nears two-month highs DOGE's price had risen by nearly 6.5% week-to-date to $0.15 a token. The coin's recent gains surfaced after Elon Musk disclosed his $3-billion stake in Twitter on Monday, reiterating his influence on its market. Musk has been a big supporter of the Dogecoin community, including his decision to accept DOGE payments at his company Tesla's online merchandise store. As Cointelegraph reported, Musk’s investment could help push Twitter’s crypto initiatives forward and even see DOGE …
Cardano (ADA) inched higher on March 25, putting itself on course recoup a great portion of losses that it had incurred in the first two months of this year. Not so bullish yet ADA's price jumped by around 7.5% in trading Friday, reaching $1.19 over a month after bottoming out at around $0.75. The Cardano token's huge rebound move netted around 60% in gains. Nonetheless, it remained at the risk of losing its upside momentum in the coming weeks. At the core of this bearish analogy is a multi-month descending channel pattern, with a reliable track record of causing and …
Bitcoin (BTC) could undergo one last bear market capitulation if "whales" — addresses that hold more than $1 million worth of Bitcoin — ramp up their selling pressure, according to on-chain analyst Willy Woo. Room for another Bitcoin drop? Woo assessed the average price at which short-term investors entered the Bitcoin market across history and charted the daily change in the value. That resulted in a cost basis, a metric that signals when "inexperienced" traders sell BTC to "experienced" traders during a BTC free fall, which typically coincides with the market bottom. The cost basis underwent significant dips during the …