Bitcoin rally takes a breather

By Darren Parkin

Bitcoin is trading for $33,839, down in price by 0.3% in the last 24 hours.

The Ethereum rally seems to also have slowed, with the smart contracts crypto giving up 2.2% of its gains and trading for $1,767 this morning.

As the green candles shorten and the rally subsides, the entire crypto market cap sits at $1.25 trillion, up from $1.09 trillion a week ago.

Solana (SOL) has surged 29% over the last seven days, followed by Cardano (ADA) up 13%, and Chainlink (LINK) in the green by 48%. Polygon (MATIC) has gained 19% over the same timeframe, while many other cryptos have followed a similar trajectory.

Analysts say the rally in BTC and other markets was led, in part, by anticipation around the approval of a BlackRock BTC spot ETF, especially when the ticker for the ETF was spotted on the platform that provides clearing, settlement, and record-keeping services for securities transactions in the US. It turns out the ticker has been there since August.

Yesterday’s Crypto AM Daily

In the Markets

The Bitcoin Economy

*Data can be found at https://terminal.bytetree.com/

🌅Total crypto market cap

🔵 $1.25 trillion

🔺0.39%

What Bitcoin did yesterday

🔺 Daily high $35,191

🔻 Daily low $32,866

Bitcoin market capitalisation

🟠 BTC $666.049 billion

🟡 Gold $13.084 trillion

💳 Visa $481.53 billion

Bitcoin volume

🪣 Total spot trading volume $32.78 billion

🔻31.55%

Ethereum staking entry queue

💎1 hour 36 minutes

SP500

🔺0.73%

FTSE/JSE Top 40

🔺 0.96%

Fear and Greed Index

Bitcoin’s market dominance

📊 54.15

Relative Strength Index (RSI)

💪 88

Values of 70 or above indicate that an asset is becoming overbought and may be primed for a trend reversal or experience a correction in price, while 30 or below indicates an oversold or undervalued condition.

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Cautionary Notes

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