Cryptocurrency markets have dropped significantly in value during the last 24 hours as the entire market capitalization of all 10,000 crypto assets in existence has dropped below the $3 trillion mark to $2.77 trillion on Tuesday morning (EST). After hitting $ 66,000 on Monday, the price of bitcoin slipped below $ 60,000 to a low of $ 58,563 per unit. After the steep fall, bitcoin’s price has recovered some losses, rising back above the $60K range and has started to show some consolidation.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Top Cryptos See Double Digit Losses In 24 Hours
Digital currencies lost value on Tuesday as the market capitalization of the entire crypto economy shed billions in the past 24 hours. Bitcoin (BTC) is down 7.5% during the last day and has fallen 10.2% for the week.
At the time of writing this article, BTC is trading for $ 60,563 per unit and has an overall market valuation of $ 1.14 trillion. BTC has $48 billion in 24-hour trade volume on Tuesday and 52.43% of those trades are paired with tether (USDT). Next come the USD (18.75%), BUSD (6.61%), JPY (4.79%), EUR (4.45%) and KRW (2.70%).
Bitcoin’s drop from the $66K handle to just above $60K has also caused the myriad of alternative crypto asset markets to falter. Ethereum (ETH) lost 9.2% overnight, and weekly statistics show Ether lost 11.6%. While BTC has a dominance score of 41.5%, the Ethereum market represents 18.3% of the entire crypto economy. Most digital currency markets suffered decent losses but coins like ecomi (OMI), nexo (NEXO), huobi token (HT), wonderland (TIME), and helium (HNT) have seen very little losses.
However, crypto assets such as spell token (SPELL), kucoin token (KCS), near (NEAR), kadena (KDA), arweave (AR), dash (DASH) and zcash (ZEC) lost between 15 % and as high as 22.4% in the past day.
Ark36 Executive: ‘Drop Results in a Leverage Shakeout Which Contributes to a Healthier Market’
Meanwhile, as bitcoin, ethereum, and a slew of crypto markets suffer deep losses, the crypto assets hedge fund Ark36 executive Mikkel Morch told Bitcoin.com News that the drawdown is normal.
“Once again, bitcoin has done what it does best – defying expectations,” Morch said. “After hitting an all-time high near the 69K level last week, the overall investor expectation was that the trend would immediately continue. Instead, we saw a broad sideways trend culminating with a near decline. 8% yesterday. Such a drop in prices may seem disappointing or even worrying given the wave of enthusiasm the markets experienced last week. ”Morch continued:
However, it is vital to remember that an 8% drawdown is considered a normal market move in the crypto markets. At present, the overall bullish structure of the market remains largely intact. In fact, a sudden price drop results in a leverage shakeout which contributes to a healthier market that is better set up for an uptrend continuation in the medium term.
Huobi Global: indicators show “high bearish sentiment in the market”
Huobi Global’s Bitcoin market fundamentals indicate that there are many factors that show market sentiment is currently bearish. “All EMAs steeply downward, Bollinger band opening significantly expanded, the current indicators are indicating a high bearish sentiment in the market,” Huobi Global told Bitcoin.com News on Tuesday morning. “From the daily level, BTC is now in a long negative line, the short-term uptrend has broken, daily volume is enlarged, the short-term trend may continue to move downward, pay attention to the support below,” Huobi added.
In a similar market outlook report, Huobi noted that Ethereum (ETH) market signals also indicate “high bearish sentiment in the market.” ETH/USD chart indicators using a 4-hour time frame show EMAs and the K-line are all running downhill. “From a daily standpoint, the bullish ETH channel may be broken, and this retracement falls below the short-term support level, and the monitoring continues to look to see if there is effective support below.” , Huobi Global bitcoin and ethereum market outlook concluded.
