For example, Chainlink ( LINK), which attracted all of last week’s attention, fell by 7% overnight. It was the third straight trading day of declines for LINK, falling from $17 to $15 before stabilizing. Chainlink’s DeFi dominance declined from Sunday’s 51% to 46.85%, as per Debank’s data.
Meanwhile, we saw the price of YFI spike last night. It has been trading around $11,000 after five straight days of gains — which brought its DeFi dominance up to ninth place, at 2.56%.
TRON ( TRX) caused some chaos after rushing the launch of its Uniswap-alternative project, JUSTSwap, yesterday. It is down 12% overnight. Some of TRON’s ecosystem project developers made a mistake by incorrectly locking 200,000 USDT worth of TRX in the contract address, which resulted in a failure to add funds to the liquidity pools.
Yesterday at 4:39 pm UTC, Polkadot network’s native token, DOT, officially landed on its mainnet — enabling the function of on-chain transfers. The activation of this function is akin to opening the floodgates for DOT and, as a result, the price of DOT fell from $373 to $290 within an hour.
Mid-cap altcoins generally saw 8%-10% declines, such as Kyber Network ( KNC) and QTUM — with the only exception being THETA, which bucked the trend by rising 9%.
The total cryptocurrency market capitalization tumbled 3.7% to fall below $380 billion. Meanwhile, BTC dominance remained at 57.8%, as per data from CoinGecko.
The drop over the past 24 hours actually had some early indicators that it might happen. First, as we noted in yesterday’s Crypto Market Daily, the aggregated open interest of BTC futures reached an all-time high of $5.8 billion. Secondly, the funding costs of BTC perpetual swaps reached over 100% annualized — suggesting that, if the price did not move up quickly, the longs would pay extremely high fees to maintain their positions. Right now, we may see the price of BTC stay below the $12,500 critical level for an extended period of time.
While yesterday’s potential fakeout of $12,000 has once again shaken market participants’ bullish sentiment, the amount of Bitcoin that can be easily thrown around is actually not that great, according to the amount of BTC held in all exchanges’ wallets, as per data sourced from CryptoQuant.
Top altcoin gainers and losers
For the third consecutive day, KCASH made the list of top altcoin gainers. It is up 49.55% over the last 24 hours and made a recent high of $0.048.
Yesterday’s biggest loser, Curve ( CRV), made a reversal overnight. It is up 40.81%.
The newly listed Decentralised Information Asset ( DIA) realized a 28.48% gain since its listing.
We haven’t seen any particularly huge declines among altcoins so far today, with all top losers — ROAD, DOT, and Zipper Network ( ZIP) — down around 15%.
New Listings on OKEx
Decentralised Information Asset ( DIA) was listed on OKEx for spot trading yesterday.
Moreover, Kleros ( PNK) was listed on OKEx for PNK/USDT and PNK/ETH spot trading today. PNK increased by more than 80% after its listing.
BTC technical analysis
Yesterday’s false breakout had a big impact on trader morale. It is most detrimental to the short- to mid-term pattern. The resistance level at $12,080 is an intraday threshold. If the BTC price cannot break this level, $11,650 could be the next support level to watch. Another mid-term threshold is located around $11,200.
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