Altcoins and DeFi sell-off after Bitcoin’s 17.6% correction below $50K
DeFi tokens and altcoins bore the brunt of today's carnage as Bitcoin price dipped below $48,000. In the early morning trading hours Bitcoin (BTC) price abruptly dropped by 17.65% which triggered a major downturn throughout the entire market.Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView shows that Bitcoin decreased from a high of $58,274 on Feb. 21 to a low of $47,622 during the early hours on Monday before buyers returned to lift BTC to its current value of $53,350. Daily cryptocurrency market performance. Source: Coin360Despite today’s $1.6 billion liquidation event, Bitcoin bulls....
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Ethereum’s correction triggered a DeFi-token collapse which resulted in YFI and UNI dropping by 46%. After outperforming Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) strongly in August, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) tokens are now plummeting as many registered losses of up to 50%. Cryptocurrency daily market performance snapshot. Source: Coin360At the moment, the two coins garnering the most attention are Yearn.finance (YFI) and Uniswap (UNI) as both have dropped by 46% and 48% since reaching a monthly peak.YFI/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView.comThree catalysts appear to be behind the correction:....
Bitcoin's dip below $30,000 triggered a sell-off in altcoins and dip-buying traders might not have enough momentum to cause a relief rally. Public companies have purchased about 85,000 Bitcoin (BTC) in the past year and institutional investors have pumped money into Grayscale Investments, which shows increasing institutional adoption is one of the main reasons for the recent Bitcoin rally.However, at the moment it seems institutional investors are unlikely to chase prices higher. If the fresh inflow of money stalls or reduces drastically, it could result in a pullback in Bitcoin’s price.....
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