After a few weeks of prolonged suffering and falling prices, it looks like cryptocurrencies are finally seeing some relief. The total market capitalization has risen to just under $1 trillion and is pushing to recover above this psychological level at the time of this writing. However, this happened on the back of massive volatility and considerable declines.
First of all, the price of Bitcoin recorded an increase of around 4.2% in the last seven days and is currently trading above $21,000. That’s not to say it hasn’t been a tumultuous week. On the contrary – just a few days ago – on Sunday, BTC fell to a low of $17,622 (on Binance). The last time the cryptocurrency traded at such a low level was in December 2020.
Fortunately, the buyers stepped in and managed to intercept any further declines. Since then, the price has been able to recover and has risen almost 20%. While this may sound impressive, Bitcoin’s recovery has been overshadowed by that of many top altcoins, the best performing of which appears to be SOL.
Solana is up 36% in the past seven days and nearly 50% since its lows reached on Sunday June 19. Other altcoins are also well in the green in the same time frame. ETH recovered by around 13% – the same as BNB. ADA is up 5.2% and obviously trails the rest of the altcoins.
XRP is up 18%, while the two largest memecoins by total market capitalization – Dogecoin and Shiba Inu – are up 20% and 35%, respectively. Meanwhile, the layer two Ethereum scaling solution – Polygon (MATIC) – has also grown significantly by more than 50% in the past week.
All of this comes on the back of many investors and community members calling for a bottom, although market sentiment remains largely depressed across the board. Data from the popular crypto Fear and Greed Index comes in at 11 a.m., which, while an improvement from last week, is still far into “extreme fear” territory.
All in all, it is very exciting to see how the weekly candle for most cryptocurrencies will close on Sunday and whether or not the current relief may or may not extend to a broader recovery or if it is just from a dead cat bounce.
Market data
Market cap: $987 billion | 24h volume: 76 billion dollars | BTC dominance: 40.8%
BTC: $21,130 (+4.2%) | ETH: $1,200 (+13%) | ODA: $0.49 (+5.2%)
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