Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin Holds $100K as Altcoins Extend Losses, AI Tokens Defy Trend
What to know:
The crypto market fall again on Friday as a stronger dollar and hawkish Federal Reserve tone fueled a 30-day, 18% decline in BTC.
Bitcoin futures open interest fell to $24.9 billion as traders deleveraged, though options activity leaned bullish, with calls dominating by 64%-35%.
FET and NEAR jumped over 20% in 24 hours as traders rotated into high-volume, narrative-driven plays despite weakness elsewhere.π’π’
What to know:
The crypto market fall again on Friday as a stronger dollar and hawkish Federal Reserve tone fueled a 30-day, 18% decline in BTC.
Bitcoin futures open interest fell to $24.9 billion as traders deleveraged, though options activity leaned bullish, with calls dominating by 64%-35%.
FET and NEAR jumped over 20% in 24 hours as traders rotated into high-volume, narrative-driven plays despite weakness elsewhere.π’π’
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Zcash knocking at door of top 10 cryptos as market cap smashes $10.6B
While the rest of the crypto space has entered a slump, traders are banking on privacy tokens, with Zcash leading the charge.
CoinMarketCap data shows that Zcash
ZEC
$616.05
climbed to a high of $655 earlier Friday, reaching a market capitalization of about $10.6 billion. At the time of writing, the rally had cooled and retraced to $632, giving it a $10.3 billion valuation and positioning it as the 12th-largest crypto asset by market cap.
ZEC is up by almost 23% in the last 24 hours and has increased in value by more than 63% in the last week, according to CoinMarketCap.
The surge extends a breakout run that has turned the once-overlooked privacy coin into the frontrunner of 2025βs βprivacy revival.β This trend reshapes the conversation around surveillance-resistant crypto and financial autonomy. π’π’
While the rest of the crypto space has entered a slump, traders are banking on privacy tokens, with Zcash leading the charge.
CoinMarketCap data shows that Zcash
ZEC
$616.05
climbed to a high of $655 earlier Friday, reaching a market capitalization of about $10.6 billion. At the time of writing, the rally had cooled and retraced to $632, giving it a $10.3 billion valuation and positioning it as the 12th-largest crypto asset by market cap.
ZEC is up by almost 23% in the last 24 hours and has increased in value by more than 63% in the last week, according to CoinMarketCap.
The surge extends a breakout run that has turned the once-overlooked privacy coin into the frontrunner of 2025βs βprivacy revival.β This trend reshapes the conversation around surveillance-resistant crypto and financial autonomy. π’π’
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Crypto Community Trading/Investing
ETH 3320 major resistance
not rejecting the 3320 level wait for price action to be build
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π΅ don't open any long positions, 74k coming
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Crypto Community Trading/Investing
π΅ don't open any long positions, 74k coming
π΅ Take it strictly guys
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π΅ New weekly low is going to form, 90% chance.
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