What Changed in Crypto Markets While You Were Sleeping — June 17
2 min readBeInCrypto presents our daily morning roundup of crypto news and market changes that you might have missed while you were asleep.
BTC update
On June 15, BTC reached a high of $41,330. The high was made inside the 0.382 Fib retracement resistance level at $41,250. BTC has been moving downwards since. On June 16, it created a bearish candlestick and fell to a low of $38,116 in the process.
Regardless of the drop, technical indicators are providing a bullish outlook. The MACD’s momentum bar has created three bars in the positive territory. Both the RSI and Stochastic oscillator are increasing; the former is above 50 while the latter has made a bullish cross.
These signs point to an eventual breakout above the aforementioned resistance area. If this occurs, the next resistance would likely be found at the 0.5 Fib retracement level at $44,755.
Altcoin movers
The total cryptocurrency market cap has dipped back below $1.7 trillion this morning in a 2% loss on the day. Since reaching a local low of $1.46 trillion on May 24, the market cap hasn’t been able to move past the $1.81 trillion level.
The majority of cryptocurrencies in the top-100 by market cap have experienced slight losses in the past 24 hours. BTC (BTC) and ETH (ETH) are down 2% and 3% respectively. Amp (AMP is once again the biggest daily gainer. AMP is up nearly 24% on the day and has added 93% in the past week.
Shiba Inu (SHIB) was yesterday’s biggest gainer, but a pullback has caused SHIB to fall more than 9% today. Despite this, SHIB has still added 10% to its valuation in the past week,
In other crypto news
- The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed its decision on the VanEck BTC ETF again, saying in a filing that it wanted public commentary.
- The Alchemix decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol discovered a potential exploit and acted quickly enough with a patch before the funds disappeared.
- The decentralized finance (DeFi) exchange Kyber Network has joined forces with Layer 2 aggregator Polygon to enhance liquidity with a new rewards program.
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