Losses are piling up in crypto after the digital-asset market’s second-worst weekly drop of 2024, a reflection of cooling demand for Bitcoin exchange-traded funds and uncertainty over monetary policy.
A gauge of the largest 100 digital assets fell about 5% in the seven days through Sunday, the worst such decline since April, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Market leader Bitcoin slid below $63,000 on Monday to a more than one-month low, hurt by a six-day streak of outflows from US ETFs for the token.
The cracks in crypto come amid doubts about the Federal Reserve’s scope to cut interest rates quickly from a two-decade high.The current crypto market dynamic is “characterized by low volatility, soft volumes, and orderbooks getting unbalanced when prices start to move to the edges of their range,”The drops in some corners are particularly notable: the run of weekly declines for Ether and Solana are the longest since last year and 2022 respectively.
That’s even as fund companies prepare to launch the first US ETFs investing directly in Ether, the second-ranked cryptoasset.Bitcoin hit a record of $73,798 in March and but is trailing traditional assets such stocks, bonds and gold this quarter.which aims to encourage constructive discussions. To get your comments published, make sure it is civil and adds value to the discussion.
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