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Bitcoin and stablecoin dominance on the rise amid challenging market conditions
Bitcoin and stablecoins continue to increase their market share amidst souring market conditions as traders continue their flight from risk-on investments to safer assets.Preview
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The record-long extremely fearful market sentiment continues…
Last week’s optimistic uptick continued into the weekend as the Fear and Greed Index briefly climbed to 24. Since then, we have witnessed a perceived weakened market sentiment with the index sitting at 16 as of July 12th. Thus, the index was not entirely able to exit the extremely fearful territory—prolonging the current record-long 68-day streak in this depressing territory.Preview
Wash trading on Binance leads trading volume to surge
The bitcoin trading volume surged last week, but it was not caused by organic trading activity. Last week, Binance removed its trading fees for several bitcoin pairs to celebrate its five-year anniversary. As noted by Kaiko, the fee removal was quickly followed by surging trading volumes on Binance, likely caused by wash trading from traders seeking to exploit the fee removal to reach higher fee tiers.Preview
Volatility stabilizing at bitcoin settles within $19,000-22,000 range
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