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Welcome to the morning briefing in Asia, a daily summary of the best stories during the hours and an overview of market movements and analyzes. For a detailed overview of the American markets, see the Americas of the Coindesk Crypto Daybook.
While Asia is starting its negotiation day, BTC is down 3% in the last 24 hours, changing hands at $ 113,000, while the ether is also in red, down 5.6% to $ 4,100, extending a week of weakness between the majors.
The decline occurs despite a continuous flow of bruising titles, stressing what market observers say they are a widening gap between short -term prices action and longer -term structural progress.
In a recent report, Glassnode frames the decline as a function of fragility: the punctual dynamic is discoloration, the lever effect is stretched and the for profit is built. Even if the FNB spots classified by the United States attracted nearly $ 900 million in the entries last week, Glassnode warns that without renewal convicted in cash markets, positioning remains vulnerable to deeper deleverar.
However, this point of view is not universal.
Enflux, a market based in Singapore, on the other hand, argued in a recent shared note with Coindesk that the industry matures faster than prices suggest.
The low price action is a short -term disconnection, and merchants do not focus on the most important titles: Google becoming the largest shareholder of Miner Terawulf, Wyoming launching a stablecoin to support the state and hiring of a former official of cryptographic policy of the White House.
These changes, according to them, show that capital and talent align around an institutional future aligned regulatory.
The divergence in the tone is revealing. A camp sees a fragile positioning and a discolving impulse; The other sees scaffolding deposited for an institutional cycle aligned by the regulations. Prices may not seem impressed, but the industry’s trajectory suggests that the market ripens faster than the graphics imply it.
Market Movers
BTC: Bitcoin dropped from 3.2% to less than $ 114,000 in cryptocurrencies and related actions, prolonged losses before the FED FOMC minutes and Jackson Hole’s speech from Powell later this week.
ETH: Ether dropped by 3.5% to $ 4,200 while investors reconsidered the probability of a drop in September Fed rates, American bank economists warning Powell can plead for storage rates in the middle of sticky inflation and tariff pressures.
Gold: Gold reached $ 3,384.70 and money at $ 38.115 in silent exchange while the markets await Jackson Hole’s speech of Powell Friday on Fed policy prospects, while global stocks have been mixed and the Chinese central bank injected $ 65 billion into stable obligations.
Nikkei 225: The Nikkei in Japan slipped from 1.14% to 43,050.89, withdrawing records, investors weigh the risks linked to a fragile American trade agreement.
S&P 500: US stock contracts were little changed on Tuesday evening, with the S&P 500 Flat, Dow Stable and Nasdaq 100 down 0.2%, while investors expected major retail profits and reports from Reunion.
Elsewhere in crypto
- The product of $ 1.15 billion in the IPO was entirely in Stablecoins – a first for the public market (Coindesk)
- Who needs 280 Bitcoin domain names? A massive BTC bundle is auctioned (decrypt)
- Robinhood launches prediction markets for sports betting on the NFL and NCAA football via Kalshi Partnership (The Block)
