Cryptocurrency markets are rallying into the weekend, as traders remain convinced the range-bound price action will eventually resolve upwards.

Cryptocurrency	Price	Gains +/-
Bitcoin BTC/USD	$59,680	+4.4%
Ethereum ETH/USD	$2620	+3.3%
Solana SOL/USD	$140.7	+0.8%
Dogecoin DOGE/USD	$0.1013	+2.4%
Shiba Inu SHIB/USD	$0.00001325	+0.4%

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Notable Statistics

• IntoTheBlock data shows Bitcoin's large transaction volume down by 40% in the past 24 hours. Daily active addresses increased by 7%, exchange netflows plummeted by 90%. Eighty percent of Bitcoin holders are currently in profit.
• Coinglass data shows $158 million liquidated in the past 24 hours, with $95 million in long liquidations.

Top Winners

Cryptocurrency	Price	Gains +/–
Helium HNT/USD	$7.2	+10.8%
Bittensor TAO/USD	$276	+7.4%
Uniswap UNI/USD	$6.5	+6.6%

Trader Notes: CoinMamba acknowledged the “epic level” difficulty of trading in these conditions, saying “There is no way to win.”

Analyst DonAlt stated his gut feeling is the market will go up but “brain says down.” He also thinks a “cleansing” is underway for the market but technical analysis does not suggest bullish action just yet.

DonAlt sees a “deadcat bounce” coming for some meme coins but suggests investors with underwater positions should sell into that.

There will probably be a deadcat on some of these popular memes that'll be quite significant

You probably wanna sell that on most of them and rotate into either new ones or stuff with long term value unless you wanna hold them forever

In my opinion anyway

— DonAlt (@CryptoDonAlt) August 16, 2024

The influence of Bitcoin as an institutional asset class is expected to be thoroughly explored at Benzinga’s upcoming Future of Digital Assets event on Nov. 19.

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