Bitcoin Edges Higher to $84K as Analyst Warns of Another Leg Down for Crypto

Crypto markets climbed higher connected Monday with bitcoin (BTC) trading supra $84,000 arsenic different affirmative time for U.S. stocks extended their emergence lifting hazard assets.The largest cryptocurrency was up, the broader crypto marketplace was up 1.8%, portion the broad-market CoinDesk 20 Index somewhat outperformed with a 2.4% beforehand during the aforesaid period. Ethereum's ether (ETH) stabilized supra $1,900 and was 2.8% higher, portion respective altcoin majors including SUI, AAVE, ICP and NEAR booked much than 5%.

Solana besides edged 3% higher successful enactment with the broader market, arsenic the archetypal time of SOL futures trading connected institutional-focused marketplace CME failed to marque a quality connected capitalist sentiment.

Ethena's governance token (ENA) rallied 7% connected the quality of developing a proprietary blockchain with tokenized plus issuer Securitize, aiming to link decentralized concern (DeFi) and accepted institutions.

Key U.S. banal indexes extending their bounce into this week gave a favorable backdrop for hazard assets. However, LMAX Group strategist Joel Kruger warned that the monthly S&P500 illustration suggests a sustained correction for U.S. equities, which could measurement connected cryptocurrencies.

"When we see the authorities of planetary commercialized hostility and concerns astir a slowdown successful the US economy, each astatine a clip erstwhile it’s progressively uncertain however overmuch much accommodation the Fed tin offer, determination is so interest stocks could autumn further," Kruger said.

He noted there's a imaginable for a little debased for BTC to revisit the 2024 March highest astatine $73,000-$74,000.

The marketplace near-universally expects the Fed to support rates unchanged during this week's Federal Open Market Committee's meeting, but investors should support an oculus connected immoderate imaginable alteration successful the cardinal bank's equilibrium expanse runoff, oregon quantitative tightening (QT) program, said David Duong, caput of probe astatine Coinbase Institutional.

"We deliberation the Fed mightiness intermission oregon extremity its QT programme this week, arsenic slope reserve levels are adjacent the 10-11% of GDP levels that are commonly considered capable for maintaining fiscal stability," helium wrote successful a Monday report.

He said the caller crypto selloff was mostly owed to macro concerns and deteriorating liquidity conditions, which could crook for the amended during the adjacent quarter, providing tailwind for plus prices. "Crypto prices could find their bottommost successful the adjacent fewer weeks earlier rebounding to caller highs aboriginal this year," helium concluded.