“Watching from the sidelines for weeks as precious metals scored record highs on a regular basis, bitcoin on Tuesday was gaining as gold and silver posted their steepest declines in years.”, — write: www.coindesk.com
Gold saw a 5% decline to $4,130, its biggest daily drawdown in years. Silver also tumbled nearly 8%. The metals had surged over the past few months fueled by central banks moving into monetary easing mode, trade tensions between the US and China, and signs of liquidity and credit stress in the financial system. Frustratingly to bitcoin bulls, though, those catalysts had provided little boost to the world’s largest crypto, which — with a couple of brief exceptions — has remained stuck in a tight range for months.
With the metals for at least this moment having fallen out of favor, however, money is flowing into bitcoin, which has rebounded to $112,700 after having dropped below $108,000 just hours ago. Ether ETH$3,848.03 also erased its overnight decline, bouncing back above $4,000.
Quinn Thomson, founder of hedge fund Lekker Capital, said last week that BTC is poised to catch up to gold’s rally. Charlie Morris, CIO of ByteTree, also argued that bitcoin’s time to rally will come when gold rolls over to consolidate.
Crypto-related stocks haven’t really gotten the news, with most in the red on Tuesday, particularly the bitcoin miners, many of which are now trading more as AI infrastructure plays.
IREN (IREN), Hut 8 (HUT) and Bitfarms (BITF) are lower by 3%-4%. Stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL) is down 1.2% and Coinbase (COIN) is lower by 0.5%. Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) is managing a 1.7% gain.
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On the news front, Aave said it would expand its collateral assets with Maple Finance’s institutional-grade yield tokens.
- AAVE advanced 2.5% to $232, reversing an overnight selloff and breaking above $224.50 resistance early Tuesday afternoon.
- A double-bottom formation near $220 was held, supported by an 87% surge in trading volume.
- Aave will begin listing Maple’s institutional-grade assets as collateral in a new strategic partnership.
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