Market Wrap: Bitcoin Cracks $12.4K; DeFi Crosses $6B Locked

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Bitcoin made a major gain Monday while investors have locked over $6 billion in crypto into various DeFi services.Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $12,332 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m.ET).Gaining 4.1% over the previous 24 hours.Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $11,774-$12,485 BTC slightly above its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bullish signal for market technicians.Bitcoin trading on…

imageBitcoin made a major gain Monday while investors have locked over $6 billion in crypto into various DeFi services.Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $12,332 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m.ET).Gaining 4.1% over the previous 24 hours.

Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $11,774-$12,485 BTC slightly above its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bullish signal for market technicians.

Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since August 15.Source: TradingView The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization opened the week with higher-than-normal volume pushing bitcoin to as high as $12,485.For some market observers it was only a matter of time before it happened.

Read More: Bitcoin Surges Past $12,000 to New 2020 High “Bitcoin has been trading in a $11,000-$12,000 range for two weeks or so,” said Darius Sit, managing partner of Singapore-based QCP Capital.“It has been consolidating, threatening to break past $12,000, so this is not too surprising,” he added.Thus far in August, Coinbase’s daily average bitcoin volume has been $182 million, but on Monday volume was at $245 million as of press time.“Unlike last week, today’s attempt to break through the $12,000 level carried enough momentum to make a convincing break, sending BTC all the way to the $12,500 area,” said Denis Vinokourov, head of research for crypto brokerage BeQuant.Bitcoin trading in August.Source: TradingView William Purdy, an options trader and founder of analysis firm PurdyAlerts, says the derivatives market is showing where traders think bitcoin’s price will be in the future as the cryptocurrency trends upward.“I think what is most interesting right now is how clear the upcoming expected price targets for bitcoin are via the option open interest,” he told CoinDesk, adding, “$12,000, $13,000, $14,100 and $16,000 are the spots with the greatest open interest, so the price is likely to settle on these as upcoming support/resistance.” Strikes on bitcoin options open interest.Source: Skew Of note is how traders view price movements of ether (ETH) relative to bitcoin.

Bitcoin (gold) versus ether (blue) Monday on Coinbase.Source: TradingView “Ether was largely a bystander Monday, mimicking the surge higher instead of being the driving force behind it,” BeQuant’s Vinokourov said.“This issuggesting a growing unease towards the current valuation.” Skyrocketing Ethereum transaction costs were among the reasons for this sentiment, Vinokourov noted.Read More: DeFi Frenzy Drives Ethereum Transaction Fees to All-Time Highs Ether options bearish Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, was up Monday trading around $438 and climbing 1.9% in 24 hours as of 20:00 UTC (4:00 p.m.ET).

Read More: Huobi Launches Consortium of DeFi Providers and Platforms The total value locked in decentralized finance, or DeFi, crossed the $6 billion threshold over the weekend, and it is currently up to $6.4 billion Monday.Over half of the value locked is in just three DeFi services: Maker ($1.51 billion), Aave ($1.15 billion) and Curve Finance ($1 billion).Total value locked in DeFi the past three months.Source: DeFi Pulse Jean-Marc Bonnefous, managing partner for Tellurian Capital, which has been investing in crypto projects since 2014, says some of this DeFi frenzy seems to be proceeding unchecked, and warned that caution is needed.

“Some of these DeFi applications are going to market too quickly and without even testing the code.That is highly risky,” he said to CoinDesk.“There will be a flight to quality towards those protocols that have sound operational foundations and also real added business value.” Read More: YAM’s Market Cap Falls From $60M to Zero in 35 Minutes Other markets Digital assets on the CoinDesk 20 are mostly green Monday.Notable winners as of 20:00 UTC (4:00 p.m.ET):.

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