Bitcoin benefiting from gains in equities
Bitcoin gained 6% on Thursday, ending the day around $21,600 and developing gains on Friday to $22,400, pulling back to 21,800 (+7.2% in 24 hours) at the time of writing. Ethereum added 6.5% to $1240, while other leading altcoins gained between 1.9% (BNB) and 3.2% (Solana). Total crypto market capitalisation, according to CoinMarketCap, rose 5% overnight to $962bn.
The Cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index was up 2 points to 20 by Friday and remains in “extreme fear” mode. As we can see, the first and second cryptocurrencies outperform the rest of the market, indicating a recovery in demand among professional investors following the strengthening of stock indices. Since the beginning of the month, BTCUSD has gained more than 17%, which looks like an impressive result but only at first glance.
The thing is, bitcoin was driven as low as possible by the end of June, and the current remarkable rise is just a recovery to the levels of 3 weeks ago. BTCUSD is still below its 200-week average and sold off again today on its approaches, indicating a significant supply overhang from sellers. Bloomberg believes the crypto market has bottomed out, and BTC will resume its offensive in the next six months. According to Bank Of America, the number of active cryptocurrency users is down more than 50% from its peak in November last year.
At the same time, consumer interest in digital assets remains at a reasonably high level. A US investor has filed a class-action lawsuit in California court against Solana and its partners, accusing them of illegally profiting from selling SOL tokens as a security.
The developers of Ethereum continue to test the transition to the Proof-of-Stake consensus algorithm. They announced the successful migration of the Sepolia test network to PoS. The developers of Shiba Inu reported on the current state of development of new ecosystem components and announced the launch of its stablecoin.
Top Cryptocurrencies with Price Predictions
| # | Crypto | Prediction | Accuracy | CVIX | Price | 24h | 7d | Market Cap | 7d price change | |
| 1 |  BTC |
Bitcoin predictions | 62% | 76 | $23 245.06 | -0.67% | -1.07% | $448 215 363 984 |  |
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| 2 |  ETH |
Ethereum predictions | 70.4% | 57 | $1 649.98 | -0.90% | 2.45% | $201 913 823 772 |  |
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| 3 |  USDT |
Tether predictions | 94.8% | 1 | $1.000242 | 0.01% | 0% | $68 081 088 023 |  |
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| 4 |  BNB |
Binance Coin predictions | 78.8% | 38 | $330.03 | 0.12% | 4.56% | $52 111 151 986 |  |
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| 5 |  USDC |
USD Coin predictions | 93.6% | 1 | $0.999630 | -0.04% | -0.04% | $41 975 476 278 |  |
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| 6 |  XRP |
XRP predictions | 75.2% | 42 | $0.407147 | -1.05% | -1.24% | $20 682 712 207 |  |
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| 7 |  BUSD |
Binance USD predictions | 94.4% | 1 | $1.000002 | -0.02% | -0.02% | $16 258 300 058 |  |
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| 8 |  ADA |
Cardano predictions | 70% | 64 | $0.395468 | -1.61% | 1.39% | $13 686 825 295 |  |
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| 9 |  DOGE |
Dogecoin predictions | 71.6% | 51 | $0.093562 | -0.49% | 4.31% | $12 412 982 136 |  |
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| 10 |  MATIC |
Polygon predictions | 68.4% | 67 | $1.22 | -0.49% | 4.26% | $10 662 953 667 |  |
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| 11 |  STETH |
Lido stETH predictions | 94% | 1 | $2 941.39 | -0.40% | -3.32% | $10 258 752 564 |  |
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| 12 |  SOL |
Solana predictions | 59.2% | 86 | $23.86 | -3.04% | -2.86% | $8 889 364 349 |  |
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| 13 |  SHIB |
SHIBA INU predictions | 64.8% | 73 | $0.000015 | 4.49% | 21.57% | $8 029 262 331 |  |
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| 14 |  DOT |
Polkadot predictions | 67.6% | 66 | $6.74 | -2.85% | 2.41% | $7 777 843 515 |  |
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| 15 |  HEX |
HEX predictions | 68% | 60 | $0.041057 | -9.25% | 52.42% | $7 119 677 926 |  |
