Crypto market's fragile stability
Bitcoin has added 2% in the past 24 hours to $21,400. Ethereum added 4.6% to $1640, while top altcoins added between 0.9% (Dogecoin) and 4.4% (Polkadot). Total cryptocurrency market capitalization, according to CoinMarketCap, rose 2.2% to $1.03 trillion overnight. The Cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index fell 3 points to 25 by Wednesday and went from "fear" to "extreme fear".
Unlike stock indices, Bitcoin has not fallen but has appeared as if it is disconnected from the market, having reached an equilibrium between the sell-off lows of late July at $20.5K and $22.5K.
The technical picture looks like a consolidation before a new downward momentum, potentially to the lows near 17600. BTCUSD could update that low if the decline gets caught up in the storm of falling stock markets. But it is too early to bet on this.
News background
CoinShares strategy director Meltem Demirors believes that because of the holiday season, we should not expect significant changes in the cryptocurrency market until the end of September. According to SkyBridge Capital CEO Anthony Scaramucci, bitcoin cannot yet act as an asset to hedge inflation as adopting the first cryptocurrency is not enough.
According to Arcane Research, Bitcoin could become one of the world's leading power consumers by 2040.
Developers of the Dogecoin Foundation have reported that a DOGE-ETH bridge will be launched by the end of the year to move DOGE from the Dogecoin blockchain to the Ethereum network and back again.
Top Cryptocurrencies with Price Predictions
| # | Crypto | Prediction | Accuracy | CVIX | Price | 24h | 7d | Market Cap | 7d price change | |
| 1 |  BTC |
Bitcoin predictions | 71.6% | 54 | $27 633.20 | -0.02% | 2.44% | $534 060 036 937 |  |
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| 2 |  ETH |
Ethereum predictions | 75.6% | 39 | $1 749.35 | -0.49% | -0.84% | $214 074 957 233 |  |
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| 3 |  USDT |
Tether predictions | 92.8% | 1 | $1.001019 | -0.11% | -0.16% | $78 566 092 119 |  |
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| 4 |  BNB |
Binance Coin predictions | 75.6% | 51 | $323.33 | -0.83% | -3.57% | $51 051 275 960 |  |
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| 5 |  USDC |
USD Coin predictions | 92.4% | 2 | $0.999720 | 0.07% | -0.02% | $34 404 469 197 |  |
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| 6 |  XRP |
XRP predictions | 86% | 21 | $0.425604 | -5.31% | 12.54% | $21 684 894 622 |  |
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| 7 |  HEX |
HEX predictions | 59.2% | 82 | $0.097262 | -21.83% | 8.78% | $16 866 375 361 |  |
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| 8 |  ADA |
Cardano predictions | 74.8% | 43 | $0.360665 | -3.32% | 4.16% | $12 522 887 479 |  |
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| 9 |  STETH |
Lido stETH predictions | 95.6% | 1 | $2 941.39 | -0.40% | -3.32% | $10 258 752 564 |  |
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| 10 |  DOGE |
Dogecoin predictions | 70.8% | 51 | $0.074732 | -3.91% | -1.34% | $9 914 772 100 |  |
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| 11 |  MATIC |
Polygon predictions | 77.6% | 48 | $1.11 | -1.86% | -9.15% | $9 659 567 617 |  |
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| 12 |  SOL |
Solana predictions | 75.2% | 52 | $21.59 | -1.00% | 4.01% | $8 284 331 535 |  |
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| 13 |  BUSD |
Binance USD predictions | 96% | 1 | $0.993449 | -0.65% | -0.74% | $8 011 194 439 |  |
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| 14 |  DOT |
Polkadot predictions | 73.6% | 49 | $6.13 | -1.26% | -6.49% | $7 164 137 045 |  |
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| 15 |  LTC |
Litecoin predictions | 72% | 58 | $90.76 | -0.41% | 6.89% | $6 584 394 664 |  |
