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Futures market activity continues to drive Bitcoin price, while insufficient buy-side spot demand shortens the length of bullish breakouts and pins BTC in a $10,000 range. Bitcoin’s (BTC) price action has been pinned between $60,000 and $70,000 over the past two months as leverage-dominant trading, weak spot market demand, and consistent losses from short-term holders have prevented rallies from sustaining their momentum.  Combined, these market events create the current fragile setup, where Bitcoin price stability depends more on futures positioning than fresh capital inflows and this explains why BTC price remains volatile within its current range. According to Wintermute, the perpetual futures market activity continues to outweigh spot participation across the major exchanges. The perp-to-spot volume ratio has climbed to 15 times (15X), pointing to a price control largely by leveraged positioning. The funding rates oscillate between positive and negative without holding a trend, showing a lack of direction...

Onchain data shows inflows to accumulation addresses topping 67,000 BTC, while total outflows from Bitcoin miners fell to levels not seen since 2024. Bitcoin (BTC) demand from long-term holders increased by 48.5% over the past seven days. This rise in accumulation coincided with a sharp decline in Bitcoin miners’ selling activity, as the Miners’ Position Index (MPI) dropped to levels last seen in 2024. The development highlights a phase where long-term participants are steadily absorbing Bitcoin, while selling from the miners continues to decrease. CryptoQuant data shows that the demand from accumulator addresses lifted holdings to roughly 205,000 BTC on March 30 from 138,000 BTC on March 23. The increase follows a drawdown from a March peak near 210,000 BTC, marking a renewed phase of demand from long-term participants. Read more

Bitcoin's return to an all-time high depends on how deep the current selloff extends, as data shows each new price low adds months to BTC's recovery time. Bitcoin (BTC) has shed all its March gains, currently down 1.40% on the monthly chart and 24.6% for the first quarter of 2026. Bitcoin’s longer-term performance aligns with a deep drawdown cycle for BTC, which may extend until the end of 2026 and many analysts expect another 40% drop in price. This scenario pushes Bitcoin’s recovery into Q2 2027, as a deeper BTC price drop tends to take longer to recover from. Ecoinometrics data shows a clear link between the drawdown depth and recovery duration. Each additional 10% decline has historically added about 80 days to the time required to reclaim the prior highs. Read more

The number of Ether staked continues to rise while ETH outflows from exchanges are increasing. Will the phenomenon have a positive or negative impact on ETH price? Ether’s (ETH) liquid supply on the Ethereum network continues to tighten, with exchange netflows, rising staking participation, and declining exchange reserves all pointing to a shrinking pool of readily available tokens.  Analysts suggest this supply contraction may mark the early stages of a “new phase,” potentially establishing a stronger structural price floor for ETH in the market cycles ahead. Ethereum’s staking share continues to rise, with about 38.1 million ETH locked on Wednesday, equal to roughly 33.1% of the total supply. Staking infrastructure provider Everstake noted that this is the highest level recorded, marking a steady shift toward illiquid capital rather than tradable inventory. The staking platform said,  Read more

Bitcoin’s price volatility tends to scare off buyers, but data shows investors who hold for at least three years have a higher chance of locking in significant returns. Bitcoin (BTC) gets a bad name among some investors due to its steep double-digit drawdowns that punish late buyers, but data suggests the outcome can change with time. Since 2017, investors who bought BTC near the market highs faced losses of about 40%–50% in the next two years, but data shows many of those positions turned profitable when held for longer than three years. By contrast, entries near bear-market lows have historically produced triple-digit percentage returns over similar two to three-year periods. Onchain valuation metrics further help explain where these stronger accumulation zones tend to appear. Read more

Backtested data and forward-looking models found that dollar-cost averaging Bitcoin buys is the best way to invest in BTC. Will the strategy work in the next bull market? Smart investors adjust their strategy during bear markets and 50% drawdowns like the one seen in Bitcoin (BTC) over the last five months. The strategy, known as dollar-cost averaging (DCA), involves investing the same amount at regular intervals regardless of market conditions.  Historical market cycle data and forward-looking BTC price simulations provide a clearer view of how these steady investment patterns develop across different entry periods and time horizons. A $250 weekly Bitcoin purchase starting in January 2021 resulted in $67,500 invested over a five-year period. Based on DCA simulation data, the strategy accumulated 1.65097905 BTC at an average purchase price of $40,884. Read more

ETH bulls briefly pressed the price above the $2,000 to support, but will a positive funding rate and increase in holder profitability generate sufficient momentum to hold the level? Ether (ETH) price reached a weekly high of $2,150 on Thursday, which is a key level for large ETH holders, but volatility in the crypto and stock markets continues to catalyze corrections below $2,000. A daily close above $2,100 remains important because that level aligns with the cost basis and realized price of wallets holding 100,000 or more ETH. Realized price tracks the last moved price of coins, offering a profitability gauge rather than a spot reference. Since 2020, Ether has traded below this whale cohort’s realized price only a handful of times, most notably during the 2022 bear market. The chart shows that the price has regularly recovered after the realized price level was tested as support. Read more

Ether is down 20% in February, but a developing bullish setup below $2,000 and growing upside liquidation clusters hint at a quick rebound. Ether (ETH) opened the week with a drop below the psychological $2,000 level, placing the altcoin into a 20% loss for February. Still, onchain data shows long-term investors accumulating ETH and rising network usage.  Now, analysts are examining how ETH’s technical outlook and the derivatives data align with its emerging demand to determine if a prolonged rally above $2,000 is possible. Key takeaways: Read more

Bitcoin’s volatility spiked, and its price plummeted to fresh lows as worrying US economic conditions emerged. Will credit stress data signal the next accumulation phase for BTC? Bitcoin (BTC) scratched new lows below $73,000 on Tuesday as data shows troubling macroeconomic challenges bubbling below increasingly volatile markets. New data highlights tightening credit conditions, even as the US debt and borrowing costs stay elevated, and one analyst says this gap between credit pricing and credit market stress may define Bitcoin’s price trajectory for the upcoming months. Key takeaways: The ICE BofA US Corporate Option-Adjusted Spread is at 0.75, its lowest level since 1998. Read more

Financial advisors held crypto allocations below 1% for years, treating Bitcoin as a speculative footnote rather than a portfolio component. That era is ending. According to Bitwise and VettaFi's 2026 benchmark survey, 47% of advisor portfolios with crypto exposure now allocate more than 2%, while 83% cap exposure below 5%. The distribution tells a more […] The post Data reveals the new “sweet spot” for crypto in your portfolio as financial advisors flip aggressive on Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Approximately 70% of Polymarket's 1.7 million trading addresses have realized losses while just 668 addresses earning over $1 million accounted for 71% of all gains, with fewer than 0.04% of participants capturing $3.7 billion in total profits, according to blockchain data from DeFi Oasis. The post 70% of Polymarket Traders Lost Money as Top 0.04% Captured Most Profits: Data appeared first on Cryptonews.

The following is a guest post and analysis from Trevor Koverko, Co-Founder at Sapien. The emergence of internet-enabled tech has transformed global trade and economics, as citizens, governments, and companies participate in borderless exchanges. Subsequently, data has become the lifeblood and primary fuel of businesses and societies worldwide, driving economic growth through shared values. In […] The post Data sovereignty can redefine the global economic markets appeared first on CryptoSlate.