- Bitcoin (BTC) touched lows near $58k as cryptocurrencies witnessed a sharp sell-off.
- 0DOG token tumbled amid Bitcoin’s losses.
Bitcoin dived more than 6% in the past 24 hours to trade near $58,000. The crypto market capitalization also tumbled as a sea of red engulfed altcoins
Major altcoins saw huge declines to push the total market cap down more than 7% to $2.16 trillion. Meanwhile, Bitcoin Dogs fell sharply as Ethereum, Solana, Pepe, and Polygon nosedived.
Bitcoin slumps amid huge liquidations
BTC briefly traded at lows of $58,090 on Bitstamp and $58,025 on Coinbase on Wednesday morning before a slight recovery pushed it to above $59.2k.
While there hasn’t been a clear catalyst for the crypto sell-off, the widespread losses suggest a broader weakness for risk assets.
Santiment analysis also suggests the latest retracement follows huge bets on upside momentum. The greed that hit the market on August 25 has seen a swift reaction in liquidations, the market intelligence and on-chain analytics platform wrote on X.
Data from Coinglass shows total crypto liquidations have jumped 208% in the past 24 hours to over $330 million. Most of this, about $295 million, are long positions and over 90,800 traders have been liquidated in this period as a result.
The largest liquidation is an ETH/BTC position at $12.67 million on Binance.
Bitcoin Dogs mirrors BTC sell-off
While Ethereum has dropped more than 9% to under 2,450, Solana is changing hands near $144. Polygon, Pepe and Sui have shed double digits.
Bitcoin Dogs, a cryptocurrency that recently launched on major exchanges Gate.io, MEXC and Uniswap, is also mirroring the downside action.
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0DOG price has dropped sharply from its highs of $0.04934 reached on August 22 to currently trade at $0.01006. The token has seen a massive 54% slump in 24 hours, which highlights how impactful a sharp drop in the prices of top cryptocurrencies can be for related tokens.
What next for BTC, 0DOG?
At the time of writing, BTC traded around $59,220, still in the red.
Bears may extend the decline in BTC price, with lows seen on August 5 a likely support level. This same scenario could play out for Bitcoin Dogs, which made history with the first-ever BRC-20 token presale on the Bitcoin network.
The gaming and NFT project taps into BTC’s growing layer-2 market and is likely to bounce alongside the flagship cryptocurrency.
But what would indicate a potential for reversal?
“When funding rates get extreme in either direction, they are always prone to get liquidated and shoot markets in the opposite direction. Look for funding rates to stabilize (or potentially even start leaning toward a short bias) as a sign that BTC and other assets will start to bounce again,” Santiment observed.
The downside may therefore provide an opportunity to buy low. Learn more about Bitcoin Dogs first by visiting their website.