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<a href="https://bbg-news.com/btc-usd/">Bitcoin</a> holds steady after Sunday’s rally, though full-fledged reversal may take longerMarkets

What to know:

  • Bitcoin is holding above $63,000 after a Sunday rally tied to Michael Saylor’s renewed buying signal.
  • The price is now hovering near the key 200-week moving average that often marks major cycle turning points.
  • Market stress is easing as implied volatility retreats and speculative call options dominate bitcoin options trading, but note the fragile sentiment, dealer gamma dynamics around $60,000.

Bitcoin stayed above $63,000 on Monday, continuing a positive trend from Sunday when it rose 4%. This increase was largely driven by comments from Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy (MSTR), who suggested the company might buy even more Bitcoin. Investors pay close attention to Saylor’s statements because Strategy has consistently purchased large amounts of the cryptocurrency in the past.

With Bitcoin holding steady, some smaller cryptocurrencies are seeing significant gains. Audiera’s BEAT token jumped 78% and Siren’s SIREN rose 33% in the last day, making them the top performers among the 100 largest cryptocurrencies. Both Audiera and Siren are Web3 AI projects built on the BNB Chain; Audiera focuses on entertainment and rhythm games where AI characters are part of the economy. The reasons behind these price increases aren’t yet known.

Whether the overall market bounces back largely depends on Bitcoin’s next move. It’s currently around its 200-week moving average, which has often acted as a crucial support level and a point of contention between buyers and sellers during significant market shifts.

According to FxPro’s chief market analyst Alex Kuptsikevich, market sentiment dropped sharply to 8 on Monday, falling into single digits after a two-month improvement. He notes that current market conditions, particularly around Bitcoin’s 200-week moving average and the sentiment index, are similar to what was seen in mid-2022.

He explained that while the decline slowed down under those circumstances, it wasn’t until several months later that things truly started to improve.

Derivatives positioning

  • Bitcoin’s futures open interest collapsed to 716,000 BTC from a record 901,000 BTC just four days ago, a stark illustration of how brutally last week’s price crash wiped out leveraged positions across the market.
  • One silver lining: the decline in open interest suggests traders largely didn’t pile into new shorts during the selloff, meaning the move was driven by forced long liquidations rather than aggressive bearish conviction.
  • Ether (ETH) tells a similar story. Open interest has pulled back to 14.58 million ETH from 15.98 million ETH late last month.
  • is the standout coin of the past 24 hours. Open interest has jumped over 13% in the past 24 hours to 1.64 million BCH, the highest level since July 2023, even as its price bucked the recovery with an 8.3% slide. Rising open interest against a falling price typically signals short accumulation, and BCH’s negative 24-hour cumulative volume delta confirms it: Traders are actively shorting at market prices rather than placing limit orders. The setup points to persistent bearish sentiment and potential for further losses.
  • Canton Network’s CC token is also seeing an uptick in open interest.
  • On the volatility front, the stabilization in bitcoin is showing up in so-called fear gauges. The 30-day annualized implied volatility index BVIV has retreated to 50% from a peak of nearly 59% on Friday, suggesting the acute stress is fading and conditions are supportive of at least some consolidation. Ether’s implied volatility pulled back to 69% from 75%.
  • Options market sentiment has shifted noticeably. The five most actively traded instruments on Deribit in the past 24 hours are all calls, including a $170,000 strike expiring Dec. 25. That’s a bet bitcoin will rally above that level before year-end. These deep out-of-the-money calls function as cheap lottery tickets: small premium, long odds and a massive payoff if the trade comes good.
  • One risk factor remains. The dealer gamma profile around $60,000 continues to point to a setup where market makers may be forced to trade in the direction of price moves to rebalance their books, a dynamic that could amplify swings in either direction.

Token talk

  • Zcash (ZEC) has rebounded 45% from last week’s low after developers proposed a fix for a critical counterfeiting bug in its privacy-focused Orchard pool.
  • The Ironwood proposal would move users to a new, repaired privacy pool and let anyone running Zcash software verify that no more than the correct amount of ZEC exists.
  • As coins migrate out of the old pool, any counterfeit ZEC would either be exposed or stranded and destroyed, potentially revealing whether the flaw was ever exploited, though developers say abuse is unlikely.
  • Elsewhere, Tether’s dollar-pegged stablecoin USDT briefly overtook ether (ETH) in market capitalization over the weekend as the latter fell alongside the broader market.
  • Ether slid from $2,000 to just over $1,500 from Friday to Sunday, bringing it to a $183 billion market cap compared with USDT’s $186 billion. The token has recovered since, bringing it back above USDT, though it remains far below bitcoin ‘s $1.2 trillion level.

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2026-06-08 14:12