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There’s a lot going on in crypto news as always, but the price action in the majors, led by Bitcoin and Ethereum, has stagnated to start the week.

That’s not to say things are dumping… just yet. “Consolidating in a range” and “heading for a retest” might be the more optimistic words to use here. And as far as Ethereum is concerned, although it’s just been rejected at US$2,000, it’s been in a pretty significant, choppy uptrend ever since about July 19, when it was languishing around US$897.

It is techincally in a month-long rising wedge formation, however, which is apparently a bearish pattern and, according to NewsBTC.com, the token’s trade volume on major exchange Binance has been dropping concurrently. But that’s a slightly contradictory stat compared with frothiness we’re hearing on social media regarding accumulation and whales pulling several shedloads of ETH from exchanges.

Another fact is, though, for now the leading smart contract platform has held on to more than 52 per cent in gains since that July 19 dip. The ETH rally may be taking a breather right now, but perhaps it has a ways to go yet leading into the Merge… not to mention the potential mayhem of an upcoming ETH PoW miners’ fork as well. More on that from Apollo Capital’s David Angliss, here.

Anyhoo, onto some price action…

 

Top 10 overview

With the overall crypto market cap at US$1.2 trillion and down a fraction since yesterday, here’s the current state of play among top 10 tokens – according to CoinGecko.

A quick swipe up to fellow crypto analytical brain @JustinBennettFX, though, and he’s spotting a potential sign of strength returning to the US dollar once again. Never a particularly good thing for your crypto portfolio. Let’s hope it rejects…

As for the dog-meme coins that were excitedly leg-humping their way into Monday, led by recent top-10 entrant Dogecoin, and Shiba Inu, the fun’s over for now. Annoying squeaky chew toys are stashed away and it’s time for a nap, with DOGE down about 3% and SHIB pulling back by 11%.

Perhaps layer 1 chain Polkadot (DOT) can squeeze its way back into the 10. That said, some negative press is swirling around one of its major protocols, Acala (ACA), which suffered a major exploit on August 14.

Acala was hit by a hack that reportedly minted 1.2 billion of the DeFi protocol’s aUSD stablecoin, without collateral. This resulted in aUSD, for a time, depegging from the US dollar by more than 99%.

Acala Dollar (aUSD) is still depegged at the time of writing, although it has recovered significantly from the crash and is now sitting at US$0.9349.

 

 

Uppers and downers: 11–100

Sweeping a market-cap range of about US$10 billion to about US$508 million in the rest of the top 100, let’s find some of the biggest 24-hour gainers and losers at press time. (Stats accurate at time of publishing, based on CoinGecko.com data.)

DAILY PUMPERS

• Chiliz (CHZ), (mc: US$1 billion) +7%

• STEPN (GMT), (mc: US$625 million) +6%

• LEO Token (LEO), (mc: US$5 billion) +5%

• Lido DAO (LDO), (mc: US$1.53 billion) +4%

• Filecoin (FIL), (mc: US$2.1 billion) +2%

 

DAILY SLUMPERS 

• Celsius (CEL), (mc: US$1.18 billion) -26%

• BitDAO (BIT), (mc: US$596 million) -14%

• Aerarium Fi (AERA), (market cap: US$2.48 billion) -13%

• Shiba Inu (SHIB), (market cap: US$9 billion) -9%

• Gala (GALA), (market cap: US$509 million) -7%

 

Around the blocks

A selection of randomness and pertinence that stuck with us on our morning moves through the Crypto Twitterverse…

Yikes, what’s Michael “Big Short” Burry up to? Liquidating his ENTIRE portfolio, aside from one stock – Geo Group  (NYSE:GEO), which apparently operates as a real estate investment trust specialising in prison properties. Things that make you go… hmmm… WTF?! Maybe he’s changed his tune again in Q3…

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