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ethereum pumps

A swell of positivity for the proof-of-stake Merge helped push Ethereum above US$2k on the weekend, while Bitcoin rose above US$25k briefly. Both coins seem to have hit a wall at the moment, though, while dog coins helicopter-wag their tails up.

Welcome to Monday in crypto…

 

Top 10 overview

With the overall crypto market cap at US$1.21 trillion and down a bit since the weekend highs, here’s the current state of play among top 10 tokens – according to CoinGecko.

One word of caution, though, plenty of traders have been pointing to a head and shoulders (bearish) pattern on SHIB’s technicals, with a daily close needing to confirm above the $0.00013 level for the bullish momentum to potentially continue or at least hold.

Good news is, with the daily close (EDT time) approaching, SHIB is well above that mark at the moment ($0.000017).

DOGE, meanwhile, looks pretty good on the charting for now, having breached upwards through a “symmetrical triangle” that was acting as a consolidation zone for the past few months, as shown below. Possibly pretty bullish if it can confirm that upwards leg-humping action.

Source: TradingView

 

Uppers and downers: 11–100

Sweeping a market-cap range of about US$10.4 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

Shiba Inu (SHIB), (mc: US$10.1 billion) +34%

• Chiliz (CHZ), (mc: US$1 billion) +11%

• Dogecoin (DOGE), (mc: US$10.7 billion) +9.5%

• Tenset (10SET), (mc: US$613 million) +7%

• Gala (GALA), (mc: US$545 million) +7%

 

DAILY SLUMPERS 

• Lido DAO (LDO), (mc: US$1.49 billion) -8%

• BitDAO (BIT), (mc: US$678 million) -7%

• Quant (QNT), (market cap: US$1.6 billion) -6%

• Tezos (XTZ), (market cap: US$1.65 billion) -5%

• Maker (MKR), (market cap: US$921 million) -5%

 

Around the blocks

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

Peter Schiff might just be the biggest gold fan since Francisco Pizarro and is an unrelenting Bitcoin hater, so it’s hard to completely trust his technical analysis here. That said, just to keep an open mind on thoughts from one of the biggest crypto bears around…

… who incidentally just agreed to put his Euro Pacific Bank into liquidation. And that, unsurprisingly, makes plenty of headlines on Bitcoin-focused sites.

Someone countering that outlook, however, is the noted “global macro trader” Mark Dow, who apparently “perfectly” called the 2017/18 BTC top and bottom, according to popular YouTuber Crypto Zombie.

Dow Tweeted the following words:

“Bear market is over. Doesn’t matter if we correct, dip, pullback, whatever. It’s over,” adding: “We’re overbought short term, tho.”

Meanwhile…

“Hope”, Michael Saylor? Or hopium? Either way, this column’s author is holding his BTC, ETH and various other sh*tcoins, at the time of writing, and maybe even dollar-cost averaging into the top two.

That said, none of anything presented here should be taken as financial advice, of course.