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An overall selloff has affected the cryptocurrency market, with Layer 2 tokens, gaming projects, and meme coins experiencing sharp drops across multiple timeframes. The correction comes as retreated from its recent high of above $111,000 to current levels around $105,000. This has triggered weakness throughout the altcoin sectors.

Bitcoin price today trades near $89,463 as the market consolidates within a narrowing range. Prediction markets reflect elevated downside expectations, but derivatives data shows shorts getting squeezed, creating a potential setup for a counter-trend move.

Ethereum’s latest price drop has coincided with a surge in activity from several large wallets, creating a major divergence between market sentiment and high-value trading behavior. At the time of writing, ETH was extending its downturn, falling to after a 9.59% decline over the past 24 hours. Blockchain data showed that multiple whales continued to accumulate or reposition, despite elevated liquidation risk.

Bitcoin faces technical deterioration that could lead to a decline below $75,000, according to analyst Przemyslaw K. Radomski. The analyst has been shorting Bitcoin since it traded around $104,000 and warns the asset is in “deep, technical trouble.”

Bitcoin is entering one of its most important moments in years as analysts warn that November through December could determine whether the crypto market continues its bull run or slips into a long bear phase.

Gold’s run stalled this week, but Peter Schiff said the move was a clean reset inside a strong uptrend, not the start of a reversal. He pointed to support forming near $4,000 and said fast drops like this flush leveraged late buyers so the trend can keep climbing.

The cryptocurrency market is going through significant pullback this October. After rallying early in the month, the total crypto market cap slid roughly 14% from its peak, according to from TradingView, reflecting a sharp reversal in sentiment.

The US Dollar Index (DXY) has fallen significantly this year, down about 10 points. This marks its sharpest six-month drop since 1991, which is often good news for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies since digital assets usually serve as a hedge against dollar depreciation.

The crypto market surged significantly last week as Bitcoin achieved a new all-time high while most top altcoins returned massive gains. However, upcoming economic due in the US by early next week could affect the market conditions. Most analysts expect increased volatility in the crypto market to follow the outcome of US economic reports.

Fartcoin (FARTCOIN), a Solana-based meme coin with strong roots in internet humor, has officially made its debut on the Binance.US exchange. The listing, however, was met with significant volatility and selling pressure, as the token’s price dropped over 10% in its first day of trading.

At Consensus 2025 in Toronto, Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson unveiled a bold initiative to end crypto’s “tribal warfare” by distributing Midnight tokens to an estimated 37 million wallets across eight major blockchains.

The crypto market is focused on two major token unlock events in the coming days that could trigger significant price volatility for Sui (SUI) and Solana (SOL). A combined total of over $250 million worth of the two Layer-1 tokens is scheduled to be released, putting both assets into substantial price volatility.

Reports of Israeli airstrikes on Iran have triggered a sharp sell-off across the cryptocurrency market, leading to the liquidation of hundreds of millions in long positions. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP bore the brunt of the sell-off, plunging massively in a matter of hours.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) whale dropped 83% in the past 30 days, falling from 8 trillion SHIB to below 2 trillion. Outflows also fell more than 80% in the same period, showing a sharp drop in large holder activity.

CoinGecko’s April 2025 report confirms Binance held the top spot among centralized exchanges (CEXs), with a 38% market share. The report adds that Binance’s spot trading volume declined 18% from March, settling at $482.6 billion. This is the platform’s lowest monthly volume since October 2024, based on the updated CEX market analysis on May 7.