Grayscale listed 35 cryptocurrencies it’s mulling to potentially include in its suite of crypto investment products.
Bittensor (TAO) has been one of the best-performing AI (Artificial Intelligence) tokens this cycle after surging 180% during Q1 2024. The token has significantly retraced from its march all-time high (ATH) and is currently testing key resistance levels. Some crypto analysts seem unsure about TAO’s short-term performance but remain bullish long-term. Related Reading: Buying The Dip: PEPE Price Recovers 10% As Whales Load Their Bags Bittensor To Lead The ‘AI Wave’? Bittensor Protocol’s token TAO recently saw a major downturn following the broader market retrace. The token, which had recovered the $300 mark in July, faced a significant correction as August started. The price decline deepened on August 5, falling below the $180 level. As the crypto market recovered, TAO’s price surged over 75% from its lowest point last Monday. The token retested the $300 resistance level over the weekend but failed to hold it as the market saw another crash this Monday. Bittensor’s native token registers a 10% drop from its Friday price of $315, which seems to have left some investors and market watchers pondering TAO’s short-term performance. According to renowned analyst Altcoin Sherpa, the AI token might experience another 25%-30% drop soon. To Sherpa, TAO’s “bearish market structure is still there,” which could drive the price below the $200 support level again “pretty soon.” Additionally, the analyst wonders whether AI tokens like TAO will outperform most of the market “like they did in early 2024.” Nonetheless, Gonzo, another market watcher, believes that the token will “lead the AI wave” in the coming months. Replying to Sherpa, the investor suggested that TAO might need to move sideways for a while and “hope that BTC doesn’t dump” to start a new uptrend. Gonzo also considers that Grayscale “might dump it hard to get in cheap” but “will pump it to make money” after launching its Bittensor fund. As reported by NewsBTC, Grayscale Investments announced the offering of its new crypto fund, the Grayscale Bittensor Trust, last week. No Clear Direction For TAO Short-Term Crypto trader Pidgeon analyzed TAO’s long-term performance, finding an unclear path in the shorter timeframes. Per the post, the chart displays a “big head and shoulders” pattern in the weekly timeframes. To the analyst, this pattern, which suggests a trend reversal, “remains completely irrelevant as long as Bittensor holds the $200 support area.” He considers that the chances of TAO holding this level significantly increased after “Monday’s major fakeout and liquidity sweep.” Additionally, Pidgeon highlighted that the token is moving within a clear range between the $210 and $360 levels in the daily timeframe, where the token has previously consolidated. The trader considers there won’t be “major direction until either side breaks.” To break from the downtrend, TAO must reclaim the $310 level before retesting the $360 mark. If it breaks above the $360 trendline, the token’s price could retest the $480 and $570 resistance levels before trying for a new ATH. Related Reading: Ethereum Nears Key Bearish Triangle Apex: Breakdown To $2,160 Target Looms If it fails to hold above the $200 support zone, it might “revisit the wick lows down around $160” and even go as low as $90. Nonetheless, he identified a lower high structure “that it has been stuck in for months” and that “tends to break to the upside.” Ultimately, the trader stated he’s leaning bullish med-long term, but it will depend on “which side of the range it breaks.” As of this writing, TAO is trading at $277, a 4% drop in the last 24 hours. Featured Image from Unsplash.com, Chart from TradingView.com
Grayscale Investments, one of the world’s largest crypto asset managers and exchange-traded fund (ETF) issuers has unveiled its latest offerings. On Wednesday, the company announced the launch of two new crypto mutual funds: the Grayscale Bittensor Trust and the Grayscale Sui Trust. Grayscale Unveils Bittensor And Sui Trusts According to the announcement, the Grayscale Bittensor Trust is exclusively dedicated to TAO, the token supporting the Bittensor Protocol, which incentivizes the advancement of open-source artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. In parallel, the Grayscale Sui Trust focuses solely on SUI, the token underpinning the Sui protocol, a Layer 1 (L1) smart contract blockchain designed to facilitate globally scalable decentralized applications. Related Reading: Tron Lost 10% Since Last Week – Is There A Saving Grace Ahead? Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary, Grayscale’s Head of Product & Research, expressed enthusiasm about the new additions, emphasizing the “pivotal roles” Bittensor and Sui play in the decentralized AI and smart contract blockchain realms, respectively. Sharif-Askary said: With the launch of Grayscale Bittensor Trust and Grayscale Sui Trust, we continue to provide investors with familiar products that enable access to tokens at the cutting edge of the crypto ecosystem’s continued evolution. These newly launched Trusts are now available for daily subscription by eligible individual and institutional accredited investors, operating similarly to Grayscale’s existing suite of single-asset investment trusts. Notably, they represent some of the first investment products exclusively focused on the tokens underpinning the Bittensor Protocol and Sui. In Wednesday’s announcement, Grayscale also confirmed its intention to seek a secondary market listing for the new products. Still, it cautioned that success was not guaranteed, with regulatory considerations posing potential challenges. SUI & TAO Price Analysis Following the asset manager’s announcement, the two tokens present a stark contrast in price action following the broader market crash experienced over the weekend and exacerbated on Monday. For instance, the SUI token hit a 9-month low of $0.4636 on August 5th, following a steady decline from its all-time high of $2.17 in March of this year. However, SUI has climbed back to the $0.6166 level since Monday, with a 3% increase in the last 24 hours, with its next resistance wall at $0.6966. Related Reading: Cardano Price Crash Below $0.3: Is It Time For You To Buy ADA? On the other hand, the TAO token has been unable to post gains in recent weeks, registering a 24% price drop in the fourteen-day time frame. Despite this, TAO has rallied significantly to the $253 level on Wednesday after falling to the $164 level on Monday. In the case of another leg up to regain previously lost levels, the most insignificant hurdle in the near term is placed at the $300 level, which is key for bullish investors in the token to approach the all-time high of $757 reached in March. Featured image from DALL-E, chart from TradingView.com
Over the weekend, Ethereum, the second largest digital asset, took a hit as its price fell significantly, triggering broader negative sentiment around the crypto asset and the factors that could be responsible for the dip. Delving into the matter, popular crypto analyst and trader Michael Van De Poppe has offered insights on the recent price […]