Altcoins have been under sustained pressure for months as the broader crypto market continues to grapple with a prolonged bear phase that began after the 2021 bull cycle. While Bitcoin has managed to preserve a portion of its macro uptrend, most alternative cryptocurrencies have struggled to regain momentum, with many still trading far below their previous cycle highs. This persistent weakness reflects declining liquidity, fading investor appetite for speculative assets, and an increasing concentration of capital in Bitcoin. Related Reading: The 31,900 Bitcoin Purge: Why March 4 Marked An Institutional Bitcoin Floor According to a recent CryptoQuant report, understanding the condition of altcoins has become just as important as tracking Bitcoin’s price movements when evaluating the overall health of the crypto market. One indicator that provides insight into this dynamic is the “Altcoins Near ATL” metric, which measures the percentage of altcoins currently trading close to their all-time low levels. In this framework, altcoins refer to all cryptocurrencies excluding Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins. The chart, developed by CryptoQuant Verified Author Darkfost, highlights the scale of the current market stress. Data shows that approximately 38% of altcoins are trading near their historical lows. In practical terms, nearly four out of ten altcoins are hovering close to their weakest price levels since launch. Such readings typically emerge during periods of extreme market stress, when risk appetite deteriorates and investors rotate capital toward larger, more established assets. Extreme ATL Readings Reflect Stress Across the Altcoin Market The report explains that elevated readings in the “Altcoins Near ATL” metric typically emerge during periods of intense market stress. When a large percentage of altcoins trade close to their all-time lows, it signals that many assets are locked in prolonged downtrends and that investor sentiment toward higher-risk cryptocurrencies has deteriorated significantly. A major factor behind this dynamic is the concentration of capital in Bitcoin. Institutional inflows—particularly through spot Bitcoin ETFs—have increasingly drawn liquidity toward BTC, leaving many smaller tokens struggling to attract fresh demand. As more capital flows into Bitcoin, the relative share of investment directed toward altcoins shrinks. Related Reading: Post-Crash Purge: XRP’s 60% Valuation Reset Meets a Record Low in Exchange Liquidity At the same time, the number of cryptocurrencies available in the market has expanded rapidly in recent years. This growing supply of tokens intensifies competition for capital, meaning that liquidity is spread across a larger universe of assets. As a result, many projects fail to secure sustained investor interest, increasing the likelihood of prolonged price declines. Macroeconomic conditions also contribute to this environment. Higher interest rates and tighter liquidity conditions tend to reduce risk appetite across financial markets. Under such circumstances, investors typically rotate toward larger and more established assets while speculative tokens face stronger selling pressure. Historically, however, extreme ATL readings have sometimes appeared near the later stages of market cycles, when selling pressure is already largely absorbed. Altcoins Struggle To Hold Key Support The weekly chart of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization excluding the top 10 assets highlights the prolonged weakness across the broader altcoin sector. Currently sitting near $170 billion, this segment of the market remains significantly below the peaks recorded during previous cycles, reflecting the sustained underperformance of smaller cryptocurrencies. After reaching highs near $450 billion in early 2022, the altcoin market experienced a steep decline during the broader bear market that followed the collapse of several major crypto firms and tightening global liquidity. Although the sector staged a recovery throughout 2024 and early 2025—briefly pushing market capitalization back toward the $400 billion region—momentum faded again in late 2025, leading to the current downturn. Related Reading: The $73,000 Test: Crowded Shorts And Negative Funding Fueled Bitcoin’s 15% Recovery Technically, the market cap is now trading below the 50-week and 100-week moving averages, both of which are sloping downward and acting as resistance levels. The 200-week moving average sits near the $200 billion region, forming a critical structural level that altcoins have recently lost. This breakdown reinforces the broader bearish structure that has persisted across much of the sector. From a structural perspective, the chart continues to display a pattern of lower highs and declining momentum. Unless the market can reclaim the $200–$220 billion region, altcoins may remain trapped in a prolonged consolidation phase while liquidity continues to concentrate in larger assets such as Bitcoin. Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com
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On-chain data shows the amount of XRP supply sitting underwater has shot up to historically high levels following the recent market downturn. 36.8 Billion Tokens Of The Asset Are Currently Being Held At A Loss In a new post on X, on-chain analytics firm Glassnode has shared an update on the latest trend in the XRP Total Supply in Loss. This metric measures, as its name suggests, the total amount of the cryptocurrency’s supply that’s currently in a state of net unrealized loss. The indicator works by checking the on-chain history of each coin in circulation to find what price it was last moved at. If the last transaction price was more than the current spot price for any token, then that particular coin is in a state of loss. The Total Supply in Loss adds up all tokens satisfying this condition. Related Reading: Bitcoin Big-Money On The Move: Exchange Whale Ratio Spikes To 0.6 A counterpart indicator called the Total Supply in Profit takes care of the supply of the opposite type (that is, the coins with a cost basis lower than the latest spot price). Now, here is the chart shared by the analytics firm that shows the trend in the 7-day exponential moving average (EMA) of the XRP Total Supply in Loss over the last few years: As shown in the graph above, the XRP Total Supply in Loss fell to a relatively low level in 2025, but in the last quarter of the year, the metric rose. The trend change came as the cryptocurrency sector as a whole saw the start of a bearish phase. Today, the Total Supply in Loss has a value of 36.8 billion XRP. From the chart, it’s visible that this is a relatively high level when compared to the past, with it being surpassed only once before in the current cycle. The picture is a bit different when the indicator is denominated in USD terms. As shown in the above chart, the USD version of the XRP Total Supply in Loss set a peak higher than any witnessed in the past few years during the latest market downturn. This suggests that the capital invested in the cryptocurrency has gone up by magnitudes as the years have passed. Currently, supply worth around $50 billion is in a state of loss on the blockchain. Related Reading: Bitcoin Faces On-Chain Air Gap To $81,000: Will Momentum Build? Generally, digital asset markets tend to arrive at bottoms when investor pain is at its highest. As such, considering the current loss situation on the XRP network, it only remains to be seen whether the coin will reach a bottom in the near future. XRP Price At the time of writing, XRP is floating around $1.35, down over 0.5% in the last 24 hours. Featured image from Dall-E, chart from TradingView.com
Hyperliquid, the world’s leading decentralized exchange (DEX) for perpetual futures, has attained $1.29 billion in trading volume for its oil futures. This is now only rivalled by Bitcoin at $3.56 billion, while Ether is the second runner-up at $1.24 billion. The figure is also a 66.67% surge in volume from yesterday’s $720 million. Source: Hyperliquid …
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XRP has entered the new week with a technical setup that is beginning to tilt in favor of bulls, even though the price action is stuck inside a range. A bullish divergence has appeared on the daily chart, hinting that downside momentum may be fading and that a rebound could be close. However, XRP’s price structure is fragile, and technical analysis has revealed a level that could either support a recovery attempt or lead to another round of selling pressure. Bullish Divergence Shows Selling Pressure Is Losing Strength The foundation of the bullish case is the daily divergence now visible on the daily candlestick chart. XRP has been holding inside a narrow range near the $1.34 to $1.50 range, but momentum is no longer falling at the same pace as the price. Related Reading: XRP Bull Flag Breakout After 8-Month Consolidation To Send Price To $11 When price makes a lower low, but momentum refuses to follow, as the RSI is clearly showing on the XRP daily chart right now, it tells traders that the selling pressure behind each leg lower is weakening. The Bears are still in control on paper, but they’re running out of fuel. This is exactly what unfolded in the February lows. Price crashed to the $1.13 range in a capitulation flush; the RSI fell into oversold territory below 25. However, the price action is now beginning to stabilize and consolidate between roughly $1.34 and $1.40, but this hasn’t led to the creation of higher highs. However, RSI shows momentum and is beginning to quietly recover to build a higher low. That divergence is now confirmed on the daily timeframe with the start of the new week. Why $1.34 Is The Level Bulls Cannot Afford To Lose Despite the improving short-term outlook, the bullish thesis has a very clear line in the sand. According to technical analysis from a crypto analyst known as “Guy on the Earth,” anything below $1.34 would invalidate the setup in the short term. That makes it the level traders are likely to watch most closely at the start of the week. At the time of writing, XRP is trading at $1.36, just a little higher than the important $1.34 level. This support matters because it has effectively become the price floor of the current range. XRP has already spent several sessions trading just above it, and this shows that buyers are still willing to defend that zone. According to the analyst, a clean break below $1.34 would open the door to another leg lower or see a capitulation wick closing back above $1.34. Related Reading: Pundit Says XRP Price Could Reach $1,000 By End Of 2026 If This Happens Signals are one thing; confirmation is another, and for XRP, confirmation only comes at $1.50. The chart above shows the upper boundary of the current range around $1.50, and that is the level bulls need to break if XRP is going to shift from recovery talk to a real trend reversal. Featured image from Getty Images, chart from Tradingview.com
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Oil-linked trading on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid (HYPE) has recently surpassed $1 billion in volume within a 24-hour period, leading to a significant 10% rally in the platform’s native token, HYPE, allowing it to outperform the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. In fact, oil-linked trading on Hyperliquid hit over $1.2 billion, making it the second-most traded market on the platform, just behind Bitcoin (BTC). Hyperliquid’s Oil Contract Trading Soars The driving force behind the recent HYPE performance has been the CL-USDC perpetual contract, which tracks West Texas Intermediate crude oil prices. This contract’s trading volume recently eclipsed Ethereum (ETH) trading on the platform. Related Reading: Bitcoin At The Bottom? The 23-Month Cycle That Has Never Failed The increase in activity coincides with a dramatic rise in oil futures, which jumped over 30% to nearly $120 a barrel on traditional exchanges. This spike followed escalating tensions in the Middle East that have disrupted global supply chains. Before these developments, daily volumes for the CL-USDC contract hovered around $21 million. However, following the recent geopolitical events, that figure skyrocketed to more than $1.2 billion as of Monday. Additionally, open interest in this contract surged to $183 million. $150 Price Target For HYPE Further fueling the excitement surrounding the HYPE rally is a bullish outlook from Arthur Hayes, co-founder of cryptocurrency platform BitMEX. In a recent essay, Hayes set a price target of $150 for HYPE by August 2026, asserting that Hyperliquid can continue to expand its revenue streams even if broader cryptocurrency markets experience difficulties. Related Reading: Dogecoin Remains Inside Falling Channel, Bulls Target Surge Above $0.1 While HYPE has been on the rise, with the token retesting the $35 resistance wall, major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have shown modest recoveries during the same period. Bitcoin gained approximately 2.5%, while Ethereum saw a slightly higher increase of 3.4%. Analyzing HYPE’s daily trading chart reveals critical support levels that investors should watch. Key support zones are anticipated around $32, $29, and $28, with the latter acting as a significant accumulation point over the past two weeks. Featured image from OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com
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Bitcoin’s rally back to the mid-$73,000 region did not last long as the leading cryptocurrency’s price action reversed as the week came to a close and fell back around $67,000 after momentarily regaining momentum last week, pulling Ethereum down with it till the ETH price also lost the $2,000 price level. However, the pullback of these leading cryptocurrencies is the product of a few forces colliding at once: a war nobody fully priced in and institutions quietly heading for the exits. Here is what happened. Spot Bitcoin ETFs: From Boosting Rally To Draining Liquidity One of the clearest reasons for Bitcoin’s reversal is that the same ETF complex that helped lift the price early in the week suddenly turned into a source of pressure. SoSoValue data show that US-based Spot Bitcoin ETFs posted strong inflows at the start of the week, including about $458.19 million on March 2, $225.15 million on March 3, and $461.77 million on March 4. Related Reading: Bitcoin Pattern Memory Predicts The Bottom, And It’s Below $40,000 That stretch helped Bitcoin climb as high as roughly $74,051 intraday on March 4, but the tone changed quickly after that. By March 5, spot Bitcoin ETFs had flipped to a net outflow of about $227.83 million, and on March 6, the outflow worsened to roughly $348.83 million, showing that institutional demand softened just as Bitcoin was testing resistance near the mid-$70,000s. Spot Bitcoin ETFs. Source: SoSoValue Unsurprisingly, Ethereum also saw its own exchange-traded funds flows deteriorate in tandem with Bitcoin. SoSoValue’s data show US Spot Ethereum ETFs started the week on firmer footing, with $38.69 million in net inflows on March 2, led by BlackRock’s ETHA at about $26.51 million. However, by the second half of the week, that demand had faded massively. Spot Ethereum ETFs recorded about $90.94 million in net outflows on March 5 and another $82.85 million in net outflows on March 6, with Fidelity’s FETH alone accounting for roughly $67.57 million of the March 6 withdrawal. Spot Ethereum ETFs. Source: SoSoValue Profit-Taking And Global Risk Aversion The final piece is the macro backdrop. The bounce to $73,000 to $74,000 invited short-term traders to lock in gains, especially after Bitcoin ran into a clear resistance band and failed to push through decisively. On-chain data shows that more than 27,000 BTC in profit were sent to exchanges by short-term holders within 24 hours. Related Reading: XRP Price At $100 Is ‘Inevitable’, Analyst Explains Why This Is However, investors are not dealing with only crypto-related concerns. Financial markets are still pricing in the conflicts in the Middle East. Iran responded to US-Israel attacks by not only firing retaliatory strikes but also effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz, a passage for roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply. That closure is what truly rattled markets. Once Bitcoin lost altitude, Ethereum followed with even more force. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $67,500. Ethereum, on the other hand, is trading at $1,975. Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com
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The long-term vision of XRP has often been debated within the crypto market, where price speculation and retail trading tend to dominate the narrative. The proponents of the asset argue that XRP’s core purpose extends beyond short-term market cycles. Instead, they view it as a key component of the emerging concept of the Internet of Value, and enable the seamless transfer of money and assets across global networks as easily as information moves across the internet. XRP’s long-term significance has never been rooted in retail speculation, but in its potential fit-in-purpose utility within an emerging Internet of Value infrastructure. Analyst Rob Cunningham has mentioned on X that the world markets advance toward regulated digital commodity venues, clearer token classification, and tokenized movement of value across interoperable rails. Thus, assets designed for fast settlement, liquidity bridging, and neutral transfer between networks become relevant. How The Internet Of Value Requires Interoperable Assets Cunningham noted that regulatory developments such as the Clarity Act framework are not designed as an XRP bill, and no law can guarantee XRP adoption. However, clearer market structure legislation could address one of its long-standing challenges in the US: legal ambiguity, which is an inference from the legislation’s structure and purpose, not a promise. Related Reading: Cardano Founder Shares What To Expect For XRP If The Clarity ACT Is Passed Analyst Cunningham frames this transition as the “shipping container moment” for finance, meaning the financial world is standardising the movement of value, similar to how it standardised the movement of goods. When this shift happens, the winners are rarely the loudest brands, but it’s the rails, standards, and protocols that reduce friction across the system. From this perspective, the growth of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) adoption signals a deeper transformation of truth, and settlement and ownership are being re-architected at the protocol level. Cunningham views this trend as a “sound-money renaissance” focused less on nostalgia and more on restoring transparent rules and reliable measurements for digital finance. Related Reading: Pundit Explains How XRP Becomes A Global Reserve Asset In that broader macro context, the debate around the Clarity Act reflects a decision about whether the US will lead the digital asset transition through clear legislation or allow innovation to remain in regulatory ambiguity. Meanwhile, the XRP implications become strongest in a world that requires neutral, fast, and interoperable value transfer under well-defined rules, where the macro-direction is increasingly favourable, as the regulated utility will ultimately matter more than the narrative cycle in the market. A Liquidity Shift Is Unfolding In The XRP Market A notable shift is emerging in the XRP market liquidity. Crypto commentator XFinanceBull revealed that the data from exchange heatmaps shows that Upbit has recently moved into the top position for XRP trading volume, surpassing major global platforms such as Binance and Coinbase. This development shows that market liquidity is positioning before the broader narratives become recognised. According to XFinanceBull, the surge in XRP activity on a South Korean exchange suggests that regional traders are betting on the network. Featured image from Freepik, chart from Tradingview.com
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