The crypto market has continued its sharp downward trend this week, and key assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, have some of the most significant losses in months.The crypto market has continued its sharp downward trend this week, and key assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, have some of the most significant losses in months.

Crypto Bloodbath: Bitcoin Drops Over 20% in a Week as Market Sentiment Turns Severely Bearish

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The crypto market has continued its sharp downward trend this week, and key assets have some of the most significant losses in months. Bitcoin has also entered its third week of weakness, with a fall of 20.79 percent in the last seven days, according to CoinMarketCap data. Ethereum was next, with a loss of 29.07 percent over the same time.

The larger market reflected the decline. The overall value of the crypto market in terms of capitalization declined by almost 20% per week to 2.24 trillion dollars versus 2.80 trillion dollars. 

Crypto Liquidations Surge as Volatility Spikes

The fast falling of prices caused mass forced liquidations in derivatives markets. The long positions were liquidated to the tune of $2.75 billion over the weekend alone and the amounts were wiped out further to $1.8 billion on Thursday. These were one of the most aggressive liquidation cascades of this year.

Funding rates in key perpetual futures markets went well into negative territory as traders continued to lay bets in the down direction. Big cap assets like Solana and XRP also neared funding rates of around -30% and indicated an excessive short bias and continuing pessimism among leveraged traders.

Institutional Activity Continues Despite Weakness

In spite of a drop in the market, there are major actors who were still hoarding Bitcoin. Michael Saylor, through his company, Strategy, purchased an extra 855 BTC, costing $75.3 million, and now owns 713,502 BTC of Bitcoin. Binance also made certain additions to its reserves as its SAFU Fund bought 1,315 BTC at around 100.7 million dollars.

The action came after Binance recently stated that it would turn its $1 billion reserves of stablecoins into Bitcoin, indicating continued institutional belief despite a decline in price. Individually, Y Combinator has announced that it currently enables startup founders to be funded in stablecoins, highlighting further crypto adoption outside of the price action.

Traditional Markets Add to Downside Pressure

The fall of crypto was aggravated by weakness in traditional equity markets. In the last seven days, S&P 500 was down by 2.14% and Nasdaq by a noteworthy 4.63%. The relationship between risk assets re-appeared when investors decreased exposure on growth-driven and speculative sectors.

The collaboration between equities and crypto markets has intensified the panic over a more generalized risk-off atmosphere and diminished the enthusiasm of digital resources that have already been facing a pressure to sell internally.

Traders Search for Answers Amid Collapse

The rate and scale of the sell-off surprised many traders and there was a lot of discussion about its underlying causes. Market commentators believed that potential government-related Bitcoin sales, unknown exchange-solvency problems and systemic leverage unwinds could act as catalysts.

There were also claims that price discovery might also be distorted by the presence of the derivatives products, and this is essentially depleting the scarcity narrative of Bitcoin. Other issues revolved around future macro and crypto-related catalysts that will further burden sentiment in case the situation becomes worse.

Key Project Developments Continue

Market stress did not stop development activity in the crypto ecosystem. More than 75,000 ETH remaining unclaimed following the 2016 hack on the DAO will go toward an Ethereum security endowment. Lighter proposed LighterEVM, a native EVM-equivalent rollup meant to combine effortlessly with its indefinite DEX liquidity.

MegaETH reintroduced KPI-based token unlocks, based on TVL and network performance, and Aave abandoned its Avara brand to concentrate on its core DeFi business. Polymarket was also integrated into Jupiter Exchange, and this allowed it to expand into Solana.

DeFi Innovation and Funding Persist

Hyperliquid introduced HIP-4, an outcomes-based derivatives market, in decentralized finance. Lido released its V3 upgrade that has modular stVaults to customize Ethereum staking. Ethena declared six months long incentive program where 100 million points would be issued each week on its trading platforms.

Venture funding activity was resilient. TRM Labs closed a Series C round and raised $70 million, and Anchorage Digital obtained a strategic round of $100 million with Tether. Other increases favored betting platforms, exchanges, and prediction market infrastructure which is an indicator of long-term interests despite short-term crypto market volatility.

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