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What Changed in Crypto Markets While You Were Sleeping — May 20

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Updated by Kyle Baird
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In Brief

  • Bitcoin is back to trading at $40,000 today after briefly falling under $30,000 yesterday.
  • Internet Computer (ICP) is up 44% today despite a huge market crash.
  • The PancakeBunny protocol lost $200 million in a flash loan exploit.
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BeInCrypto presents our daily morning roundup of crypto news and market changes that you might have missed while you were asleep.

Bitcoin update

BTC decreased significantly yesterday, reaching a low of $30,000. This validated the $30,000 area as support once more. The area had previously not been reached since Jan. 27, 2021. 

However, BTC bounced with strength the same day, creating a long lower wick with a magnitude of 22%.

Despite this bounce, technical indicators do not show any bullish reversal signs yet. 

There is resistance at $41,430, in the form of the 0.382 Fib retracement level. However, the main resistance area is found at $48,330 — the 0.618 Fib retracement level of the most recent decrease. This is also a horizontal resistance area.

BTC Bounces
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Altcoin movers

After dropping to a local low of $1.55 trillion on May 19, the total cryptocurrency market cap has recovered slightly to $1.75 trillion today. Nearly every cryptocurrency in the top-10 is still down when looking at the past 24 hours. Tether (USDT) has overtaken the third rank by market cap after Binance Coin (BNB) and XRP shed billions of dollars during the market crash that occurred yesterday,

Ninth-ranked Internet Computer (ICP) is the best performing altcoin today. After its still down 31% on the week, ICP has gained 44% in the past 24 hours. It’s back to a $24 billion market cap, and is just $2.2 billion from taking over Polkadot (DOT).

Bitcoin SV (BSV) is today’s biggest loser. Its currently down 32% in the past 24 hours. However, Terra (LUNA), Curve DAO Token (CRV), and Fantom (FTM) are also all down by more than 30%.

In other crypto news

  • The latest victim in the wave of flash loan attacks targeting the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry is one of its largest players — PancakeBunny.
  • Despite its shaky start, Uniswap v3 volumes have surged propelling the decentralized exchange (DEX) into second place, behind its v2 iteration.
  • The DeFi market has taken a beating in the past 24 hours, with the total value locked value dropping by 39% from a peak on May 11.
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Kyle Baird
Kyle migrated from the East Coast USA to South-East Asia after graduating from Pennsylvania's East Stroudsburg University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2010. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Kyle got his start buying stocks and precious metals in his teens. This sparked his interest in learning and writing about cryptocurrencies. He started as a copywriter for Bitcoinist in 2016 before taking on an editor's role at BeInCrypto at the beginning of 2018.
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