Bitcoin rose above $64,000 on Tuesday, up over 1% on the day and marginally higher on the week, the only major with a meaningful gain as the rest of the market drifted lower.
Ether eased half a percent to just under $1,900, though it holds an almost 1% weekly gain. XRP fell over 1% to just under $1 and is down over 2% on the week, the weakest of the group. Dogecoin dropped almost half a percent to 7 cents, BNB and tron both slipped marginally to just over $600 and 33 cents, and solana was flat at just under $76.
Hyperliquid’s HYPE was the exception among the smaller majors, up almost 1% to just over $59 and 7.5% over seven days, by far the strongest weekly performance.
Alex Kuptsikevich, chief market analyst at FxPro, said bitcoin has now spent four days below its 50-day moving average after an earlier attempt to break above it, and remains below its 200-week average on the longer view. That puts sellers in control on both the medium…
