  Everything you need to make sense of the crypto markets and beyond By the CoinDesk Markets Team Edited by Lawrence Lewitinn, Managing Editor, Global Capital Markets July 8, 2021 Sponsored by  (Price data as of July 8 @11:00 UTC) If you were forwarded this newsletter and would like to receive it, sign up here.
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Technician's Take by Damanick Dantes, CMT Bitcoin Sell-Off Could Stabilize Around $30K Support Bitcoin (BTC) sellers were active during Asia hours, pushing price below $34,000 support. The cryptocurrency was trading around $32,000 at press time and is down 6% over the past 24 hours. The next level of support is seen around $30,000 which could stabilize the current sell-off.  Bitcoin four-hour price chart shows short-term support and resistance levels with RSI (Source: TradingView)
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Market Moves by Damanick Dantes, CMT & Frances Yue  Ether Bounces From Technical Resistance Global equities markets are down this morning and some of that red ink has spilled over to crypto.
Ether is off 10% after attempting to break above the 50-day moving average for the first time since March. A confirmed breakout would have yielded further upside towards $2,800 resistance. Similar to bitcoin, ether is consolidating after a volatile sell-off in May.  Ether (ETH) daily price chart shows support and resistance levels (Source: TradingView) Nonetheless, the chart below shows ether’s outperformance relative to bitcoin and gold this year.  Chart shows returns for bitcoin, ether, and gold this year (Source: CoinDesk Research, St. Louis Fed, Yahoo Finance)
Bitcoin stuck in a choppy range
“Bitcoin continues to trade choppy and though we have seen an upward bias in the last few days it will take some work for BTC to break above the $42,000 mark,” wrote Pankaj Balani, CEO of Delta Exchange, in an email to CoinDesk. “Any weakness in the broader markets or reduction in liquidity can cause sharp down moves in bitcoin, and we continue to see this reflected in options data as puts trade at a premium to calls for July and August expiry.”
The chart below shows a rising 90-day correlation between bitcoin and ether this year. However, bitcoin and ether have become less correlated with the S&P 500, which could offer diversification benefits to traditional investors, albeit with higher volatility.  Chart shows 90-day correlations between BTC, ETH and the S&P 500 (Source: Koyfin)
Ethereum gas price drop
The Ethereum gas price has recently dropped to the lowest level since March 2020, according to crypto analytics firm CoinMetrics.
Though the decline corresponds with ether’s price drop, the downward trend in the gas price started in April, before ether’s price crash when the Ethereum gas limit was raised to roughly 15 million on April 22 and the Ethereum scalability solutions took off, according to CoinMetrics. Meanwhile, Flashbots has been helping to move decentralized finance (DeFi) arbitrage bots, which contributed to the high gas prices, off the Ethereum blockchain.  Ethereum gas price (Source: CoinMetrics) Altcoin roundup
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