Ethereum posts nine-month high as Shanghai upgrade approaches
Ethereum is trading for $1,910 this morning, up 5% in the last 24 hours.
The upcoming Shanghai upgrade, which unlocks staked ETH, is fanning investor interest in Ethereum and other staking-focused coins.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin is trading strongly above the key $28k level, in the green today along with most other cryptos. Special mention goes to Avalanche (+6%), and Uniswap (+6%).
Analysts are watching crypto markets towards the end of the week to see their reaction to the US Labor Department’s release of non-farm payroll figures – a key inflation indicator.
Yesterday’s Crypto AM Daily in association with Luno
In the markets
The Bitcoin economy
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Total crypto market cap
The total capitalisation of the entire cryptocurrency market this morning was $1,204 billion.
What Bitcoin did yesterday
We closed yesterday, April 4, at a price of $28,168 The daily high yesterday was $28,433, and the daily low was $27,681.
Bitcoin market capitalisation
Bitcoin’s market capitalisation this morning was $551.731 billion. To put it into context, the market cap of gold is $13.418 trillion and Tesla is $649.16 billion.
Bitcoin volume
The total spot trading volume reported by all exchanges over the last 24 hours was $16.283 billion. High volumes can indicate that a significant price movement has stronger support.
Volatility
The price volatility of Bitcoin over the last 30 days is 68.8%.
Fear and Greed Index
Market sentiment today is 62, in Greed.
Bitcoin’s market dominance
Bitcoin’s market dominance today is 47.16. Its lowest ever recorded dominance was 37.09 on January 1 2018.
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
The daily RSI is currently 58.55. Values of 70 or above indicate that an asset is becoming overbought and may be primed for a trend reversal or experience a correction in price – an RSI reading of 30 or below indicates an oversold or undervalued condition.
Soundbite of the day
I get it. It can be hard to see crypto in tangible terms. So consider this: cryptocurrencies can greatly cut the cost of sending money internationally by about 96.7% vs. the current system.
Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase
What they said yesterday
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