Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin See Blood-Red Tuesday As Traders Expect ‘Period Of Consolidation Before Next Leg Down’

The cryptocurrency market plunged on Tuesday, with Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) slipping below $88,000 and the global market cap retreating below the $3 trillion mark.

Cryptocurrency Price    Gains +/-
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) $87,679.28 -6.9%
Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) $2,463.78 -7.2%
Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)  $143.94 -4.9%
XRP (CRYPTO: XRP)  $2.25 -6.7%
Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE)  $0.2079 -6.8%
Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB)  $0.00001396 -2.3%

Notable Statistics:

  • IntoTheBlock data shows large transaction volume increasing by 52% and daily active addresses growing by 38.5%. Transactions greater than $100,000 are up from 6,703 to 10.858 in a single day. Exchanges netflows are up by 183.7%.
  • Coinglass data reports 387,391 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for $1.60 billion. Long liquidations of $933.4 million are at the highest level since Feb.3.
  • Crypto chart analyst Ali Martinez highlighted that the number of new Bitcoin addresses created per day has dropped to …

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