{"id":24827,"date":"2025-05-02T05:31:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T05:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24827"},"modified":"2025-05-02T05:31:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T05:31:41","slug":"bitcoin-jumps-above-97k-as-traders-optimistic-us-china-trade-deal-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24827","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Jumps Above $97K as Traders Optimistic US-China Trade Deal Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bitcoin (BTC) is trading above $97K in Asian morning hours as the market breathes a sigh of relief that the U.S. and China are said to be working on a trade deal, even if the market is also skeptical that a deal will be reached this month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/795f2ed478ad17cfc5c90701085c3fd8450b2935-2114x1111.png?auto=format\" alt=\"(CoinDesk)\" title=\"(CoinDesk)\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. has proactively reached out to China through multiple channels, hoping to hold discussions on the tariff issue,&#8221; China state media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-has-reached-out-china-talk-tariffs-state-media-says-2025-05-01\/\">posted on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dogecoin (DOGE) led gains among majors with a 4% rise in the past 24 hours. Cardano&#8217;s ADA, xrp (XRP), ether (ETH) and BNB rose between 1-3%, with the broad-based CoinDesk 20 (CD20) rising 2.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Movement&#8217;s MOVE extended losses to 21% as the company confirmed founder Rushi Manche <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/movementlabsxyz\/status\/1918134801028268187\">had been suspended<\/a> following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/04\/30\/inside-movement-s-token-dump-scandal-backroom-deals-shadow-advisors-and-secret-middlemen#:~:text=Movement%2C%20the%20blockchain%20project%20behind,internal%20documents%20reviewed%20by%20CoinDesk.\">a CoinDesk expos\u00e9<\/a> of possible token manipulation involving the 21-year-old. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Polymarket, <a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/us-china-trade-deal-before-june\">bettors are skeptical<\/a> that a deal will come this month, giving it only a 20% chance of happening by June. Bettors are likely concerned that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/4\/29\/in-first-100-days-trump-takes-hawkish-stance-on-china-to-new-heights\">hawkish rhetoric from the White House<\/a> means a deal may take longer than a month to be reached.<\/p>\n<p>The speed and intensity of the tariffs the White House announced earlier this year panicked the market, leading to a significant drop in BTC&#8217;s price, but with this apparent trade detente, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/05\/01\/bitcoin-tops-97k-strategy-hits-2025-high-ahead-of-earnings-amid-capital-raise-speculation\">$100,000 bitcoin<\/a> is back on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Other crypto metrics are looking healthy, market observers say, putting $100K bitcoin in sight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Momentum continues to build across crypto with spot flows broadening, alt activity heating up and subtle but meaningful shifts in market structure,&#8221; trading and technology group Flowdesk said in a recent market note. &#8220;As BTC ranges above $90k, undercurrents of risk appetite are growing stronger within both spot and derivative markets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Liquidity remains strong with rising volumes, surging weekend activity, and improving altcoin depth. At the same time, broad-based spot buying continues, led by speculative alts and AI tokens, alongside $1.5B in Bitcoin ETF inflows as institutional demand grows, Flowdesk also wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The market is also likely optimistic about Strategy&#8217;s continued BTC buys, and push towards further institutionalization.<\/p>\n<p>As CoinDesk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/05\/01\/strategy-raising-another-21b-to-buy-bitcoin-posts-large-q1-loss-on-btc-price-decline\">recently reported<\/a>, Michael Saylor announced that Strategy is raising $21 billion for more BTC buys.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prestolabs.io\/research\/daily-market-brief-250502\">recent note<\/a>, Presto Research said investors are increasingly impressed by Strategy\u2019s growing institutional sophistication, highlighted by new valuation frameworks like BTC Torque and a strong focus on accurately pricing its fixed-income instruments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kava Milestone Pushes Up AI Tokens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) tokens are in the green on Friday as the market reacts positively to news from Kava Labs that it hit 100K users of its decentralized AI platform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/categories\/artificial-intelligence\">Data from CoinGecko<\/a> shows the market segment is up 3%, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/price\/cd20\">beating the CoinDesk 20<\/a>, a measure of the performance of the largest digital assets, which is up by 1.8%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are turning to Kava AI because it offers two things most platforms don\u2019t, verifiability and privacy,&#8221; Kava Labs&#8217; Scott Stuart said to CoinDesk in an email. &#8220;That includes users who are deeply embedded in Web3 as well as those simply seeking an alternative to opaque, centralized AI systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Interest in Kava and decentralized AI growing globally, Stuart said, as more users recognize the value of AI that\u2019s both decentralized and transparent, not reliant on a black-box model governed by a handful of corporations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (BTC) is trading above $97K in Asian morning hours as the market breathes a sigh of relief that the U.S. and China are said to be working on a trade deal, even if the market is also skeptical that a deal will be reached this month. &#8220;The U.S. has proactively reached out to China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-24827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}