The crypto market has seen a pick-up over the past few weeks, especially among smaller altcoins.
The total market capitalization of altcoins outside the top 10 has been consistently on an upward trend for the past month. The strengthening of smaller crypto tokens often reflects an increasing risk appetite among crypto investors and is thus a promising sign for the crypto market as a whole.
We highlight AI-related crypto projects as a particularly strong category. For example, FET, RNDR, and VIRTUALS have seen price increases of tens of percent since the turn of the year.
We are watching with interest to see if these are the first signals that the crypto market, which has remained relatively stagnant over the past few months, is returning to an upward trend.
Here is an article written by Pessi Peura regarding mainly the crypto markets.
In the crypto market, last year saw new price records for many market leaders, but the decline at the end of the year eventually turned the overall situation negative, with prices mostly falling below the opening prices of the year. The position of cryptocurrencies continued to strengthen in the United States, as several states, among others, made it possible to invest pension funds and state investment funds into Bitcoin. Publicly traded companies also continued to accumulate Bitcoin and Ethereum on their balance sheets in record amounts.
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Bitcoin has now risen above last year’s opening price. We considered this important for an impulsive upward movement to be possible. Our vision is discussed in our weekly video starting from the 26-minute mark. (link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je9JdS6wab8).
Below is a screenshot from the part of the video where we reviewed last week’s situation. The red line represents last year’s opening price, and the thin yellow line is the 30-day moving average. The thinner red line is the idea of an impulsive movement drawn by Atte-Ville.
Views for crypto-themed videos, follower counts for influencer social media accounts, and similar metrics correlate perfectly with altcoin booms.
The graph below illustrates well how, in the cycle that began in January 2023, there have been only two brief periods when the retail crowd has participated even slightly.
One was in the spring of 2024, when Bitcoin reached new ATH (all-time high) levels. The other was after Trump’s election victory. Both lasted for about 2 months.
I could also track cryptocurrency prices just by looking at the view counts or page loads of Bitcoinkeskus’s social media posts, and I would be completely in the loop about where things are heading.
Benjamin Cowen @intocryptoverse
Here is a 30 day moving average of new followers to various crypto accounts on Twitter (X).
The price of the largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has risen above $95,000 in the last 24 hours. This suggests that the sideways movement within a tight range, which lasted for about two months, might be coming to an end, and the price could potentially be turning into a new uptrend.
Also within the broader context of the investment markets, the situation in the crypto market appears quite interesting. The S&P 500 stock index is currently at record highs, as is the price of gold.
Cryptocurrency prices, on the other hand, are still far from their own record highs but are currently showing the first signs of a potential return to an upward trend.
The price of the largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has retreated slightly after last week’s sharp rise and returned to the “range” of recent months.
The next interesting question is whether the price stays above $90,000. As long as the price remains above this level, it continues to form a “higher low” and maintains the interpretation of a continuing uptrend.
A drop below this level would, in turn, suggest a break in the uptrend and would make last week’s upward movement look like a “fake-out” instead of a “break-out”.
For now, however, Bitcoin’s price has remained above $92,000, and thus provides no grounds to question the continuation of the uptrend.
The beginning of 2026 has been favorable for bitcoin, although geopolitical tensions have brought challenges, as well as the sharp decline of the last few days. But here is a good graph showing the revitalized interest from institutions.
Last week, U.S. ETFs attracted a total of approximately $1.4 billion in assets. Q4 of last year was quite sluggish, which was the last time similar weekly figures were recorded. since the beginning of this year, investment flows have been in the neighborhood of a billion dollars.
Investor interest in bitcoin can be viewed from many perspectives, and particularly noteworthy is BlackRock’s IBIT, which saw an inflow of about a billion dollars last week. Additionally, ether and solana ETFs have maintained good levels, and net inflows for solana ETFs have been almost continuously positive except for one day (on January 16th, the overall situation turned into a net outflow of $2.2 million; so far, net inflows have accumulated to about $0.86 billion, which is clearly lower than the corresponding figures for bitcoin).
The growth in ETF flows provides positive signs. Fortunately, institutional investors are starting to better recognize the importance of bitcoin.
The price of the largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has fallen back below $90,000 over the past 24 hours.
This increasingly makes last week’s “break-out” look like a so-called “fake-out.”
It would seem that the Bitcoin price is returning to the trading range between approximately $84,000 and $94,000 that has become familiar over recent months.
In this situation, we again believe it is wisest to treat price movements between $84,000 and $94,000 primarily as noise, and only draw stronger conclusions once the price breaks out of this range in one direction or the other.
China’s digital yuan (the e-CNY) has grown over 800 percent since 2023, becoming the world’s largest live central bank digital currency experiment, with cumulative transaction value exceeding $2.3 trillion by late 2025.
The adoption of the digital yuan is progressing rapidly, and China aims to increase its use in cross-border payments as well through the “mBridge” project.
