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Fear dominates market as BTC, ETH struggle for support

Crypto markets clawed back some ground on Friday, but traders weren’t buying the ￰0￱ global digital assets market surged marginally over the last 24 hours to hover around $3.78 ￰1￱ pushed back over $110,000 while Ether managed to regain $4,000 ￰2￱ the market posted a minor recovery rally, the Fear and Greed depicted among the ￰3￱ data shows that more than 133k traders were liquidated over the last 24 ￰4￱ total liquidations turned up around $329 ￰5￱ largest single liquidation order of BTC/USDT valued at $3.87 million happened on Binance. $329M wiped out as crypto rebounds Data shows that $186 million worth of liquidated bets (56%) turned out to be long positions.

However, Short bets amounted to $143 ￰6￱ shows that the crypto market is witnessing heavy fluctuations with pumps and ￰7￱ reported that Thursday witnessed $1.1 billion liquidation ￰8￱ recovery coincided with fresh inflation data that matched ￰9￱ Fed’s preferred gauge, PCE, rose 2.7% in August, while the core measure was up 2.9%. The numbers were hardly surprising, but they reinforced the sense that price pressures are ￰10￱ suggest that if inflation trends lower, risk assets may find support, but any upside surprises could quickly reset rate cut ￰11￱ led the altcoins’ recovery by rising nearly 4%. ETH is down by 18% from its all-time high of above $4,900.

Solana and Dogecoin added marginal ￰12￱ a great run, SOL is trailing by 15% in the last 7 ￰13￱ is trading at an average price of $203 at the press time. However, Hyperliquid’s HYPE token was the lone standout in the top ￰14￱ is up by more than 7% and bucking the sea of ￰15￱ price is now up by 86% on a year-to-date (YTD) ￰16￱ is trading at an average price of $44.64 at the press ￰17￱ fear hits 5-month low The Fear and Greed Index dropped to its lowest since April to hit 28 points on the ￰18￱ signals “fear” across the ￰19￱ pointed to heavy stress among short-term holders as Bitcoin traded under their cost basis of $109,700 for the first time in five ￰20￱ and Greed index,

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