TL;DR:

The crypto market is closing the working week of Aug. 21 with a powerful three-day rally that has finally pulled it out of its prolonged 2026 slumber. Instead of the usual dreary sideways movement, a giant green candle has appeared on Bitcoin’s daily chart — the price on Bitstamp as per TradingView broke through the year-long downtrend and surged to $76,945, peaking at $79,461.

The main fuel came from large investors. Thursday’s trading session ended with records for U.S. funds as per SoSoValue: net inflows into Bitcoin ETFs jumped to $606.29 million, the highest since May, while Ethereum ETFs attracted $220.77 million — their best result since last October.

BITSTAMP:BTCUSD 1D, XRPUSD 1D, and MSTR 1W charts for cryptocurrency…