Market overview

The crypto market, with a market capitalisation of $2.42 trillion, is 2% higher than a week ago but has lost 2.3% over the past 24 hours, as investors shift towards safe-haven assets amid developments in Iran. A new escalation has pushed cryptocurrencies back to mid-last-week levels. Among the top coins for the day, Aave (+8.5%), Zcash (+3.3%) and Dash (+2.3%) are leading the way. The laggards on the list are IOTA (−4%), Algo (−3.7%) and Neo (−3.1%).

Bitcoin has retreated from above $73K to around $71K. This marks the third pullback from the upper boundary of the consolidation range, which corresponds to 61.8% of the downward move seen at the start of the year. The bears have once again prevented the market from…