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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Hangs Around $10K; Locked DeFi Value Drops

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Bitcoin is stuck around $10,000 with little price action while some ether holders have pulled out of the DeFi ecosystem.

  • Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,014 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 1.1% over the previous 24 hours.
  • Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $9,920-$10,439
  • BTC below its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bearish signal for market technicians.

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Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since Sept. 5.
Source: TradingView

Scant action in the bitcoin market over the weekend was a welcome respite from the downward trend since the start of September, when prices hit as high as $12,083 on spot exchanges such as Coinbase. 

Read More: Bitcoin Options Suggest Investors Hedging but Still Long-Term Bullish

“The important thing is that we’ve held the $10,000 mark, and I’d expect we re-build slowly from here,” said Chris Thomas, head of digital assets for Swissquote Bank. 

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Bitcoin trading since Sept. 1, 2020.
Source: TradingView

Rupert Douglas, head of institutional sales for crypto brokerage Koine, isn’t ruling out a further drop. “It’s tough right now to say how far BTC retraces,” he told CoinDesk. “My concern is around equities, where I believe tech is in a bubble not dissimilar to 2000,” he added. 

The equities markets are mixed Tuesday, with some hopeful numbers out of Asia while the European and U.S. markets are tanking.  

“I think we are going to see significantly lower equity prices soon, but will BTC be correlated as it was the last time when equities lurched lower in February and March? That is the question,” added Koine’s Douglas. 

Over the past month, bitcoin dropped over 13% while stock indexes, aided by the tech sector and various stimulus packages by governments, have been holding up better than the bellwether cryptocurrency.

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Bitcoin (gold), S&P 500 (blue), Nikkei 225 (red) and FTSE 100 (green) the past month.
Source: TradingView

In the derivatives markets, open interest in bitcoin futures have declined to the lowest level since early July, currently around $3.7 billion. 

“Bitcoin futures volumes have been lower the last few days, partly because of the U.S. Labor Day weekend, but also we reverted more towards average volume days after having some large days last week,” added Swissquote’s Thomas. Indeed, this past Tuesday, volume spiked at $5.1 billion before dropping off.

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Open interest in bitcoin futures the past three months.
Source: Skew

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While bitcoin was relatively quiet over the long U.S. weekend, decentralized finance, or DeFi, again stole the show in crypto surrounding the SushiSwap project, drama that Thomas hopes can fade quickly. “To me, it’s important we just hold steady for a while and the DeFi space has a calm few weeks with no more crazy unaudited projects causing problems,” added Thomas. 

Read More: SushiSwap’s Billion-Dollar ‘Rug Pull’ Is Thriller to Crypto Geeks

DeFi value drops

The second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, ether (ETH), was down Tuesday, trading around $336 and slipping 3.3% in 24 hours as of 20:00 UTC (4:00 p.m. ET).

Read More: What is Yield Farming? DeFi’s Hot Trend, Explained

For the first time in data aggregator DeFi Pulse’s charts, the total value locked in DeFi has decreased. The amount locked surpassed $9.5 billion on Sept. 1, fell almost $2 billion by Sept. 5 and then recovered slightly.

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Total value locked in DeFi in USD terms.
Source: DeFi Pulse

“This is probably caused by the drop in [the] ETH price,” said Jun Yi, a Singapore-based DeFi yield farmer. “ETH dropped around 30%. There is a cascading effect,” he added. 

It appears that ether holders in particular started pulling out, with over 440,000 ether “unlocked” Sept. 4-5 after a slight recovery.

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Ether locked in DeFi the past three months.
Source: DeFi Pulse

On the other hand, the number of bitcoin locked in DeFi is still trending up, crossing the 80,000 BTC threshold on Tuesday. 

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Bitcoin locked in DeFi the past three months.
Source: DeFi Pulse

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Other markets

Digital assets on the CoinDesk 20 are mixed Tuesday. Notable winners as of 20:00 UTC (4:00 p.m. ET):

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Notable losers as of 20:00 UTC (4:00 p.m. ET):

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  • Oil is down 5.5%. Price per barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude: $36.91.
  • Gold was flat, in the green 0.08% and at $1,930 as of press time.

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  • U.S. Treasury bond yields all slipped Tuesday. Yields, which move in the opposite direction as price, fell most on the 10-year, in the red 5.2%.

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