TL;DR
Bitcoin’s latest rebound stalled twice inside the $62,000-$64,000 range, leaving the market caught between recovering demand and persistent selling near resistance. After revisiting $62,200 on Monday, BTC climbed toward $64,000 within hours and briefly touched about $64,200 before retreating nearly $1,000. The two rejected boundary tests showed that neither buyers nor sellers have secured control of the short-term range. Positive flows into spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds may have supported the rebound, while fading concern around recent wallet losses and corporate selling helped stabilize sentiment without producing a decisive breakout.
The recovery followed a turbulent sequence that began around last week’s Federal Reserve decision. Bitcoin had been rejected near $65,600, dropped below $63,000, then surged beyond $65,000 before falling to $62,400 on Friday and $62,200 on Saturday. A weekend bounce toward $63,800 also failed to develop. Repeated reversals have turned a narrow trading band into a persistent test of conviction. Bitcoin’s market capitalization recovered to roughly $1.275 trillion, while its dominance remained just below 57%, suggesting larger altcoins were gaining room even as BTC struggled to escape consolidation.
That space produced a greener session today across several large-cap tokens. ADA, AVAX and DOT each advanced more than 5%, with Cardano approaching $0.20 and reaching its strongest level in weeks. HYPE gained about 4%, ZEC rose 2.5%, and ETH, SOL, BNB, DOGE and XMR added around 1%. The altcoin rebound broadened, but Cardano remained the clearest large-cap standout. Futures data reinforced the move, with ADA open interest reaching a record 2.79 billion tokens and aggressive buying supporting the spot gain, although the shrinking number of non-empty wallets left participation unusually concentrated.
The tone was uneven. Audiera’s BEAT fell about 20% daily to below $3 after several days of double-digit gains, while UNI, STABLE and CC also declined. Total crypto capitalization nevertheless recovered roughly $40 billion from Monday’s low to approximately $2.24 trillion. The market’s improvement remained selective rather than evidence of a synchronized risk-on shift. Bitcoin futures open interest returned near 740,000 BTC, implied volatility slipped toward 36%, and options activity centered on a $60,000 put and calls at $70,000 and $72,000, leaving the current range vulnerable to another volatility expansion.
