Bitcoin is testing traders’ patience
Bitcoin has been consolidating below the $69,000 level for most of the past week. The oldest cryptocurrency did not manage to quickly extend the bullish momentum of the previous weeks, and its price on the spot market fluctuated mainly in the range of $65,500 to $69,300.
Here’s what we’re currently seeing on the BTC chart:
- Any drop in the price to around USD 65,500 is immediately bought by investors.
- On the other hand, every approach to the psychological barrier of 70,000 shows weakening buyer dynamics.
This clearly indicates that the market is in the so-called the “digesting” phase of previous growth rallies and is still sensitive to loud macroeconomic headlines and reshuffles in the derivatives market. Volumes are down significantly compared to the late March shots. This confirms a wait-and-see atmosphere in which investors prefer safer trading between well-defined support and resistance levels rather than chasing risky breakouts. Structurally, BTC easily maintains last week’s lows, and the main question mark remains whether USD 69,000 will turn into a starting zone for attacking new highs or create a local ceiling.
Ethereum is building solid support above the $2,000 mark
The second largest cryptocurrency – Ethereum (ETH) is still holding strong from a technical point of view. Over the last week, ETH has traded in a range from $1,950 to $2,170sliding slightly to the lower registers of the USD 2,000 level in recent sessions.
- Approaches above the range of USD 2,100 – 2,150 regularly activate supply-side orders.
- The lows at the psychological level of USD 2,000 are eagerly purchased by “dip-buyers”.
The DeFi sector in the shadow of the 2025 crisis
Clear echoes of the turmoil of 2025 can still be felt in the broad stablecoin and decentralized finance (DeFi) market. The series of depegs (loss of peg to the US dollar) of last year’s decentralized stablecoins has led regulators and institutional risk departments to still view fully algorithmic and undercovered models as fundamentally fragile.
This is the most difficult period for DeFi in this respect since the fateful collapse of the Terra (LUNA) ecosystem. This situation resulted in a massive flow of capital towards instruments based on fiat collateral and towards stablecoins subject to strict supervision – for example under regulations in the style of the European MiCA.
However, innovation in DeFi has not slowed down. Liquid staking systems, innovative profit-generating strategies and experimentation at the protocol level are still thriving, but with a much greater emphasis on careful security design and risk mitigation at the smart contract level. We are also seeing a growing number of projects straight from Wall Street that use private blockchains in conjunction with traditional brokers. It is clear that DeFi infrastructure is today being adapted with financial giants in mind.
TradFi giants – from experiments to mass adoption
The attitude of the Traditional Finance (TradFi) sector towards cryptocurrencies is changing dramatically. The phase of “let’s check how it works” has irreversibly turned into the phase of “let’s adapt it so as not to go out of business.” This phenomenon is clearly visible in the numbers.
- Already in 2024 stablecoin transaction volume exceeded a sky-high $27.6 trillionsurpassing the joint result of the Visa and Mastercard networks, and this process accelerated throughout 2025. This forced banks to quickly integrate digital currencies for money transfers and cross-border settlements.
- At the infrastructure level, powerful consortiums bringing together, among others, Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas and Microsoft they invest huge resources in solutions supporting privacy and scalability for the tokenized asset market (e.g. Canton Network). These systems allow institutions to hide the details of sensitive transactions while maintaining the full benefits of cryptographic security.
Combined with the growing popularity of cards that allow you to spend your cryptos in a fraction of a second, just like your zlotys or euros, the conclusions are obvious. The current sideways trend in pairs such as BTC/USD and ETH/USD is just a slowdown in the process of broader and constantly progressing adoption of cryptocurrencies into the global financial ecosystem. Market optimism continues to be evident in the broader, long-term crypto narrative.
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