{"id":81232,"date":"2025-08-14T03:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81232\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:50:18","slug":"bitcoin-tops-122k-ether-nears-2021-peak-in-broad-crypto-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81232\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Tops $122K, Ether Nears 2021 Peak in Broad Crypto Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin <\/p>\n<p> has mounted another attempt for a fresh all-time record climbing near $123,000, a four-week high during the Wednesday U.S. session.<\/p>\n<p>Two previous attempts, spiking to $122,300 on Monday and topping $123,000 on July 14, were met with heavy selling, knocking down prices intraday below $120,000 on both occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum&#8217;s ether (ETH) was also inching closer to its 2021 peak of $4,865, trading at $4,750 and just 3% shy from that record. Ether continued its recent outperformance, ahead 4.5% over the past 24 hours against 2.3% for BTC.<\/p>\n<p>The crypto rally extended to major altcoins, with Solana&#8217;s SOL (SOL) advancing 5% above $200, Uniswap&#8217;s (UNI) and Hyperliquid&#8217;s (HYPE) native tokens also rallied 5%-6%.<\/p>\n<p>Broader capital markets are providing &#8220;supportive momentum&#8221; with the S&amp;P\u202f500 and Nasdaq hovering near all-time highs, &#8220;buoyed by the softer inflation signals and speculation of Fed easing,&#8221; said Joel Kruger, market strategist at LMAX Group.<\/p>\n<p>The current macro backdrop has rarely been more favorable for risk assets, 10x Research noted in a Wednesday report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With credit spreads tightening and loan growth turning up, the conditions for a sustained rally are falling into place,&#8221; the authors said. The report noted that the Federal Reserve has been reluctant to cut interest rates, but when the central bank pivots, investors will rotate capital into higher-beta risk assets fast. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cmegroup.com\/markets\/interest-rates\/cme-fedwatch-tool.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Market participants<\/a> now see over 90% probability for a 25 basis point cut in the September meeting, but pressure is ramping up on policymakers to consider deeper easing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bitcoin and equities are both responding early, but the market still isn\u2019t fully pricing what\u2019s coming,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bitcoin has mounted another attempt for a fresh all-time record climbing near $123,000, a four-week high during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[56921,931,28,15406,56920,31397],"class_list":{"0":"post-81232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-10x-research","9":"tag-bitcoin","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-ethereum","12":"tag-joel-kruger","13":"tag-market-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}