Today is a dark day for the global finanace as every market experienced a significan crash - from the U.S. and Japanese stock markets to crypto.
According to financial analysts, fears of a global recession have increased after the dramatic drop in the value of stock markets by $2.9 trillion. Japanese stocks posted their biggest losses since October 1987, extending last week’s sell-off.
Bitcoin led the crypto market decline with 16% and briefly went below $50,000 in the last 24 hours, while Ethereum plummeted over 23% and at the time of writing is trading at $2,230. According to CoinMarketCap, the total market cap is down 11%. At this point it stands at $1.84 trillion.
Over the past 24 hours, over $1 billion worth of crypto futures were liquidated as the market decline intensified on Sunday and continued into Monday.
The crypto market saw a significant drop in value as investors continued to abandon high-risk assets.
Richard Teng, the CEO of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance shared some positive insight into the current downturn and gave investors hope.
He stated that the recent sharp drops in crypto and equity prices are influenced by macroeconomic factors and that they do not believe it’s indicative of a long-term negative trend.
Teng added that with potential Fed rate cuts and geopolitical volatility, there’s still significant potential for market fluctuations.
Geopolitical conflict rattles markets, but history shows panic selling crypto in response is usually the wrong move.
Bitcoin-focused investment firm Strategy Inc. (formerly MicroStrategy) is facing mounting legal pressure as at least five law firms have filed class-action lawsuits over the company’s $6 billion in unrealized Bitcoin losses.
Digital banking platform SoFi Technologies is making a strong return to the cryptocurrency space, relaunching its crypto trading and blockchain services after stepping away from the sector in late 2023.
Digital assets are gaining ground in corporate finance strategies, as more publicly traded companies embrace cryptocurrencies for treasury diversification.