Extensively adopted crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen is warning that the decentralized finance (DeFi) and altcoin markets might get caught up in a big capitulation occasion quickly.
In a brand new interview with Scott Melker, Cowen says that Bitcoin (BTC) will possible retrace the positive factors it put up within the first half of the yr, dragging DeFi and altcoins down with it.
Cowen notes in pre-halving years Bitcoin traditionally will increase for about half the yr and declines for the opposite half, “wrecking” each the bulls and bears.
“There’s a number of extra liquidity simply kind of like frothing round within the DeFi house and it wouldn’t take a lot for lots of confidence to be misplaced there and there may very well be a windfall occasion. Bitcoin has gone up for the primary half of the yr.
And if you happen to have a look at month-to-month returns of Bitcoin in pre-halving years, each single pre-halving yr so far, 2011, 2015 and 2019, we’ve spent about half the yr going up and half the yr happening. You get about six purple months and 6 inexperienced months.
And this time in 2023, we’ve had about 5 of the primary six months be inexperienced, similar factor we had in 2019, 5 of the primary six have been inexperienced. In 2011, 5 of the primary six have been inexperienced, however in each 2019 and 2011, 5 of the following six months have been purple.
And I nonetheless return to this concept that within the pre-halving yr you need to wreck each the bulls and the bears, and that approach all of us get sufficiently wrecked.”
Cowen warns that the altcoin market has been struggling this yr as Bitcoin’s dominance (BTC.D), which measures the king crypto’s share of the whole market capitalization of all digital belongings, has elevated. He predicts Bitcoin declines in worth whereas additionally rising its dominance, draining the alt markets of extra liquidity.
“The altcoin market has been struggling all yr. I imply it actually has. And Bitcoin has considerably outperformed, however the concern is that alts have struggled with Bitcoin doubling in worth. So what occurs to alts if Bitcoin retraces any of that transfer?
I feel that’s the greater concern right here and that’s the most brutal a part of the cycle as a result of that’s the a part of the cycle the place the Bitcoin dominance goes up when Bitcoin/USD goes down, and lots of people haven’t skilled that half but, however I feel it’s coming.”
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