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Presearch, Aragon and IOTA explode higher after Bitcoin price clips $50K

PRE, ANT and MIOTA lead altcoins higher as increasing bullish momentum has analysts calling for Bitcoin price to overtake $50,000.

Optimism across the crypto market continues to rise as bullish developments in the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum (ETH) renewed discussions about a 2013-style double-pump rally that could push (BTC) price past $100,000. 

The positive price action hasn’t been limited to the top two market leaders. Many altcoins continue to rally and the 'altseason' indicator from Cointelegraph Markets Pro is signaling that the momentum could continue for a while longer.

Top 7 coins with the highest 24-hour price change. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that the biggest gainers over the past 24-hours were Presearch (PRE), Aragon (ANT) and IOTA (MIOTA).

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The top performer of the day is Presearch, a blockchain-based, decentralized search engine that is community-driven and allows users to search privately and earn rewards for their activity.

VORTECS™ data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro began to detect a bullish outlook for PRE on Sept. 1, prior to the recent price rise.

The VORTECS™ Score, exclusive to Cointelegraph, is an algorithmic comparison of historic and current market conditions derived from a combination of data points including market sentiment, trading volume, recent price movements and Twitter activity.

VORTECS™ Score (green) vs. PRE price. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

As seen in the chart above, the VORTECS™ Score for PRE began to rise as the price of PRE started to increase, and reached a high of 73 on Sept. 1, around one hour before its price increased 245% over the next day.

The boost in momentum and price for the project came after the project announced that the Presearch Android application will be added to the 'choice screen' on factory reset phones and it will be available as a default search option on Chrome.

Aragon benefits from its partnership with Polygon

Aragon is an Ethereum network-based protocol that focuses on the creation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) as a way to help projects develop governance structures so that their communities can get involved with the development of the protocol.

VORTECS™ data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro began to detect a bullish outlook for ANT on Sept. 1, prior to the recent price rise.

VORTECS™ Score (green) vs. ANT price. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

As seen in the chart above, the VORTECS™ Score for ANT climbed into the green zone on Aug. 31 and reached a high of 71 on Sept. 1, just two hours before its price began to surge by 77% over the next day.

The sudden spike in interest for ANT came following the Sept. 2 announcement that Aragon had partnered with Polygon to help make the process of launching DAOs on the Aragon network more cost-effective.

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Protocol updates push IOTA price higher

IOTA is a distributed ledger protocol that utilizes a proprietary technology called Tangle to perform consensus and confirm transactions.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that after reaching a low of $0.96 on Sept. 1, the price of MIOTA spiked 55% to an intraday high at $1.50 on Sep. 2 as its 24-hour trading volume surged 234% to $681 million.

IOTA/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView

The sudden surge in interest for the project comes after the protocol integrated the Hornet update, which brought back the auto-peering feature and also integrated a faucet plugin with the Hornet node. This makes the process of running a private 'Tangle' easier.

The overall cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $2.214 trillion and Bitcoin’s dominance rate is 41.9%.

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.

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$51K Bitcoin price not a problem as ‘structurally, nothing has changed’

On-chain data points toward a bullish future for Bitcoin despite today’s sell-off to $50,400.

On March 25, concerns surrounding the record-breaking $6.1 billion (BTC) options expiry this Friday sparked an overnight sell-off that dropped Bitcoin price to $50,400.

The downturn was not a surprise for many traders and some called for a possible test of the $47,000 support level. Despite Bitcoin's loss of bullish momentum, several derivatives indicators, including a bullish futures premium and a neutral skew, suggest that the price may not drop below $50,000.

BTC/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView

While technical indicators paint a mixed picture of Bitcoin's short-term price action, the asset retains strong fundamentals today media reported that sovereign wealth funds have begun inquiring about opening positions in BTC. This points to growing global adoption for BTC and the cryptocurrency sector as a whole as new Ether (ETH) trusts are also being established to serve institutional investors.

Analysts suggest the market is oversold

Glassnode co-founder and CTO Rafael Schultze-Kraft recently highlighted a possible dip lower based on low realized price distribution between $51,100 and $54,000.

In a follow-up tweet after Thursday’s drop, Schultze-Kraft reaffirmed that the dip was “not unexpected” and in his view, the overall outlook remains bullish.

Schultze-Kraft said:

“Structurally, nothing has changed. I have yet to see a data point that points long-term bearish.”

Further evidence of a possible turnaround in the near-term can be found when looking at Bitcoin’s liquid supply change, which decreased by the largest amount in more than 6 months.

Bitcoin liquid supply change. Source: Glassnode

This suggests that a large number of BTC have been pulled out of the circulating supply and deposited into longer-term storage wallets as bulls prepare for the price to trend higher.

Altcoins sink lower

A majority of the altcoins were hit hard by the Bitcoin sell-off as traders across the market exited positions in an attempt to hold on to their recent gains.

Daily cryptocurrency market performance. Source: Coin360

The one stand-out among altcoins is Aragon (ANT), whose recent pivot toward DeFi and nonfungible tokens has helped to spark a 50% rally to $13.56.

Holochain (HOT) and Balancer (BAL) have also managed to put up a positive gain of 5.2% and 6.4% respectively.

The overall cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $1.62 trillion and Bitcoin’s dominance rate is 59.4%.

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.

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