📅 Daily Crypto Market Brief - August 14, 2025
1. Market Overview:
🚀 The crypto market continues its strong upward momentum from the past week, with TOTAL market cap surging nearly +10% to $4.07T. While the broader market experienced slight hourly pullbacks (-0.27% for TOTAL), daily figures remain positive, indicating consolidation after recent gains.
2. Key Insights:
• Bitcoin Dominance (BTC.D): BTC.D is down a significant -3.49% WoW to 59.42%, despite minor 1h/1d upticks. This clearly shows capital rotating out of Bitcoin into altcoins.
• Altcoins & DeFi: 🔥 Altcoins are the clear outperformers! TOTAL2 (excl. BTC) is up +15.77% WoW, and TOTAL3ES (excl. BTC, ETH, stablecoins) jumped +13.74% WoW. The TOTAL3ESBTC ratio confirms this, rising +7.50% WoW, indicating strong small-cap altcoin performance vs. Bitcoin. DeFi tokens (TOTALDEFI) also saw robust +17.19% WoW growth, driving TOTALDEFI.D up +6.89% WoW, despite slight short-term dips in dominance.
• Stablecoins: STABLE.C.D plummeted -6.90% WoW, indicating significant capital flowing out of stablecoins into riskier assets, fueling the rally. STABLE.C remains relatively stable with a slight weekly increase (+2.07%).
3. Notable Trends:
• Weekly: Dominant trend is strong growth across the board, led by altcoins and DeFi, with Bitcoin dominance decreasing. This suggests an "alt season" narrative.
• Daily: General market (TOTAL, TOTALES) shows modest positive gains, while most altcoin metrics (TOTAL2, TOTAL3, TOTAL3ES) and their ratios (TOTAL3ESBTC) are slightly down or flat, hinting at minor profit-taking or consolidation.
• Hourly: A slight cooling off period, with minor dips across most market cap and altcoin metrics, possibly due to short-term profit-taking. BTC.D and STABLE.C.D show slight hourly increases, perhaps indicating a micro-shift towards safety or BTC.
4. Market Sentiment:
📈 Overall market sentiment is bullish, driven by the impressive weekly performance, particularly from altcoins and DeFi. The declining stablecoin dominance reinforces a risk-on environment. Short-term slight retracements suggest healthy consolidation rather than a reversal, as traders might be taking profits before potentially resuming the upward trend.
📊 Key Metrics Change Rates:
BTC.D: 1H: +0.18%, 1D: +0.17%, 1W: -3.49%
STABLE.C: 1H: -0.01%, 1D: +0.44%, 1W: +2.07%
STABLE.C.D: 1H: +0.26%, 1D: -0.71%, 1W: -6.90%
TOTAL: 1H: -0.27%, 1D: +1.16%, 1W: +9.64%
TOTAL2: 1H: -0.54%, 1D: +0.91%, 1W: +15.77%
TOTAL2ES: 1H: -0.64%, 1D: +1.04%, 1W: +18.79%
TOTAL3: 1H: -0.62%, 1D: +0.24%, 1W: +10.63%
TOTAL3ES: 1H: -0.81%, 1D: +0.26%, 1W: +13.74%
TOTAL3ESBTC: 1H: -0.72%, 1D: -1.05%, 1W: +7.50%
TOTALDEFI: 1H: -0.74%, 1D: +0.04%, 1W: +17.19%
TOTALDEFI.D: 1H: -0.47%, 1D: -1.10%, 1W: +6.89%
TOTALES: 1H: -0.29%, 1D: +1.22%, 1W: +10.22%
TOTALES.D: 1H: -0.02%, 1D: +0.06%, 1W: +0.53%
