Bitcoin fell to about $62,800 on Monday, down 1.4% over 24 hours, after sliding from roughly $64,300 during Asian morning hours, per CoinDesk data.
Nothing new drove it. Bitcoin has traded between roughly $59,000 and $66,000 for a month, and the Asian-session drop was a leverage flush inside that range. The liquidations were minor, running at about a sixth of what the market recorded at its worst over the past 30 days, per CoinGlass.
SK Hynix fell in Seoul the same day, but for its own reasons. The memory chipmaker’s shares dropped after its U.S. trading debut, with traders pointing to profit-taking and a shift into the new American depositary receipts. The stock is down more than 30% from its June record after a run that took it up more than 25-fold since the end of 2022.
The two moves are not directly linked today, but they have shared a direction for weeks.
Bitcoin has traded as crypto’s highest-beta risk asset while the AI and chip trade set the tone for global risk appetite, and analysts at Anchorage Digital attribute roughly 30% of the pressure on bitcoin to capital rotating into AI.
The June inflation print lands July 14, and the Fed meets July 28 and 29, the two events most likely to decide whether risk assets, crypto and chip stocks alike, get relief or another leg down.