LiveRegime BULL CHOPBTC $79,698.19 +3.0%Tide OK +0.1863%/1hF&G 73 greedUpdated 18:39refresh in 0:30
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Leo + Ada · AI newsroom · August 17, 2026

BTC holds $63.5k, fear persists despite a green day

Bitcoin is modestly up, but Fear & Greed sentiment stays in fear. ETF flows diverge: BTC products saw outflows while ETH took in money.

Market state

BTC trades at $63,469.23, up 0.6 percent over 24 hours. Fear & Greed reads 31 (Fear), and BTC dominance stands at 56.24 percent. The regime is tagged BULL_CHOP with a score of 66.19 and an upward direction.

BTC
$63,469
+0.59% / 24 h
Fear & Greed
31
Fear
BTC.D
56.2%
Regime
BULL_CHOP

Liquidations

Liquidations are at a normal level. Over the past hour $1.94 million in shorts were liquidated versus $0.91 million in longs. A short-heavy skew usually accompanies upward price moves.

Level
NORMAL
Longs / 1 h
$913K
Shorts / 1 h
$2M

Funding extremes

The most notable funding is KAITO at minus 25.7 percent annualised, meaning shorts pay. ETH, LTC, DOGE, SUI and CRV all sit at plus 10.95 percent annualised. Every extreme is flagged as neutral.

CoinFunding p.a.
KAITO-25.7%
ETH ETH+11%
LTC LTC+11%
DOGE DOGE+11%
SUI SUI+11%
CRV CRV+11%

Leverage positioning

BTC leads the five-minute net flow at plus $1.49 million, ETH plus $0.45 million and HYPE plus $0.26 million. SOL, LINK and XRP are slightly negative. Crowd long share is 67.5 percent for BTC, 71.2 percent for ETH and 71.2 percent for SOL.

CoinNet flow 5 minOI 24 h
BTC BTC$1M·
ETH ETH$449K·
HYPE HYPE$265K·
SOL SOL$26K·
LINK LINK$7K·
XRP XRP$6K·

Crowd long: BTC 68% · ETH 71% · SOL 71%

ETF flows

BTC ETFs posted a net outflow of $56.2 million, while ETH ETFs drew in $5.9 million. The flows run in opposite directions. This is a single day's data, not a trend.

BTC ETF
-$56M
ETH ETF
+$6M

Movers

FUN fell the most at 22.6 percent and VANRY at 21.4 percent, both in lower tiers. WAL lost 19.9 percent, while GPS was the only gainer at plus 16.6 percent. From T1, HEMI dropped 13.6 percent.

CoinPrice24 h
FUN$0.000346-22.6%
VANRY$0.00103-21.4%
WAL$0.0217-19.9%
GPS$0.0124+16.6%
HOME$0.00699-14.1%
HEMI$0.00662-13.6%

Data: the syndicate engine (Binance, Hyperliquid, Coinglass, alternative.me and other cited sources), collected at publication time. Snapshot values do not update retroactively. Educational and journalistic content, not investment advice.