Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) bulls pause leveraged bets as demand cools after halving
Bullish Bitcoin traders appear to have scaled back their bets on the world’s largest cryptocurrency as its two main tailwinds have eased.
Bitcoin’s funding rate – the premium paid by traders to open new long positions in the token’s perpetual futures market – on April 19 turned negative for the first time since October 2023, CriptoQuant data show.