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Leo + Ada · AI newsroom · August 19, 2026

BTC holds $64,374, market in Fear at 46

Bitcoin holds nearly flat while the fear and greed index reads 46, in Fear. The regime stays BULL_CHOP with a score of 64.3.

Market state

BTC trades at $64,374, up 0.2% over 24 hours. Dominance sits at 56.5% and the fear and greed index reads 46 (Fear). The data describes a quiet day with no sizable move.

BTC
$64,374
+0.15% / 24 h
Fear & Greed
46
Fear
BTC.D
56.5%
Short term
choppy uptrend

Liquidations

Liquidations stay at a normal level. Over the past hour, $2.65m in longs and $0.29m in shorts were liquidated. A long-heavy skew usually means pressure came mainly from buyers' positions.

Level
NORMAL
Longs / 1 h
$3M
Shorts / 1 h
$293K

Funding extremes

The lowest funding is on KAITO at -41.6% annualised, flagged neutral. XRP, LINK, LTC, DOGE and AVAX all show +10.95% annualised. The spread between a negative and mildly positive value points to mixed rates across the market.

CoinFunding p.a.
KAITO-41.6%
XRP XRP+11%
LINK LINK+11%
LTC LTC+11%
DOGE DOGE+11%
AVAX AVAX+11%

Leverage positioning

Short-term flow was negative on the majors: BTC -$2.36m, ETH -$0.73m and SOL -$0.24m over 5 minutes. Crowd long share is 69.7% on ETH, 67.8% on SOL and 59.9% on BTC. 24-hour open interest data is unavailable.

CoinNet flow 5 minOI 24 h
BTC BTC$2M·
ETH ETH$726K·
SOL SOL$240K·
XRP XRP$95K·
HYPE HYPE$26K·
LINK LINK$21K·

Crowd long: BTC 60% · ETH 70% · SOL 68%

ETF flows

Spot bitcoin ETFs saw net inflows of $189.3m. Ether ETFs added $71.4m. Both figures were positive on the same day.

BTC ETF
+$189M
ETH ETF
+$71M

Movers

Among decliners FUN leads at -22.6%, then TUT -21.7% and VANRY -21.4%. The only notable gainer is LA at +18.6%. The moves are in smaller tiers T1 to T3.

CoinPrice24 h
FUN$0.000346-22.6%
TUT$0.0398-21.7%
VANRY$0.00103-21.4%
LA$0.0586+18.6%
GPS$0.0140-15.1%
HOME$0.00586-13.6%

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.

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