Crypto Research Desk Closing Follow-Up: How BTC (76,020.90) & SHIB (-8.0%) Delivered Against Morning Levels
The crypto checkpoint reads defensive supply-driven across both benchmark assets. Session-to-session recap below. Following up on our morning pre-market levels, today's tape resolved with 2 assets defending bullish structure and 24 remaining under seller control. BTC settled at 76,020.90 (+0.10%), with XTZ (+4.51%) leading relative strength and SHIB (-8.00%) absorbing the heaviest session distribution.
What Carried Through & What Changes for Tomorrow: Today's price action respected the outer Order Block boundaries on the majority of tracked setups, with POL, PEPE holding above structural demand while BTC, DOGE, ETH faced rejection near overhead supply. Going into the next session, watch the updated 50% Equilibrium pivots and Fair Value Gap (FVG) imbalances below — those levels define whether today's close transitions into trend continuation or a liquidity sweep reversal.