Crypto Slips As UNI Surges; Traders Eye ETF Flows And Key Resistance

Bitcoin and ether started Tuesday softer after a choppy session that favored selective DeFi names over large-cap layer-1s.

By early morning, bitcoin hovered around 104,900 dollars, down 1.4 percent on the day, while ether traded near 3,551 dollars, off 1.7 percent. Solana and BNB fell 2–3 percent; litecoin underperformed at minus 4.8 percent.

The standout was Uniswap’s UNI, jumping about 26 percent after governance discussions revived a plan to direct protocol revenues toward tokenholders, pulling liquidity into DeFi even as broader risk appetite cooled.

The backdrop remains last week’s heavy outflows from spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, which dented sentiment and kept rallies short-lived.

Overnight indications pointed to only a marginal swing back to net inflows—too small to change the picture, but enough to steady prices in Asia before Europe opened.

Desk notes this morning framed bitcoin as range-bound: repeated probes below 100,000 dollars drew dip-buyers, yet overhead supply kept a lid near 106,000 to 108,000.

Crypto holds range as momentum stalls

Technicals echo that stalemate. On the four-hour chart, bitcoin is pinned beneath a descending trendline and the Ichimoku cloud, with momentum gauges improving but not confirmed.

On the daily timeframe, price sits below clustered moving averages, MACD remains sub-zero, and RSI hovers in the low-40s—consistent with a corrective phase within a larger uptrend.

Bulls need a clean daily close above the 106,000–108,000 zone to rebuild structure; a decisive break under 99,700 would risk a deeper pullback.

Ether shows the same posture: short-term basing on intraday frames, but capped by the daily cloud and moving averages between roughly 3,620 and 3,700 dollars.

Altcoin breadth was negative. Filecoin and Internet Computer slumped about 10 percent, and Starknet slid nearly 9 percent as traders rotated out of prior high-beta winners.

Meme and politics-linked tokens were mostly flat to modestly higher, with TRUMP up roughly 3 percent. For today, attention stays on U.S. ETF flow prints, UNI’s governance calendar, and whether any spot-led buying emerges during the U.S. session.

Without stronger inflows, the path of least resistance remains sideways: patient range trading for majors, with selective bursts where clear, cash-backed catalysts appear.

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