Why is crypto down today? Tariff jitters, seller dominance explained

Whales, institutions, and demand levels define Ethereum's current price strength.

Gold has pushed to fresh record highs as Bitcoin loses momentum, a growing divergence between traditional safe-haven assets and crypto.

Ethereum consolidates between $3,000 and $3,390, with fading momentum and no bullish breakout confirmation.

Bitcoin dipped under $90k and printed a low near $89.2k as a wave of forced selling swept derivatives markets.

The patterns say all this money in wait will make a difference.

As ROSE rallied 105%, traders watched whether infrastructure demand could sustain momentum.

The altcoin market extended its sell-off as the total crypto market cap excluding Bitcoin dropped to around $1.2 trillion.