“We still believe this confluence of factors is likely to lead bitcoin to fall as low as $22,000 before rallying later this year, mainly because that level is where many institutions and large corporates bought in and they are highly unlikely to let their trade go too far underwater,” he added.
Bitcoin has shed half of its value from its all-time high of $68,982.20 in November. The largest cryptocurrency fell below $30,000 this month after the Terra collapse.
“Token prices fell 27% in May, following a 20% decline in April,” said Kenneth Worthington, a JPMorgan research analyst, in a note Monday. “The already challenged April environment was exacerbated in May by the collapse of the UST algorithmic stablecoin that drove a combination of forced selling and uncertainty to negatively impact the broader cryptoecosystem. While trading volume appears somewhat higher in May from a depressed April, nearly all the other gauges of growth declined this past month.”
Worthington also said crypto is “in need of a fresh catalyst,” and that it could be the Ethereum merge.
