📊 Daily Market Brief · April 9, 2026 (Evening Edition)
🪙 Main Coin Prices
• Coin: BTC; Price: $71,413; 24h Range: $70,466 – $71,960; Status: Narrow Consolidation
• Coin: ETH; Price: ~$2,200; 24h Range: —; Status: Under Pressure
• Coin: SOL; Price: ~$82; 24h Range: —; Status: Under Pressure
BTC has been trading in a narrow range today, with an intraday range of only $1,494, marking the least volatile day in recent times. After the PCE inflation data was released, the market did not experience significant fluctuations, holding steady at $71K.
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🌐 Key Indicators
• Fear and Greed Index: 14 — Extreme Fear (ninth consecutive day)
• BTC long-short ratio (latest 4h): 1.0263 — Bulls have just regained dominance ⚡️
- The trend over the past 10 periods: 1.03→0.98→0.98→0.95→1.0→0.95→0.96→0.99→1.02→1.03
- V-shaped recovery, bulls regained advantage after 5 periods of suppression, which is the most important funding signal today.
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📰 Today's news
📈 BTC withstands PCE inflation data, traders maintain $80K target
CoinTelegraph: The first key inflation data of the week has landed, BTC has not shown significant volatility, and analysts say "a new upward leg is forming," maintaining the $80K target.
💰 Stablecoin trading volume is predicted to reach $71.9 trillion by 2035, challenging the dominance of Visa/Mastercard.
CoinDesk: The intergenerational wealth transfer accelerates the growth of crypto-native users, and stablecoin payment volume is expected to reach the scale of traditional card organizations, marking the most significant long-term structural prediction recently.
🏦 Tom Lee's Bitmine goes public on the NYSE, buyback authorization expands to $4 billion, holding about 4% of total ETH supply.
CoinDesk: The scale of institutional ETH accumulation continues to expand, with Bitmine becoming one of the most aggressive mainstream crypto asset accumulation institutions after Strategy.
⚖️ DOJ+CFTC jointly prevent Arizona from filing a lawsuit against Kalshi.
Federal agencies explicitly assert CFTC's jurisdictional priority over federal prediction market contracts, and the federalization process of crypto regulation continues to strengthen.
🇰🇵 North Korean cyber hackers are shifting from "remote" to "offline contacts".
CoinTelegraph: The DPRK hacker group is establishing connections through offline meetings before launching attacks, with the scope exceeding remote infiltration, further increasing DeFi security risks.
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⚡️ Today's risk warning
1. The ceasefire agreement remains unstable: Iran continues to accuse the US of breaching the agreement, oil prices are high, and geopolitical risks have not been eliminated.
2. Extreme panic on the ninth day: but the V-shaped recovery of long and short positions is a positive signal, and the bottom structure is strengthening.
3. Tomorrow's second PCE data: There is still one key inflation indicator to be released this week, which may trigger volatility.
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💡 In one sentence
The long-short ratio V-shaped recovery to 1.03, bulls regained dominance after experiencing five periods of suppression — BTC did not fall below $70K amidst geopolitical noise, which itself is the strongest bullish statement.