Market overview
Risk reversed hard into Monday's Asian session. Brent slipped 0.16% to $108 a barrel and WTI eased after Trump's Project Freedom announcement signalled a US escort plan for Hormuz shipping, per BeInCrypto, even as an Iranian lawmaker called the plan a violation of last week's ceasefire. The UKMTO kept the Hormuz threat level at critical, citing ongoing military activity. Crypto did not wait for the geopolitical fog to lift. Bitcoin took out $80,000, the cluster of January resistance, and dragged the majors with it.
The Cryptomat market pulse closed the 24-hour window at 93, extreme greed, three points lower than the prior read but stable in trend. Of 148 classified articles in the window, 96.6% scored bullish and 3.4% bearish, with no neutral prints. Average importance came in at 5.3 out of 10. The sentiment skew is the kind that demands a contrast read: when nearly everyone is leaning the same way, the second derivative usually matters more than the level.
The CryptoBeast composite, which weights sentiment 35%, news volume 25%, market trend 25%, and on-chain 15%, shows DOGE on top at 79, followed by SOL and NEAR tied at 76, BTC at 75, and XRP and LINK at 72. Market average across 57 tracked tokens is 48.3. The bottom of the table is dominated by memes and small-cap L1s: WIF, FLOKI, BONK, PEPE, and HNT all sit at 41. The breadth picture, then, is narrower than the headline pulse suggests.