{"id":142396,"date":"2026-03-16T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=142396"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:56:10","slug":"pepe-explodes-by-18-amid-altcoin-rally-btc-tapped-74k-market-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=142396","title":{"rendered":"PEPE Explodes by 18% Amid Altcoin Rally, BTC Tapped $74K: Market Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a relatively quiet weekend despite the latest developments in the Middle East, bitcoin\u2019s price surged on Monday morning to a six-week peak of just over $74,000, where it was stopped.<\/p>\n

Many altcoins have produced even more impressive gains, including ETH, which reclaimed the $2,200 level, and ADA, which jumped by 10% at one point.<\/p>\n

BTC Saw New Local Peak<\/h2>\n

The previous business week began quite contrastingly to this one, as BTC\u2019s reaction to the weekend developments on the war front pushed it south to $65,600. However, the bulls intercepted the move and helped the asset recover several grand by Wednesday when it jumped to $68,000 after the CPI numbers came out for February.<\/p>\n

After a minor rejection at that point, bitcoin went on the attack once again on Friday. It skyrocketed to $74,000 for the second time in the past 10 days, only to be rejected<\/a> once again. It dipped<\/a> further to just over $70,000 during the weekend after the latest set of bombings in the Middle East, but managed to maintain that level.<\/p>\n

More volatility was expected on Monday morning when most legacy financial markets opened, including oil. Indeed, fluctuations arrived, but they sent<\/a> BTC higher to a multi-week peak of just over $74,000. Although it failed there and now sits a grand lower, BTC is still up by 8% weekly.<\/p>\n

Its market cap has increased to $1.465 trillion on CG, while its dominance over the alts continues to sit below 57%.<\/p>\n

<\/a>BTCUSD Chart March 16. Source: TradingView<\/p>\n

PEPE Soars<\/h2>\n

Ethereum, Solana, and Cardano are the biggest beneficiaries of today\u2019s market-wide rally. All three have added around 6-8% of value, pushing ETH to well over $2,250, SOL to above $90, and ADA close to $0.40. HYPE, LINK, DOGE, XMR, AVAX, LTC, and XRP are also in the green, albeit in a more modest manner.<\/p>\n

There are some double-digit gainers as well. PEPE leads the pack with a notable 18% surge, followed by DOT and TAO. BONK, SHIB, and ZEC are next in line.<\/p>\n

The total crypto market cap added almost $100 billion daily and is close to $2.6 trillion on CG as of now.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Cryptocurrency Market Overview March 16. Source QuantifyCrypto<\/p>\n

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After a relatively quiet weekend despite the latest developments in the Middle East, bitcoin\u2019s price surged on Monday morning to a six-week peak of just over $74,000, where it was stopped. Many altcoins have produced even more impressive gains, including ETH, which reclaimed the $2,200 level, and ADA, which jumped by 10% at one point. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":142397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}