Majors fall 9% over week as AI stocks lure buyers

Dogecoin and Hyperliquid’s HYPE led the week’s losses across crypto, falling near 10%, as money kept flowing toward stocks tied to the artificial-intelligence boom and away from major tokens.

Dogecoin slid 9.6% over seven days to about $0.076 and HYPE lost 9.9%, the steepest falls among the majors. Ether dropped 8.4% to about $1,581 and XRP fell 7.8% to $1.06, while solana and tron held up better, roughly flat on the week at $72 and $0.32.

Bitcoin was the steadier major, down 5.3% to around $60,345 on Saturday after dipping to about $58,800 on Friday and recovering, per CoinDesk data.

“Bitcoin approached $58K at its lows late Thursday and early Friday, but in both cases, aggressive buying quickly pushed it back into the $60K range,” Alex Kuptsikevich, FxPro chief market analyst, told CoinDesk. “This pattern resembles margin position liquidations during downtrend spikes, followed by strong buying on pending orders during the recovery.”

“Given deteriorating sentiment among institutional investors and their ability to quickly divest from cryptocurrencies to stabilise their balance sheets, it is worth preparing for continued pressure and periodic sell-off spikes by leveraged traders,” he added.