Daily digest · August 1, 2026
Bitcoin slips to $63,083 as breadth tilts negative and LDO leads losers
BTC fell 1.6% to $63,083 and ETH dropped 1.3% as more coins fell than rose. PUMP jumped 9% while LDO sank 8.8%, a mixed, choppy day.
The market day
Bitcoin traded down to $63,083.43, off 1.6% over the past day, with ether following close behind at a 1.3% loss. Neither move is dramatic on its own, but the pattern underneath was weaker than the headline numbers suggest.
Look at breadth and the picture gets clearer: of the 100 coins tracked, 52 were red and only 46 were green. That's a market where losers outnumbered winners even though the top-line drop looks mild, the kind of session where it pays to check individual charts rather than just the BTC ticker.
The extremes told their own story. Pump.fun (PUMP) was the day's standout, up 8.97%, while Lido DAO (LDO) was the worst performer, down 8.83%. A near-9% swing in both directions on the same day is a reminder that dispersion, not just direction, is what defined today.
On the BitPredict board
Yesterday's settled predictions on BitPredict came in at a 52.2% crowd hit rate across 92 calls, including a standout COTI up call that finished 17.43% in the right direction.
Today's Daily Call asset is Artificial Superintelligence (FET), one shared question, up or down by midnight UTC. Think you can read this market? Put a timestamped call on record. It's free, and your accuracy is scored publicly.
Questions people are asking · August 1, 2026
Is crypto going up or down today?
Down, modestly. Bitcoin is off 1.6% to $63,083.43 and ether is down 1.3%, with 52 of the top 100 coins tracked in the red versus 46 in the green.
Why is Lido DAO (LDO) down today?
LDO was today's biggest loser among tracked coins, down 8.83%. The fact sheet doesn't specify a cause, but it was the sharpest single-name drop in a broader down-tilted market.
What's the best performing coin today?
Pump.fun (PUMP) led the market with a 8.97% gain, the top performer among the 100 coins tracked today even as bitcoin and ether both slipped.
Every figure above is computed from live market data and BitPredict's public, verifiable prediction records at generation time (Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:08:11 GMT). Nothing here is financial advice. Explore the free crypto calculators or browse predictions by coin.