{"id":46644,"date":"2026-08-29T07:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T07:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=46644"},"modified":"2026-08-29T07:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T07:17:16","slug":"btc-recovers-from-sub-77k-dip-xrp-drops-below-1-40-weekend-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=46644","title":{"rendered":"BTC Recovers From Sub-$77K Dip, XRP Drops Below $1.40: Weekend Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin&#8217;s price rally that drove it past $81,000 on a couple of occasions in the past week came to a halt after the hawkish stance by the new Fed Chair displayed yesterday, and the asset slipped to a five-day low of under $77,000.<\/p>\n<p>Most altcoins followed suit, posting 3-5% daily declines. Ripple&#8217;s XRP, which recently peaked at $1.70, initiated another leg down, dropping below $1.40.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"btc-dips-below-77k\">BTC Dips Below $77K<\/h2>\n<p>The primary cryptocurrency&#8217;s explosion that began on August 19 took it from under $65,000 to almost $80,000 in 48 hours last week, where it finally faced some resistance and slipped to $75,500 during the previous weekend. However, the bulls quickly regained control and pushed the asset north as the new business week began.<\/p>\n<p>At first, BTC challenged the $80,000 level, which the bears <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-btc-rejected-at-80k-ripples-xrp-plunges-hard-as-rally-cools-market-watch\/\">managed to defend<\/a> initially, but buyers were more persistent and drove bitcoin above it to $81,000 on Tuesday morning. It couldn&#8217;t keep climbing and retraced to $79,000 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The bulls returned in full force on Thursday and Friday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/btc-hits-15-week-high-ripple-expands-wall-street-push-sol-reclaims-100-weekly-crypto-recap\/\">pushing<\/a> the cryptocurrency to another 15-week high of $81,500. Nevertheless, BTC was rejected once again, and the Jackson Hole speech didn&#8217;t bring any positives. Shortly after its conclusion, the hawkish stance by Warsh <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/why-bitcoin-crashed-after-warshs-jackson-hole-speech-and-what-happens-next\/\">resulted<\/a> in another leg down for bitcoin, dipping below $77,000 within an hour or so.<\/p>\n<p>Although it has rebounded slightly to over that level now, bitcoin is still more than 2% down on the day. Its market cap has declined to $1.555 trillion, while its dominance over the alts remains above 57%.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1447158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1447158\" style=\"width: 1835px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BTCUSD-August-29.png\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1447158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BTCUSD August 29. Source: TradingView<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"alts-back-in-red\">Alts Back in Red<\/h2>\n<p>Ethereum is down by almost 3% in the past 24 hours as it was rejected at $2,500 once again and now sits at $2,430. BNB has slipped further away from the $700 level, now trading beneath $690. XRP tanked from $1.45 to $1.38 as of now, following a 3.2% daily drop.<\/p>\n<p>SOL, DOGE, LINK, XLM, and HYPE have produced similar losses, while BCH has slumped by more than 7% to under $250. RAIN and XMR are among the few alts with slight gains today.<\/p>\n<p>The total crypto market cap has decreased by $80 billion from yesterday&#8217;s top to $2.720 trillion on CG.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1447159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1447159\" style=\"width: 1882px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-29-092501.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1447159 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-29-092501.png\" alt=\"Cryptocurrency Market Overview August 29. Source: QuantifyCrypto\" width=\"1882\" height=\"806\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1447159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cryptocurrency Market Overview August 29. Source: QuantifyCrypto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/btc-recovers-from-sub-77k-dip-xrp-drops-below-1-40-weekend-watch\/\">BTC Recovers From Sub-$77K Dip, XRP Drops Below $1.40: Weekend Watch<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/btc-recovers-from-sub-77k-dip-xrp-drops-below-1-40-weekend-watch\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bitcoin&#8217;s price rally that drove it past $81,000 on a couple of occasions in the past week came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}