Ethereum<\/span> (ETH) saw a 5% jump over the last day, giving investors renewed hopes for a much-anticipated market recovery after a brutal sell-off in May.<\/p>\nCurrently, Bitcoin is changing hands at $ 31,289, up 5.2% over the day, according to data provided by CoinMarketCap.<\/p>\n
The leading cryptocurrency last traded at these levels on June 1, when it entered a downward correction that dragged the price of BTC from above $ 32,000 below $ 30,000 for the most part of the weekend.<\/p>\n
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Despite the latest spike, Bitcoin is still down more than 34% since the start of the year, with the Fear & Greed Index \u2014 a combination of variables measuring market sentiment \u2014 currently standing at 13, which corresponds to “extreme fear.”<\/p>\n
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The price of Ethereum has meanwhile just hit an intraday high of $ 1,889, as it went up almost 6%, per CoinMarketCap.<\/p>\n
The second-largest cryptocurrency still faces a massive uphill battle to recover from the losses since the start of the year when it traded above $ 3,800.<\/p>\n
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Ethereum’s lackluster price action is compounded by a massive sell-off in the DeFi<\/span> space. Over the last month, investors withdrew more than $ 40 billion from ETH-based apps, shrinking the total value locked (TVL) from over $ 113 billion on May 5 to $ 71.04 billion as of today, according to data from DeFi Llama.<\/p>\nElsewhere, major layer 1-networks Cardano<\/span> (ADA) and Solana<\/span> (SOL) both posted double-digit gains over the past 24 hours as their tokens rallied 13% and 11.4%, respectively.<\/p>\n