The crypto bear market has not stopped Bitcoin Cash (BCH) from showing unusual strength. While many altcoins struggle, BCH remains one of the strongest altcoins, holding large yearly gains. Bitcoin Cash is still up nearly 80% year-on-year, showing that demand has stayed intact even as the broader crypto bear market continues.
This strength is now clearly visible in whale behavior. The largest Bitcoin Cash holders, wallets holding between 100,000 and 1 million BCH, increased their holdings from 4.31 million BCH on February 16 to 4.36 million BCH recently.
This means whales added 50,000 BCH, worth about $28.5 million at the current price. Whale accumulation during a crypto bear market often signals confidence, as these investors typically buy when they expect higher prices ahead.
This optimism connects directly with Bitcoin Cash’s price chart. BCH is currently forming an inverse head-and-shoulders pattern, a bullish pattern that often precedes a breakout.
This pattern shows that selling pressure is fading and buyers are slowly gaining control. BCH attempted a breakout near $575 but faced some selling pressure. However, continued whale buying suggests this resistance may weaken over time.
A confirmed breakout requires a daily close above $575. If that happens, BCH could rally toward $793 and potentially $800, completing the pattern’s nearly 40% upside target. These levels also align with Fibonacci resistance zones, strengthening the bullish case.
However, risks still exist. The bullish structure weakens if BCH falls below $538, because that would show buyers losing control. Full invalidation happens only if the BCH price drops under $422, which would break the entire pattern.
For now, Bitcoin Cash stands out as one of the rare altcoins defying the bear market, supported by both whale accumulation and a bullish technical structure.
Morpho (MORPHO)
Among the altcoins defying the bear market, Morpho stands out because of its strong fundamentals and bullish price structure.
Morpho is the governance token of a decentralized lending platform that allows users to lend and borrow crypto more efficiently. Its infrastructure, called Morpho Blue, improves capital efficiency by directly matching lenders and borrowers, offering better yields and lower borrowing cost
These Three Altcoins Defy Crypto Winter With Technical Strength
While broad sentiment remains bearish, specific milestones in privacy-first L1s and decentralized derivatives are creating rare 'risk-on' opportunities.
David Pokima
February 6, 2026 2 min read
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Altcoin sentiment remains sour, but Midnight (NIGHT), Hyperliquid (HYPE), and Monero (XMR) are flashing accumulation signals and catalyst-driven strength. This offers a rare ‘risk-on’ pocket inside a weak market heading into early February 2026.
Our analysis flagged three tokens as candidates for fresh highs, with roadmap progress and improving money flow signals as key drivers. While the broader market shows extreme fear, capital is rotating toward projects with clear development milestones or durable narratives like privacy and decentralized trading.
Technical Breakouts for NIGHT, HYPE, and XMR
Midnight ($0.047, -4.3%) is advancing its Q1 2026 roadmap, centered on the ‘Kūkolu’ phase. This stage delivers a stable mainnet with trusted validators and privacy-first applications, according to a January update.
Technical indicators like the Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) are rising, indicating that outflows are shrinking. A key level to rebound from is $0.053, with a potential move back toward its prior all-time high near $0.120.
For its part, Hyperliquid’s CMF has moved above zero, suggesting inflows are now dominating. HYPE’s price at $33.74 also shows a reported -0.22 correlation with Bitcoin, implying more independent price action. Open interest on the decentralized perpetuals exchange surged to $793M around Jan. 26–27, up from $260M a month earlier. This reflects growing demand for its derivatives market structure.
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Monero is trading near $305 after a sharp 30% correction over 11 days. Its Money Flow Index (MFI) suggests selling pressure is nearing exhaustion. Monero, a privacy coin launched in 2014, maintains a durable narrative focused on fungibility and censorship resistance.
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A Flight to Quality Amidst Market Dispersion
While broad altcoin indexes are weak, dispersion is the key theme. The outperformance of these three tokens is not random. It is a flight to quality within specific narratives. Midnight represents progress in privacy-enhancing L1s. Hyperliquid reflects the growing market share of high-performance decentralized derivatives platforms.
Monero’s resilience indicates a persistent, non-speculative demand for private transactions. For a desk trader, these are not degenerate altcoin plays. They are targeted bets on maturing crypto sub-sectors that are showing independent strength against a risk-off macro backdrop.
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$15 Million Leans Bearish on Zcash Price — Can Mega Whales Counter the Crash Setup?
Ananda Banerjee
January 29, 2026 3 min read
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The Zcash price is approaching a critical moment. Technical structure is weakening, momentum is stalling, and derivatives positioning shows a clear bearish lean. Around $15 million is positioned for downside on Zcash perpetuals, signaling growing conviction that a breakdown is coming.
At the same time, only one group is quietly pushing back. Mega whales are adding while most others step aside. The question now is whether this turns into a full breakdown or a rare reversal against positioning.
Technical Risks and $15 Million in Bearish Positioning Align
The Zcash price chart is flashing a growing risk.
A head-and-shoulders pattern is forming on the daily chart, with the neckline converging near the $301 zone. This structure typically signals trend exhaustion, especially when price fails to regain prior highs. Zcash is currently trading below the right shoulder, keeping the 36% breakdown pattern active.
Momentum confirms the risk.
Between January 14 and January 27, the Zcash price formed a lower high, but the Relative Strength Index (RSI) stalled near the 49 level instead of pushing higher. RSI measures momentum. When the price weakens while the RSI fails to improve, it shows buyers are losing strength. This is not consolidation. It signals fading demand, which often appears before breakdowns rather than recoveries
Derivatives positioning reinforces that view.
On Binance’s ZEC perpetual pair, over $15 million sits in short liquidation leverage, while long liquidation leverage is closer to $6 million. Shorts outweigh longs by more than 2.5x, indicating traders are positioned for downside continuation rather than neutral volatility. This kind of imbalance usually appears when markets expect support to fail rather than hold.
Together, structure, momentum, and positioning all point toward rising breakdown risk.
Mega Whales Add Quietly While Others Step Back
Spot behavior tells a very different story.
Top 100 Zcash addresses increased holdings by 4.21% over the past 24 hours, lifting their combined balance to 44,264 ZEC. This is not aggressive accumulation, but it is notable given the broader lack of interest elsewhere.
The contrast matters. Smart money wallets are flat. Standard whale wallets reduced exposure. Public figure wallets show little activity. Only mega whales are adding, and they are doing so cautiously rather than chasing price.
Spot market activity has also fallen sharply. Net outflows, which peaked near $15.60 million, have dropped to around $2.04 million, marking an 87% decline in spot buying pressure.
3 Altcoins to Watch This Weekend | February 7 – 8
Aaryamann Shrivastava
February 6, 2026 3 min read
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As the weekend approaches, select altcoins are flashing early signals that could define short-term price action. From renewed bullish momentum to deep drawdowns hinting at exhaustion, the market is offering a mixed technical outlook.
BeInCrypto has analysed three such tokens that the investors should watch going into the weekend.
Decred (DCR)
Decred has produced a strong bullish expansion, rallying sharply to $24.70 after reclaiming the $20.22 pivot. The impulsive candle confirms buyers regaining control following a higher-low structure above $17.45. This move shifts short-term momentum decisively bullish after a prolonged consolidation phase.
Holding above $22.84 keeps upside momentum intact, with $25.94 as the next key resistance. A daily close above $25.94 would open a move toward $30.06. Notably, DCR shows a weak negative correlation of -0.09 with Bitcoin, suggesting relative insulation from broader BTC volatility.
The bullish scenario is invalidated on a daily close below $20.22. A failure there would shift momentum back to neutral and expose $18.79. Losing $17.45 would fully break the higher-low structure and confirm a return to broader downside or prolonged consolidation.
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