Bitcoin (BTC) encounters its upcoming major obstacle at $90,000 as market participants continuously drift back toward unrealized gains.
Key points:
- Bitcoin profit-takers could impede BTC price momentum at $90,000, according to CryptoQuant forecasts.
- Onchain indicators, such as the asset reclaiming its 365-day moving average situated at $80,500, prompted experts to declare the beginning of the subsequent bull market.
- CryptoQuant chief executive Ki Young Ju anticipates that upcoming cycle peaks and troughs will be more moderate owing to institutional adoption.
Profit-taking implies a normal pause for BTC pricing at $90,000
Within its newest weekly report published on Tuesday, blockchain intelligence platform CryptoQuant cautioned that the zone surrounding $90,000 will bring heightened probabilities of profit-taking if valuations attain that level.
The realized price of Bitcoin traders—representing the mean acquisition cost for BTC that last shifted onchain between one and three months past—currently rests at $64,300. CryptoQuant statistics demonstrate upper and lower boundaries encasing this threshold, representing gain or deficit margins for this specific segment of the coin supply. The upper threshold designated for profit-taking stands at $90,300, marking a 40% elevation over the realized price.
“The upper band coincides with the $88K–$90K on-chain supply cluster, making it the next resistance to clear. Historically, as price approaches the upper band, trader profit margins stretch and selling can intensify — a natural pause point within an uptrend, not a reversal,” CryptoQuant analysts stated.
Bitcoin trader realized price data (screenshot). Source: CryptoQuant
The document characterizes the trajectory between the existing spot quotation of $86,000 and the profit-taking region as mostly unobstructed while projecting no regression toward bear-market criteria.
“The bull market is confirmed. Technicals, valuation and on-chain data now point the same way — up,” it continued, echoing a prior assertion from CryptoQuant chief executive Ki Young Ju.
In a social media dispatch via X this week, Ki observed that future Bitcoin price cycles are shifting toward reduced volatility relative to preceding phases due to a transition from retail to institutional BTC ownership.
“Today, a much larger market and growing institutional ownership are dampening both extremes. The same forces that limit the upside also soften the downside,” he wrote.
Bitcoin profitability stabilizes in 2026
Ki pointed out that throughout the 2026 bear market, the market-value-to-realized-value (MVRV) proportion for Bitcoin failed to descend beneath its equilibrium level of 1 at any interval, indicating that the broader investor community remained collectively profitable across the board—a stark departure from past macro downtrends.
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As Cointelegraph reported, MVRV has now pushed past its 365-day moving average—a development that signaled the conclusion of both the 2018 and 2022 bear markets.
Bitcoin MVRV ratio. Source: CryptoQuant
Fresh capital allocations toward Bitcoin continue to demonstrate notable strength during the current month. United States spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) generated net inflows totaling $1.7 billion over the initial two days of the week, according to statistics from the UK-based investment firm Farside Investors. Monday’s figure of $999 million represented the highest single-day aggregate recorded since October 2025.
Bitcoin ETF netflows data. Source: Farside Investors
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