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Markets have a way of making participation look simpler than it is. When prices rise broadly and the numbers are large, it becomes easy to treat the whole crypto market as one unified thing moving in one direction. That framing usually costs something.

Over the back half of the past week, the crypto market produced one of its more striking weekly advances in recent memory. The move was wide by most measures and involved names that do not usually share the same column. What it did not produce was a tidy explanation or uniform gains.

The question heading into the week ahead is what kind of advance this was.

Starting in ernest on Wednesday, the broad rally extended into Friday before the crypto market gave back part of the late-week acceleration on Saturday. According to CoinMarketCap, Total capitalization dipped to $2.6 trillion after peaking at a high of $2.68 trillion, but the weekly advance remained strongly positive despite the weekend consolidation.