Bitcoin traded near $64,100 on Tuesday, up 1% on the day and holding above $64,000 even as rising bond yields and climbing oil drained appetite for risk assets, per CoinDesk data.
Live updates: Bitcoin holds $64,000 as surging yields and oil drain risk appetite
Bitcoin traded near $64,100 on Tuesday, up 1% on the day and holding above $64,000 even as rising bond yields and climbing oil drained appetite for risk assets, per CoinDesk data.
Shaurya Malwa
Publisher CoinDesk
Aug 18, 2026 at 8:16 AM UTC · 1 Min. Lesezeit

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Ether held near $1,893 and the rest of the majors sat flat, with Hyperliquid the week's outlier, up 8.3%.
The pressure is coming from bonds and crude. The 30-year Treasury yield rose to 5.33%, its highest since 2007, as investors demand more to finance heavily indebted governments and guard against sticky inflation. Long-dated yields climbed worldwide, and S&P 500 futures fell 0.5%, heading for a third straight day of losses.
Brent crude topped $91 a barrel as the US-Iran conflict escalated, with Trump threatening to bomb Oman if it interferes with US operations in the region.
That combination is the macro headwind that has capped crypto all summer, now sharpening. Higher oil feeds inflation, higher inflation lifts yields, and rising borrowing costs pull money out of risk assets and reinforce expectations that central banks stay tight. Bitcoin sits in the same risk complex, so the read-through is negative at the margin.
What stands out is that bitcoin is holding anyway. It's up on the day and green on the week while stocks fall for a third session and yields hit generational highs, the kind of relative firmness that fits the returning-ETF-demand thread rather than fighting it. Watch whether it can keep diverging.
A break above $64,500 would strengthen the case that fresh buyers are absorbing the macro pressure, while oil pushing toward $100 and yields climbing further would test that resilience fast.
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