A Bitcoin logo inside a BitBase cryptocurrency exchange in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday, March 17, 2022.
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The price of bitcoin was lower on Monday as investors assessed the risks from rising rates and the potential for more tightening by the Federal Reserve.
Bitcoin fell about 5% to $41,091.60, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier in the morning, the cryptocurrency hit a low of $40,935.50, its lowest level since March 21.
The decline came after the 10-year Treasury yield hit a three-year high of 2.77% overnight. Riskier assets tend to fall when yields rise. On Monday morning, futures tied to the Nasdaq 100 were down by more than 1%. Though bitcoin should trade independently of the stock market, a correlation between the two has been particularly high in recent months.
Tokens across the crypto market were lower as well. Ether declined by 7.2% along with other platform networks. Solana, Algorand and Cardano’s tokens were all down by more than 9%.
The DeFi, or decentralized finance, sector fell too. Aave, Compound and SushiSwap lost more than 9% and Maker fell 8%.
