Live updates: Bitcoin holds $64,000 as surging yields and rising oil drain risk appetite

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index rose to 41, its highest since mid-May, though it’s still parked in the “fear” zone. The index runs 0 to 100, with anything under 50 signaling fear, and reads the market’s mood off price momentum, volatility and volume.

The climb points to thawing sentiment, but it’s not a turn yet. Only a sustained move above 50 marks a real shift in the cycle, and until it gets there, anyone reading this bounce as the all-clear risks getting trapped by a rally that fades.

The Invesco QQQ ETF is down more than 1% in pre-market trading as the global sell-off at the long end of the bond market continues.

The 30-year US Treasury yield has risen a further 20 basis points to a new high of 5.32%. The UK’s 30-year gilt yield is up 23 basis points at 5.834%, following weaker-than-expected labour-market data, with unemployment holding at 4.9%, above forecasts. Meanwhile, Japan’s 30-year government bond yield has reached 4.126%, putting it on the verge of surpassing its May high.

Bitcoin and metals have edged lower over the past 24 hours, with bitcoin holding around $64,000.

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.

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.