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With the return of bullish sentiment available in the market, Bitcoin is showing renewed bullish momentum, allowing it to retest the worth level of $94,000 last reached in early December 2025. Despite the recent recovery in BTC price, several Key metrics have fallenThis shows that activity on the chain is trending in a special direction.
Low cycle Bitcoin VDD suggests minimal coin movement
The price of Bitcoin is regularly in a recovery phase, but its effect on the chain is entering an unusually subtle phase. This divergence might be observed within the recent performance of the Bitcoin Value Days Destroyed (VDD) metric, which has fallen sharply.
It is value noting that the BTC VDD is an identical approach to measuring the activity of long-term holders BTC Coin Days Destroyed (CDD) Metric, but with an evaluation component. In other words, it assigns a price based on the worth of Bitcoin on the time the UTXO is issued, along with the variety of days of holding lost.
In this case, VDD is expressed as a ratio to guage its speed relative to its annual average. In addition, the ratio between the annual average and the monthly average helps position current activity in relation to the annual norm.
After examining the BTC VDD metric, Darkfost, a market expert and CryptoQuant creator, said, noted that the important thing figure for this market cycle has fallen to a historic low. According to the expert, this shift comes after a difficult phase long-term ownership distribution that has now decreased significantly.
Source: Diagram from Darkfost on X
As might be seen within the chart, the market is now entering a phase where the VDD has fallen sharply and is now at an especially low level in comparison with its annual average. This trend indicates an enormous decline in selling pressure long-term BTC holders.
At a price of 0.55, the present VDD is about twice the annual average. Such levels have been repeatedly observed after significant corrections in the present cycle. Interestingly, this means that long-term holders are currently selecting to maintain their coins at current price levels.
BTC’s uptrend continues to be intact
Towards the tip of Tuesday, Bitcoin price experienced a transient decline, raising questions its price stability. Amid this discussion, Milk Road, a crypto and macro researcher, did the next Insights offered Insight into BTC's current price motion, which shows that the market continues to be bullish.
Milk Road's goal is predicated on a multi-year ascending channel pattern. According to the expert, BTC has been moving throughout the upward channel since 2022, making higher highs and better lows.
While the recent decline pushed BTC price towards the underside of the ascending channel, the support line remained strong and led to an upswing. After the jump, Bitcoin formed one other higher low, which is the road that maintains the uptrend. So unless BTC falls below this area, the larger pattern continues to be trending upwards although the worth has been trending sideways for months.
BTC trading at $92,890 on 1D chart | Source: BTCUSDT on Tradingview.com
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