ApeCoin price breakout stalls after $2.4M BAYC NFT robbery — What's ahead?
ApeCoin (APE) underwent a modest selloff a day after the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), a popular nonfungible token (NFT) brand, reported losing $2.4 million worth of digital collectibles in a robbery.
The hacker compromised BAYC's official Instagram account, using it to post a phishing link that withdrew tokens out of users' cryptocurrency wallets.
On April 25, the BAYC Twitter handle confirmed the hack, albeit too late as users had already transferred tokens to the hacker's account, thus losing ownership of their extremely expensive Bored Ape, Mutant Ape and Bored Ape Kennel Project NFTs.
annnd there goes like 100 apes to the hacker https://t.co/X2ts0mncTt pic.twitter.com/1tU2MVlpxU
OpenSea, the biggest NFT marketplace by volume and earnings, tagged the stolen NFTs as suspicious. But even then, the hacker ended up selling four BAYC collectibles for about $1.6 million.
APE, which serves as a governance token to BAYC's decentralized autonomous organization ApeCoin DAO, dropped by nearly 11% to $17.41 this April 26.
As it fell, the token also deviated from the upside target of its prevailing "symmetrical triangle" pattern around $25, as shown in the chart below.
The correction confirmed strong bearish sentiments around $20, a level that coincides with the 0.382 Fib line of the Fibonacci retracement graph, drawn from the $41-swing high to the $8.50-swing low. This raised the possibility of APE extending its correction toward the 0.236 Fib line near $16 in the medium term.
More downside cues in the ApeCoin appeared in the form of a "rising wedge" pattern.
In detail, rising wedges form when the price trends higher inside a range defined by two contracting, ascending trendlines. These patterns typically resolve after the price breaks
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