Dogecoin leads market rebound with 15% pump, bitcoin steady above $85,000

A wave of forced buying that cost short sellers $844 million has run its course, leaving the largest cryptocurrency flat over the past hour and ZEC the only major token in the red.Dogecoin leads market rebound with 15% pump, bitcoin steady above $85,000. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)Dogecoin surged more than 15% to just above 10 cents, leading gains among major cryptocurrencies, while Bitcoin held above $85,600 after rising about 5% over 24 hours.More than $1 billion in crypto positions were liquidated over the past day, including $844 million in bearish bets, suggesting further gains will depend on new buying rather than a continued short squeeze.Asian stocks advanced as enthusiasm for artificial intelligence lifted chipmakers, with Meta’s Muse agent gaining traction and AMD briefly surpassing $1 trillion in market value.DOGE rose more than 15% to just above 10 cents as of Tuesday Asian morning hours, the largest gain among major tokens, CoinDesk data show.Bitcoin held just above $85,600, flat over the past hour after adding roughly 5% over 24 hours. Most of that move came from traders being forced out of bets against it. Just over $1 billion of crypto positions were liquidated over the past day, according to CoinGlass, and $844 million of that, or 82%, belonged to short sellers. Roughly 135,000 traders were closed out.A short position profits when a price falls. Traders who borrow to take one must post collateral, and when the price rises far enough that the collateral no longer covers the loss, the exchange buys the asset back on their behalf. That buying lifts the price again and pushes the next tier of shorts over their threshold. Bitcoin accounted for about $608 million of the day's total and ether $181 million. The largest single liquidation was a nearly $21 million bitcoin position on Hyperliquid.XRP added 7% to nearly $1.52 and SOL 5% to just under $117. Ether rose 3% to nearly $2,740, while BNB and TRX each picked up between 1% and 2%. ZEC was the only large token to fall, down 4% to just above $1,450.Liquidations in the past hour came to under $11 million, down from more than $300 million an hour at the peak of Monday's move, which leaves the next leg dependent on buyers rather than sellers being forced out.AI trade roars backEquities set a firm tone through the Asian session, meanwhile.MSCI's Asia Pacific gauge rose nearly 1% for a fifth straight day of gains, led by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which tracked Monday's rally in U.S. semiconductor stocks. South Korea's Kospi advanced 2% and Taiwan's benchmark hit an intraday record.Artificial intelligence is doing the pulling. The Wall Street rally followed early signs of success for Meta Platforms' new AI agent, and AMD is on course to pass $1 trillion in market value.Meta Platforms released Muse, an AI agent that works across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, nearly two weeks ago and it has since passed ChatGPT to become the top free app on Apple's U.S. App Store. The app has drawn nearly 3 million installs worldwide and almost 40% more iOS downloads in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT managed in its own first 12 days on mobile, data from app-tracker Apptopia shows.Every query an AI agent answers runs on a server, and chipmakers rallied on the assumption that a mainstream agent means a lot more of them. AMD, which counts Meta for about 5% of its revenue, rose as much as 10% on Monday and briefly topped $1 trillion in market value for the first time. Intel gained as much as 12% and Arm 14%, lifting the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index more than 4% in a fifth straight advance.Elsewhere, Alibaba said on Tuesday it was rolling out what it calls China's ‘most powerful AI chip,’ an accelerator built to compete with Nvidia, sending its Hong Kong shares higher alongside Tencent, which released a new image-generation model.12345678910