CryptoQuant Says Bitcoin Bull Score Jumped From 30 to 80 as $83K Level Looms
CryptoQuant says Bitcoin has flipped into a bullish market regime after a rally of roughly 24%, but the analytics firm’s own bar for confirming a new bull market has not yet been cleared, according to reports from Cointelegraph and Crypto Briefing published within minutes of each other on August 25, 2026.
Both outlets, working from the same CryptoQuant report, say the firm’s Bull Score index jumped from 30 to 80 over the past week — its highest level since October 2025 — with eight of the index’s 10 underlying indicators now flashing bullish. Bitcoin climbed above $80,000 during the move, both outlets report, its highest level since May 15, 2026, according to Crypto Briefing.
Where the two outlets agree
Cointelegraph and Crypto Briefing independently confirm the same core numbers: the 24% rally, the Bull Score’s jump from 30 to 80, and CryptoQuant’s central caveat that Bitcoin’s price still needs to close a week above its 365-day moving average — currently around $83,000 — before the shift counts as an officially confirmed bull market. Both also report that trader unrealized profit margins have climbed to 20.5%, the highest since June 2025, and that whales realized a record $614 million in profits on August 20. Both note that spot and futures demand are now growing together for the first time since October 2025.
Where the coverage diverges
Each outlet adds detail the other lacks. Cointelegraph alone reports that short-term holder whales realized about $1.2 billion in profits between August 20 and August 22, and that Bitcoin exchange inflows climbed to roughly 53,000 BTC, their highest level since June — a signal, Cointelegraph notes, that more coins are moving onto trading platforms where they could be sold. Cointelegraph also cites CryptoQuant’s comparison to an earlier warning sign: the firm says Bitcoin fell about 30% after unrealized profit margins reached 19% in early May, when the price traded near $82,000.
Crypto Briefing alone carries CryptoQuant Head of Research Julio Moreno’s tweet on the report, in which Moreno wrote that
“Basically all metrics are pointing to the initial phase of a new bull market.”
Crypto Briefing also reports Moreno linking the rally to improving macro conditions and describing apparent spot demand as growing at its fastest monthly pace since late December, and it notes that exchange inflows have risen across Bitcoin, Ether and XRP.
Cointelegraph, for its part, is the only outlet to cite outside analyst reaction. LMAX Group market strategist Joel Kruger pointed to the May 2026 high of $82,820 as a level to watch, telling Cointelegraph that a break above it would reinforce the view that
“a meaningful cycle low is now in place”
and would shift attention toward $100,000 and beyond.
What’s unresolved
Neither outlet reports independent confirmation of CryptoQuant’s Bull Score from a second analytics firm. Whether Bitcoin actually posts a weekly close above the roughly $83,000 threshold CryptoQuant has set remains unknown, as does whether the current profit-taking and exchange-inflow pattern precedes a pullback similar to the one CryptoQuant says followed a comparable profit-margin spike in May 2026.
Why it matters
A jump in CryptoQuant’s proprietary index from 30 to 80 in a single week is a meaningful shift in one firm’s on-chain reading of the market. But the bullish framing sits alongside CryptoQuant’s own warnings — record whale profit-taking and rising exchange inflows — that both outlets report as reasons for caution even as the headline indicator turns positive.
Sources
Every fact above is attributed to one of these reports. Where they disagree, the article says so.
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