AERGO price falls 12%, defies broader crypto surge

• Aergo price has dived 12% as Bitcoin and top altcoins rally.
• The AERGO token falls amid profit-taking after a staggering 300% surge.
• Bears could eye levels below $0.20.

Aergo price has dipped further as profit-taking holds, with the altcoin declining even as most altcoins rose in the past 24 hours.

These losses come after a staggering 300% surge for AERGO seen earlier this month. The token has nosedived despite a major network update.

“With AERGO 2.7.0, smart contract verification enters a new era. By embedding AI-powered auditing directly into the platform, AERGO ensures contracts are not only deployed faster but with greater confidence in their security and integrity,” the Aergo team wrote.

The AERGO price action today

As of April 23, 2025, the price of AERGO hovered near $0.21, down 12% per data from CoinMarketCap.

The decline comes amid heightened volatility, with the token’s meteoric rise having given way to massive selling pressure.

Notably, like other recent explosive tokens such as VOXEL, Aergo has seen a significant spike in concerns over potential market manipulation.

Analysts have also pointed to potential insider selling, a 44% drop in a single day recently exacerbating the concerns.

Market analyst Ash Crypto shared in a post on X:

This is the new level of manipulation $VOXEL market cap=$15M but more
than $700 Million volume in futures.

First $AERGO now this, please be careful pic.twitter.com/gOS0ncih83

— Ash Crypto (@Ashcryptoreal) April 19, 2025

As AERGO price falls, altcoins such as Deepbook, Zerebro, and Sui have surged in the past 24 hours.

ETH, XRP, and SOL have led the mega cap alts higher also.

The upside follows Bitcoin (BTC) edging past key resistance levels to regain $94k.

BTC’s surge comes amid a weaker US dollar and strong institutional buying, with news on tariffs and other factors catalysing gains.

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have also shown strong institutional demand, aligning inflows with Bitcoin’s resilience.

This means AERGO’s pullback stands out, including the 10% decrease in daily volume.

AERGO price analysis

Despite today’s dip, AERGO remained up 222% in the past month, reflecting the recent strength of the altcoin’s surge.

However, AERGO’s price action reflects a classic post-pump correction.

After surging to an all-time high near $0.70 on April 16, driven by Binance’s perpetual contracts and DigiFinex’s USDT trading pair listing, the token faced intense selling pressure.

It means bulls have a lot to do to reclaim recent peaks.

On the upside, AERGO faces resistance at $0.23 and $0.28, with a break above potentially targeting $0.42.

The flipside h