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The post Why Is Crypto Going Down Today and Why Pepeto Is Filling With Capital While the Rest of the Market Sells appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News The crypto market is dropping on March 18, with Bitcoin below $73,000, the total market cap down 2%, and the Fear Index at 37. If you searched why is crypto going down, the answer is three events hitting at once. But the dip is temporary, and one early project just crossed $8 million raised while most investors sat frozen. Why Is Crypto Going Down as the FOMC Decision, Hot PPI, and Iran Fears Collide on the Same Day The Federal Reserve announces its rate decision at 2pm ET today, and Bitcoin has fallen after seven of eight FOMC meetings in 2025 according to CoinDesk. U.S. PPI inflation came in hot at 3.4%, reducing rate cut expectations, and attacks on Iran’s South Pars gas field sent oil higher and triggered risk off selling, according to CoinGape.  That is why crypto is going down. But every FOMC dip in the past year recovered within two weeks, and $2.2 billion in USDT just flowed into Binance in a single day, the largest stablecoin deposit since November 2025. The whales are loading, not leaving. Why Is Crypto Going Down and What Are the Biggest Wallets Doing During the Dip Pepeto Is a New Crypto Project Still in Presale That Has Built a Full Exchange Before Even Launching While Bitcoin stumbles on temporary news, the same cycle keeps repeating. The market dips, retail panics, and the wallets that filled positions during the fear celebrate when the recovery arrives. Pepeto is filling with capital in the middle of it. Pepeto is a new crypto project still in presale, built by the cofounder of the original Pepe coin, with…

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