Bittensor (TAO) Escapes 4-Month Long Barrier, Yet Price May Not Reach $400

Bittensor ($TAO) is trading at $322, down 6.97% on the session after briefly tagging $380 on March 26.

The 2-day chart shows $TAO has cleared the 0.618 Fibonacci resistance zone at $306 that capped every rally for four months, but the move above it has immediately stalled.

$TAO Holders’ Sentiment Drove the Breakout

The Santiment weighted sentiment chart covers March 3 through March 26, 2026. $TAO sentiment spiked to above 5.0 on March 25 — the highest reading on the chart — as price surged toward $380. By March 26, sentiment had collapsed to 0.684 as price reversed sharply.

This pattern repeated twice earlier in the month. On March 13, sentiment spiked sharply before price reversed from $305 back toward $260. On March 19, another sentiment spike preceded a drop from $290 back toward $250. Each time, elevated sentiment coincided with a local $TAO price top rather than sustained upside.

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$TAO Weighted Sentiment. Source: Santiment

The current reading of 0.684 is not yet negative, but the trajectory from above 5.0 to 0.684 in a single session mirrors the prior reversal patterns precisely. Sentiment drove capital into $TAO at elevated prices and is now retreating, removing the buying pressure that generated the move.

Breaking This Ceiling Will Prove Beneficial For $TAO

The $TAO liquidation heatmap covers March 26 and 27. The brightest concentration of liquidation leverage — shown in yellow on the heatmap — sits at the $364 level, with 2.98 million in liquidation leverage at that exact price. Above $364, the cumulative short liquidation leverage reaches $17.81 million.

That $17.81 million short squeeze would be a powerful catalyst if triggered. A move through $364 would force those short positions closed, mechanically driving the price toward $407 and potentially $469. However, the 2.98 million in leverage concentrated at $364 itself acts as a magnet that also absorbs buying pressure, making it a ceiling before it becomes a springboard.

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$TAO Liquidation Heatmap. Source: Coinglass

With sentiment already collapsed and price pulling back from $380 without clearing $364 on a close, the short squeeze scenario requires a fresh wave of buying that is not currently visible in either the sentiment data or the price structure.

$TAO Price Prediction: Drop Back Into the $306 Zone Before Any Continuation

$TAO spent four months consolidating under the red resistance zone under the 0.618 level at $306. The annotated breakout measured move shows a 20.33% gain over the past week as $TAO escaped it.

MFI adds further weight to the bearish near-term outlook. MFI reached the overbought threshold last week, and every prior instance where MFI reached this zone coincided with a local price top.

In September 2024, MFI touched the overbought threshold as $TAO traded near $700. In May 2025, MFI again reached the same level before the price rolled over from $450 toward $300. The current reading at 77.79 places $TAO in identical territory on both occasions that preceded significant drawdowns.

$TAO at $322 is above the prior resistance zone. But, a daily close below $306 would confirm the breakout has failed and put the 0.5 level at $275 and then the 0.382 level at $243 in focus as the next support levels.

The bullish invalidation requires a 2-day close above $364. That would trigger the $17.81 million short squeeze and mechanically push the price toward the 1.0 level at $407 and then the 1.236 level at $469. Without that close above $364, the four-month resistance zone that $TAO just escaped threatens to reclaim the token.

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