Economist: DeFi Altcoins Have Bottomed as Bitcoin Reverses Downtrend
The DeFi sector has been facing immense selling pressure in recent weeks, with the price declines seen by both Bitcoin and Ethereum creating notable headwinds that caused many previously bullish assets to plunge by 50% or more. Bitcoin’s peak at $12,400 came about just days before the entire market began trending lower, with it still […]
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The DeFi sector has been on the up and up throughout the past few weeks, with the post-Summer downtrend first reversing earlier in early-November when Yearn.finance’s YFI token bottomed out at $7,500 and saw a massive overnight surge up towards $18,000. From this point forward, the cryptocurrency has been climbing higher every week, showing signs […]
A rally in blue-chip DeFi tokens and the sector’s rising total value locked has traders hopeful that a prolonged rally will take place. Decentralized finance (DeFi) was one of the main factors that pushed the crypto market higher throughout 2021 and to date, platforms like Uniswap (UNI), SushiSwap (SUSHI) and Aave (AAVE) form the bedrock of the sector.Similar to altcoins, DeFi tokens took a severe beating as Bitcoin price corrected from its $65,800 all-time high, and data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that since DeFi index perpetual futures contract hit a low of....
Crypto investors had been moving out of altcoins through the market downtrend due to the high volatility that rocked these digital assets. As a result, the fall in these altcoins was more brutal than that recorded in bitcoin. However, as the tide has begun to turn and the market is looking towards more of a bullish trend, these altcoins have taken their place at the top of the recovering chain, prompting investors to rush back into them. Altcoins Provide More Gains Over time, it has been shown that altcoins record the widest movements during any type of market. So just as they have a high....
Earlier this week, all eyes were on Bitcoin, not DeFi. The leading cryptocurrency shot a handful of percent higher while altcoins actually began to move lower against the dollar, sometimes by 5-10%. Some DeFi coins actually dropped 15% on the day that Bitcoin shot 2-3%. This trend did not persist, though. Altcoins have begun to […]
Just days after registering marginal gains against the U.S. dollar, the Ghanaian currency — the cedi — slipped to C14:$1 versus the U.S. dollar on the foreign exchange parallel market on Nov. 7. The cedi’s reversal is said to have dented the currency’s recovery prospects. On the other hand, Ghana’s former president John Mahama and economist Steve Hanke have suggested that the country’s inflation rate is much higher than the 37.2% which was recorded in September. Cedi’s Interbank Exchange Rate Unchanged Just days after it marginally recovered from an all-time....