Crypto market as a whole is bearish, particularly the top 20. The DJ30 (+0.68%) and SPX500 (+0.64%) hit fresh highs yesterday in the first trading session of 2022. The NASDAQ100 (+1.2%) also closed higher. Tesla was the standout performer on the SPX500, advancing 13.5% after smashing analysts’ sales expectations.
Top cryptos
Most of the top 20 by market cap have lost value, with Polkadot and Algorand being exceptions in the top 12. Solana dropped more than 3%, Cardano and BNB were down more than 2.5% and XRP slid more than 2%. Bitcoin was trading above $46,000, down approximately 1.5% at time of writing.
The live& NEAR Protocol price today& is $17 with a 24-hour trading volume of $1.4 billion. NEAR Protocol, which ranks 15th, is up almost 20% in the last 24 hours.
Fantom, ranking at #19, was trading at $2.89 at the time of writing. It is up 19% in the last 24 hours. It is relentless as it corrects its previous pullback. It has been on a constant bull run since December 13, 2021, and analysts believe it will reclaim its ATH of $3 before the end of January.
Another winner is ATOM, the token of Cosmos. Its price today is just over $39 with a 24-hour trading volume of $2 billion. Its native token, ATOM, is up 10% in the last 24 hours.
Top movers
Hathor is the biggest top 100 winner today with gains of 25%. It arranges its transactions in a DAG &- outside the blocks &- which are confirmed by the blocks. This design reportedly allows Hathor to be highly scalable and decentralized. Hathor aims to tackle the complexity of creating a new token. Tokens in the network will reportedly operate with the same scalability and security parameters as the native HTR token.
Ravencoin is second with gains of 17%. It is a digital peer-to-peer network that aims to implement a use case specific blockchain, designed to efficiently handle asset transfer between parties.
Velas and Secret both gained 13% today. Velas bills itself as the world's fastest EVM blockchain, enabling up to 75 000 tx/s, processed instantly, with high security and low cost.& Secret is the native token of Secret Network, a blockchain with data privacy for smart contracts by default, allowing you to build and use applications that are both permissionless and privacy-preserving. This functionality protects users, secures applications, and unlocks hundreds of never-before-possible use cases for Web3.
Akash is the world's first decentralized cloud computing marketplace, and the DeCloud for DeFi. It is also up 13% today. Tezos has gained 12% in the last 24 hours. &
Trending
Saitama, a community-driven token and platform that wants to develop solutions to educate the next generation of investors and make crypto simple and safe for everyone, is up almost 50% today. It started as a meme coin, but eventually expanded beyond that. It’s surging on news of a potential Binance listing.
Shuna Inuverse, a next gen gaming NFT utility initiative, is the biggest trending coin of the day with value growth of 831%.
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