The events of the past seven days took a turn for the worst throughout the entire cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin started the week trading at around $11,500 and managed to advance to a peak of around $12,050 a few days later.
And that’s when it went downhill.
In less than two days, BTC lost around $1,500 of its value, bringing the price down to its current level of $10,500. However, the primary cryptocurrency spiked to a low of $9,875 on Binance before recovering, taking all large-cap altcoins with it, with an exception of TRON’s TRX.
DeFi coins, which received most of the attention, are also bleeding out. Their frontrunner, the governance token of Yearn Finance, YFI, peaked at around $39,000 only to decrease to where it’s currently trading at $26,400.
Irrespective of the above, one of the landmark events of the last seven days were the astronomic fees on Ethereum’s network. As CryptoPotato reported, the fees charted continuous all-time highs, largely induced by the DeFi craze. Multiple users reported fees upwards of $100 for simple staking transactions, giving merit to the notion that DeFi is becoming profitable only for whales.
Multiple DeFi protocols saw investors staking millions in a matter of hours, pursuing unseen yield percentages, completely ignoring the risks of their unaudited protocols. Examples include one of the latest trending platforms called SushiSwap – a fork of Uniswap with an included reward token.
It’s interesting to see how the market will progress in the following week. While Bitcoin managed to recover, for now, the CME gap down at $9,600 remains unfilled, prompting many to believe that it’s the next bearish target.
Market Cap: $338B | 24H Vol: 148B | BTC Dominance: 56.9%
BTC: $10,441 (-2.67%) | ETH: $382,70 (-4.56%) | XRP: $0.251(-3.11%)
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This week we have a chart analysis of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Tron, and Tezos – click here for the full price analysis.
