Bitcoin weekly closing price recovers sharply to the level since August last year Individual alts are looking for

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Macroeconomics and financial markets

In the US NY stock market on the 20th, the Dow rebounded by $330 (1.0%) higher than the previous day. Among crypto-asset-related stocks, Coinbase, the largest US exchange, rose 11.6%, MicroStrategy, which holds a large amount of Bitcoin, rose 8.39%, and BTC mining giant Marathon Digital rose 9.94%.

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Virtual currency market

In the crypto asset (virtual currency) market, Bitcoin rose 0.08% from the previous day to $22,734.

BTC/USD daily

In the US time, there was also a scene where profit-taking selling dominated, but it soon rebounded. It closed the week at $22,714. This is the highest level since August last year.

If the weekly 200MA crosses the resistance line near $24,738 or $30,000, it is likely to be seen as a trend reversal.

According to on-chain data provider Santiment, whales holding between 1,000 and 10,000 BTC added 64,638 BTC ($1.46 billion) in about two weeks.

#Bitcoin has now surpassed $22.7k for the first time since August 18, 2022. The price rise has come as the large whale tier group of addresses holding 1,000 to 10,000 $BTC has collectively accumulated 64,638 ($1.46 billion) $BTC in the past 15 days. https://t.co/H6jCsZDgUR pic.twitter.com/RaN2I48ybg

—Santiment (@santimentfeed) January 20, 2023

Although the RSI (Relative Strength Index) below the daily chart has begun to overheat and indicates an “overbought” level, after repeated crashes in 2022, the monthly RSI is still at the bottom of 2019. . (Figure below)

BTC/USD Monthly

Geopolitical risks such as the situation in Ukraine and macroeconomic uncertainty continue to be concerns, but inflation has peaked out, and the pace of interest rate hikes by the Fed (Federal Reserve System) is slowing down as we enter the final phase. be. It is expected that the focus of the market will shift to whether or not the US and European countries will fall into a recession in the future.

With the major upgrade “Shanghai” scheduled for March, the number of Ethereum addresses with balances greater than zero is also steadily increasing. Ethereum hit a record high of 92.5 million addresses this week, according to Glassnode data.

New: @glassnode data: Ethereum $ETH Percent Addresses in Profit (7d MA) just reached a 5-month high of 60.713%.#AlphaInsights pic.twitter.com/zWJueWz09m

— Alpha Insights (@AlphaInsights__) January 22, 2023

According to blockchain software developer Alchemy’s “Web3 Development Report for Q4 2022,” the number of smart contracts executed on Ethereum mainnet increased by 300% in 2022.

altcoin market

Blockchain game stocks were bought on the alt market. Axy Infinity (AXS), the native token of major P2E game platforms, surged 44.3% from the previous day. Fitness app STEPN (GMT) also rose 20% from the previous day.

Axie’s monthly active users (MAUs) peaked in 2020 and have fallen to their lowest level since November 2020. According to activeplayer.io stats, it peaked at 2.8 million MAUs, but is now down to 430,000.

activeplayer.io

Even so, it still has a large number of users, and like STEPN, a strong community supports the ecosystem. Axy’s platform chain Ronin’s trading volume increased by 41% from the previous month, showing a recovery trend.

According to Dapp Radar, the platform has seen a 214% increase in sales volume since this year, and a 59% increase in the number of unique active wallets used on the AXS network.

Dapp Radar

With the recovery of sentiment in the crypto asset market, the search for promising altos is progressing. Week-on-week, Aptos (APT) rose 67% and Ethereum (ETH) Layer 2 network Optimism (OP) rose 24%.

PancakeSwap, the largest BNB chain DEX (distributed exchange), announced that it will newly develop the Aptos chain. Attract additional competitive Aptos-based projects.

Aptos is an L1 blockchain that focuses on security and scalability, and is also known to have been founded by the former developers of Diem (formerly Libra), which was being developed by Meta (formerly Facebook).

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Optimism has completed the transition to the testnet on the 13th, ahead of the large-scale upgrade “Bedrock” scheduled to be implemented in the first quarter.

We’re almost ready to bring you the cheapest, fastest, most minimal EVM-equivalent rollup architecture, ever. Only 3 steps remain:

1. Jan. 12 Testnet migration
2. @OptimismGov vote on mainnet upgrade proposal
3. Q1 mainnet migration to Bedrock