Mooners and Shakers: Bitcoin steady, while Solana, STEPN and Zilliqa pump

30 March 2022

in Solano

Reading Time: 8 mins read

A zoomed out view suggests the crypto market is pretty steady… just slightly down a bit today. A closer look, though, reveals a real mixed bag across the board.

Top 10 overview

With the overall crypto market cap at about US$2.23 trillion, down roughly 1.3% from this time yesterday, here’s the current state of play among top 10 tokens – according to CoinGecko.

Most of the top 10 coins have taken a little dip over the past 24 hours, although nothing too drastic. The market’s health barometer in chief, Bitcoin (BTC) is only just clinging on to the US$47k level at the time of writing.

Can the mid-40ks hold as a new range bottom, and what will happen if so? Good questions. Let’s see what some analysts, such as Rekt Capital and Michaël van de Poppe are saying…

Technically, if #BTC flips the black ~$47000 Monthly level into support this March…

There’s little major Monthly resistance until ~$57000 (red)$BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/mh4sJyrhRd

— Rekt Capital (@rektcapital) March 29, 2022

Nothing changed on #Bitcoin TA.

I’d like to see it hold $45.7K, and then we should be fine for bullish continuation towards $50K+, the other side of the range. pic.twitter.com/JzX7ycNMKn

— Michaël van de Poppe (@CryptoMichNL) March 30, 2022

Solana (SOL) meanwhile is leading any gains in the majors today, up about 4.5% in the past 24 hours according to the CoinGecko chart posted above. Although, news just in, it’s actually now pumped a bit harder (+12%) since typing this sentence.

Leading NFT marketplace OpenSea has all but confirmed it will be adding Solana-based NFTs to its platform in April. Perhaps this is contributing to the mild SOL pump on an otherwise reddish day in the market.

VISA: We want every NFT marketplace to be able to accept Visa cards

— Blockworks (@Blockworks_) March 30, 2022

Uppers and downers: 11–100

Sweeping a market-cap range of about US$24.1 billion to about US$1.1 billion in the rest of the top 100, let’s find some of the biggest 24-hour gainers and losers at press time.

DAILY PUMPERS

• STEPN (GMT), (market cap: US$1.25 billion) +80%

• Zilliqa (ZIL), (mc: US$2.15 billion) +50%

• Synthetix (SNX), (mc: US$1.4 billion) +14%

• VeChain (VET), (mc: US$5.46 billion) +13.5%

• Aave (AAVE), (mc: US$3 billion) +9%

Why’s the Aussie-founded “move-to-earn” project STEPN kicking price butt so hard just lately? There are rumours of a major partnership in the works, so that could be it. But it’s also just a really interesting project in general with a newly launched token. Keep an eye out for an upcoming article by Stockhead‘s Derek Rose, which’ll give you the lowdown.

One thing, though, and not financial advice, it’s currently up about 524% in the two weeks since token launch. Perhaps be slightly careful aping in on this one. Or don’t. Over to you, really, we’re backing away… nothing to see here…

As for Zilliqa, it’s also been in beast mode lately. Why? Probably a series of recent developments, including metaversal, all compounding…

Why #Zilliqa ?

– Layer 1 #blockchain tech ✔️
– #Zilswap ( #DeFi ) ✔️
– #Metaverse #Metapolis ✔️

– #ethereum bridged
– #StableCoin with #XSGD
– #GZil Governance token

– partnered with #binance #BUSD
– working with Singapore Governance#ZIL #ZILUSDT $ZIL pic.twitter.com/uZmzuaTLLB

— Dom’s Crypto  (@Doms_Crypto) March 30, 2022

DAILY SLUMPERS

• THORChain (RUNE), (market cap: US$3.6 billion) -5%

• Filecoin (FIL), (mc: US$4.7 billion) -4.5%

• JUNO (JUNO), (mc: US$1.25 billion) -4%

• Celsius (CEL), (mc: US$1.4 billion) -4%

• Radix (XRD), (mc: US$1.5 billion) -3.5%

Uppers and downers: lower caps

Moving below the crypto unicorns (in some cases well below), here’s just a selection catching our eye…

DAILY PUMPERS

• DOSE (DOSE), (market cap: US$26m) +121%

• League of Kingdoms (LOKA), (mc: US$240 million) +71%

• Index Cooperative (INDEX), (mc: US$32m) +44%

• Voxies (VOXEL), (mc: US$69.5m) +30%

• Origin Protocol (OGN), (mc: US$342m) +16%

DAILY SLUMPERS

• CoW Protocol (COW), (market cap: US$85 million) -33%

• XMON (XMON), (mc: US$77m) -28%

• Unibright (UBT), (mc: US$175m) -27%

• Tomb Shares (TSHARE), (mc: US$190m) -16%

• Silo Finance (SILO), (mc: US$56m) -16%

Around the blocks

Ain’t this the truth…

I’d say the hardest thing in crypto is hitting that sell button 😂

— Layah Heilpern (@LayahHeilpern) March 30, 2022

And this…

Markets since the last Fed meeting pic.twitter.com/PzHO8yZYTw

— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) March 30, 2022

Meanwhile, Do Kwon and his Terra project keeps stacking those sats – with another confirmed US$139 million Bitcoin buy in the past 24 hours. The goal? At the very least a US$3 billion Bitcoin reserve to back its UST stablecoin… with a projected longer-term US$10 billion BTC reserve target.

A huge purchase of $139 million worth of #bitcoin by @terra_money makes its wallet thicker.

By holding a total of 32K BTC, Terraform Labs will pass @Tesla as the second-largest holder, according to @BTCtreasuries.https://t.co/7S9CYZjNbI

— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) March 30, 2022

As for this, from Dogecoin co-creator (no longer on the project) Billy “Shibetoshi Nakamoto” Markus… it’s just… irrelevantly awesome…