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Shiba Inu Price Golden Cross Nears Ahead of Shibarium Launch
Shiba Inu price has pulled back in the past three days as the recent bullish momentum wanes. The SHIB/USD token was trading at $0.000013, a few points below the year-to-date high of $0.000015. It has jumped by more than 80% from its lowest point in 2022 as the golden cross pattern nears.
Shibarium launch is the catalyst
Shiba Inu, just as Dogecoin, was started as a joke cryptocurrency prices were surging. It was created to compete with Dogecoin, which was gaining strong momentum at the time. Today, Shiba Inu has a market cap of over $7.6 billion, making it one of the biggest tokens in the world.
Shiba Inu has been keen to move past its meme coin heritage. In the past few years, the developers have worked to expand the ecosystem and bring more utility to the network. One way they did that was to introduce Shibaswap, a platform that lets people swap tokens and earn rewards.
They are also building a metaverse platform that will see people play games and trade non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Therefore, as part of this transformation, the developers are now building Shibarium, which is the next big thing in the industry.
Shibarium is a layer-2 platform that aims to make Shiba Inu’s ecosystem much better and faster than it is today. A layer-2 network is a sidechain that handles transactions away from the main blockchain, in this case, Ethereum. It leverages the strength of Ethereum to do all this but it solves the key challenges of high transaction costs and slow speeds.
It is not yet clear when Shibarium will be launched. However, according to insiders, the layer-2 network will be launched in the first quarter of the year. I suspect that the SHIB price will rise toward this launch and then decline after it happens.
Shiba Inu price prediction
In my last Shiba Inu price forecast, I warned that the coin was getting extremely overbought and that a pullback was likely. This view was accurate. SHIB price jumped to a year-to-date high of $0.000015 on Saturday. This was also the highest it has been since August 16. It was also the upper side of the cup and handle pattern that has been forming. This pattern is one of the most reliable continuation patterns in the industry.
Shiba Inu is also about to form a golden cross pattern, where the 50-day and 200-day moving averages pattern make a bullish crossover. Therefore, if this crossover happens, we will likely see the coin’s price continue rising for a while.
Solana price performance in recent times has been remarkable, surpassing Ripple and Binance Coin to become the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. The SOL price breached the critical level of $100 for the first time since April 2022 over the weekend to imbue optimism among investors. However, the altcoin has corrected by 7%, suggesting that the market is overheated. At the time of writing, the ‘Ethereum killer’ was trading slightly lower at $111.60.
SOL Outlook
Solana price has made a significant recovery over the past few weeks, climbing above the psychological level of $100. The altcoin has been one of the best-performing assets this year, extending its year-to-date gains to more than 1,025%, with more gains recorded in the past month alone. However, even with such growth, analysts have noted that Solana has a bleak chance of topping its ATH of $260.
The reason behind this is the increase in supply relative to its value. In November 2021, when the Solana price hit its all-time high of $260, its total market capitalization was around $78 billion. Despite the value of the crypto asset being less than half of what it was at the top, its market cap is currently hovering near $50 billion.
This has been brought about by the increase in the Solana supply by more than 100 million SOL over the past two years. According to some analysts, for the altcoin to retest $260, its…
Solana price has noted significant gains over the past few weeks, climbing to its highest level since April 2022. The ‘Ethereum Killer’ almost topped the crucial level of $100 on Friday, before pulling back slightly. The asset’s recent surge has catapulted Solana’s total market cap to $39.6 billion, ranking 5th after and above BNB and XRP, respectively. Solana has jumped by more than 22% in the past week and more than 80% in the month to date. At the time of writing, SOL price was trading 0.90% lower at $93.10.
Catalysts Behind SOL’s Rally
Solana price has been on a strong bull run over the past few days, rocketing to its highest level in 20 months as the network benefits from the substantial activity and strong interest in memecoins. The SOL token, the native digital asset of the high-performance blockchain platform Solana, has shown some serious strength over the past few weeks, outperforming all the altcoins in the market.
The recent surge in the Solana price has been linked to heightened on-chain activities on the Solana blockchain. Notably, the ongoing hype for the blockchain’s speedy transactions, cheap fees, and a lottery of meme coin issuances has buoyed SOL’s on-chain activity. Metrics have revealed that Solana has been the strongest draw among on-chain traders, with trading volumes and network fees outperforming Ethereum- the largest altcoin by market cap.
Cited figures provided by DeFi aggregator DeFiLlama…
Solana price has jumped more than 8% over the past week, breaching the important level of $60. At the time of writing, Solana was trading 3% higher at $61.07. The asset’s total market cap has climbed to $25.9 billion over the past week, ranking it the 6th largest cryptocurrency after XRP. The total volume of SOL traded over the last day has declined by 8%.
SOL’s Bullish Cues
Solana’s price has been among the best-performing cryptocurrencies this year amid continuous growth. The “Ethereum killer” has consistently impressed investors throughout the year on the back of a resurgence in bullishness, which saw SOL’s price climb more than 513% in the year to date. Institutional investors have also shared the bullish sentiment, making Solana their most preferred altcoin.
In the week ending November 24, Solana recorded inflows worth nearly $3.5 million, significantly more than the other altcoins’ inflows combined. The asset’s monthly inflows were higher at $40.2 million, lower than Ethereum’s $99.6 million inflows in the same period. Other altcoins, including Litecoin and Ethereum, noted significant outflows, making Solana nearly half of the home for DeFi. This implies that when it comes to institutions, Solana is currently the best-performing altcoin with the potential of a long-term rally much higher than other digital assets.
Notably, the Solana DeFi ecosystem accomplished a significant milestone earlier this week. Its Total Value Locked (TVL) hit a new yearly peak of over $655 million,…
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