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Zero crypto-assets in the top 100 are down today as Bitcoin bull run continues
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Updated: Nov. 23, 2020 at 3:05 pm UTC
After fears that Bitcoin would tank on the weekend (and it did), the crypto bull run seems to be back in full force as of Monday morning.
According to CryptoSlate market data and CoinGecko market data, there is literally no crypto-asset in the top 100 by market capitalization that is down in the past 24 hours. Well, all except for stablecoins, but those don’t really count.
What the drop in stablecoins and rise in altcoins suggests is a strong capital flow from fiat into Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins.
Many believe that the past week has finally seen the introduction of retail investors back into the cryptocurrency space, hence why there has been mass buying of 2017-era coins that many in crypto now may look at with confusion.
The altcoins benefiting the most from the rally
Ethereum seems to be benefiting the most from the ongoing rally.
The second-largest cryptocurrency has gained 10 percent in the past 24 hours alone, pushing toward $600 for the first time since the middle of 2018. ETH is now up around 20 percent in the past five days.
Ethereum is seemingly benefiting from expectations that the ETH2 upgrade will launch on time, as analysts have long expected this technological shift to benefit the price of the coin.
Smaller altcoins, too, though, have generated healthy returns for their holders. These include but are not limited to Horizen (ZEN), Nano (NANO), Waves (WAVES), VeChain (VET), Cardano (ADA), and Tezos (XTZ).
What’s interesting about the cryptocurrencies that are outperforming is that these are all coins that outperformed extremely hard during the previous bull market but have underperformed DeFi ever since.
Decentralized finance (DeFi) coins are performing well today, though this performance of the listed altcoins has caught many investors off guard.
Watch out for a correction
A correction may be loading, though, some analysts have said.
Mohit Sorout, a founding partner at the crypto fund Bitazu Capital, recently shared the data seen below. Sorout is the one that predicted closer to $12,000 that the coin would explode toward all-time highs once it broke out.
As he notes, the funding rates of top Bitcoin futures markets have begun to swing dramatically higher over the past two days.
The funding rate is the recurring fee that long positions pay short positions to keep the price of a future close to the price of the spot market. Extremely high funding rates mean that there are longs out leveraging shorts, and vice-versa.
Bitcoin’s funding rates on leading margin exchanges like ByBit and FTX are reaching highs not seen in literal months, since the $12,500 peak in the summer. In some cases, the funding rate is exceeding those seen in the summer.
Sorout thinks that this is a good sign that Bitcoin’s near-term upside will likely be rather limited.
btw Bitcoin's near term upside looks limited
Deriv participants are full of courage, time for caution pic.twitter.com/DKCnf5qqGH
— Mohit Sorout ? (@singhsoro) November 23, 2020
His comment comes shortly after the trader that three weeks ago predicted Bitcoin would rally to $18,000 also said he is getting skeptical about the rally. This trader noted that Bitcoin’s price action is currently falling below the parabolic uptrend that underpinned this entire rally.
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Bitcoin, a decentralized currency that defies the sway of central banks or administrators, transacts electronically, circumventing intermediaries via a peer-to-peer network.
Horizen
$28.1446
Horizen is an inclusive ecosystem where everyone is empowered and rewarded for their contributions.
Numeraire
$16.2022
Numeraire is a global artificial intelligence tournament to predict the stock market..
Waves
$1.54607
Waves is an open blockchain protocol and development toolset for Web 3.0 applications and decentralized solutions, aiming to raise security, reliability and speed of IT systems.
VeChain
$0.05014
VeChain is an enterprise-focused blockchain ecosystem that aims to enhance supply chain management by connecting blockchain technology with the real world through ‘a comprehensive governance structure, a robust economic model, and advanced IoT integration’.
Cardano
$0.97793
Cardano is a decentralized public blockchain and cryptocurrency project and is fully open source.
IOTA
$0.33163
IOTA is focused on being useful for the emerging machine-to-machine (m2m) economy of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), data integrity, micro-/nano- payments, and other applications where a scalable decentralized system is warranted..
Tezos
$1.42075
Tezos is a new decentralized blockchain that governs itself by establishing a true digital commonwealth.
XRP
$2.35338
The XRP Ledger is a decentralized cryptographic ledger powered by a network of peer-to-peer servers.
Bybit
Bybit is a cryptocurrency derivative trading platform established in March 2018 and registered in the BVI.
FTX
FTX is a defunct cryptocurrency exchange, currently in bankruptcy proceedings, that was founded by Sam Bankman-Fried and Zixiao “Gary” Wang in May 2019.