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PancakeSwap price had a strong performance in September as demand for top Decentralized Finance (DeFi) tokens rose. CAKE rose to a high of $5.088, which was the highest level since May 12. It has risen by more than 100% from the lowest level this year, giving it a market cap of more than $676 million.

CAKE had a good September

PancakeSwap is a leading player in the decentralized finance industry and is the biggest DEX in the BNB Smart Chain. It is a platform that makes it possible for people to buy and sell cryptocurrencies in a decentralized manner. According to CoinMarketCap, it handles more than $115 million on a daily basis. 

Unlike Uniswap and dYdX, PancakeSwap the network makes it possible for people to swap tokens and provide liquidity and earn returns. The network has also expanded its ecosystem to include betting and predictions and even NFT trading. 

In total, PancakeSwap has a total value locked (TVL) of more than $2.92 billion. In the past 24 hours, the network raised over $430k in fees leading to revenue of $51k. 

CAKE price has done well in the past few months mostly because of the stability of the DeFi industry. Indeed, other DeFi tokens have done well in the past few weeks. This includes tokens like Lido, Aave, Uniswap, and Maker. 

After the collapse of centralized projects like Celsius, Vauld, and Voyager Token, many analysts believe that users will continue to move to decentralized platforms. For one, they are more secure than centralized ones because of their open-source nature.

PancakeSwap price prediction

The daily chart shows that the CAKE price has been in a strong bullish trend in the past few days. It has risen by more than 100% from the lowest level in June. The coin has risen above the 25-day and 50-day moving averages. It has also moved slightly above the important resistance level at $4.6 while the Relative Strength Index (RSI) has continued rising.

Therefore, there is a likelihood that the coin will continue rising as bulls target the next key resistance level at $7.5, which is about 60% above the current level. This is an important price since it was the lowest point on April 12.

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 Someone wake up Green Day, because September is about to end.

So, what happened this month in crypto? And how do we look as we turn the page to October?

Bitcoin and Ethereum lag

Nothing too major, but Bitcoin and Ethereum trended down over the month. Interestingly, Bitcoin drew down more than Ethereum, which is unusual compared to the pattern we have seen historically, where Ethereum is generally the more volatile of the two.

 The Merge was the big news, of course, as Ethereum completed the biggest blockchain upgrade in history on September 15^th. The event came and went without a hitch, although pricing didn’t do much – suggesting it was priced in ahead of time, as many suspected.

In the short-term, there is not much the Merge has affected regarding price, but it will be fascinating to track going forwards now that the pipeline underworking the Ethereum ecosystem has been completely transformed.

I’ve written before about my thoughts that the staking yield could even act as a “risk-free” proxy for the world of De-Fi, helping provide a framework for valuations and laying the groundwork for ETH to mature even more.  

 The groundwork should also allow Ethereum to decouple from Bitcoin. I have long viewed Bitcoin as money and Ethereum as tech, and I think this move further accentuates the dichotomy – money needs proof of work, but the base of a DeFi system does not.

But these are long-term considerations and in the medium-term, we are still very much correlated.

On-chain

Let’s jump on-chain to see any notable indicators that jumped out to me over the month.

Firstly, given Ethereum completed the aforementioned Merge, there is obviously no more need for miners on the network. This is the exact opposite of ground-breaking news, but it is still cool to see the hash rate drop to zero in the below chart.

IntoTheBlock shows a neat graph below of the net issuance of ETH dropping after the Merge. It has not fallen to deflationary, which was a narrative many had pushed in the leadup to the Merge.

As I said in previous analyses, I believe this was more a case of naively following a “deflationary means price go up and I want price to go up so I will say ETH will be deflationary” kind of logic. But again, Merge went perfectly and it’s cool seeing the issuance rate drop so drastically.  

However, perhaps more sombrely is Ethereum fees dropping 80% quarter over quarter. This is for no other reason than a good old-fashioned fall in demand. The macro situation remains absolutely abhorrent and it follows that demand for the network is down (I’m likely being a little harsh as Layer 2’s are partially exacerbating this fall in fees but it is largely due to an overall fall in demand).

Flicking over to Bitcoin, the percentage of long-term holders – aka diamond handers – continues to creep back up towards its all-time high of close to 64%, set this time last year. The data shows that this demographic – defines as those holding Bitcoin for longer than a year – remain unmoved, and this latest bearish month is no different.

Mining

I was curious as to whether there would be an increase in the hash rate on Bitcoin following the Ethereum merge.

Looking at the graph below, showing the last three months, there does not appear to be much movement. This makes sense, I suppose – there are other coins which miners are able to flick over to easier with their equipment rather than Bitcoin.

Top of that list is good old Ethereum Classic – a coin which I had largely forgotten about until I noticed its hash rate had ballooned to an all-time high on the date of the Merge, nearly 4Xing overnight.

Conclusion

In truth, this month was about the Merge and nothing more. We can talk about on-chain indicators all we like, and as a blockchain junkie myself, I am more than happy to do so.

But the reality is that in the short term, the only thing that matters for crypto is the macro situation. The lack of activity on price around the Merge proves this.

Crypto has been, and will continue to, trade like leveraged bets on the S&P 500 going forward. So strap in and tune in to the words of Jerome Powell, because that is all that really matters until we get some macro momentum again and things can start to move.

Welcome back, Green Day.

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Bitgert price erased most of the gains it made in August in September. BRISE, the platform’s native token, slipped to a low of $0.00000046 in September, which was about 65% below the highest level in August. According to CoinMarketCap, Bitgert has a market cap of over $223 million.

Why did BRISE retreat?

Bitgert is an upcoming blockchain project that aims to become the best alternative to popular smart contract providers like Ethereum, Cardano, and Solana. Its key benefits are that Bitgert is significantly faster than its competitors and is much cheaper to operate. 

On speed, Bitgert can handle more than 100k transactions per second. This is a high speed considering that giant platforms like Visa and Mastercard process less than 30k transactions per second. At the same time, Bitgert has near zero gas fees. This means that it millions of transactions cost less than $5. 

Bitgert price did well in August as the ecosystem expanded and after the developers announced plans to launch a new operating system. During the month, the total value locked (TVL) of its ecosystem rose to more than $11 million, helped by Spynx. 

In September, however, the situation turned around, with the TVL crashing to less than $6 million. Sphynx’s TVL has dropped by more than 47% in the past 30 days while that of IcecreamSwap dropped by more than 28%.

⚡️ Partnership Ann: @CryptoRubic to integrate Bitgert chain!

Rubic can swap any of 15,000+ tokens, on and between 13 blockchains in one transaction#BRISE #BITGERT pic.twitter.com/iInKK9dAdc

— Bitgert – $BRISE (@bitgertbrise) September 22, 2022

Bitgert had several important announcements in September. For example, Huobi Global listed BRISE, which is a major thing considering that Huobi is one of the leading exchanges in the industry. As a result, Midas NFT and Bitgert announced that they had burned 12.4 billion BRISE.

Bitgert also launched a new influencer grant program as it seeks to grow its ecosystem. Further, Incentive and CryptoRubric integrated with Bitgert. All these are steps in the right direction as Bitgert aims to become a mainstream platform.

Bitgert price prediction

The four-hour chart shows that BRISE has been in an overall bearish trend in the past few weeks. In this period, it formed a descending channel that is shown in green. The coin also managed to move below the 25-day and 50-day moving averages. 

The current price of $0.00000055 is also its lowest point on August 19. At the same time, the MACD and the Awesome Oscillator have continued moving downwards. Therefore, while the overall trend is bearish, a bullish breakout to $0.0000010 will likely happen in October.

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Filecoin price mirrored that of other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Litecoin. FIL was trading at $6 on Friday, which is slightly above its year-to-date low of $4.9. It has crashed by more than 84% this year, making it one of the worst performers in the cryptocurrency industry.

Filecoin is still growing

Filecoin is a leading blockchain project that seeks to solve some of the biggest challenges in the tech industry. The platform helps to simplify the file storage industry that is now dominated by a few large companies like Microsoft and Google.

Filecoin makes it possible for anyone with a computer or smartphone to share their storage and then receive compensation. These users are paid using FIL, the native token for the ecosystem. 

According to the developers, the number of people using the platform to store files and provide data is increasing. There are now over 20,000 such users who are storing more than 50 million data objects. At the same time, the number of developers using the network has risen to over 7,000. Most of these developers are from the United States, South Korea, and Hong Kong.

The next major catalyst for Filecoin is the upcoming upgrade that will introduce the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM). The upgrade, which will happen in early next year, will be a virtual computer that developers can use to build their applications.

Still, there are concerns about the future of Filecoin and other similar decentralized storage platforms. For one, most people and companies find using centralized platforms like AWS and Azure being fine. 

Another challenge is that many file storage providers could find it difficult to be paid in FIL. Unlike stablecoins, the cryptocurrency is highly volatile and has lost more than 80% of its value this year.

Filecoin price prediction

The daily chart shows that the FIL price has been in a tight range in the past few days. As a result, it is consolidating at the 25-day and 50-day moving averages. It has formed a head and shoulders pattern whose neckline is at $4.95. 

At the same time, the MACD and the Awesome Oscillator are hovering at their neutral levels. Therefore, there is a likelihood that the coin will have a bearish breakout. This view will be confirmed if the coin manages to move below the important support at $4.95.

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HBAR price has been in the defensive in the past few months as demand for the coin slips. Hedera Hashgraph dropped to a low of $0.57 on Friday, which is an important support level. This price is about 90% below the all-time high of $0.5800. Its market cap has slipped to more than $1.3 billion.

ServiceNow launches ESG Ledger

Hedera Hashgraph is a leading blockchain project that counts some of the biggest companies in technology as its partners and validators. Some of these firms are Google, IBM, Avery Dennison, and Deutsche Telekom as its partners. Most of these firms have used Hedera’s technology to build some of their blockchain projects.

Servicenow became a Hedera Hashgraph validator a few months ago. And this week, the company unveiled its first project that is built using the technology. The Now Platform is a new ESG Public Ledger. This ledger tracks all the audit logs and orchestrates token-related activities verifiably.

This ledger is important because of the number of entities involved in ensuring that companies meet their ESG goals. For example, there is a marketplace or exchange that allows the matching of demand and supply through a price discovery mechanism. There are also financial intermediaries, the ecological project, and the financial intermediary.

Servicenow selected Hedera because of the significant speeds of its network and the fact that it is one of the greenest blockchains in the world. For example, according to the Center for Blockchain Technology, it uses about 0.04 Wh per transaction.

HBAR price has also lagged even as Hedera’s DeFi ecosystem makes some progress. According to DeFi Llama, the total value locked (TVL) in Hedera has moved from zero to over $17 million. This growth was helped by Stader, a new liquid staking project. 

HBAR price prediction

The daily chart shows that the Hedera Hashgraph price has been under intense pressure in the past few months. This performance was in line with that of other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Litecoin. Indeed, the coin has remained in a tight range at $0.06 just as BTC is hovering at $20,000. 

HBAR remains below all moving averages while the MACD has remained at the neutral level. Therefore, the outlook of this coin is neutral with a bearish bias. A drop below the support at $0.05 will signal that bears have prevailed, which could push it much lower.

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