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Top-rated cryptocurrencies to consider for daily active traders

Day trading crypto is very easy these days. The crypto market is after all filled with lots of derivatives. It is estimated that the daily volume in the crypto derivatives market is more than $3 trillion. With these numbers, it’s no wonder many traders are using these assets. Here is why day trading crypto makes sense:

  • The market offers very high volatility daily.

  • You do not need a huge account to day trade crypto.

  • There is a massive variety of crypto assets to day trade.

Well, in case you are not sure which assets are perfectly ideal for an active crypto day trader, the suggestions below should help:

Dogecoin (DOGE)

As far as volatility goes, very few can measure up to DogeCoin (DOGE). As one of the leading meme coins, DOGE also has massive trade volume thanks to its market cap of around $17 billion. 

Data Source: Tradingview 

With that in mind, the price action on DOGE will always fluctuate by a large extent on a regular basis. This gives active day traders a huge range of entry points to profit from DOGE. But there are of course, certain risks that come with highly volatile assets. Make sure you employ proper capital management.

ThorChain (RUNE)

ThorChain (RUNE) is not nearly as big as DOGE, but it still has excellent volume. This is a coin that has a market cap of $1.2 billion. Therefore, RUNE typically exchanges hands a lot of times on any given day, making it a decent target for a day trader. The coin is also known for high volatility as well.

Ethereum Classic (ETC)

With a daily market cap of around $3.7 billion, incredible name recognition, and significant circulating supply, Ethereum Classic (ETC) is also a great fit for active day traders. It is a bit expensive though, since one coin right now sells for around $27. But it should be worth it.

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The Best borrowing and lending crypto protocols to consider as an investment

DeFi is no doubt the next big thing, and the blockchain industry is offering the infrastructure needed for that. Lending and borrowing are two big parts of the DeFi ecosystem. The good news is that there are certain projects in this area that offer very good prospects. Here is why lending and borrowing protocols matter:

  • Lending and borrowing are at the heart of DeFi right now.

  • There is a huge demand for these protocols as people transition from traditional CeFi.

  • Most of these projects are also grossly undervalued.

So, if you are not sure which lending and borrowing protocols you can invest your money in, here is a list to consider:

Aave (AAVE)

Aave (AAVE) is one of the leading DeFi protocols in the market right now. The platform is designed to act as a liquidity provider for exchanges across the crypto-verse. Users simply deposit their crypto assets in liquidity pools which are then used to provide liquidity in the market where it’s needed. 

Data Source: Tradingview 

The users then earn a percentage of the transaction fees charged by these exchanges. Aave (AAVE) has grown immensely over the years. At the time of writing this post, this coin was trading at $140 with a market cap of around $1.9 billion.

PhoenixDAO (PHNX)

In case you are looking for an untapped asset in the lending and borrowing space, then PhoenixDAO (PHNX) is a huge bet. The coin is relatively small in fact, right now it has a market cap of just $1.8 million. This is a project that could realistically grow 10x easily. There are also plans to add more functionality to the Phoenix ecosystem in the near future.

Venus (XVS)

Venus (XVS) is an automated market maker protocol designed to provide liquidity in the market. It works the same as Aave. The coin has a market cap of $107 million and is trading at $9 at the moment. It is worth looking at.

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Why has Terra (LUNA) jumped 13% today?

Once again, the price of Terra (LUNA) is has soared past $55 as it attempts to regain a bullish trend.

At the time of writing, it was trading at $61.56 up 13.18% in the last 24 hours and it has hit a daily high of $63.99 and a daily low of $52.71.

Why Terra (LUNA) is surging?

One of the main reasons for Terra (LUNA) price surge is the recent raising of $1 billion by Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) through an over-the-counter sale of LUNA to form a UST reserve in Bitcoin.

For a background, LFG is a non-profit organization that was launched in early January 2022 to facilitate Terra ecosystem growth.

Some of the participants of the LUNA sale include the Three Arrows Capital, Jump Crypto, DeFiance, Tribe Capital, GSR, and Republic Capital among others.

Claims are that LFG chose Bitcoin-dominated Forex Reserve because it is less correlated to the Terra ecosystem.

How the UST reserve works

Terra native stablecoin UST is a popular algorithmic stablecoin in the DeFi ecosystems that does not use collateral to maintain its price and is the first of its kind and it has a market capitalization of more than $22 billion.

According to Terra:

“When the demand for Terra is high and the supply is limited, the price of Terra increases. When the demand for Terra is low and the supply is too large, the price of Terra decreases. The protocol ensures the supply and demand of Terra are always balanced, leading to a stable price.”

New Terra-based stablecoins can be minted by burning LUNA tokens or burning UST to mint LUNA. But the challenge is the hypothetical risk of a ‘bank run’ Scenario and its reflexive nature.

Concerning the choice of Bitcoin as a reserve asset, LFG said:

“Although the widespread adoption of UST as a consistently stable asset through market volatility should already refute this, a decentralized Reserve can provide an additional avenue to maintain the peg in contractionary cycles that reduces the reflexivity of the system.”

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Cryptocurrency survives another day

If CoinMarketCap was your first port of call to check your portfolio this morning, your heart rate may have spiked. That’s because the following message would have greeted you on the homepage:

Navigating to the graph section, you then would have seen the below monstrosity for the global cryptocurrency market cap:

Are your palms sweaty? Knees weak, arms heavy?

But fear not, in an exclusive reveal, we can confirm that the cryptocurrency market cap did not, in fact, collapse 92% overnight. Don’t worry, everything is going to be OK.

Of course, it’s merely a technical issue with the CoinMarketCap site. But the fact that, when I first saw the graph, my mind immediately jumped to how much I could make from selling one of my kidneys is testament to how volatile the crypto market is. That even for a split second, I got the fright of my life; that there is even a 0.001% chance it could be true. And I wasn’t alone – there was a large trend increase for the term “global crypto market cap”, despite markets not moving much this morning.

Can you imagine reading the stock market has crashed 92% overnight? You’d immediately laugh. After all, the S&P 500 has a circuit breaker which automatically halts trading in the event of a 7% drop. For cryptocurrency, a 7% drop is just a slow day at the office (indeed I need to go back a whole SIX DAYS, to last Thursday, to see the most recent daily fall of greater than 7% for Bitcoin).

Maybe I’m still scarred from memories of the crash last May, when $1 trillion in market value evaporated in a week. Or January 2018, when Bitcoin shed 65 percent in a month. Or the start of the pandemic in March 2020, when Bitcoin fell 50% in two days. Or…well I don’t need to go on, you get the picture.

Because for all the institutional adoption, mainstream media coverage and incredible progress in the cryptocurrency space over the last two years, let us not forget that it’s still a nascent asset class. Bitcoin, people often overlook, was created only 13 years ago. When the stock market crashed in October 2008, blockchain technology didn’t exist. There is a hope in time that the volatility will come down to “manageable” levels, but right now we are still privy to the capricious desires of the crypto gods.

To put some numbers around this volatility (although, if you are a crypto holder, your heart rate will tell you all you need to know), the latest 30 day estimate of Bitcoin’s volatility is 3.32% according to buybitcoinworldwide.com – i.e. Bitcoin fluctuates 3.32% daily relative to its price. For context, gold is at 1.2% with most major fiat currencies falling between 0.5% to 1% relative to the US dollar. Of course, these are just 30 day estimates, yet still the volatility of Bitcoin blows the reference cases out of the water. And it’s been quite a “boring” year thus far in 2022 for Bitcoin, relatively speaking.

Furthermore, total cryptocurrency market cap captures all coins – not just Bitcoin. And yes, you know it, Bitcoin is the most stable of the cryptocurrencies. Relative to some of the moves alt coins have made over the last year or two, the Bitcoin chart resembles a US T-bill.

So, if you’re like me and your stress levels spiked this morning, don’t worry – we are still alive and well. Sure, our life expectancy has probably dropped a little lower, although I guess that’s what we sign up for as cryptocurrency holders. As the old saying goes: If you can’t handle the heat, go buy bonds.

Having said that, however, to the folks at CoinMarketCap – please, don’t scare us like that again.

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Tezos price is up 7% today: Here’s why an analyst says it could jump over 450% by mid-year

  • XTZ price jumped more than 7% on Wednesday to break above $3.00.
  • The cryptocurrency’s value could hit over $13.00 in the next two or three months if bulls hold above a critical support level.
  • The gains could reach 450%, says Ali Martinez.

Tezos has traded higher in the past 24 hours, breaking above $3.00 after a 7% jump aided by a broader upside in the crypto market.

As of writing, the native XTZ token is changing hands around $3.18, having raced to an intraday high of $3.23. Looking at the XTZ/USD chart, we see the cryptocurrency has moved higher from late January support levels. 

Another surge could push the token’s price even higher, especially if bulls hold key support levels in the face of prevailing market conditions. If not, a fresh downside could push prices to new lows below $2.00.

Analyst says Tezos could rally 450% or more

The above outlook is shared by crypto analyst Ali Martinez. According to the analyst, the XTZ price on the weekly log suggests a potential 450%+ jump if bulls hold to keep prices within an ascending channel since October 2019.

“If the channel’s lower edge around $2.50 continues to hold, XTZ could rise to the pattern’s upper trendline at $13.6,” he noted on Twitter before the coins bounce above $3.00.

As outlined by the analyst, the upside to the channel’s upper boundary could mean a massive rally in the region of 458%. Has Tezos rallied this hard before?

In September 2020, Tezos‘ price fell more than 60% before a huge rally took it from lows of $1.70 to highs above $8.00. The bull market bounce from that bottom topped with XTZ price more than 430% up around April 2021.

The lower trendline that has acted as support as recently in September last year could yet offer the buffer bulls require to make another upside assault.

But if downside pressure, likely from macro factors such as the Russia-Ukraine crisis, Fed’s rate hikes, and negative crypto regulations, hits, Martinez says to expect a drop below $2.00.

“Breaking the $2.5 support can result in a correction to $1.80,” he tweeted.

Chart showing XTZ price in a rising parallel channel on the weekly timeframe. Source: Ali Martinez on Twitter.

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