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Market highlights January 17: Cardano stands tall, US stocks continue poor start to 2022

The crypto market is bearish today as a whole.  Jamaica plans to roll out its digital currency in the next few months and its Prime Minister expects that within five years 70% of the population will use it.

Retail giant Walmart is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency and has recently filed several trademark applications outlining its plans.

US stocks remain underwater following a difficult start to 2022, with the SPX500 losing 0.3% and the DJ30 sliding 0.88% last week.

Real estate was the worst-performing US sector last week, with American Tower Corporation and Crown Castle International both falling more than 5%.

Top cryptos

Cardano was the only top 10 crypto in the green over the past 24 hours, gaining more than 10%, and up 30% over the past week.

On the losing side, Polkadot fell more than 4.5% and Solana was down around 3%. Bitcoin was trading just under $43,000 at time of writing.

Top movers

Monero emerged as a clear winner today with gains of just over 6%. THORChain is up almost 7%. Oasis Network continues its impressive rise. Its native token ROSE added 7% to its value in the last 24 hours.  

OKB, a cryptocurrency released by the OK Blockchain Foundation and Maltese crypto exchange, OKEx, is also up 7% today. The same goes for Kava, a cross-chain DeFi lending platform that allows users to borrow USDX stablecoins and deposit a variety of cryptocurrencies to begin earning a yield.

At the other end is Loopring with a loss of 6% and Kadena, which is down 8%. Ravencoin, which was gaining alongside Loopring and Kadena last week, is also reversing wins with a decline of 6% in the last 24 hours.

Trending

The live Request price today is $0.355 with a 24-hour trading volume of $86.6 million. The token has gained 24% in the last 24 hours. 

LooksRare is a community-focused NFT marketplace that actively rewards traders and creators for participating. It is also trending with gains of 16% today.

The biggest winner is the token of Avaxtars, an idle browser game running on the Avalanche Blockchain with the Play to Earn model. Avaxtars Token is up 236% in the last 24 hours, partially on news of a new partnership with Kaira Network. 

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Not another dog meme coin: see where to buy Baby Doge Coin now

Baby Doge Coin is widely regarded as the offspring of Dogecoin, the first dog meme coin. It has learned a few tricks and lessons from his meme father. Baby Doge is up 12% in the last 24 hours, but does it have staying power? 

This short guide has everything you need to know about this, including the top places to buy Baby Doge Coin today.    

Top places to buy Baby Doge Coin now

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Pepperstone

CFD broker Pepperstone was founded in Melbourne, Australia in 2010 by a team of experienced traders with a shared commitment to improving the world of online trading. Pepperstone has grown rapidly in a relatively short time and is now one of the largest MetaTrader brokers in the world. Over 300,000 traders around the world already trust the Pepperstone brand. A total of 1000+ tradable instruments are offered. In addition to 60 currency pairs, the broker also offers 14 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, Dogecoin, Ripple etc. for trading as CFDs.

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What is Baby Doge Coin?

A new crypto birthed by fans of the doge meme online community, Baby Doge seeks to impress his father by showing new and improved transaction speeds. BabyDoge was launched in June 2021 with an ambitious roadmap that includes efforts for pet charity, NFT creation, GameFi and more.

It is a deflationary token designed to become scarcer over time. Holders of Baby Doge will earn more coins that are automatically sent to their wallets by simply holding. 

The amount of baby doge coins in holders’ wallets increases all the time because they automatically receive a 5% fee from every transaction occurring on the Baby Doge ecosystem.

Should I buy Baby Doge Coin today?

Read at least several price predictions before you commit to an investment in this crypto meme coin. You make any investment at your own risk.   

Baby Doge Coin price prediction

According to Wallet Investor, the price of Baby Doge Coin will increase long-term, but only slightly, making it a rather poor investment. Their price prognosis for 2027 is $0.000000011. With a 5-year investment, the revenue is expected to be around +83.33%. 

A $100 investment in BabyDoge will be worth just $183.33 in 2027.  

Baby Doge Coin on social media

 

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Bitcoin is ‘a tool for social justice’: ex-Fed official

  • Communities can now create wealth and move towards financial freedom by investing in Bitcoin, the former audit manager at the Fed said.

  • She noted that crypto allows people in Black and Latino communities to access wealth that is otherwise inaccessible via the traditional financial system.

Bitcoin has been singled out as a tool for creating generational wealth and imparting financial freedom to all, according to Charlene Fadirepo, a former manager at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

Fadirepo is also the founder of the fintech platform Guidefi, whose main goal is to allow women and other professionals within the community access financial and investment advice.

In an interview with Yahoo Finance this week, Fadirepo said the flagship cryptocurrency was “absolutely a tool for social justice.”

The former auditor at the US central bank believes that Bitcoin has given Black Americans and Latino Americans, particularly, access to financial tools largely inaccessible via legacy banks.

Last week, a report by MarketWatch revealed that there’s a growing gap along racial lines when it comes to access to credit in the US. According to the report, people of color (blacks) fail to secure a mortgage 84% more compared to white applicants. 

“[Bitcoin] allows communities to build wealth in communities that have been left out of the discriminatory banking system,” she told Finance Yahoo.

She also believes Bitcoin is set for further growth as more institutional money flows into the crypto industry. According to her, 2022 and beyond will continue to see more investors look at Bitcoin as an asset class.

Once that explodes and more institutions and high-net-worth individuals add BTC to their balance sheets, Bitcoin’s “big picture” will brighten even more.

She also talked about Bitcoin’s price over the past two years, comparing it with that of gold. On a 10-year basis, the benchmark cryptocurrency posted annualised returns of 200%, with 2020-2021 seeing an uptick of about 400%.

In comparison, gold’s return over the pandemic period is around 15% while in stocks, the S&P returned roughly 42%.

Individuals can invest in Bitcoin by buying the cryptocurrency and holding it for future returns or trading it on brokerages and exchanges. Some also reap huge benefits through Bitcoin mining.

Fadirepo also weighed in on the issue of crypto regulation, noting that regulatory clarity will help build trust, enhance consumer protection, and ultimately, attract more retail and institutional investors.

Apart from Bitcoin, other sectors of the crypto ecosystem providing a route to financial freedom are decentralised finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). In 2021, the NFTs industry saw sales of over $44 billion, according to a Chainalysis report.

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Meme stocks will taper off as traders turn to crypto, says fintech CEO

  • Meme stock craze is slowly fading as traders eye gains in cryptocurrencies, says Tradier chief executive officer Dan Raju.

  • He also expects 2022 to see the crypto industry benefit from increased regulatory clarity.

Remember WallStreetBets and the meme stock craze that propelled GameStop, AMC Theaters, and other poorly performing stocks to massive peaks in 2021?

Well, according to the founder of a fintech firm with credible traction in the retail trading industry, 2022 might see a completely different scenario for these stocks.

After posting staggering rallies over the first half of last year, and sending some big short sellers down, meme stocks have broadly declined and are set to see reduced interest, says Tradier CEO Dan Raju.

The Insider quotes Raju as saying that retail traders are more likely to look for opportunities in crypto this year, with an eye for meme stock-style price pumps.  In his view, active traders will look to rotate gains into digital assets and thus see stocks like GameStop and AMC Theaters begin to fade.

The Tradier chief noted that rallies in meme stocks over the past year were fueled by the Covid-19 pandemic environment. He pointed to the increased number of people who suddenly had to work from home as a catalyst. 

Market volatility, which propelled assets to new highs also played a role, Raju added.

Crypto regulation 

In 2022, he looks at regulation as key to crypto adoption as the sector affirms its asset class status. Raju believes regulation will legitimise the crypto asset class, attracting even more investors and pushing prices higher.

Many observers and industry experts have also highlighted regulation as one of the topics expected to dominate the year. A majority of the predictions suggest clear, proper regulation should attract major institutional investors, adding to the likes of MicroStrategy and PayPal.

But Raju thinks the legitimacy that regulation would give to the crypto asset class will not just attract big money institutional investors. He sees retail traders also increasing their exposure, funneling volumes out of meme stocks into crypto.

GameStop and AMC stocks 

In December 2020, the price of US-based video game retailer GameStop was around $19. However, in January 2021, the stocks’ value skyrocketed to highs of $347.51. At one time, the GME stock was more than 1,500% up on the monthly log. 

While the stock currently trades around $117 and remains 196% up over the past year, it’s down 23% YTD.

A similar trajectory is seen for AMC stock, which is 520% up this past year but has been trading lower since topping around $72.62 in June.

The AMC stock is down 22% YTD.

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PolySwam (NCT) price up 370% in three days after getting listed on major exchanges

PolySwarm (NCT), a threat detection and anti-malware project, has been on the rise in the last three days after it was listed on several major crypto exchanges including Coinbase.

Polyswarm is currently trading at $0.12 and is up 372% from where it was priced a week ago.

PolySwarm deals with cybersecurity software and it uses its native token NCT to reward users who participate in the Cybersecurity data and insights collection exercise.

Why is PolySwarm price rising?

On January 13, PolySwarm (NCT) alongside Propy (PRO), Inverse Finance (INV), and Liquidity (LQTY) were listed on Coinbase’s full retail platform.

According to Coinbase’s Twitter account, the four altcoins (PRO, INV, and LQTY) will be available in the Coinbase Android, Coinbase iOS apps, and Coinbase.com for the customers to log on, buy, send, receive, trade, or store LQTY, INV, PRO and NCT in most of the Coinbase supported regions.

Besides NCT, the prices of the four altcoins listed on Coinbase have also been on the rise. The Ethereum based token, Inverse Finance (INV) that offers a suite of banking tools for decentralized finance has also been on the rise for the last seven days rising by nearly 20%.

Propy’s native token (PRO) rose by more than 147% within this period. Its platform automates real estate transactions to save the possibility of fraud by saving time.

Liquidity native asset (LQTY), a decentralized borrowing platform, also skyrocketed by nearly 33% in the last week

Polyswarm was also listed on HuobiGlobal, Coinexcom, and MEXC-Global on the same day it was listed on Coinbase.

The listing on the four crypto exchanges has been the main catalyst for the recent NCT price surge.

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