Since the collapse of FTX, Solana has been moving sideways, consolidating above $12. But now the price action is giving hints that this may change soon, and interestingly, the positivity came a day after SBF was arrested. Solana Price Analysis Key Support levels: $12.5 Key Resistance levels: $15.5 Solana found good support at $12, and the price never went under this key level since November. Buyers now appear eager to take SOL higher and challenge the resistance at $15. While...
Read More »Almost $1B Worth of Solana Tokens to Be Unlocked by Thursday
Solana’s Epoch 370 is set to end in a little under 24 hours, and with it will come the unlocking of over 47 million SOL tokens by validators. This massive token unlock is coming at a time of significant market tumult, not just for Solana but for the entire crypto space following the FTX collapse. According to data from the Solana dashboard, 47,289,526 SOL, worth nearly $1 billion, is set to be unlocked in Epoch 370. An epoch in Solana is a period where validators cannot...
Read More »Solana Jumps to 2-Month High After Google Runs a Validator Node (Weekend Watch)
Despite getting stopped at $21,500 and retracing by a few hundred dollars, bitcoin has still managed to stay above $21,000. Most altcoins are calmer today on a daily scale, while Solana jumped to a two-month high at almost $40. Bitcoin Still Above $21K The start of November brought a lot of volatility for the primary cryptocurrency, mostly coming from US-related events. It began on Wednesday when the Federal Reserve said it will raise the key interest rates by 75 basis...
Read More »Crypto Price Analysis Oct-21: ETH, XRP, ADA, BNB, and SOL
This week, we take a closer look at Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Binance Coin, and Solana. Ethereum (ETH) Ethereum’s price has remained largely flat with little volatility. For this reason, it is almost identical to seven days ago. Momentum and volume continue to move sideways with no perceivable trend at this time. The key support remains at $1,250, and the resistance at $1,400. The price is stuck in a channel, and it can comfortably move sideways until the end of the month...
Read More »SOL Drops 6% as Solana Suffered Another Network Outage
The Solana blockchain experienced yet another outage late on Friday, but it’s back online after getting restarted. The protocol’s native cryptocurrency dropped by 6% daily as a consequence of the latest network outage. The Solana Status Twitter page informed late last night about the network issues as it stopped processing transactions. Shortly after, Stakewiz – an entity operating a validator node on Solana – provided more details, saying validators stopped voting at 22:41...
Read More »Crypto Price Analysis September-23: Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Solana, and Binance Coin
This week, we take a closer look at Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Solana, and Binance Coin. Ethereum (ETH) Despite the bullish fundamentals of Ethereum’s merge, the price of the second largest cryptocurrency has continued its downtrend and registered a 10% loss in the past seven days. At the time of this post, ETH managed to find some support at $1,250, but this level remains fragile. The resistance is not far away at $1,400, and bears will likely come in strong if the price...
Read More »Crypto Price Analysis August 26: Ethereum, Cardano, Ripple, Binance Coin, & Solana
In today’s overview, we take a closer look at Ethereum, Cardano, Ripple, Binance Coin, and Solana. Ethereum Ethereum might be down 9.1% this week, but it’s recovering well from the latest collapse. The cryptocurrency fell from above $1,800 last Friday and continued to decline during the weekend until it found support at the 50-day MA level. It rebounded from the 50-day MA and started to climb throughout the week. Yesterday, it found resistance at the 20-day MA level and the...
Read More »SOL With Another Attempt at $44, Will The Bulls Finally Make It? (Solana Price Analysis)
After two failed attempts to break above the $44 level, Solana is back at it again. Key Support levels: $40, $35 Key Resistance levels: $44, $59 The bulls are seemingly very eager to push the price higher. The cryptocurrency rallied above the $4 key resistance level today but is now falling back down. If the buyers fail to sustain the momentum, then this might result in the third failed attempt at breaking this important level. The key support, meanwhile, is found at $40....
Read More »3 Ways to Mitigate Future Network Outages, Solana’s Team Reports
NFT buying frenzy has disrupted not only Ethereum. Solana witnessed the clogging of millions of NFT transactions on its network due to bot activity targeted at such mints. Block production resumed on Sunday, and the operators managed to restart the main network successfully. Mitigation Steps In a new blog post, Solana devs outlined three mitigation steps to tackle such congestion issues. QUIC Adoption: Solana core protocols are being reimplemented atop Google-built protocol...
Read More »Crypto Markets Shed $130B, Bitcoin Dumps to 2-Month Low (Market Watch)
Bitcoin continues to gradually lose value and dropped to a near two-month low of just over $37,000. The altcoins are also deep in the red, with notable price losses from Solana, Cardano, Terra, Polkadot, and many others. Bitcoin Sees 2-Month Low It’s safe to say that the primary cryptocurrency has seen better days. In fact, they weren’t all that long ago, as BTC neared $41,000 roughly a week ago but was rejected in its tracks. The subsequent correction drove the asset south...
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