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Merry Christmas and welcome to our weekly crypto market report.
In this report:
- The Week in Review - The FTX saga continues - SBF out on $250M bail
- Top 100 Gainers (Last 7-days) - XDC Network leads the Charts
- Small Cap Gainers (Last 30-days) - AI, DeFi & Web3 continue trending upward
- Monthly Altcoin Pick - December Altcoin Pick to be released in a few days
What's Happened This Week?
A list of the top stories for this week:
- SBF granted bail: The FTX Ex-CEO SBF landed on U.S. soil and was released the following day on $250 million bail, which requires him to stay at home with his parents.
- Sweet Caroline: Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang have entered a plea agreement with the DOJ.
- Polygon Partners with Neobank hi and Mastercard for NFT Debit Card
- South Korea freezes USD$93M in assets of former Terr-Luna associate
- DOGE-made millionaires doubles in two weeks (exceeds 2,000)
- 100 BTC tied to (failed crypto exchange) QuadrigaCX moves out of Cold Storage
Top Performing Altcoin
+671% (30-days) VAIOT (VAI) - Nano-Cap:
VAIOT combines Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to develop a portfolio of business-oriented Intelligent Virtual Assistants serving both consumers and businesses. It offers AI-based legal services such as intelligently creating custom contracts and an intelligent, digital channel for B2C and C2C transactions between the users with incentive programs utilizing VAIOT’s Blockchain and VAI Tokens.
VAIOT has a market cap of just under $10M and is one of many examples of AI technology being harnessed by the blockchain, with AI likely becoming the next big trend for 2023.
For more information, check out Small Cap Gainers (30 days) at the bottom of this post.
Bitcoin & Ethereum Price Movement
Over the last week, we continue to see marginal movement in both the price of Bitcoin ($16,875) and Ethereum ($1,222), a change of +1% and +3% respectively.
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Top 100 Gainers - Last 7 Days
Over the last 7 days, here are the biggest gainers (within the top 100):
XDC Network (XDC) +14.4% - Rank #82
XDC again makes the list this week, increasing in rank to 82nd rank (from 91). The XDC Network is an enterprise-grade, EVM-compatible blockchain equipped with interoperable smart contracts.
XDC is also a popular Masternode, with over 260 masternodes online.
Hummingbot, a DeFi market-making platform that launched a 12-week liquidity mining campaign for XDC, is likely the reason for the continued increase in value.
Helium (HNT) +10.5% - Rank #96
Helium (HNT) is a decentralized blockchain-powered network for the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and has popularized passive income through the use of its nodes. Nodes come in the form of 'Hotspots', which are a combination of a wireless gateway and a blockchain mining device whereby users who operate nodes (like mining) can earn rewards in Helium’s native token, HNT.
The increase in the price of HNT has been attributed to news of its migration to Solana in Q1 2023.
Cronos (CRO) +7.7% - Rank #28
Cronos is a project developed by Crypto.com, primarily for the users of Crypto.com, a trading and financial services company. CRO owners can stake their coins on the Crypto.com Chain to act as a validator and earn fees for processing transactions on the network.
The increase in the value of CRO is attributed to the news of a Crypto Land sale by Crypto.com, beginning on December 15th.
THORChain (RUNE) +6.7% - Rank #70
THORChain is a decentralized liquidity protocol, providing users the ability to swap one asset for another in a permissionless setting, without needing to rely on order books to source liquidity.
Two months ago, THORChain suffered a 20-hour chain pause which resulted in a significant decline in their token price. Subsequent to the event, the price of THORChain has continued to increase.
Largest Small Cap Gainers in the last 30 days
The greatest gains within the cryptocurrency market are within the nano, micro & small market capitalized projects.
Despite the current bear market, these are the small market cap projects that have performed well over the last 30 days:
- VAI +671% - AI Assistant and on-chain Intelligent Contracts (Nano-Cap)
- MAN +205% - AI for Avatar Intelligence (Matrix) (Nano-Cap)
- THOR +203% - Decentralized Cross-chain Exchange (Micro-Cap)
- POLIS +106% - Metaverse Gaming (Micro-Cap)
The two biggest gainers in the last month have been within the AI space, with VAI increasing by +671%.
With the release of ChatGPT a few weeks ago, the world's attention has been focused on its incredible capabilities and it's only a matter of time before we begin to see more blockchain-based AI projects. I believe AI-based blockchain projects will be one of the biggest trending sectors within the industry, followed by DeFi and Web 3.0.
Almost every week a new and upcoming AI project makes this list, giving credence to AI becoming one of the biggest trends for 2023.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!
Until the next report,
Richard
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