- Polygon outgrew Solana in terms of market cap.
- It witnessed growth in the NFT sector; however, prices continued to decline.
According to a 29 December tweet by economist Alex Kruger, жакынкы окуялар даярданышууда Солана [SOL], doubling its marketcap to twice that of Көп бурчтук [MATIC]. One reason for the growing interest in Polygon could be its emerging NFT market.
$ MATIC market cap > 2 * $ SOL базар капкак pic.twitter.com/dydCTPNKDz
- Alex Krüger (@krugermacro) December 29, 2022
окуу Полигондун [MATIC] баасын болжолдоо 2023-2024
Stolen y00t
Over the last week, major NFT collections, such as y00ts from the Solana network, migrated to other cryptocurrencies. Along with that, other events such as Donald Trump launching his NFT collection on Polygon and social media giants such as Reddit жана Instagram collaborating with Polygon impacted the NFT market positively.
According to data provided by Dune Analytics, the weekly volume for Polygon’s NFT marketplaces increased.
Булак: Дун Аналитика
Even though Polygon generated interest in its NFTs, the same interest wasn’t reflected in MATIC’s prices. The price of the token declined after 14 December. The price stayed in the $0.81 and $0.77 range for a week and declined further by 8.19%.
MATIC was testing the $0.745 support at press time. Its RSI was in the oversold region, suggesting that there could be a possibility of a price reversal. However, the CMF at -0.17 indicated that the money flow was not in MATIC’s favor.
Source: Соода кароо
Despite Polygon’s declining price, stakers on the network continued to show their faith in the cryptocurrency.
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According to data provided by Staking Rewards, the number of stakers on the network grew by 14.38%. The stakers continued to support the network despite their revenue declining. At the time of writing, the number of stakers on the network was 23,168. The revenue they generated was $9.13 million.
Булак: Staking Rewards
Although the number of stakers continued to increase on the Polygon network, the on-chain metrics showed that the overall activity on the network had declined.
This was indicated by the declining transaction count on the Polygon network over the last month. Coupled with that, the volume on the Polygon network fell during the same period.
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Interest from new addresses decreased as well, as evidenced by the sinking network growth observed on the Polygon network. This suggested that the frequency with which new addresses were transferring MATIC took a hit.
Булак: Сантимент
That said, at the time of writing, MATIC was trading at $0.759. Its price fell by 3.14% in the last 24 hours.
Source: https://ambcrypto.com/polygon-overtakes-solana-in-terms-of-marketcap-but-heres-an-issue/