First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Holding Up at $19.5K Despite Bearish Conditions

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Price Point

Bitcoin (BTC) managed to stay at about $19,500 on Tuesday, up 1% on the day. The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value appears to be holding up well despite bearish news and economic uncertainty. The CoinDesk Market Index slipped 0.3%.

U.S. stocks surged in premarket trading on Tuesday and European stocks gained as investors awaited another batch of corporate earnings.

Bitcoinsold off last week after the U.S. Consumer Price Index came in worse than expected, but the cryptocurrency quickly recovered.

“The fact that crypto is holding up so well with bearish news tells me that the market is already too well positioned for the downside and is happy to take on some risk going forward,” Matteo Bottacini, an analyst at Crypto Finance AG, wrote in a note Tuesday morning.

Ether (ETH) made small gains over the last 24 hours, Lido DAO was up 5%, and Polygon’s MATIC was also up 5%.

Exchange tokens were trading in the green with Crypto.com’s CRO posting a 5% gain on the day and Huobi’s token HT up 3.5%.

CoinDesk Market Index

Biggest Gainers

Asset Ticker Returns DACS Sector Ankr ANKR +15.92% Computing XYO XYO +13.99% Computing Ocean Protocol OCEAN +5.63% Computing

Biggest Losers

Asset Ticker Returns DACS Sector JasmyCoin JASMY -7.59% Computing Polymath POLY -5.98% DeFi Quant QNT -5.46% Currency

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Crypto Market May Be in Doldrums, but Web3 Developers Are More Active Than Ever

By Omkar Godbole

• Weekly downloads of crypto-related JavaScript codes have increased 10 times since 2018 and tripled in the past 12 months.
• Contrary to 2017 and 2020, which saw smart contract deployment drop 45% mid-cycle, smart contract deployments have increased 50% since 2021.
• It shows that "blockchain technology adoption continues strongly despite the drop in crypto prices," Ilan Solot, a partner at the Tagus Capital Multi-Strategy Fund, said.