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NFT Sector Keeps Developing – Number of Unique Ethereum NFT Traders Surged 276% in 2022 – Blockchain News, Opinion, TV and Jobs
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adminBy Paul Hoffman from BestBrokers
Looming Fed rate hikes were the hottest topic in the beginning of 2022. Shortly after that global markets dove even deeper into the red with the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Not long after the LUNA crash followed and crypto markets plunged deeply.
Unfavorable events for the global economy continued and caused further damage to all crypto assets. Despite all the negativity surrounding crypto and multiple published analyses, concluding with the announcement of “crypto winter”, the NFT sector kept developing at a good pace and our team at BestBrokers decided to pull some raw data out of the Blockchain with Dune Analytics and give a visual representation.
For the report Dune Analytics was used to run raw queries and analyse raw data from the blockchain. It also features breakdowns by year and quarter of the unique Ethereum NFT traders and the number of Ethereum NFT traders as well as expert opinion on the overall NFT trading activity.
The number of the unique active NFT traders on the Ethereum blockchain rose to over 2.07 million in 2022. Despite the negative conditions in 2022, the number of active NFT traders on the Ethereum network surged 276% compared to 2021.
Initially the number of trades plummeted 22.48% in the fourth quarter of 2022 but bounced back nicely in the first quarter of 2023, which already makes this year look promising.
Despite the falling prices and the much lower trading volume for most of the cryptocurrencies, the number of the unique active NFT traders on the Ethereum blockchain rose to over 2.07 million in 2022 or 276% compared to 2021.
“The fact that NFTs kept traders’ attention during such tough times for the whole investing world means that there is something special about this asset. With the crypto prices expected to only rise from this point on, NFT will become even more mainstream and eventually will bring a lot of younger investors to the markets”
Stable overall trading activity
Ethereum NFT trading activity initially skyrocketed to almost 3 million trades for the third quarter of 2021 with BTC and Ethereum reaching all time high. However, this trend remained stable despite the turbulent 2022, only dropping in the fourth quarter of 2022 when the Fed rate reached (and exceeded) the 4% mark for the first time in 15 years.
Even after the number of trades plummeted 22.48% in the fourth quarter of 2022, it still bounced back in the first quarter of 2023 with the number of trades in this current first quarter already 6.65% higher as of 15 March 2023.
“Such stable activity, despite crypto and global markets having one of the most turbulent years in their history, only strengthens the expectations that NFTs will be one of the most popular trading instruments in the future. We have seen the power of retail investors in the so-called ‘meme stocks’ rallies in the past year, now we see it in the NFT trading.”
– comments Alang Goldberg, analyst at BestBrokers.
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Analyst Benjamin Cowen Warns Ethereum ‘Still Facing Headwinds,’ Says ETH Will Only Go Up if Bitcoin Does This
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adminThe widely followed analyst Benjamin Cowen is saying that Ethereum (ETH) is at risk of facing more downside over the coming months.
In a new video, Cowen tells his 801,000 YouTube subscribers that monetary policy is likely to negatively affect Ethereum.
“I think that ETH/USD is still facing some headwinds here, especially following the potential rejection of the spot exchange-traded fund (ETF)…
…I think the impact that people are going to feel is just from tighter monetary policy. They’re going to blame it on the spot ETF and they’re going to capitulate potentially into that.”
According to Cowen, the Ethereum could go up on one condition.
“If ETH goes up from here, it would only be due to Bitcoin going up a lot more.”
The widely followed analyst says that the Ethereum/Bitcoin (ETH/BTC) pair, on the other hand, is likely to keep falling under most circumstances based on history.
“So if Ethereum goes up, Ethereum/Bitcoin is probably going to keep going down. If Bitcoin goes sideways, Ethereum/Bitcoin is going to keep going down in my opinion. And if Bitcoin goes down, Ethereum/Bitcoin probably goes down because Bitcoin has been doing all s of things since 2022 began. In eight of 10 quarters, Ethereum/Bitcoin has gone down whether Bitcoin went up, down or sideways. Ethereum/Bitcoin generally went down.”
ETH is trading at $3,002 at time of writing.
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Hackers With $182,000,000 Stolen From Poloniex Starts Moving Funds to Tornado Cash
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adminThe hacker who looted the crypto exchange Poloniex has started moving Ethereum (ETH) to the mixing service Tornado Cash, according to the digital asset de-anonymizing platform Arkham.
Arkham notes the hacker moved 1126.1 ETH worth more than $3.4 million into Tornado Cash across a series of 20 transactions on Monday and Tuesday.
They represent the exploiter’s first moves into the controversial Ethereum-based crypto mixer, which helps users conceal their digital assets.
The hacker raided Poloniex in early November, stealing $56 million worth of ETH, $48 million worth of Tron (TRX) and $18 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC), as well as smaller amounts of other crypto assets.
The exchange, which is owned by Tron founder Justin Sun, offered a 5% white hat bounty that went unaccepted. and the hacker still holds $181.47 million worth of crypto in their primary address, according to Arkham.
Justin Sun-affiliated projects have endured a prolific string of attacks in the past several months: In September, hackers exploited the Sun-linked exchange giant HTX for approximately 4,999 Ethereum worth $7.9 million, according to the blockchain security firm PeckShield.
Then in November, hackers hit HTX and Heco Bridge, another Sun-linked project that’s used to move funds between Ethereum and energy-saving blockchain Heco Chain, for a combined $100 million, according to cybersecurity firm Cyvers.
And in January, hackers once again struck HTX, hitting the exchange with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that caused a brief outage.
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Six to Twelve Months of ‘Parabolic Advance’ on the Horizon for Bitcoin, According to On-Chain Analyst
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adminProminent on-chain analyst Checkmate is updating his outlook on Bitcoin’s (BTC) current market cycle and says that a parabolic move to the upside is likely in sight.
The pseudonymous analyst tells his 90,000 followers on the social media platform X that based on previous cycles, Bitcoin is most likely in for about six months of “chopsolidation” – or a choppy period of consolidation with no real trend shift.
After six months, Checkmate says that six months to a year’s worth of parabolic moves could be in store, based on historical precedence.
“Bitcoin history tends to rhyme, and thus far, this cycle is no different.
The song sung during the last two cycles paints around six-months of chopsolidation ahead of us, followed by 6-12 months of parabolic advance.”
While some are speculating that Bitcoin’s bull run may have already seen its top, Checkmate says such a scenario would be a major break from the “norm” of BTC’s past market cycles.
“If we measure from the cycle high, we see the same chorus.
Establishing a bull market top here would no question be a major break from the Bitcoin norm. It could for sure happen, but we must dig deeper to investigate…
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Checkmate isolates every year in which a Bitcoin halving takes place, and notes that corrections like the one BTC has had since March are par for the course. The analyst also notes that the end of halving years tend to be quite bullish for Bitcoin.
“If we isolate Bitcoin halving years only (2012, 2016, 2020, 2024) we can see MoM performance via table and chart.
MoM corrections of this magnitude are the norm, not the exception, and the end of the year is usually pretty powerful (as per first charts).”
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