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Hayes may face short-term losses on his Solana buy-in, but the long-term upside looks promising as the cryptocurrency market recovers. Arthur Hayes, the former CEO of crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, has “admitted” to buying Solana’s SOL (SOL) at its possible local top, stressing his bullish outlook for the cryptocurrency. Fam I have something embarrassing I must admit. I just bot $SOL, I know its a Sam-coin piece of dogshit L1 that at this point is just a meme. But it is going up, and I'm a degen. Let's Fucking Go! — Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) November 2, 2023 SOL’s price has rallied 500% in 11 months Hayes’ self-admitted SOL purchase occurred after it had already rebounded 500% from its market bottom near $8 in December 2022. In addition, the purchase came days after VanEck, an asset management firm supervising $76.4 billion worth of assets, predicted a 10,600% SOL price rally by 2030, citing Solana’s ability to capture the market share of its top layer-1 blockcha...

LDO price faces downside risks from "sell-the-news" sentiment coupled with a bearish technical setup. Lido DAO (LDO) has declined by more than 40% in the last 30 days with more room to fall in the coming days amid a potential sell- the-news event, i.e. the Merge. Lido DAO Ether deposits surge 160% in 2022 Lido DAO is Ethereum's biggest staking service, having deposited over 4.14 million of the blockchain's native asset, Ether (ETH), into the Ethereum 2.0 smart contract on behalf of its users, according to the latest data . ETH 2.0 total value staked by provider. Source: Glassnode In comparison, Lido DAO's total staked amount was around 1.6 million ETH at the beginning of this year. The boom reflects a growing demand for Lido DAO services ahead of Ethereum's scheduled transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake via the Merge on Sep. 15. LDO, a governance token in the Lido DAO ecosystem, has also undergone an unprecedented price rally in recent months, up m...

Join us as we discuss the best way to find the next big altcoins before they pump and what every trader should be doing right now. In this week’s episode of Market Talks, Cointelegraph welcomes Lark Davis, who has been actively involved in the world of cryptocurrency since 2017. He is a Bitcoin (BTC), crypto and stock investor and boasts over 1 million followers on Twitter and over 470,000 YouTube subscribers. In today’s discussion with Davis, we first get to know him a little better by finding out how he got into crypto in the first place and why he is still so deeply interested. The answer might not be as simple or orthodox as you think. With so many years of experience in the crypto space, Davis certainly has assessment criteria for determining what altcoins might be able to make it big and run with the kings in the space, such as Ether (ETH) and BTC. We get the details of what he looks for when analyzing altcoins and finding those hidden gems. BTC might not reach a new all-time hi...

PEPE price risks losing 20% in May due to shaky technicals, waning retail interest, and too many risks of market manipulation. New meme-coin Pepe (PEPE) has entered a sharp correction phase after surging by more than 2,000% since its debut a few weeks ago. On May 3, the PEPE price dropped to $0.00000089, down about 35% from its record high of $0.00000138 established two days ago. As a result of the correction, its market capitalization slipped by nearly $80 million, thus pushing it out of the top-100 top cryptocurrency index.  Pepe price performance since market debut. Source: CoinGecko A mix of technical and fundamental indicators hint at further downside for PEPE price .  Retail interest falls PEPE's daily trading volumes declined across centralized (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX) as price s fell. The same happened to the Google trends for the keyword "Pepe Coin," whose score is down from 100 to 7 in a day, suggesting that the retail hype has subsided in the pa...

ARB's price trajectory looks similar to MATIC after its market debut when MATIC rose 1,350% after facing a brutal selloff in its early days of trading. The price of Arbitrum (ARB) has dropped by nearly 20% a week after establishing its record high at $1.60 on March 23. However, the Ethereum layer-2 token looks set to resume its uptrend in the coming weeks. Polygon price fractal The cues for a bullish Arbitrum token could be traced back to its Ethereum L2 rival Polygon's market debut. MATIC started trading on Binance on April 26, 2019, at $0.0026 per token. MATIC/USD rallied nearly 300% to reach $0.0105 on the same day before wiping out 70% of those gains in a market correction by May 9, 2019. It regained its upside momentum afterward, rallying by nearly 1,350% to $0.045 on May 21, 2019.   MATIC/USDT four-hour price chart. Source: TradingView/Mac The price trajectory reflects a recurring phenomenon involving the launch of digital tokens with seemingly strong fundamental backin...

SOL price jumped 20% after falling to its worst level since February 2021 with Solana's technicals suggesting that more upside is possible. Solana (SOL), the cryptocurrency once supported by Sam Bankman-Fried, pared some losses on Dec. 30, a day after falling to its lowest level since February 2021. Solana price down 97% from November 2021 peak  On the daily chart, SOL's price rebounded to around $10.25, up over 20% from its previous day's low of approximately $8.  SOL/USD weekly price chart. Source: TradingView Nevertheless, the intraday recovery did little to offset the overall bear trend — down 97% from its record peak of $267.50 in November 2021, and down over 20% in the past week.  But while the year has been brutal for markets, Solana now joins the ranks of the worst-performing tokens of 2022, namely FTX Token and LUNA, which are down around 98%.  FTT (red) vs. LUNA (green) vs. SOL (blue) performance since November 2021. Source: TradingView SOL price could recover 5...