Despite a number of attempted vampire attacks, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) continue to have a strong run on OpenSea, with the number of unique users and transactions increasing. However, the NFT market’s overall volume is falling behind last month’s figure of nearly $3 billion. While there are NFT projects readying to hit the secondary market, it seems the sector, as a whole, is navigating the next move regarding utility and the integration of NFTs in the metaverse. Adding to this, global political uncertainties are also having a noticeable impact on market environments. Ether price has decreased by nearly 16% in the …

The ongoing Bitcoin (BTC) price correction could continue as per almost a century-old technical analysis principle called "Elliott Wave Theory." The interim bearish outlook put forth by the Elliot Wave Theory appeared as Bitcoin tumbled below $35,000 amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Bitcoin wave fractal eyes repetition The theory, which divides a price cycle into two sets—one consisting of five upward-trending impulse waves and the other having three follow-up corrective waves—points to the possibility of BTC's price dropping toward $25,500 in 2022. At the core of its bearish outlook is its record of predicting cyclical tops and bottoms throughout the Bitcoin …

Order books, essentially the list of orders that a trading outlet implements to show the interest of buyers and sellers, show considerable buyer interest in the $30,000 region on large exchanges Coinbase and Binance. There is 5,000 Bitcoin sat ready to purchase down to a $30,000 price, and another 7,000 BTC down to a $28,000 price on Binance. The sell-off may not be over, but Bitcoin (BTC) buyers can take solace in the knowledge that order books in the $28,500 to $30,000 region are dense. Consequently, the price plunge due to Russia’s military operations may take a breather. Binance is …

Avalanche (AVAX) rallied by around 20% in the last two days as a new report revealed millions of dollars flowing into AVAX-based investment products. Penned by CoinShares, an institutional crypto fund manager, the report highlighted that Avalanche-based investment vehicles attracted about $25 million in the week ending Feb. 21, the second-biggest inflow recorded in the said period after Bitcoin's (BTC) $89 million. In contrast, Ether (ETH), Avalanche's top rival in the smart contracts sector, witnessed an outflow totaling $15 million. On the whole, Avalanche and similar cryptocurrency investment products attracted around $109 million, recording their fifth week of positive inflows …

Just as it started to look like the crypto market was staging a comeback and bracing for a new bull run, geopolitical tensions stepped in to drive the price of Bitcoin (BTC) below $40,000 again, with most altcoins seeing deep red as well. Such periods of market uncertainty, however, are not unprecedented, and digital assets’ individual history already holds information on the way their prices previously behaved under similar macro conditions. Last week was not rich with impressive altcoin rallies, as the crypto market seesawed along with the twists and turns of the news cycle. Still, several assets that recorded …

Terra (LUNA) has fared better than its top crypto rivals when it comes to withstanding the negative market impacts of the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict. LUNA's price rallied nearly 18% this week to over $58, more than Bitcoin (BTC), whose returns in the same period came out to be a little over 1.5%. Similarly, the Terra token did better than its rival Ether (ETH), which is up around 4% this week. Over the weekend, Bitcoin fell below its psychological support level of $40,000 as fears of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine dampened risk-on sentiment. It continued declining on Monday after …

Ethereum's native token Ether (ETH) could reach above $10,000 in the coming weeks as it paints what appears to be an "ascending triangle" technical pattern. Ethereum price technicals: bullish signs Ascending triangles are bullish continuation setups that appear during an uptrend. Analysts confirm their presence after the price rises upward inside a rising right-angle triangle structure, thus forming a sequence of lower highs on the lower trendline with resistance in place at the upper one. As the pattern develops, volumes typically drop. So far, Ether has been forming a similar upside pattern on its weekly chart. In detail, the triangle's …

Music-based nonfungible tokens are an emerging frontier in the crypto and NFT space, but the first questions that come to mind are: What are they? And what are their utility? Music NFTs are relatively new to the scene and cannot be pinned down by one definition. At the most basic level, however, they are verifiable digital collectibles, with a core component being the integration of a song. One of the first collections was “Audioglyphs,” which cemented itself as revolutionizing the way users consume music, synthesizing an infinite stream of audio for each NFT. Creators and investors began to discover the …

“The Market Report” with Cointelegraph is live right now. On this week’s show, Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss which memecoins can get you the most return on investment in 2022. But first, market expert Marcel Pechman carefully examines the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) markets. Are the current market conditions bullish or bearish? What is the outlook for the next few months? Pechman is here to break it down. Next up: the main event. Join Cointelegraph analysts Benton Yaun, Jordan Finneseth and Sam Bourgi as they debate which popular memecoin can get you the most bang for your buck. First up …

On Dec. 2, 2021, Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) amassed the attention of culture driven athletic brand, Adidas and cemented their partnership raising both its notoriety and value. RTFKT studios was acquired by Nike and has also garnered the community’s attention by airdropping the first Nike NFT, MNLTH. The MNLTH airdrop lives up to its name as RTFKT introduces a new concept to NFT reveals since the community triggers it. The MNLTH NFT is only revealed once the community collectively completes all the quests to which members are speculating whether the contents are Nike goods. RTFKT is a premier digital …

A rebound move witnessed in the Solana (SOL) market this weekend exhausted midway as its price dropped below the $90 level from a high of $96 on Feb. 21. In doing so, SOL price technicals are now risking a classic bearish reversal setup. Solana price risks dropping to $60 Dubbed head-and-shoulders (H&S), the technical pattern emerges when the price forms three peaks in a row atop a common support level (called neckline). As it typically turns out, the pattern's middle peak, called "head," comes longer than the other two peaks, called left and right shoulders, which come to be of …

A potential decoupling scenario between Bitcoin (BTC) and the Nasdaq Composite can push BTC price to reach $100,000 within 24 months, according to Tuur Demeester, founder of Adamant Capital. Bitcoin outperforms tech stocks Demeester depicted Bitcoin's growing market valuation against the tech-heavy U.S. stock market index, highlighting its ability to break out every time after a period of strong consolidation. "It may do so again within the coming 24 months," he wrote, citing the attached chart below. BTC's price has grown from a mere $0.06 to as high as $69,000 more than a decade after its introduction to the market, …