Holiday Crypto Cooldown
Cooling off! Broader crypto markets stagnated this holiday week, with the total crypto market cap (TOTAL) declining 3.5%. The wind got sucked out of Solana’s sails, with SOL tumbling 17% off its Monday high and many hot memecoins falling too.
Solana’s largest memecoin by market cap, BONK, which has been down only since its Coinbase debut on December 14th, slid a further 20% this week, and anyone who aped the Crypto Twitter influencer favorite ANALOS last weekend has now found themselves down 80%!
WIF is one of the only Solana memecoins that has managed to defy the decline, with its 20% weekly gain a testament of resilience for the community.
While tokens from the high flying Solana ecosystem gave back gains, Ethereum underwent its own mini bull this week, with the ETH/BTC Ratio climbing 5.5% and ETH setting a new cycle high on Wednesday!
Despite putting in gains, ETH was quick to retrace its breakout and finds itself once again back under $2.4k. Some traders are betting this is where the trend of Ether outperformance ends…