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Bitcoin's price has held steady at around $34k over the past week, but it has faced resistance at the $35k level. What's interesting is that this week, altcoins have experienced a surge in value, likely influenced by Bitcoin's impressive performance. Additionally, U.S. stocks have bounced back from last week's decline thanks to Jerome Powell's announcement of a halt in fed rate hikes.
Source: US Labor Department via Bloomberg
The focus this week is on the decelerating job market, as jobless claims have continued to rise for six consecutive weeks. Other indicators, like the increasing JOBT index, suggest that the job market in the U.S. has cooled down, potentially easing the inflationary pressures concerning central bank decision-makers.
Introducing the standout token of the week: Solana. With a 34.9% return in just 7 days, it outperformed all other top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. But that's not all - Solana has been on a roll, with a remarkable 77% increase in value over the past month, matching its 77% rise in Total Value Locked (TVL).
The once-dubbed Ethereum Killer has surprised the market while the FTX-founder SBF’s trial is in full swing. In terms of fundamentals, Solana has not stopped “BUIDLing” in the past few months, including its integration with Google BigQuery and its launch of Firedancer testnet. Firedancer aims to address the most critical network point – weak stability. What’s more, Breakpoint2023 is in full swing, stealing some thunder from other top Layer 1 blockchains for Solana.
Source: Solscan
Despite examining the network data, we find that the transaction has not experienced a significant increase, and the active wallets have remained in a downward trend.
As such, the recent price spike is likely a temporary surge driven by speculation. The rise in Total Value Locked (TVL) can be attributed to the increase in token price, rather than any new capital flowing into the network. Additionally, the lack of a significant increase in user activity suggests that there is no standout application attracting new users to the Layer-1 blockchain. We believe that only an activity surge driven by a game-changing application can be sustained in the long run.