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Layer 1 Crypto Token Surge Brings 200% Gains During August

Reynaldo Marquez
Reynaldo Marquez
3 years ago
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Arcane Research recently published a crypto market update and explored the rise of layer 1 tokens over the past 30 days. The season of “ETH Killers” as the research firm and many others have called them.

Although the second cryptocurrency by market cap was leading the crypto market up until a few weeks ago, its competitors have been gaining traction, smashing all resistance towards new all-time highs.

As seen in the chart below, some layer 1 tokens in the crypto market have experienced massive rallies in August.

Solana (SOL) leads the chart with a 221% rally, followed by Terra (LUNA) with a 217% rally, Fantom (FTM), and Avalanche (AVAX), sit at the last spots of the biggest layer 1 tokens with a 215% and 210% rally, respectively.

Crypto Ethereum Solana Terra
Source: Arcane Research

Binance Coin (BNB, 38%), Ethereum (ETH, 28%), and Polygon (MATIC, 22%), also made the cut with important profits in the same period.

Crypto exchange Binance’s token slowed down on its late 2020 rally. Similar to SOL, LUNA, and AVAX, BNB surged on the back of the DeFi boom as users migrated to the Binance Smart Chain ecosystem due to its high fees.

Solana seems to have taken part in its market share. Arcane Research noted the increase in this token’s market from $9.5 billion to $35 billion in one month. SOL climbed its way to the 8th position in the crypto top 10 by market cap.

The report attributes SOL’s appreciation to its high throughput of 50,000 transactions per second with low fees when compared to Ethereum. This has made Solana attractive for developers.

As NewsBTC reported, some experts believe SOL will be one of the best performing crypto assets of 2021. Despite its 221% rally in August, there seems to be room for more appreciation based on the token’s growing fundamentals.

Ethereum, King Of Crypto In The DeFi Sector

The DeFi and the increase in adoption of the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) sector could determine which crypto will dominate the market in the coming months.

In that sense, the total value locked (TVL), a controversial metric due to its “sketchy” accuracy, in Solana recently surpassed the $2 billion mark.

However, Arcane Research claims that no layer 1 network will be able to outperform Ethereum in terms of DeFi market share. Data from DeFi Pulse record a TVL of $89 billion for all DeFi protocols.

The Ethereum network has supremacy in this sector, the most popular dApps are hosted on its ecosystem. Aave, MakerDAO, Curve Finance, Compound, Uniswap, Yearn Finance, SushiSwap.

Crypto Ethereum DeFi
Source: DeFi Pulse

These protocols have a total value locked (TVL) ranging from $4.2 to $15.86 billion. The smallest DeFi protocol in the Ethereum top 10 by TVL has double that held on Solana, Arcane Research claimed:

ETH has experience growing transaction fees amid the NFT frenzy, possibly attracting more users to other chains. However, in the ecosystem overall, Ethereum remains the clear leader, and it seems unlikely that any other protocol will dethrone Ethereum’s position in the near future.

At the time of writing, ETH trades at $3,398. The second crypto by market cap has a 5.2% profit in the daily chart.

Crypto Ethereum ETH ETHUSD Solana SOL Terra LUNA LUNAUSDT
ETH with moderate profits in the daily chart. Source: ETHUSD Tradingview
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A literature major, Reynaldo Márquez has been deeply immersed in the crypto industry since 2017. His journey began with translating articles for various crypto news outlets, a role he took on with zeal. In 2018, amidst a challenging market, he embraced his first writing assignment, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to the nascent industry and the promise of change it bears for many people worldwide.
In March 2021, he joined the prestigious crypto news outlet NewsBTC and Bitcoinist, where he not only reported on the latest crypto news but also had the privilege of interviewing some of the industry's most influential figures. A year later, his dedication and hard work were recognized, and he was promoted to Managing Editor, a position he currently holds with pride.
He believes in honesty, good communication, hard work, and the power of cryptocurrency and its potential to transform people's lives, especially those alienated by the legacy financial system. Born in 1992 in Venezuela, Reynaldo is familiar with how governments and central banks can negatively affect people, their everyday lives, and their futures by creating inflation and erasing their hopes for a better future. Thus, like many Venezuelans, he embraced this new technology to help him and his family navigate difficult times.
In another life, Reynaldo would have pursued a career as an investigator, most likely tracking down the origins of the Cyberpunk movement with the publication of William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer.’ The intersection between fiction and reality, with the materialization of Bitcoin in 2009, would have allowed him to dive deep into the crypto sphere as something more than a financial phenomenon but also a cultural shift in society that was brewing since the XX century, and maybe even sooner, in the XIX century with the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience.’
But that’s for another life. In this one, Reynaldo has been trading to improve his trading skills. Since 2023, he has been trying to learn Python to create successful strategies and find ways to execute them. It is a difficult task, which continues to keep him busy today and will most likely continue to keep him busy in the near and long term.
In his free time, he enjoys lifting heavy objects, reading, watching movies, and listening to his favorite music. Some of his favorite authors are Walt Whitman, William Faulkner, Allen Ginsberg, James Baldwin, Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Mario Vargas Llosa, Reinaldo Arenas, Rafael Cadenas, and many others. Lately, he has been primarily interested in reading about dystopic societies, a topic that deeply resonates with the crypto industry.
Since 2023, he has lived in Spain with his wife. He loves the weather, the food, and the people and their culture. They both expect to travel much more within the country they now call home and beyond its border. He hopes to retire with his wife, maybe in a quiet place near a beach, but most likely in a city close to a library and a university with his kids and, hopefully, grandkids.

Disclaimer: The information found on NewsBTC is for educational purposes only. It does not represent the opinions of NewsBTC on whether to buy, sell or hold any investments and naturally investing carries risks. You are advised to conduct your own research before making any investment decisions. Use information provided on this website entirely at your own risk.

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