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As the crypto market cap steadily climbed up, on the back of 8% Bitcoin gains over the last day, large-cap altcoins like Ethereum, Binance Coin (BNB), Solana, and XRP noted decent price upticks. The top gainer in the top 20 coins by market cap was Cosmos (ATOM) which noted close to 19.72% daily gains at press time.

ATOM Price Analysis

Bitcoin’s move above the $35K mark came as a much-needed breather as BTC finally oscillated at $36,389.42 at press time, noting 7.79% daily gains.

The market turned green on the back of the recent BTC gains, and the global crypto market cap stood at $1.64 trillion, noting a 6.76% increase over the last day. Of the top 20 coins, ATOM had the highest gains and traded at $35.69 at press time.

ATOM’s rise in price was accompanied by a healthy spike in trade volumes, which presented a rising retail interest in the coin as the market presented signs of recovery. Over the last three days, ATOM pumped by almost 25%, and the rising Relative Strength Index highlighted a rise in buyers in the market.

Strong Fundamentals Supporting Growth

In the last week, the release of the first Cosmos ETP by 21Shares on Switzerland’s SIX Exchange sparked positive commentary about the coin.

Additionally, strong fundamental factors supported price surge alongside the upcoming airdrops and a bridge implementation between Cosmos and Polkadot.

According to a recent blog post by Cosmos, a Cosmos and Astar (Polkadot) bridge is set to be delivered in Q1, 2022. Astar Network has already implemented a testnet bridge with Secret Network, a Cosmos SDK-based blockchain. However, this testnet bridge is EVM-based, meaning that only blockchains supporting both EVM and Cosmos SDK are compatible with this testnet bridge.

That said, according to market experts, the upcoming launch of EVMOS has further sparked interest in the Cosmos blockchain.

At the time of writing, ATOM reaped a yearly ROI vs USD of +368.26 even though its short-term ROI (weekly ROI) was -5.28%. Despite the recent uptick in price, ATOM was still down 20.34% from its all-time high price of $44.36.

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Want an easy way to get started in Web3? Download a desktop copy of IPFS (Interplanetary File System) and install it on your computer, advises Dietrich Ayala, IPFS Ecosystem Growth Engineer, Protocol Labs, in our most recent edition of The New Stack Makers podcast.

We’ve been hearing a lot of hype about the Web3 and its promise of decentralization — how it will bring the power of the web back to the people, through the use of a blockchain. So what’s up with that? How do you build a Web3 stack? What can you build with a Web3 stack? How far along is the community with tooling and ease of use?

This virtual panel podcast sets out to answer all these questions.

In addition to speaking to Ayala, we spoke with Rowland Graus, head of product for Agoric, and Marko Baricevic, software engineer for The Interchain Foundation, which manages Cosmos Network. an open source technology to help blockchains interoperate. Each participant describes the role in the Web3 ecosystem where their respective technologies play. These technologies are often used together, so they represent an emerging blockchain stack of sorts.

TNS editor-in-chief Joab Jackson hosted the discussion. Give a listen here, or peruse our notes below:

Makings of a Web3 Stack: Agoric, IPFS, Cosmos Network

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Agoric provides is a smart contract framework and tools for developers to deploy user-facing applications, especially for those in the emerging field of decentralized finance (DeFi), Graus said. In particular, Agoric helps devs manage the proof-of-stake chains, needed to build JavaScript-based smart contracts. Traditionally adding to a blockchain involves computers solving arbitrarily difficult puzzles (“proof-of-work”), but Agoric’s technique proof-of-stake uses less environmentally-hostile methods of generating payments needed to add to the blockchain. Proof-of-Stake “uses the actual economic value of the blockchain itself for security,” Graus explained.

“With the idea being if somebody puts a block in that has something that is incorrect or invalid, there’s actually a significant economic penalty for them to do that,” Graus said.

Agoric itself actually predates the current blockchain-mania, having worked on smart contract technology pioneered decades back by company chief scientist Mark S. Miller.

A File System for Addressable Content

IPFS is to Web3 what HTTP is to the web, Ayala explained. Instead of posting content such as a photo to an HTTP server, you would publish a file to a blockchain through an IPFS node, either your own or a commercially-hosted service. And instead of accessing the photo through a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), you could reference the content through its unique signature.

The signature is based on the actual bits comprising the file itself, so they can verify the document is authentic. IPFS is a peer-to-peer networking protocol, so multiple copies of the data can be hosted by different nodes. But for the user or developer, the file can be retrieved without actually knowing where it is on the blockchain. “It’s addressing data, no matter where it is on the network,” Ayala said.

Like Agoric’s proof-of-stake, the research around IPFS predates the modern Blockchain, drawing on decades of work around the goal of creating global “content-addressable storage.” Content-addressable data is, of course, well-suited for multi-party ledgers. It is also an essential element for maintaining records for NFTs (non-fungible tokens).

Blockchain Interoperability

Perhaps inevitably, the tireless hordes of Web3 entrepreneurs will build out more than one blockchain. So how do they communicate, exchange information? This is the role that Cosmos Network sets out to accomplish. Like any good integration tool, it eliminates the need for writing and maintaining the specialized code for two specific blockchains to hook up.

“Instead of one blockchain having to maintain 500, connections, it can have one singular connection to the Cosmos Hub, and the Cosmos Hub’s servers and validators can man those 500 connections,” Baricevic explained. The integration job is not a simple one. It involves coordination across multiple custody providers, exchanges and other third-party providers. Baricevic called this conglomeration of blockchains and associated wares the “interchain.” The backbone of the Cosmos ecosystem is built on the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol, which handles transport across different blockchains.

“In many ways, you can think of IBC as like TCP/IP, where the underlying protocol is defined, but not how the messages between the blockchains are defined. It is really up to the application to develop these messages, and how to communicate with other chains,” he explained.

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Over the past 24 hours, Cosmos’s (CRYPTO: ATOM) price has risen 9.27% to $35.32. This is contrary to its negative trend over the past week where it has experienced a 4.0% loss, moving from $37.13 to its current price. As it stands right now, the coin’s all-time high is $44.45.

The chart below compares the price movement and volatility for Cosmos over the past 24 hours (left) to its price movement over the past week (right). The gray bands are bollinger bands, measuring the volatility for both the daily and weekly price movements. The wider the bands are, or the larger the gray area is at any given moment, the larger the volatility.

The trading volume for the coin has increased 144.0% over the past week, while the overall circulating supply of the coin has decreased 0.63%. The current market cap ranking for ATOM is #16 at 10.13 billion.

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Bitcoin rose nearly 9% on Tuesday, recovering from six-month lows the day before.

Ethereum rival solana rallied 12%, while ether edged up 7% to above $2,400.

Cosmos rose 15% on news of upcoming airdrops and successful bridging with polkadot

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Cryptocurrencies rebounded strongly on Tuesday, breaking a string of heavy losses over the previous few days and defying broad weakness on the stock market.

Financial markets have experienced wild volatility as investors await the outcome of the Federal Reserve's first policy meeting of the year this week. Investors will scour policymakers' comments to gauge how quickly the central bank is likely to raise interest rates this year and withdraw the economic stimulus put in place during the depths of the pandemic.

The era of ultra-low interest rates and benign inflation appear to be coming to an end, which has rattled the asset classes that benefit most from this combination, such as technology stocks and speculative assets like bitcoin. The Nasdaq 100 index of tech stocks is now firmly in correction territory, while bitcoin is now worth less than half of what it was when it hit a record of around $69,000 in November.

Leading digital currency bitcoin was up 8% in the last 24 hours to $36,455, having hit a six-month low below $33,000, which analysts said may leave it vulnerable to another selloff. Ether was up 7% on the day at around $2,417, but was still nursing a weekly loss of 23%, according to CoinMarketCap.

"As seen last week, the risk-off nature of markets at the moment is not isolated to equities. Crypto, basically risk assets on steroids, continues to face headwinds, with bitcoin now down more than 50% from the November peak, and looking ready for a test of the psychologically important $30,000 mark," Caxton FX strategist Michael Brown said.

Among the altcoins, the cosmos network's atom token was one of the biggest gainers of the day, up 16% in the last 24 hours to around $35.56.

One of drivers of the outperformance in cosmos for some market watchers was the recent link, or bridge, to the polkadot network, which will allow the two blockchains to exchange data.

Also, an airdrop of atom tokens to users that stake coins on the cosmos network added to the bullish undertone. Cosmos is a proof-of-stake network that relies on users staking their existing coins to provide computing resources that help to maintain the network and process transactions in return for rewards in the form of tokens via airdrops. The greater the reward to those staking their coins on the network, the more users will be drawn to that blockchain.

In spite of the rally on Tuesday, the mood in the crypto market remained cautious. The Crypto Fear and Greed index, a gauge of market sentiment based on a number of metrics, was at 12, its lowest since January 8 and reflecting "extreme fear". A reading above 40 would indicate "greed". The index was last at this level in late December.

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Cryptocurrencies rebounded strongly on Tuesday, breaking a string of heavy losses over the previous few days and defying broad weakness on the stock market. 

Financial markets have experienced wild volatility as investors await the outcome of the Federal Reserve's first policy meeting of the year this week. Investors will scour policymakers' comments to gauge how quickly the central bank is likely to raise interest rates this year and withdraw the economic stimulus put in place during the depths of the pandemic.

The era of ultra-low interest rates and benign inflation appear to be coming to an end, which has rattled the asset classes that benefit most from this combination, such as technology stocks and speculative assets like bitcoin. The Nasdaq 100 index of tech stocks is now firmly in correction territory, while bitcoin is now worth less than half of what it was when it hit a record of around $69,000 in November.

Leading digital currency bitcoin was up 8% in the last 24 hours to $36,455, having hit a six-month low below $33,000, which analysts said may leave it vulnerable to another selloff. Ether was up 7% on the day at around $2,417, but was still nursing a weekly loss of 23%, according to CoinMarketCap.

"As seen last week, the risk-off nature of markets at the moment is not isolated to equities. Crypto, basically risk assets on steroids, continues to face headwinds, with bitcoin now down more than 50% from the November peak, and looking ready for a test of the psychologically important $30,000 mark," Caxton FX strategist Michael Brown said.

Among the altcoins, the cosmos network's atom token was one of the biggest gainers of the day, up 16% in the last 24 hours to around $35.56. 

One of drivers of the outperformance in cosmos for some market watchers was the recent link, or bridge,  to the polkadot network, which will allow the two blockchains to exchange data.

Also, an airdrop of atom tokens to users that stake coins on the cosmos network added to the bullish undertone. Cosmos is a proof-of-stake network that relies on users staking their existing coins to provide computing resources that help to maintain the network and process transactions in return for rewards in the form of tokens via airdrops. The greater the reward to those staking their coins on the network, the more users will be drawn to that blockchain.

In spite of the rally on Tuesday, the mood in the crypto market remained cautious. The Crypto Fear and Greed index, a gauge of market sentiment based on a number of metrics, was at 12, its lowest since January 8 and reflecting "extreme fear". A reading above 40 would indicate "greed". The index was last at this level in late December.

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Last week, to the likely chagrin of many an Aussie cricket fan, Steve Smith became the latest public figure to hop on the NFT gravy-train, joining Glorious Digital, a Kiwi-owned NFT studio and marketplace launched by former All Blacks rugby great Dan Carter.

The deal will see Smith put his face and name up for sale as digital tokens, shilling this new form of online memorabilia for a hefty price tag. On Instagram Smith wrote, “I can’t wait to connect with you guys in new and innovative ways.” 

But what does ownership of a Steve Smith NFT actually mean?

What are NFTs?

NFTs, short for Non-Fungible Tokens, are units of data stored on a blockchain, which is a type of digital ledger that records ownership. 

In blockchain technology, the information about each transaction is recorded in a “block” which is broadcast to every computer or network in the system. The block contains data about the transaction and the identity of the blocks before and after it, so that all the blocks can be linked in a chain. This makes them completely secure, because blockchains are replicated across every computer linked to the network. If one user’s copy of the blockchain differs from the rest, then it’s clearly a fraud. 

“If nobody is in charge, then everyone is in charge,” said Mark Ferraretto, an IT legal specialist who spoke to Cosmos last year. “Blockchain reflects this by allowing anyone to become part of the blockchain.”

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Blockchains are most famously used to record cryptocurrency, but NFTs aren’t actually a cryptocurrency, though they work in a similar way and are often purchased using cryptocurrencies like Etherium.

So, what’s the point of an NFT?

Generally speaking, an NFT is a token of ownership. It gives its owner rights to a piece of digital media, like an artwork, photograph, GIF or meme. That’s why it’s been leapt upon by digital creatives as a new way to market their work. 

Some NFTs have famously made people absurdly rich. Last year, a piece of digital art by the artist Mike Winkelmann – professionally known as Beeple – sold for US$69 million through auction-house Christie’s. Paris Hilton, celebrity heiress, owns more than 150 NFTs, including a virtual Chihuahua preening on a marble pedestal designed as an ode to her deceased pet, and which she displays on screens around her house.

But ownership of an NFT is a tricky concept. NFTs have in-built smart contracts that specify the owner’s rights. In some cases, owning an NFT might grant you exclusive rights to the art or media it encodes, but in many cases owning an NFT of an artwork only gives you the rights to the NFT itself, while the original artwork may well be freely available elsewhere, on the internet or in the real world. 

An artist can transfer the copyright of the work to the purchaser, but they may also retain the copyright. Which begs the question: what exactly is the point? Do NFTs have actual value? 

Like many economic products, an NFT’s value is exclusively tied to the fact that people perceive it to be valuable. Whether the value of any or all NFTs will hold depends on the power of the market. The average price of an NFT sank by 70% between February and April last year, but some commentators ascribed that to the weeding out of “gimmicky” tokens. 

For some people, an NFT is a collectible, like an insanely expensive but less tangible football card. As for Steve Smith NFTs? Think of them as digital memorabilia, and play on.

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Following Monday’s selloff, cryptocurrency markets mostly rebounded across the board, with bitcoin and ethereum prices rallying by as much as 10%. Overall the global crypto market cap was over 6% higher from yesterday’s session.

Bitcoin

Bitcoin, which fell to an intraday low of $33,184.06 during yesterday’s session, was up close to 9% as of writing, hitting a high of $37,247.52 in the process.

After a false breakout from its support level of $34,170 to start the week, today’s move saw BTC/USD climb from this point, with some anticipating the potential for a rally towards resistance of $40,000.

Looking at the chart below, BTC bulls appear to have re-entered as many expected at this level, similar to July’s move, however with the RSI still oversold, many remain skeptical of a full scale bull run.

Now that the short-term 10-day EMA (red) has somewhat eased its downward momentum, traders will be anticipating a potential reversal, as the chances of the upward cross gradually increase. One thing to consider is whether we are seeing long-term bitcoiners buying the dip.

Ethereum

In the last seven days ETH has fallen over 20% in value, however Tuesday saw a slight easing of this bearish pressure, as bulls re-entered the race.

As of writing, ETH/USD rose to an intraday high of $2,463.59, after almost falling below $2,000 on Monday, recording its lowest rate since July as a result.

Looking at today’s chart, it appears to show that ETH has found an interim floor, despite the long-term descending triangle hinting at further downside pressure.

Similar to BTC, Ethereum price action is still oversold, however as it gradually moves towards the 30 RSI level, the question is if we will see bullish sentiment begin to increase.

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Over the past couple of years, we have been witnessing a surge in the growth and popularity of an industry which has managed to make its place amongst one of the largest industries in the world, the cryptocurrency industry. Crypto has been more than successful in catching the eye of potential investors from all across the globe.

Having said that, I believe most of you are already familiar with the basic concept of the industry but, if for some reason that’s still not the case, I think it is best if we talk about that first.

The crypto industry is nothing but a decentralized platform that uses blockchain technology for all its operations, which has also been proved helpful in eliminating the risk of counterfeiting and double-spending entirely. On the other hand, being decentralized, the industry is more than capable of stepping outside the overall control and jurisdiction of central authorities and can work freely without any unnecessary government interferences.

In simpler words, a cryptocurrency is a form of virtual or digital currency which can be used for a variety of purposes including the purchase and sale of goods and services as well as for the purpose of trade and exchange over cryptocurrency exchanges available online.

Though some of you might be well aware of the history of the industry and its journey to being what we see it today but, for some others, when the industry was first introduced, there were very few currencies for people to choose from and honestly, there were not many investors wanting to be a part of it either as people back then had a lot of doubts in respect to the return on their investments and the safety of their money as well.

On the other hand, looking around today, it feels almost unreal to see an entire pool of currencies available today in the marketplace for you to choose from, with newer ones coming in with each passing day and a lot of new investors joining in every hour.

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In addition to this, it is probably worth noting that, some of the major contributing factors for this extraordinary success of the industry include its portability, ease of use, intuitive nature, the convenience it offers, volatility as well as high-profit margins of course.

Being volatile, the price fluctuations in the crypto marketplace are almost immediate, thus making it very difficult to predict and act accordingly, therefore, it is important for you to understand the fact that, whenever dealing in cryptocurrencies, keep in mind that, if the industry is providing you with an opportunity to earn huge profits and quick money, if not done right, you could also end up having significant losses as well.

Speaking of a lot of currencies available today in the marketplace, some of the most popular ones include Polkadot, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Binance Coin, EverGrow Coin as well as Cardano to name just a few of course.

Now that you have a brief backstory about the crypto world, you will be able to have a much better understanding of what we have with us today, Cosmos. To know more, I suggest you read further!

Everything to know about Cosmos (ATOM)

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Cosmos or as commonly referred to as ATOM is nothing but a project that is said to solve some of the hardest problems that are being faced by the blockchain industry. Not just that, Cosmos focuses on offering an antidote to expensive, slow, environmentally harmful as well as unscalable Proof-of-Work protocols, like those used by one of the most popular currencies of all time, Bitcoin, by simply offering an ecosystem of connected blockchains.  

In simpler words, the team aims on creating an Internet of Blockchains which is nothing but a network of blockchains that are able to communicate with each other in a much more decentralized manner.

Before moving on any further, It is worth noting that, Cosmos was first introduced around seven years ago, back in 2014, when Tendermint, a core contributor to the network and the gateway to the entire Cosmos ecosystem was founded by Jae Kwon and Ethan Buchman, along with Zarko Milosevic.

Also, just the following year, a white paper for Cosmos was published and a token sale was said to be held that year. Speaking of tokens, you should probably be aware that, ATOM is the native utility token for Cosmos, which indeed can be used for a variety of purposes on the platform itself.

ATOM holders can stake their tokens to maintain the network as well as receive more ATOM as a reward. Not just that, these tokens can also be earned through a hybrid proof-of-stake algorithm, which as a result, helps to keep the Cosmos Hub, the flagship blockchain of the project, secure.

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Having said that, It seems like cryptocurrency ecosystems in 2022 will be focusing on blockchain network interoperability as one of the main themes. On a similar note, the Cosmos platform is said to be focused on customizability as well as interoperability that is said to set Cosmos apart from other projects in the marketplace.

Rather than simply prioritizing its own network, the platform’s goal is to foster an ecosystem of networks that will be able to share tokens and data programmatically, with no other central party facilitating the activity.

Furthermore, every new independent blockchain that is created within Cosmos, known as ‘Zone’, is then tethered to the Cosmos Hub, which is then responsible to maintain a record of the state of each and every zone and vice versa.

Apart from all this, one other goal of the platform is also to make blockchain technology less difficult and complex for developers, all thanks to a modular framework that is said to describe decentralized applications (DApps). Lastly, an inter-blockchain communication protocol will definitely make it way easier for blockchain networks to communicate with one another, thus preventing fragmentation in the industry.

What makes Cosmos special?

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One of the major concerns in the cryptocurrency industry is the level of fragmentation often seen in blockchain networks. As a matter of fact, there are hundreds of these in existence, but very few of them are able to communicate with each other, which Cosmos plans on changing.

As mentioned, Cosmos is described as Blockchain 3.0 and one of its biggest goals is to ensure that its infrastructure is easy and straightforward to use. As a result, the Cosmos software development kit is said to be focused on modularity.

This allows a network to be easily developed by just using chunks of code that already exist and in the long term, it’s hoped that complex applications will also become as straightforward to construct as it gets.

In addition to this, scalability is another priority, which means that substantially more transactions can easily be processed a second as and when compared to some old-fashioned blockchains including Ethereum and Bitcoin.

Also, if blockchains are ever to achieve mainstream adoption, they will surely be needed to be able to cope up with the demand along with existing payment processing websites or companies or just be better!

Now that we have talked much about Cosmos, some of you must be wondering, whether or not it is a good idea to invest in the platform? If that’s the case, then let’s find out, shall we?

Investing in Cosmos (ATOM)

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As of today, the price of Cosmos is about 39.02 US dollars with a twenty-four-hour trading volume of 2,906,702,045 dollars. Not just that, in just the past twenty-four hours, the value of Cosmos has gone down by 5.17 percent, and with the current market cap of 8,828,269,270 US dollars, ATOM is currently placed at #25 position as per the CoinMarketCap rankings.

Also, it is worth mentioning that, the current circulating supply of Cosmos is 226,226,028 ATOM coins, but unfortunately the maximum lifetime supply of the currency is not yet available. In just the past week alone, the price of the platform has risen by 15.17 percent.

Reading so far, you must have gotten a fair understanding of the platform and by now, you should be able to figure out on your own whether or not investing in Cosmos is the right thing for you to do. Seeing what it has to offer when combined with its performance in the recent past as well as its plans for the near future, I certainly believe that Cosmos can prove to be a profitable investment in the near future, which is likely to provide you with higher returns and it is a possibility that your current investment may increase in value. But again, nothing can be said or sure!

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If still not convinced, see it this way that, if say you buy Cosmos worth a hundred dollars today, you will receive nearly 2.542 ATOM. According to the analysis done by experts on the field, after five years of your investment, the return is expected to be about +265.75 percent and thus, your current hundred-dollar investment will be nearly 365.75 US dollars in 2026.

As mentioned at the very beginning, crypto is a highly volatile marketplace and is extremely uncertain. Thus, It is very important for you to understand the fact that just like any other currency in the crypto marketplace, Cosmos does have its own risks as well and you should invest only if you are willing to take those risks and bear any and all losses if at all necessary.

If you are wondering, where can you buy Cosmos? Let me help you with that. Currently, Cosmos is available on all major crypto exchanges but, some of the popular exchanges that have ATOM listed on them include Binance, OKEx, Huobi Global, Bybit as well as HitBTC to name a few.  

In conclusion, what are your thoughts on Cosmos? Do let us know in the comments area below. To know more about various cryptocurrencies, do check out other articles we have on our website. Thank you for your time & if you found our content informative, do share it with your investor friends!

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View Details » A CEO of a top exchange said on condition of anonymity, "We saw a sharp decline in trading volumes during the weekend as most investors were trying to figure out the reasons and consequences of the current dip in crypto." The CoinSwitch, India's largest crypto trading platform, said it registered a twofold increase in the number of users buying on the platform compared to its daily average and that the most traded coins during the week to January 23 were Bitcoin, Cardano, Shiba Inu, Loopring and Doge coin. "Many users on our platform are long-term retail investors. They have seen similar dips and recoveries in the past. They use the opportunity to add to their portfolio," said Ashish Singhal, CEO, CoinSwitch Kuber, a crypto brokerage which works with multiple Indian crypto exchanges. Some of the popular coins that were hammered in the market in the past few days witnessed some fresh buying. "There was a lot of interest in bigger dips seen in Cardano, Shiba Inu and Polygon while selling pressure was high for Solana and Terra (Luna) along with a sharp spike in interest for Cosmos (ATOM) among new users," said Shivam Thakral, CEO of BuyUcoin, a home-grown cryptocurrency exchange. Traders and investors typically move to safer digital assets such as stable coins (like Tether, which is pegged to the US dollar) during times of price crash and high volatility. "We have seen investors selling assets and converting them to USDT as the rate is around the $82.5-83 mark, which is currently very favourable," said Shekhar of ZebPay. At 5 pm on Coinbase on Tuesday, Bitcoin was up 7.47 % ($36,316), Ethereum 7.08% ($2,419), Binance Coin 3.88 % ($359.30), Cardano 3.21% ($1.03) and Solana 7.82 % ($91.93). Experts said Indian investors are getting used to cryptos' volatility. Globally, the crypto market has been roiled by tightening of monetary policies, rising geopolitical risks, regulatory confusion, a prevailing broader sell-off across assets like equities, inflation worries and Omicron-related uncertainty. Presented By

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As per CoinMarketCap data, the cryptocurrency market's total valuation is recovering by nearly 8.49% presently to stand at $1.65 trillion. Bitcoin's price rose to intraday highs of $36,814 at press time as the entire crypto market stabilized after a broad market correction downward in the past week.

Nearly all the altcoins, especially the top 100, were trading in the green at press time with Avalanche (AVAX, + 13.01%), Shiba Inu (SHIB, +8.86%), Cosmos (ATOM, +16.15%), Fantom (FTM, +19.99%) and other altcoins adding significant gains.

Bitcoin is currently trading at $36,319 and is up 8.11% in the past 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap data. At the time of publication, Ethereum was 8.29%, trading at $2,416, while SHIB trades up 8.86% at $0.000021.

On-chain analytics firm Santiment notes that buy calls have consequently increased since the beginning of the month.

😬🤔🥳 Are traders switching from #FUD-mode to #FOMO-mode in just a single day? After Sunday's bloodfest of negative trading returns, Monday has rebounded well for $BTC, $ETH, and #alts. This has led to the biggest portion of #buy calls in over a month. https://t.co/AlG3uR4oaq pic.twitter.com/tUtZQcitdS

— Santiment (@santimentfeed) January 24, 2022

Major stock indices tumbled earlier in the day before rebounding as investors closely watch the Federal Reserve's first meeting this year, which will take place this week.

The Fed's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is scheduled to convene on Wednesday, and an announcement on interest rates could have immediate ramifications for both traditional and crypto markets.

Stock market correlation

Bitcoin and the crypto market appeared to be following the performance of the stock market recently. The recent crypto market declines coincided with a slide in global stocks. According to experts, major institutional funds' engagement has caused digital assets to become more linked with traditional markets.

Cryptoanalyst Will Clemente noted the ''Biggest day of volume for the Nasdaq (QQQ) in over 10 years'' while pointing out the correlation between Bitcoin and Nasdaq.

Bitcoin in Orange Nasdaq in Blue 🧐 pic.twitter.com/YtgWov4E49

— Will Clemente (@WClementeIII) January 24, 2022

The recent market sell-off, according to Luno crypto exchange's Vijay Ayyar, is more of a "correction" than a persistent decline. He sees $30,000 as a crucial threshold to watch for Bitcoin. "That would definitely indicate high likelihood of a bear market," he stated, if BTC closes below this level in a week or more.

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Meme coins were higher on Tuesday, as the global cryptocurrency marketplace rebounded from recent declines in price. Both DOGE and SHIB were trading close to 7% higher during the session. In addition to the meme coins, there were several other gainers on Tuesday, as both traders and long-term investors bought the crypto dip.

Biggest gainers

One of today’s biggest gainers in the crypto top 20 was avalanche (AVAX), which was up by as much as 15% during the session. AVAX hit an intraday high of $68.03 on Tuesday, climbing from yesterday’s low of $59.59.

Today’s rally comes 3-days after prices briefly fell below support of $59.70, dropping to a low of $53,47 over the weekend.

This false breakout saw prices hit their lowest level since October 18th, before rallying to a now all-time high (ATH) slightly above $146.00.

Looking at the chart below, the trendline shows that there has been long-term buying pressure, which is evident by the ascending triangle, as a result of continuous higher highs in price action.

This momentum has been somewhat halted by the recent short-term bearish pressure, which resulted in the descending triangle, which led to the recent breakout.

Since said breakout, prices found an interim floor around $59, and this has captured the imagination of bulls who bought at the same range in October.

Could history be set to repeat itself, with a similar rally at this current level.

Biggest Losers

It was not all rosy in the top 20, as some cryptos continued to trade in the red, despite today’s rebound in prices.

Terra (Luna) was one of the only cryptocurrencies in this list to trade lower during Tuesday’s rally, as bears opted to remain active in this market.

The price of luna fell to an intraday low of $62.88 in the session, and was down just over 1% as of writing.

Looking at the chart, this luna has been trading in a streak of lower lows in recent weeks, which led to a breakout of its $59 floor last week.

Since then, Its price has continued to consolidate at this level, with the RSI remaining closer to oversold territory.

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Grayscale, the world’s largest crypto asset manager, is considering 25 more crypto assets for investment products. With the latest additions, the company’s list of coins under consideration has grown to 43. “The process of creating an investment product similar to the ones we already offer is a complex, multifaceted process,” said Grayscale.

25 Crypto Assets Added to List of Coins Under Consideration for Grayscale’s Investment Products

Grayscale Investments announced Monday that it has updated its list of digital assets under consideration for 2022. Grayscale currently has $30.6 billion in net assets under management.

The company explained that the “Assets Under Consideration” list comprises “some digital assets that are not currently included in a Grayscale investment product, but that have come to our attention as part of our exploration of this sector, and that our team has identified as possible candidates for inclusion in a future investment product.” Grayscale detailed:

With our most recent update in January 2022, we’ve added one additional asset to our product family column, and 25 assets to our assets under consideration column.

Amp (AMP) is the only digital asset added to Grayscale’s product family.

The 25 additional assets under consideration are Algorand (ALGO), Arweave (AR), Axie Infinity (AXS), Bancor (BNT), Bittorrent (BTT), Bora (BORA), Convex (CVX), Cosmos (ATOM), Decred (DCR), Elrond (EGLD), Enjin (ENJ), Fantom (FTM), Gala (GALA), Gelato (GEL), Helium (HNT), Holo (HOT), Iota (IOTA), Oasis Network (ROSE), Secret (SCRT), Spell (SPELL), Stacks (STX), The Sandbox (SAND), Universal Market Access (UMA), Vechain (VET), and Yield Guild Games (YGG).

Grayscale added:

The process of creating an investment product similar to the ones we already offer is a complex, multifaceted process.

“It requires significant review and consideration and is subject to our internal controls, custody arrangements, and regulatory considerations, among other things,” the asset management firm elaborated.

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The tokens for both Cosmos and its most prominent decentralized exchange, Osmosis, are up today while much of the rest of the cryptocurrency market is either flat or down. 

Positive Momentum

The cryptocurrency markets have seen some strong performers despite an overall rough day. 

Cosmos’ ATOM token is up approximately 7% at press time, and the OSMO token for its leading decentralized exchange, Osmosis, is up roughly 11%. Both tokens are up roughly 20% during the last seven days. 

Cosmos is a blockchain network that, like Polkadot, seeks to be a base-layer blockchain network that connects multiple different, independent blockchains. Osmosis is a Cosmos-based decentralized exchange and automated market maker. 

It is unclear why Cosmos’ token is surging today, though it has not been uncommon for Ethereum competitors to jump in price over the last few months. However, it could be that Osmosis is up today due to the fact that its total value locked has reached an all-time high on the same day that its total daily trading volume neared its previous all-time high. 

Cosmos was launched in 2019, and its ATOM token has provided its investors a return on investment of over 37,000%. The token’s market capitalization currently sits at close to $8.5 billion, making it the 19th largest cryptocurrency. 

Osmosis was launched during the summer of 2021, and its market capitalization is just shy of $2 billion. In October, it raised $21 million via a token sale led by Paradigm Ventures. This was Paradigm’s first investment in an automated market maker that was not Ethereum-based. 

The rest of the cryptocurrency market has slid since reaching an all-time high total market capitalization of roughly $3 trillion in Nov. 2021. Today, on Bitcoin’s “birthday,” the total cryptocurrency market capitalization teeters below $2.2 trillion. Most other coins and tokens are down both today and on the week, which makes the strong price action of Cosmos and Osmosis particularly notable. 

Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this piece owned DOT, ETH, and several other cryptocurrencies. 

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The crypto universe is a vast, and often lawless place, so it’s shocking that the likes of Cosmos and HUH Token are making waves in a market where it can be difficult to make a name for yourself.

More often than not, new and emerging cryptocurrencies don’t try to set themselves apart from the already prominent names on the leading boards, in the hope that they can piggyback their way to a windfall.

Cosmos and HUH Token haven’t done this, they’ve made strides and movements to set themselves apart from the ‘common crypto’ people often come across on the cryptocurrency market.

This article intends to show you what Cosmos and HUH Token have to offer, what makes them two of the most unique cryptos on the market today, and why you could want to be involved with them…

Cosmos is a cryptocurrency that aims to bring more people into a decentralised future, where apps and services can co-exist in one, easy-to-use place – the Cosmos Ecosystem which is stacked against its cryptocurrency ‘Atom’ could be the beginning of a crypto future.

Their ‘state-of-the-art’ blockchain ‘Cosmos SDK’ has a continuously growing orbit of sovereign chains, but this might not be the main reason that Cosmos is standing out against the crypto crowd.

In fact, its Proof-Of-Stake is reducing the cryptos carbon footprint by 99%, something which is becoming an increasingly important hot-topic around the potential future of crypto.

As more investors, both new and seasoned are looking for a greener alternative to physical money and otherwise high-power-usage crypto, that is powered by proof-of-work, it’s no wonder that Cosmos is one of the most Googled and sort-after currencies on the planet today.

Cosmos boasts 7-second short transaction times for investors and if you’re interested in the blockchain technology side of crypto, Cosmos also allows you to create a plethora of nifty things; finance applications and gamer-owned game economies.

You can even receive ATOM grants to build on Cosmos. Whether you’re looking for a new investment or a place to build the crypto world of dreams … Cosmos could be the place to do it.

You can check Cosmos out on their homepage, or by Googling ‘Cosmos’ or their crypto, ATOM.

HUH Token launched at the beginning of December 2021 and in the short space of several weeks, the world’s first utimeme has proven its stand-out-from-the-crowd potential through a series of past and future events.

HUH Token burned a whopping $4million worth of HUH to exponentially increase the value of HUH Token for HUH holders. This ‘multichain crypto’ is available on MultiChain, previously known as AnySwap, and they are making countless strides in demonstrating that crypto is for all and all can have sway and influence over the rise and fall of a crypto.

As whale investors often rule the high-seas of the cryptocurrency market, what HUH Token have done with their $4million worth burn and will do with their influencer launch on the 19th of this month, is demonstrate that your influence is valuable!

HUH Token’s creators, with their forward-thinking applications, have envisaged a world, ‘MetHUH’, where the simplest of acts and comments will be rewarded with currency… this is set to revolutionise the way the crypto market and the world, as a whole, perceive digital money and what it’s worth.

You can find more information on HUH Token’s MetHUH, which sets it apart from other cryptocurrencies on the market today, by visiting the links below and taking a read through their detailed WhitePaper.

When looking for the right crypto to invest in, it’s always wise to do your research first.

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Crypto Valley reaffirms its standing as the most mature global blockchain hub with a record 2021 valuation of its Top 50 companies at over half a trillion USD ($611.8bn), boasting fourteen Unicorns.

The CV VC Top 50 Report shows that Crypto Valley, which includes Switzerland and Liechtenstein, is flourishing because of an exemplary regulatory jurisdiction, a determined decentralized mindset, and an all-encompassing favorable business environment.

Top 50 valuation is $611.8bn, at Dec 31st 2021, an increase of 464% since the end of 2020 demonstrating that Crypto Valley continues to be the globally preferred jurisdiction for substantive projects and the hub of choice for disruptors who are changing the way the world interacts and transactsUnicorn count has nearly doubled at fourteen, including a Hectocorn ($100bn+) and three Decacorns ($10bn+)As a world leader in progressive regulation, Switzerland enacted its DLT law in August 2021, giving a solid legal foundation for the issuance of digital securities and establishing the globally leading license for Digital Securities Trading FacilitiesDue to the regulatory clarity, firms are racing to establish in Switzerland because they know where they standZug, with 528 companies, continues to be the epicenter of Crypto Valley which in 2021 surpassed more than 1,100 blockchain companies (1,128)6000 employees work directly in crypto and blockchain companies, thousands more work for and with these companies remotely across the globe

World-first in regulatory excellence, corporate and legal talent, well-experienced service providers, crypto-friendly banks, and academic institutions, two of which are ranked in the top 10 worldwide, continue to drive Crypto Valley’s meteoric growth.

While the Top 50 list is dominated by protocols, others such as Switzerland’s regulated crypto banks, Sygnum and Seba Bank, and brokerage Bitcoin Suisse are nearing billion-dollar valuations. All had recent significant investments from some of the world’s most prolific tech VCs. Concurrently, Switzerland and Liechtenstein are witnessing cross-industry fertilization between legacy and new world financial sectors. As a result, Crypto Valley demonstrates that the bridge between the old and the new world is now a ‘two-way street’, such as Deutsche Börse Group acquiring a majority stake in Crypto Finance AG.

It is not just Crypto Valley’s Unicorn herd that highlights the valley’s critical role in the global stride toward decentralization, Web3, and the oncoming fourth industrial revolution. The Crypto Valley’s booming rise is prodigious because of the balance between technical expertise, precise determination, supportive banking and business infrastructures, and having a stable regulatory environment where all participants know where they stand.

In addition to the exemplary regulatory environment,, there is a welcoming Swiss banking landscape where increasingly legacy banks, bank crypto and blockchain businesses. As a global financial center, Switzerland manages around one-quarter of the world’s cross-border assets. A recent survey has shown that over 55% of Swiss banks plan to offer digital assets services over the next 1-3 years.

Such a progressive environment is a testament to why Switzerland is the only jurisdiction in the world where it is possible to incorporate a company, bank, pay taxes, and hire professional services exclusively using cryptocurrencies.

The Report highlights the near doubling of Unicorns, the proliferation of blockchain in the financial industry, the emergence of new asset classes such as DeFi and NFTs, and new universes building from the catalyst tech known as blockchain.

The Crypto Valley Top 50 Report is a periodical analysis of the top 50 best-performing companies in Crypto Valley, based on market valuation, funding, and the number of employees.

Top 50 Crypto and Blockchain Companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein

AllianceBlock

At AllianceBlock, we are bridging the gap between decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional finance (TradFi), by remedying issues that exist in both spheres and linking them more closely together. We see the future of finance as an integrated system in which the best of both worlds can work together to increase capital flows and technological innovation.

Anoma

Anoma is a sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties. Anoma is part of a growing global effort to impede non-consensual usage of data by third parties, prevent nation-states from weaponizing the financial system, and empower humankind to solve existentiallythreatening collective action problems that transcend national borders.

Aragon

Create value without borders or intermediaries. Aragon is being built because so that decen-tralized organizations can solve the world’s worst problems. Aragon is a project that aims to disintermediate the creation and mainte-nance of organizational structures by using blockchain technology. The company wants to empower people across the world to easily and securely manage their organizations. Aragon provides the tools for anyone to become an entrepreneur and run their own organization, to take control of their own lives.

Atomyz

Atomyze’s vision is to facilitate the tokenization of commodities, enabling them to be traded in a simple and secure way, and bring new access, increased liquidity, optimized efficiency, and improved transparency to the industry, within a seamless ecosystem. To make this a reality we have established key partnerships to create a nextgeneration ecosystem, with Hyperledger Fabric distributed ledger technology (DLT) at its core.

Bancor

Bancor introduced the first-ever decentralized exchange (DEX) based on automated market makers (AMMs). The protocol offers users safe and simple access to DeFi yields while enabling algorithmic, decentralized trading for integrated tokens. Bancor is the only decentralized trading protocol that allows depositors to earn money with single-token exposure and zero risk of impermanent loss.

Cardano

Cardano is a decentralised public blockchain and cryptocurrency project and is fully open source. Cardano is developing a smart contract platform which seeks to deliver more advanced features than any protocol previously developed.

Casper

The Casper Network is a fully decentralized (permis-sionless), scalable, and highly secure Proof-of-Stake layer 1 blockchain. Casper has solved the layer 1 trilemma; it is secure, fully decentralized, and scalable/fast. Powered by Highway, an inno-vative, correct-by-construction (CBC) Casper-ba-sed Proof-of-Stake consensus protocol, Casper is leveraging popular workflows, innovative deve-loper tools and multiple programming langua-ges. Casper makes blockchain services easier to use, more upgradable and more predictable, thus removing barriers to mainstream adoption.

Concordium

When launched in 2021, the Concordium bloc-kchain will be a Level-1, Proof-of-stake, regula-tory-compliant, enterprisegrade blockchain with verified identity of users built-in at the protocol level and with application of zero-knowledge proofs. Technological innovations will enhance its performance and allow the blockchain to be fast without compromising security, be scalable, offer interoperability and it’s partial synchronicity adjust to the speed of the internet and ensure that Concordium won´t break under any circumstances.

COSMOS

Interchain Foundation, a Swiss non-profit, which is responsible for co-ordinating fundraising and allocating funds to get the network off the ground. The foundation will suggest a distribution of Atoms according to the results of the fundraiser. Users will ultimately decide the distribution for them-selves when they run the software. The Interchain Foundation will suggest that 5% of the Atoms go to its initial donors, 10% go to the Interchain Foundation, 10% go to the company developing most of the software, and the remaining 75% to be distributed according to the results of the private and publicfundraisers.

DFINITY

The DFINITY Foundation is a not-for-profit organi-zation based in Zurich, Switzerland, that oversees research centers in Palo Alto, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Zurich. Our mission is to build, promote, and maintain the Internet Computer — and by doing so, improve the world. The Internet Computer extends the functionality of the internet from connecting billions of people to also providing millions of developers and entrepreneurs with a public compute platform — creating a revo-lutionary new way to build software, DeFi and open internet services. In turn, this generational shift in computing aims to return the internet back to its free and open roots.

DIA

DIA (Decentralised Information Asset) is an open-source, financial information platform that utilizes crypto-economic incentives to source and validate data. Market actors can supply, share, and use financial and digital asset data. DIA’s mission is to democratize financial data, similar to what Wikipedia has done in the broader information space. DIA data sources and methodologies are transparent and publicly accessible to everyone.

Elrond

Elrond is a highly scalable, fast, and secure blockchain platform for distributed apps, enterprise use cases, and the new internet economy. Its software seeks to incentivize a distributed network of computers to run a smart contract platform that aims to prioritize scalability and low transaction fees. Elrond brings a 1000x improvement in blockchain speed, scale, cost, and user experience.

Ethereum

Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downti-me, censorship, fraud or third-party interference. These apps run on a custom built blockchain, an enormously powerful shared global infrastructure that can move value around and represent the ownership of property. This enables developers to create markets, store registries of debts. or promises, move funds in accordance with instruc-tions given long in the past (like a will or a futures contract) and many other things that have not been invented yet, all without a middleman or counterparty risk.

Golem

Golem is a global, open source, decentralized supercomputer that anyone can access. It is made up of the combined power of users machines, from PCs to entire data centers. Golem creates a decentralized sharing economy of computing power and supplies software developers with a flexible, reliable and cheap source of computing power.

HDAC

Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Hdac Technology AG is a blockchain technology company that aims to be a digital currency and asset hub that provides a platform where fiat currencies around the world can be securely issued and enables businesses to interoperate with each other. Rizon Blockchain has strong network background and is capable of boosting the inflow of the ecosystem participants and the diversification of business.

ICON

The ICON project is building one of the largest decentralized networks in the world. Promo-tion and development of new technologies and applications, especially in the areas of new open and decentralized software architectures. In the foreground – but not exclusively – is the promotion and development of the so-called ICON protocol and the corresponding techno-logies, as well as the promotion and support of applications using the ICON protocol.

Liquity

Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw 0% interest loans against Ether used as collateral. Loans are paid out in LUSD – a USD pegged stablecoin, and need to maintain a minimum collateral ratio of only 110%. Liquity creates a more capital-efficient and user-friendly way to borrow stablecoins. Furthermore, Liquity is governance-free, ensuring that the protocol remains decentralized.

Lisk

Develop and publish blockchain applications with your own sidechains on the open-source Lisk Platform. Promotion of new technology developments and applications, in particular promotion and maintenance of new open decen-tralized software architectures. In the foreground – but not exclusively – is the promotion and development of the so-called Lisk protocol and the corresponding technology as well as the promotion and support of applications using the Lisk protocol.

Minima

Minima is a secure, scalable, and completely decentralized public blockchain, that can run completely on a mobile or IoT device without any third parties – no external miners, validators, or producers. Minima will launch its mainnet in 2022 and has the ambition to have millions of nodes, creating a decentralized web architecture for the future.

NEAR Protocol

NEAR Protocol is a scalable blockchain designed to provide the performance and user experience necessary to bridge the gap to mainstream adoption of decentralized applications. Unlike other next-generation blockchains, this network has been built from the ground up to be the easiest in the world for both developers and their end-users while still providing the scalability necessary to serve those users.

Partisia Blockchain

Partisia Blockchain is the world’s most advanced zeroknowledge blockchain. Its WEB 3.0 public blockchain is built for trust, transparency, privacy, and speed of light finalization. Partisia Blockchain is a unique combination of a high-performance blockchain that functions as a bedrock for efficient, scalable, and robust orchestration of MPC. This combination of blockchain and MPC technologies provide an optimal foundation for native privacy-preserving applications.

SKALE

SKALE is built to bring the power of Ethereum to billions of users. It is a 100% decentralized network that will bring Web3, NFTs, and DeFi to users through a world of interconnected, limitless SKALE chains. Developers use SKALE’s highly configurable platform to run smart contracts 100% on SKALE chains without centralized dependencies. Plus, SKALE’s unique pooled security model with ~$1B staked enables developers to deliver a high-speed, seamless user experience without gas fees or latency.

Solana

Solana is a highly functional open source project that banks on blockchain technology’s permis-sionless nature to provide decentralized finan-ce (DeFi) solutions. While the idea and initial work on the project began in 2017, Solana was officially launched in March 2020 by the Sola-na Foundation with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The Solana protocol is designed to facilitate decentralized app (DApp) creation.

Status

The Status Network builds decentralized technologies ranging from protocol-level infrastructure to consumer applications, forming an open-source, peer-to-peer technology stack. The open set of projects contains products, tooling, and infrastructure to enable local societies and economies to thrive, allow others to build new products and services suited to their specific needs, and help local communities to take back sovereignty and remove the reliance on third parties.

Streamr

Streamr provides decentralized infrastructure for real-time data. Our goal is to enable data to be transported, shared, and monetized securely and scalably without intermediaries. By facilitating new types of data pipelines and ecosystems, we support and accelerate the birth of Web 3.0, in which decentralized applications can securely exchange data and value. The Streamr Network is a middleware solution to be leveraged by any decentralized application, such as Web 3.0 applications or blockchain networks.

Tezos

Tezos is a self-upgradable and energy-efficient Proof of Stake blockchain with a proven record of security and scalability. In 2021, Tezos recorded over 50 million transactions with a carbon footprint of just 17 individuals. Seamlessly adopting innovations without disruption, Tezos is designed to evolve and built to empower. The Tezos Foundation is located in the Crypto Valley.

Velas

Velas is the world’s fastest EVM compatible chain. Velas is a full hybrid EVM/eBPF chain of Solana and Ethereum, that inherited the best from both: security, scalability, high performance, 1.2- sec finality, extremely low fees, and Solidity support.

Waves

Waves creates the economics of free, perfect and instant. The Waves Platform is a global public blockchain platform, founded in 2016. Waves Platform’s mission is to reinvent the DNA of entrepreneurship around the world by providing a shared infrastructure, offering easy-to-use, highly functional tools to make blockchain available to every person or orga-nisation that can benefit from it.

Web 3.0

Our mission is to nurture cutting-edge applications for decentralized web software protocols. Our passion is delivering Web 3.0, a decentralized and fair internet where users control their own data, identity, and destiny. We support Web 3.0 teams and open-source projects through funding, advocacy, research, and collaborations. Our flagship protocols are Polkadot and Kusama.

21Shares AG

Zürich-based 21Shares AG is the world’s premier issuer of crypto exchange-traded products, with over $1 billion in AUM across eleven index, single-asset, and inverse crypto ETPs listed on the Swiss SIX, Deutsche Börse, & Weiner Börse.

Aave

Aave (fun fact: the name is taken from the Finnish word for “ghost”) is a decentralised, open-source, and non-custodial liquidity proto-col on Ethereum. Depositors earn interest by providing liquidity to lending pools, while borrowers can obtain loans by tapping into these pools with variable and stable interest rate options. Aave Protocol is unique in that it tokenizes deposits as aTokens, which accrue interest in real time. It also features access to Flash Loans and Credit Delegation as unco-llateralised loan options.

AlgoTrader

Available on-premise or in the cloud, AlgoTrader is an institutional-grade quantitative trading and trade execution solution for conducting quanti-tative research, trading strategy development, strategy back-testing and automated trading for both traditional finance and crypto finance. AlgoTrader provides everything a buy-side or sell-side firm requires to run its quantitative trading and trade execution operations. It was the very first and most advanced quantitative trading and trade execution software to allow automated trading of Bitcoin and other digital assets. Based in Zurich, New York, and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally.

Axedras

Axedras is a DLT / blockchain-based infrastructure and application provider with a vision to connect and digitalize the precious metal industry. We combine bullion market expertise and cutting-edge information technology to create tremendous benefits for the stakeholders of the precious metal industry on a global scale. aXedras has developed a distributed Corda application for product and data integrity within the bullion market: the Bullion Integrity Ledger™.

Bitcoin Suisse

Bitcoin Suisse is the Swiss crypto-finance and technology pioneer and market leader. Bitcoin Suisse has helped to shape the crypto and blockchain ecosystem in Switzerland and has been a driving force in the development of the Crypto Valley. As a regulated Swiss financial intermediary, Bitcoin Suisse offers prime brokerage, trading, custody, lending, staking, and other crypto-financial services for private and institutional clients.

BitMEX

BitMEX is a P2P crypto-products trading platform. It is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges with a fully verified user base and the creator of the Perpetual Swap. With its upcoming Spot, Brokerage, Custody, Information Products, and Academy businesses, BitMEX is a leading force in the industry with excellent platform performance alongside top-tier liquidity and security.

Bittrex Global

Bittrex Global provides a proven and secure plat-form for its customers to access the opportu-nities of digital asset trading. Built on Bittrex’s cutting-edge technology, Bittrex Global provides an institutional grade experience for professional and novice customers alike.

Crypto Finance

The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that is unique in the digital asset space today. The group provides asset management, with the first regulated asset manager for crypto asset funds authorised by FINMA; brokerage services for 24/7 crypto asset trading; and crypto asset storage infrastructure and toke-nisation solutions. Since its founding in 2017, the group has been recognised several times, including as a Crypto Valley Top 50 blockchain company, Top 100 Swiss Start-up, and 2019 Swiss FinTech Award winner.

Curve

Curve is an exchange liquidity pool on Ethe-reum (like Uniswap) designed for (1) extre-mely efficient stablecoin trading (2) low risk, supplemental fee income for liquidity providers, without an opportunity cost. Curve allows users to trade between DAI and USDC with a bespoke low slippage, low fee algorithm designed specifically for stablecoins and earn fees.

Enzyme

Enzyme empowers you to build and scale investment strategies of your choice – from discretionary and robo to ETFs and market making. Security is our priority. Our second generation smart contract-enforced platform is thoroughly tested and audited before any mainnet deployments are made.

Fiat24

R Saphirstein AG is a Swiss financial institution directly regulated by FINMA. Fiat24 is a payment application developed by SR Saphirstein AG for its retail customers. Fiat24 attempts to use blockchain technology to change the way existing banks operate and thus increase efficiency.

LCX

LCX, the Liechtenstein Cryptoassets Exchange, is pioneering a blockchain infrastructure bridging the traditional monetary system and the fast-moving trusted technology landscape. The company focuses on tokenization of assets, utility and security token offerings, and advanced trading tools.

METACO

METACO is the leading provider of security-critical infrastructure enabling financial institutions to enter the digital asset ecosystem. The company is trusted by top banks, exchanges and infras-tructure providers globally.

Mt Pelerin

Mt Pelerin is providing products and services bridging the crypto world with traditional finance. It was bootstrapped by its own community through equity crowdfunding that raised more than $2M in 2018. Since then, Mt Pelerin has become one of the leading actors in asset tokenization with its Bridge Protocol platform and provides unique crypto services through its mobile app Bridge Wallet. It is currently working on creating a tokenized full-reserve financial institution in Switzerland.

Nexo

Nexo is the world’s leading regulated finan-cial institution for digital assets with $4 billion in assets under management. The company’s mission is to maximize the value and utility of cryptocurrencies by offering taxefficient Instant Crypto Credit Lines™, a high-yield Earn on Cryp-to & Fiat suite, and sophisticated trading and OTC capabilities, while providing the top-tier custodial insurance and military-grade secu-rity of the Nexo Wallet. Nexo has processed $5+ billion for 1,000,000+ users across more than 200 jurisdictions.

SEBA Bank

SEBA Bank is a pioneer in the financial industry and is the only global smart bank providing a fully universal suite of regulated banking services in the emerging digital economy. In August 2019, SEBA Bank received a Swiss banking and securities dealers license, and in September 2021 the CISA license. The broad, vertically integrated spectrum of services combined with the highest security standards, make SEBA Bank’s value proposition unique.

SwissBorg

SwissBorg is democratizing wealth management by making it fun, fair, and community-centric. SwissBorg holds two licenses to provide Virtual Currency Exchange and Virtual Currency Wallets internationally. We believe that blockchain technology can empower everyone to control their wealth and that this is the next step towards a world of decentralized nations, where every individual is welcome and is fairly rewarded for their contributions.

Sygnum is the world’s first digital asset bank, and a digital asset specialist with global reach. With Sygnum Bank AG’s Swiss banking licence, as well as Sygnum Pte Ltd’s capital markets services (CMS) licence in Singapore, Sygnum empowers institu-tional and private qualified investors, corporates, banks and other financial institutions to invest in the digital asset economy with complete trust.

Taurus is a technology company providing end-to-end digital asset infrastructure for financial insti-tutions. Multi-assets, multi-blockchains. EU market leader with more than 1 bank out of 2 running Taurus infrastructure. We offer a suite of applica-tions to manage the entire lifecycle of any digital assets (private assets, crypto assets and digital currencies) in one platform: issuance, tokenisa-tion, custody and blockchain communication. Easy to deploy or integrate: API-based, availa-ble on premise or SaaS. Future-proof solutions: our engineers are among the few teams in the world that master the full technology stack across software development, secure DevOps, crypto-graphy and blockchain technology.

Utrust

Utrust is the leading cryptocurrency payment solution designed to modernize the finance and payments industry and solve the problems of traditional payment methods by offering instant transactions and immediate crypto-tocash settlements for the is setting a new digital standard for the art world. The company combines the blockchain with its patented Augmented-Authentication-Technology and offers all art world participants more trans-parency, security and process efficiency. Us-ing a smartphone camera, the microscopic structure of an artwork is captured and con-verted into a digital “fingerprint”. Together with the provenance of an artwork, this fingerprint is secured with the blockchain as a “biometric passport”. Once stored, the artwork is safely and uniquely assigned to its digital certificate.

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Cosmo Coin (COSM) has been relatively average in terms of volatility when compared to other cryptocurrencies. So far Saturday, the crypto has declined 32.25% to $0.0002100742. InvestorsObserver is giving Cosmo Coin a 65 Volatility Rank. Find out what this means to you and get the rest of the rankings on Cosmo Coin!See Full ReportModerately VolatileInvestorsObserver gives Cosmo Coin a moderate volatility rank of 65, placing it in the top 35% of cryptos on the market. The Volatility Gauge takes into account this means that the rank represents its recent trends and isn't overly influenced by a sudden spike - or two - in volatility.COSM's moderate volatility reading pairs with a low reading on the Risk/Reward Gauge, meaning that the token has moderate price swings and is well protected from price manipulation. Cosmo Coin price is in a favorable position going forward. With support near $0.000129182880916763 and resistance set at $0.000259295775029007. This positions Cosmo Coin with room to run before facing selling pressures.What is a Token?Tokens are digital assets that exist on another cryptocurrency's blockchain.

Over the past 24 hours, Cosmos’s (CRYPTO: ATOM) price has risen 7.08% to $41.18. This continues its positive trend over the past week where it has experienced a 6.0% gain, moving from $39.39 to its current price. As it stands right now, the coin’s all-time high is $44.42.

The chart below compares the price movement and volatility for Cosmos over the past 24 hours (left) to its price movement over the past week (right). The gray bands are bollinger bands, measuring the volatility for both the daily and weekly price movements. The wider the bands are, or the larger the gray area is at any given moment, the larger the volatility.

Cosmos’s trading volume has climbed 10.0% over the past week along with the circulating supply of the coin, which has increased 0.19%. This brings the circulating supply to 285.92 million. According to our data, the current market cap ranking for ATOM is #18 at 11.82 billion.

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Fantom and Cosmos have seen increases in trading volume and market price over the past few days. HUH Token is a newer cryptocurrency that could be the next opportunity for those who missed the rise of Fantom and Cosmos.

Fantom, Cosmos and HUH Token could all see increasing success throughout 2022 as they expand the uses of their currency and reveal more information about up-and-coming projects. However, it is first essential to understand what they are and how they function.

Fantom (FTM)

Related postsCurious about Ethereum, HUH Token and Shiba Inu? Here’s what you need to know January 7, 2022The New Year predictions for cryptocurrency – Dogecoin and HUH Token January 8, 2022The Fantom token, otherwise known as FTM, is the native currency of the Fantom network and allows their proof of stake system to operate. FTM can also be used for governance within its ecosystem, network fees, and sending or receiving payments.The Fantom network allows DApps, or decentralised applications, to deploy on its blockchain and already support over 80 DApps. SpookySwap, SushiSwap and Curve are just some examples.Fantom and its token FTM pride themselves on having three core components that they execute. The speed and cost of all transactions, the security provided from validating nodes, and their network scalability.

Cosmos (ATOM)

-->Cosmos uses ATOM within its network for a variety of purposes. For example, ATOM can be used to stake, hold, spend or spend within the Cosmos ecosystem. Meaning that as the size of Cosmos continues to grow, the token’s value should follow in its footsteps.Owning ATOM also allows users to become part of governing Cosmos. The number of tokens you own will be proportional to your vote in the decision.Cosmos is known as the ‘internet of blockchains’ due to the increasing number of teams using their open-source tools to streamline transactions between other crypto networks.

HUH Token

HUH Token was created to be a wealth-generating token that gives equal opportunity for those with small amounts of purchasing power alongside those with large amounts of capital.HUH Token accomplishes this through its smart contract. It can provide holders with Binance Coin rewards when people they refer purchase the token for the first time. In addition, simply holding HUH Token will cause it to grow over time. This is achieved through a system called static reflection.HUH Token is a part of a much larger project, as it is new this project will be coming in the future. HUH Token will be used alongside a social platform called MetHUH. MetHUH will reward both the social influencers and users of the platform with its native currency. In similar regard to ATOM, HUH Token’s value can be expected to increase as more people adopt the MetHUH as their social platform of choice.

 Fantom (FTM), Cosmos (ATOM) and HUH Token

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All three cryptocurrencies provide different elements to the crypto world and may achieve positive results in their respective fields. Although Fantom and Cosmos are well established and could continue to show signs of growth in 2022, the earning capability of investors may be slightly lower as these projects tend to grow slower once popular.

However, HUH Token is a new cryptocurrency and will continuously be listed on more exchanges and listing websites. This, in addition to their MetHUH, could result in early purchases delivering massive returns as their projects come to fruition.

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Today is the first official trading day for stocks, but the third official trading day for cryptocurrencies in 2022. Most top tokens have seen heightened volatility to start the year, as investors place their bets on which tokens could outperform this year.

Most mega-cap cryptocurrency tokens are down today, with Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) trading 2.3% lower over the past 24 hours, as of 12:30 p.m. ET.

Out of the top 20 cryptocurrencies, Chainlink (CRYPTO:LINK) is one of only four tokens that have made a positive move over this same time frame. This token appreciated 3.5% over the past 24 hours.

Investors in smaller-cap tokens such as Cosmos (CRYPTO:ATOM) are having more luck today. Cosmos has zoomed 10.1% higher over the past 24 hours in early afternoon trading.

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So what

To start the year, it appears investors are intent on seeking out higher-growth, small-cap tokens rather than settling for the slow-and-steady growth profile of larger networks such as Ethereum. The end of December marked a period that could be best characterized as a defensive rotation into larger-cap tokens to end the year. However, it appears risk-on sentiment is back to start the year, with tech stocks leading the way in equities markets today.

Interestingly, Chainlink and Cosmos share some similarities investors appear to have homed in on today. Chainlink is a leading oracle network, allowing off-chain data to be integrated with blockchain networks. Cosmos is a network that aims to allow for data between separate blockchains to be bridged. Both crypto platforms are integral pieces to the interoperability of the blockchain world -- where many investors believe the crypto space is headed.

Forward-looking investors appear to be picking up on the potential of Chainlink and Cosmos today, looking past the more defensive large-cap tokens in search of growth.

Now what

It's still very early in the year to make any sort of predictions as to which tokens are likely to outperform in 2022. However, early indications are that investors are seeking out specific tokens with the ability to allow for increased use cases among multiple blockchains, and those allowing for integration with real-world data sources. This is a trend I've had my eye on, and is one I remain bullish on moving forward. Chainlink and Cosmos are two tokens high on my watch list right now.

That said, Ethereum's ecosystem is massive, both in terms of size and importance to the burgeoning application side of the crypto world. Investors would do well to consider each of these tokens as part of a well-diversified crypto portfolio. However, today, fortune favors the risk-takers looking for near-term growth catalysts in the crypto market.

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Cosmos (ATOM) is one of the projects that started 2022 on the right track thanks to its facilitation of communication between separate networks. As a result, it is already one of the most talked-about crypto projects a week into the new year.

Presented as “the internet of blockchains” to facilitate the development of an interconnected decentralized economy, Cosmos has seen explosive growth at the start of 2022. So, how has Cosmos fared in the market recently?

Price Updates

While the crypto market has struggled for gains, Cosmos (ATOM) has been on a steady uptrend, closing in on its September all-time high. Over the last 24 hours, ATOM has climbed by 9%, the only top 30 crypto in the green today.

The 24-hour price chart of Cosmos (ATOM). Source: Tradingview

The steady rise of ATOM means in the last 30 days, the coin has gained approximately 90%. ATOM now trades at $40.220 and is now ranked as the 25th largest crypto with a market cap of $1.908 billion.

The 30-day price chart of Cosmos (ATOM). Source: Tradingview

Recent Developments

Cosmos has seen some of the biggest growth across the cryptoverse in 2022, and for the right reasons too. An expansion of its ecosystem is one of the major reasons for the growth of Cosmos and the price increase of ATOM.

On December 30, Cosmos announced expanding its network to include 28 live, interconnected blockchains and currently supporting 262 Cosmos dApps and services.

The expansion brought the digital asset shared by Cosmos’ internet of blockchain to an estimated $68 billion. The likes of Binance Smart Chain, Terra, Crypto.com, Osmosis, Secret, Oasis Network, and Kava all feature on Cosmos.

Although an interoperable network, Cosmos has been optimized to be power efficient, thanks to being a proof-of-stake network. According to its yearly report, its annual power consumption is less than the energy consumed by Bitcoin in a single day.

Another important event for Cosmos is the launch of the Gravity Bridge on December 15. The Gravity Bridge, while a standalone chain now, helps bridge assets between Ethereum and Cosmos. The project is planning to migrate the bridge to the mainnet in Q1.

Future Events

One of the most anticipated events in the Cosmos ecosystem is the protocol’s upcoming Theta upgrade. Scheduled for March 31, there is great anticipation of the new features the upgrade will bring to the network.

The Theta upgrade will bring liquidity staking to the network, allowing users to utilize the value of staked assets in other parts of the Cosmos ecosystem. The first version of liquidity staking is expected to come as early as February 2022.

Another interesting addition is the interchain account function. With this feature, Cosmos users will be able to manage their accounts across multiple blockchains rather than transfer tokens from one chain to another.

NFT modules will also be introduced with the upgrade, allowing for the easy management of NFT credentials, their owners, and associated data. The upgrade will also introduce the Cosmos ecosystem to meta transactions.

The much grander plan for Cosmos involves the public launch of Emeris in Spring 2022. Emeris will introduce advanced capabilities for portfolio visualization, digital asset management, and service discovery for the ecosystem.

While there is no official release date, Cosmos looks to integrate staking with auto-compounding of rewards, cross-chain DEX aggregation, an airdrop tracker, and a browser extension into Emeris. Cosmos plans to become an ecosystem of 200 chains in 2022.

On The Flipside

Community

Members of the community are fondly called Cosmonauts. Cosmos has built a strong community thanks to community involvement and constant updates on the project’s progress.

Because the project is largely built around its community members, Cosmonauts have grown to become strong believers in this promising project. One Cosmonauts identified as, Jøhnnie, wrote;

You will bitterly regret not holding on tight to your $ATOM down the road, if you leverage trade or "take profits" now, traders/speculators. One day, the amount of $ATOM you hold now will be unattainable. Hold & stake if you want to make it. Also: Airdrops > profits.@cosmos pic.twitter.com/rA79nQ41C0

— Jøhnnie (@johnniecosmos) January 7, 2022

Mason Nystrom, a researcher at MessariCrypto, wrote about Cosmos;.@cosmos Theta Upgrade (Scheduled for Mar 31, 2022) is going to be absolute Cosmos Theta Upgrade will *potentially* enable:1. Meta-transactions2. NFT modules3. Interchain accounts4. Liquid staking5. CosmWASM instance on the Hub6. Upgrades to Gravity Bridge pic.twitter.com/Te0mVdaDzC

— Mason Nystrom (@masonnystrom) January 4, 2022

A Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) user, Youssef Amrani, wrote about Cosmos;The more I research @cosmos , the more I am impressed with the quality of the ecosystem. A thread

— Youssef Amrani (@youssef_amrani) January 6, 2022

Why You Should Care

From the developments and future plans of Cosmos, it is almost easy to see why the project has outperformed many others in a bearish market. If Cosmos hits all its goals for 2022, it could become one of the biggest, if not the biggest, revelations of the year.

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