- Whales have been active around the point of the rally; this movement is expected to explode by 30%.
- Altcoins are rallying around in 2023 and are expected to spike by 20%.
- FOMO may affect the market.
Movements of whales in crypto influence the asset’s price to a certain extent. A rally generally follows their interest in it; analytics firm Santiment recently revealed that whale transactions had increased considerably for Litecoin (LTC) and another two Ethereum-based altcoins.
What does this mean?
The market intelligence firm hints that Litecoin (LTC), the supposed Bitcoin (BTC) alternative, is experiencing reinvigoration of whale activities, which could cause another price explosion of 30%. Similar instances marked history when whales increased their activities, and this action was centered around the LTC spike.
— Santiment (@santimentfeed) January 26, 2023
Litecoin (LTC)
At the time of writing, LTC was trading at $94.68 with a jump of 6.68%, while its value against Bitcoin was at 0.004078 BTC, rising by 5.69%. Its market cap grew by 6.68% to be at $6.8 billion. Also, its volume saw a massive rise of 78.48% to $765 million in the last 24 hours. LTC is ranked at 13 and shares a market dominance of 0.65%.
The analyst also says that the whales are also showing interest in AAVE, decentralized exchange DyDx (DYDX), and the scaling solution Polygon; last month, their prices also increased considerably.
Aave (AAVE), DYDX
At the time of writing, AAVE was trading at $86.06 with a drop of 1.15%, while its value against Bitcoin dropped by 2.01% to 0.003711 BTC. Its market cap suffered by 1.17% to be at $1.2 billion, while its volume massively sunk by 22.59% to $78 million. Ranking at 42, shares a market dominance of 0.11%.
DYDX was trading at $2.27 with a correction of 2.44%, while its value against Bitcoin dropped by 3.28% to 0.00009807 BTC. Its market cap sank by 2.45% to $355 million, while its volume corrected by 39.02% to $122 million. Being ranked at 104 shares a market dominance of 0.95%.
— Santiment (@santimentfeed) January 27, 2023
The analyst noted that the altcoins overall had a strong rally at the start of the year and thinks it is an ongoing process, with many considerable assets being up by 20% or more. Although after 5 consecutive days of crypto-dip, prices are around the resistance.
“Social spikes and FOMO may cause a top, or traders will scoff this run (allowing rallies to continue).”
— Santiment (@santimentfeed) January 25, 2023
Source: https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2023/01/29/whales-munching-on-ltc-and-two-other-ethereum-based-altcoins-santiment/