Aave (AAVE) Attracting Whales Over Past Few Months – Will It Spur Price Rally?

The number of “whale” addresses in AAVE has recently increased. Whale addresses are digital currency addresses that store 1 million or more of a particular coin. AAVE is currently riding a wave of whale-like popularity.

AAVE is currently riding a wave of whale-like popularity. A 55 percent of the AAVE coins are held by addresses with 1,000 to one million tokens, per Santiment. That’s a big jump from the 48% investors saw in the first half of June.

This increase in whale addresses may be attributable to new AAVE features. AAVE recently tweeted on the company’s recent achievements in the present DeFi industry.

We may expect an increase in the number of services that make use of the AAVE ecosystem over the coming years, as funding has been awarded to more than 26 different beneficiaries.

Staking the token on the ecosystem can now generate instant returns thanks to the company’s cooperation with Flashstake.

AAVE TVL Increasing As Well

Using the governance token, users may lend and borrow cryptocurrencies and real-world assets (RWAs) directly from one another, cutting out the need for a trusted third party. Investors gain interest when lending money and lose it while borrowing money.

The TVL of the system has increased to $1.17 billion, from $1.09 billion on September 14th, since tweets describing current changes in the ecosystem were released.

When the TVL number goes up, trade volume goes up with it. The token’s 24-hour trading volume increased from $74,494,475 on September 18 to $145,288,857 on September 20, according to publicly available data. This represents a massive growth of nearly 49 percent.

As of the time of writing, this figure decreased by 19.5 percent to $116,733,735. Although the long-term outlook for AAVE may be favorable, the short-term outlook is not promising.

Despite the significance of the advancements, the token is still subject to market conditions. The token has already lost 14 percent of its September 17 gains.

Positive Developments Help The Token Recover

The price decline can be attributed to the deteriorating macroeconomic conditions in the first half of September. Due to the market’s climate of dread, the crypto winter will persist until the end of the year before conditions improve.

Recent economic developments will influence the broader financial markets, particularly the cryptocurrency market. But recent developments can assist AAVE in recouping its losses.

Recently, NASDAQ announced its entry into the cryptocurrency market. Their justification was that institutional investors’ interest in digital assets has increased.

Despite the fact that their approach is still cautious because crypto exists in a legal murky area, this is still a big milestone in the crypto industry.

AAVE has been a part of the cryptocurrency market as a lending and borrowing platform. As the crypto winter persists, services such as AAVE will become indispensable for surviving the current market conditions.

AAVE total market cap at $1.02 billion on the daily chart | Source: TradingView.com

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(The analysis represents the author’s personal views and should not be construed as investment advice).

Bitcoin Whale Breaks 8 Year Long Silence With $30 Million Worth Of BTC Transfer

After an eight-year dormancy, a Bitcoin (BTC) Whale unexpectedly moved $30 million worth of BTC. On November 20th, 2013, the exact address received 1,000 BTC worth $567,600 at the time, Blockchair reported. 

The Bitcoin remained dormant in one wallet until it was moved as part of a much larger block that sent nearly 2,100 BTC to two other addresses. One address received 2,000 bitcoins, while the second collected above 99.99 bitcoins.

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Bitcoin Movements In Dormant Wallets 

1,000 BTC were worth $30,090,000. That’s more than 53 times the original price from 2013, when Bitcoin was only $567. The transaction only cost 0.0016 BTC in fees, which is about $47.15 at the time it was executed.

During the last eight years, the inactive whale wallet received trace amounts of Bitcoin 23 times, and it appears that those amounts were for dusting attacks. 

What are dusting attacks? These involve hackers and scammers sending minuscule amounts of Bitcoin (or other cryptocurrencies) to break wallets’ privacy.

BTC is trading at $29,353 after recovering from $27,000 | Source: BTC/USD price chart from tradingview.com

The advanced blockchain tracker, Whale Alert, traced the transaction and reported on Twitter as: 

A dormant address containing 1,000 #BTC (30,395,186 USD) has just been activated after 8.5 years (worth 468,643 USD in 2013)!

Blockchair also identified another wallet that has remained dormant since 2012 and finally transferred 500 BTC on Thursday. The first deposit of one Bitcoin was made back on 5th April 2012.  The wallet then added another 499 BTC on June 3rd of the same year. The Bitcoin price at that time was only $5.25 per coin.

However, throughout that period, the wallet received modest sums of BTC, which appears to be dust transactions used by scammers to carry out dusting attacks.

Remarks And Contribution of Satoshi Nakamoto

The creator of Bitcoin has been silent for years, but people still think they know who it is. As a result, transactions from long-dormant wallets typically drum up media interest. Because they generate chatter speculating that the BTC could be owned by Bitcoin’s secretive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.

Nakamoto launched the genesis block on January 3, 2009. Since then, it has succeeded in mining almost 1,000,000 BTC, according to the assessment of Blockchain analysts.

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Satoshi confirmed his appearance on the internet in December 2010 when the Bitcoin network’s client software version was 0.3.19, and now Bitcoin’s version is 22.0.  

Bitcoin has been showing high volatile movements during the last few months; it was at the price of $ 36,000 before a week and declined to $25,401 last Thursday. 

Bitcoin is currently recovering from a market-wide dip. As of the time of writing, it has increased in value by 13.5% from this year’s low and is trading for $29,353.

 

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