Altcoins usually mirror the worth actions of Bitcoin (BTC), the most important cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Nevertheless, Cosmos (ATOM) and Solana (SOL), over the previous two weeks, managed to outperform BTC.
Cosmos is up almost 15% in comparison with BTC over the previous two weeks, Glassnode information signifies. Alternatively, SOL beat BTC by virtually 8% over the previous 14 days, regardless of seeing a major dip on Dec. 29, 2022.
An evaluation of the Glassnode chart signifies that Cosmos returns carefully adopted that of BTC till 26 Dec. The next day, ATOM returns started rising in comparison with BTC and skilled little volatility on its journey upwards. On the time of writing, ATOM was buying and selling at round $10.09 — up 9.52% over the previous week, whereas BTC is down 0.23%.
SOL worth tanked considerably since early November, owing to its ties with FTX and its founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) — SBF and his hedge fund Alameda Analysis have been early backers of Solana. The token misplaced round 55% of its worth in November following the chapter submitting of FTX and Alameda Analysis.
Solana continued its descent by means of most of December. The above Glassnode chart signifies that SOL worth declined by greater than 30% in comparison with BTC on Dec. 29, hitting a low of round $8.26.
Nevertheless, over the previous 5 days, the SOL worth jumped significantly to round $13.02 on the time of writing, CryptoSlate information exhibits. Solana is up 18.91% over the previous seven days, in accordance with CryptoSlate information.
Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has carefully adopted Bitcoin since Dec. 21. Over the previous two weeks, ETH returns have been barely higher than Bitcoin’s. ETH was buying and selling at round $1,207.66 on the time of writing, down 0.11% over the previous week.
BNB (BNB), Polygon (MATIC), and Polkadot (DOT) gave comparable returns — barely decrease than that of BTC over the previous two weeks.
