These Altcoins Are Seeing High Whale Interest After Fed Rate Cut
21 September 2024 - 6:30AM
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On-chain data shows three altcoins are observing a high transaction
activity from the whales after the US Federal Reserve (Fed)
announced a rate cut. Whale Transaction Count Has Spiked For These
Altcoins Recently In a new post on X, the on-chain analytics firm
Santiment has discussed the Whale Transaction Count trend for three
altcoins. The “Whale Transaction Count” here refers to an indicator
that keeps track of the total number of transactions taking place
on a given cryptocurrency network that involves a value of more
than $100,000. Transfers of this scale are typically associated
with whales, the largest entities on the network, so the
indicator’s value can provide hints about the current activity from
this cohort. Related Reading: Crypto Shorts Suffer $147 Million
Squeeze As Bitcoin Returns Above $63,000 When the value of this
metric is high, it means the whales are making a large amount of
moves right now. Such a trend implies these humongous holders have
an active interest in trading the coin. On the other hand, the
indicator having a low value suggests this group may not be paying
too much attention to the asset at the moment as they aren’t making
that many transfers. Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in
the Whale Transaction Count for three altcoins, Immutable X (IMX),
Fantom (FTM), and Basic Attention Token (BAT), over the last few
weeks: As displayed in the above graph, large spikes in the Whale
Transaction Count have been observed for all of these altcoins over
the last couple of days. This would suggest that the whales have
suddenly become very active on these networks. The timing of the
spikes would mean this activity is likely related to the interest
rate cut announced by the Fed. While the high values indicate a
surge in trading interest from the whales, the Whale Transaction
Count alone can’t tell us what sort of trades these humongous
investors are making exactly. Buying and selling transactions both
look the same from the perspective of the indicator, and thus,
carry the same weightage in its count. What can provide hints about
whether accumulation or distribution is dominant, though, is the
surrounding price action. Bitcoin and the altcoins as a whole,
including Immutable X and company, have surged since the Fed
announcement, so the increased whale activity could be associated
with buying. Related Reading: Will Bitcoin Bullish Swing Continue?
Top Analyst Says Yes Naturally, any further spikes in whale
activity aren’t necessary to be bullish, but Santiment notes that
if Bitcoin and others continue to grow, then these altcoins can
also thrive off a high Whale Transaction Count. IMX Price Immutable
X has continued the latest bullish push during the last 24 hours
with another surge of almost 10%, which has taken its price to
$1.58. The below chart shows how the recent performance of IMX has
been like. Featured image from Dall-E, Santiment.net, chart from
TradingView.com
Immutable X (COIN:IMXUSD)
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