Markets Daily Crypto Roundup

CoinDesk Market Index Week in Review

Dec 9, 2023

Tracy Stephens, senior index manager of CoinDesk Indices, discusses the performance of Cardano and the crypto market. Helium sees growth while the DeFi sector lags behind. Q4 shows impressive growth in the cryptocurrency market with Bitcoin's dominance and increasing demand for stablecoins.

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Tracy Stephens

Eric Ervin

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Cardano was one of the top-performing assets, gaining 31% this week in the CoinDesk market index.

Bitcoin's rise in price and the unwillingness of wallets known for long-term holding to sell suggests that we are still in the early stage of the crypto market cycle.

Deep dives

Crypto Market Highlights

Cardano has gained 31% this week, making it one of the top-performing assets in the CoinDesk market index. The overall crypto asset class had a positive week, with the CoinDesk market index up more than 10%. However, there were notable laggards within the DeFi sector, including Aave and Maker. The decentralized network Helium experienced a significant uptrend, gaining 61% this week with the launch of its nationwide 5G network.

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Impressive Q4 Growth and Bitcoin's Dominance in the Market Recovery

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CoinDesk Indices presents six notable market movement highlights from last week.

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The CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) functions as a benchmark for the performance of the digital asset market, delivering institutional quality information to digital asset investors. Today’s takeaways are provided by Tracy Stephens, senior index manager of CoinDesk Indices with additional analysis from Eric Ervin, CEO of Onramp Invest. For more on the CMI you can visit: coindeskmarkets.com.

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Markets Daily Crypto Roundup

CoinDesk Market Index Week in Review

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Crypto Market Highlights

Bitcoin's Dominance and Altcoin Rotation

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