TL;DR

• BTC & ETH is stagnant

• BTC underperformed ETH this week 

• Bitcoin dominance is down

• The hot coin we look at this week is AKT

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BTC & ETH Market Update 📈

Crypto is stagnant this week, with BTC being down 0.8% and ETH up 1.0%!

Bitcoin dominance has been decreasing over the week, starting at around 52.1%, topping at 52.12% and ending the week around 51.3%. Capital often starts to flow into ETH and other altcoins as the price is increasing for more risk-on assets as well, causing a lower Bitcoin dominance as we have started to see over the course of multiple weeks.

It’s going to be interesting to see whether this trend will continue in the short term, as capital in crypto tends to flow initially to BTC and then further out on the risk-curve, starting with altcoins like ETH and then into mid- or low-cap coins.

The Bitcoin halving is coming up this week. If history is any guidance we will continue to see BTC dominance climb up until after Bitcoin halving, whereafter people start to look for higher return moving further on the risk curve entering altcoins. This typically starts with ETH, and then on to mid- and low cap coins. Other coins being moved into are typically “ETH killers” like SOL, AVAX and other other L1s. Yet ETH is still the king amongst altcoins, as price action this week also shows.

With BTC dominance decreasing and the ETH price decreasing more compared to BTC, the BTC/ETH ratio is trending up or and stay stagnant around 20.5 ETH per BTC, underlining that BTC continues to be king in crypto, but alts like ETH are gaining momentum.

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Hot Coin: AKT 🔥

In this week’s newsletter we dive into Akash Network’s token with the ticker: $AKT.

The price action and volume is has been growing consistently, and doesn’t seem to stop any time soon:

What is the project about?

In a nutshell, Akash is a decentralized form of cloud computing, or in other words, a decentralized version of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft’s Azure, or Google Cloud. AWS, which by far has the largest market share of cloud services, currently supports many Fortune500 companies, from everything including McDonald’s to Ethereum node validators.

Just to give you an idea of how big the cloud computing market has become, if it wasn’t for AWS then Amazon would struggle to stay profitable post-COVID in 2022:

So cloud computing is a massive market with juicy margins that can be attacked by disrupters like Akash. Hence, the potential for new players is large to challenge incumbents with new promising tech such as blockchain. This is exactly what Akash is doing, and they are already getting ahead of these big players when it comes to price:

Essentially, Akash is becoming an unstoppable supercloud enabling users to buy and sell compute resources on a decentralized network, which could become a bigger industry than DeFi itself.

Why is the project exciting now?

There are three main reasons why we feature this project in this week’s newsletter:

• Addressable market

• Better resource utilisation

• Better tech

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