🗣️ Bitcoin just jumped back over $60K, as traders are eyeing altcoins at the moment. The top trending assets, based on discussion rate, are:

🪙 Chiliz $CHZ: Traders expressing excitement over the $PEPPER airdrop, which requires CHZ holders to stake a minimum amount to qualify for new tokens.

🪙 Aave $AAVE: Integration with World Liberty Financial, a project linked to the Trump family. It involves the Aave v3 protocol on the Ethereum blockchain, aiming to enhance decentralized finance (DeFi) accessibility for borrowing and lending services.

🪙 Uniswap $UNI: A new Layer-2 network called Unichain have sparked interest, leading to price increases and trading volume spikes.

🧐 Bitcoin has dropped as low as $58.9K today, returning to a 3-week low. However, traders are identifying this as a dip buy opportunity. The narrative flipped to bullish particularly after the US CPI report announced slightly higher inflation, with rate cuts still likely.

🐳 Where are whales focusing their attention as markets chop this week? These are the altcoins seeing the highest increase in whale transactions:

📈 1) Chromia $CHR
📈 2) HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu $BITCOIN
📈 3) Civic $CVC
📈 4) Cartesi $CTSI
📈 5) Chiliz $CHZ
📈 6) Flux $FLUX
📈 7) Virtua $TVK
📈 8) Multi Collateral Dai $DAI
📈 9) GoMining #Gomining
📈 10) Pax Gold $PAXG

Keep an eye on assets seeing the highest increases in whale activity, as they typically foreshadow the largest upcoming price moves in crypto. 👀

🗣 As traders await signs of bullish momentum from crypto markets, the top 3 trending coins according to social media mention frequency are:

🪙 Bitcoin $BTC: The recent HBO documentary suggesting Peter Todd as the creator of Bitcoin has sparked significant debate and controversy, further fueling discussions on social media about Bitcoin's identity and price movements.

🪙 Chiliz $CHZ: Significant trading volumes and price fluctuations are noted, particularly related to the upcoming PEPPER airdrop.

🪙 Nubcoin $NUB: The asset is being discussed in context to its performance and potential growth, with users expressing excitement about its market activity. Additionally, ''nub'' is associated with positive predictions and community engagement

😨 Chainlink, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, and XRP are the assets the crowd has turned the most negative on during this mild crypto slump. Coins with the most bearish crowd narratives historically have the best chance of rising. Here are the 20 best candidates:

🪙 1) Chainlink $LINK
🪙 2) Ethereum $ETH
🪙 3) Bitcoin $BTC
🪙 4) Solana $SOL
🪙 5) XRP $XRP
🪙 6) Optimism $OP
🪙 7) Polygon $MATIC
🪙 8) Sui $SUI
🪙 9) Cronos $CRO
🪙 10) Fantom $FTM
🪙 11) Avalanche $AVAX
🪙 12) Cardano $ADA
🪙 13) Render $RENDER
🪙 14) Floki $FLOKI
🪙 15) Pepe $PEPE
🪙 16) Toncoin $TON
🪙 17) Filecoin $FIL
🪙 18) Injective $INJ
🪙 19) Shiba Inu $SHIB
🪙 20) Tron $TRX

🐳 Referring to the Tuesday whale transaction highlighted by Lookonchain, our own metrics indicate a major spike in dormant activity on Bitcoin's network to pair with $37.4B in on-chain volume Tuesday, the most in 7 months. Historically, stagnant BTC moving back into regular circulation is a positive for future price movement.

🧑‍💻 Here are crypto's top Solana ecosystem projects by development. Directional indicators represent each project's ranking rise or fall since last month:

➡️ 1) Solana $SOL 🥇
➡️ 2) Wormhole $W 🥈
➡️ 3) Pyth $PYTH 🥉
📈 4) Jito $JTO
➡️ 5) Neon $NEON
📈 6) Drift $DRIFT
📈 7) Orca $ORCA
➡️ 8) Helium $IOT
📈 9) Helium Mobile $MOBILE
📈 10) Metaplex $MPLX

Read about Santiment's methodology for covering development activity for each project, objectively, using enhanced github event data.

📺 Looking for a reliable way to identify which altcoins are having rallies just starting up, or just about to come to an end? Enjoy our walkthrough of Santiment's Activity Matrix to see what we have to say about Civic, The Graph, and more!

🧑‍💻 Looking at full crypto ecosystem development activity provides nice long-term roadmaps as to which are innovating and gaining on the ultra-competitive competition that this sector provides.

As of the first week of October, Solana's has continued to emerge with a +10.7% rise in notable github events. Arbitrum's and Avalanche's ecosystems have also had +5.2% growth in development during this stretch.

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