🗣️ Today's top trending topics across social media are showing the majority of interest going toward Solana's impressive price run, and Microstrategy's continued massive Bitcoin purchases. Here are the breakdowns:

📈 The #4 market cap asset in crypto continues to rise against its peers, recently reaching an all-time high $0.0709 price ratio against Ethereum. Many traders are anticipating a potential breach of SOL's November, 2021 ATH of $257 before the end of the year.

💸 Michael Saylor and Microstrategy recently purchased approximately 51,780 more BTC for around $4.6 billion. This has generated considerable attention, highlighting Saylor's bullish stance on Bitcoin and influencing market discussions about large entities accumulating Bitcoin.

📊 As altcoins made huge runs post-US election, the rate of discussion toward crypto's top assets are directly correlating with price activity.

📌 Most eyes are still on Bitcoin as traders see whether it can surpass $80K by the end of the week
📌 Ethereum has made a recent jump in discussion rate by surpassing $2.9K and slightly outperforming Bitcoin (a rare sight) on Thursday
📌 Solana, XRP, and Dogecoin are all a bit under the radar as the community has shifted their sights on BTC and ETH. But prices are still performing well

📊 Solana, Jito, Cosmos, and Jupiter have been the notable standouts during a tumutuous up and down week for crypto markets. Data indicates meme coins have drawn increased interest levels while Bitcoin treads water.

Assuming markets keep their underwhelming trajectories going into the weekend, expect for sentiment to begin reflecting some much needed FUD, which would in turn imply a market bounce to start next week. 👍

🧑‍💻 Over the past year, all 10 of the top ecosystems in crypto have INCREASED their rate of development. The rising amount of notable github events from each of these ecosystems is an objectively strong sign for the future of cryptocurrency:

1) Optimism: +45.6% Increase
2) Avalanche: +20.3% Increase
3) Arbitrum: +16.6% Increase
4) Solana: +14.1% Increase
5) Harmony: +10.1% Increase
6) Cosmos: +8.8% Increase
7) BNB Chain: +5.1% Increase
8) Polkadot: +1.5% Increase
9) Ethereum: +1.4% Increase
10) Polygon: +0.6% Increase

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📈 Solana is outperforming most altcoins as prices are looking to rebound after a big fall Wednesday. The #5 market cap asset continues to be a prime example of how the crowd usually gets it WRONG. View the current bearish sentiment as a sign SOL can continue to pump.

📊 Crypto markets are extra volatile today as Bitcoin has ranged between $67.8K and $64.8K in just the past 2.5 hours. Crowd sentiment is still firmly bullish toward Bitcoin (seeing 2x the bullish comments for every bearish one). Solana's traders are notably euphoric as well.

🥳 As the vast majority of crypto has enjoyed Friday gains, $SOL stands out as an asset seeing a major spike in bullish crowd sentiment. There are very loose rumors of Apple potentially building on Solana's blockchain, triggering the latest hype train for crypto's #5 market cap.

😨 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

🧑‍💻 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 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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