{"id":1747,"date":"2019-04-26T19:11:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2021-06-29T18:06:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T10:06:59","slug":"crypto-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/crypto-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Weekly, April 20 \u2013 April 26: Price Movements, Industry Highlights &#038; Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>This week highlights:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Market cap dropped to $170 billion<\/li>\r\n<li>24h trading volume rose by 30%<\/li>\r\n<li>Top 10 coins experienced sharp market reversal, finding support level<\/li>\r\n<li>Bitcoin ABC protocol upgrade is happening on May 15<sup>th<\/sup><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>I.<\/strong>Price Overview<\/p>\r\n<p>Most cryptocurrencies saw a sharp market reversal this week. The combined value of the cryptocurrency market fell by 6.1% to $170 billion as of press time. The market has attempted to test the $180 billion mark for the third consecutive week but failed to achieve so. There were several pumps stopping at the that mcap resistance.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: yellow;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">BONUS1: <\/span><\/strong><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/first-trade-bonus\/\">Get $5<\/a> Bitcoin Instantly After You <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/buy-bitcoin\/gift-cards\">Buy Bitcoin With A Gift Card<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>Daily trading volume rose from $40 billion to $50 billion amid major sell-off. 24h trading volume was at $56.7 billion, rose by 30.4% as of press time.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chart 1: This week crypto market cap &amp; daily trading volume<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1750 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/001.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/001-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Source\uff1acoinmarketcap\uff0cCoinCola Research Center<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Most major cryptocurrencies experienced significant sell-off on 24<sup>th<\/sup> and 25<sup>th<\/sup>. Though the overall market is still growing, breakthrough resistance is persistent, resulting in price reversal in most cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\r\n<p>Other than BTC seeing a less decrease in price, ETH, BCH, &amp; LTC have dropped by 10%. With that fluctuations in major coins, XRP is seeing a rise in daily trading volume by nearly 48%.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chart 2<\/strong><strong>\uff1a<\/strong><strong>Prices of this Week Cryptocurrencies<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1751 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/002.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/002-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Source\uff1acoinmarketcap\uff0cCoinCola Research Center<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1752 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/15562767411.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/15562767411.png 699w, https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/15562767411-300x70.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><strong>II.Market Trends Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>CoinCola Research Center summarized a few major stories affecting this week\u2019s price movement:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li><strong>BTC strong resistance exists, market finding new support level<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>Despite the upwards momentum in the overall market, most coins are still being caught in a sideways trading for over 3 weeks, with BTC trading at the strongest level of resistance existing between $5,400-$5,600. The $5,600 marker was set back in the significant sell-off happened last December. The selling pressure is constantly pushing the price down to its new support level.<\/p>\r\n<ol start=\"2\">\r\n<li><strong>Ripple<\/strong><strong> selling XRP<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>David Schwartz \u2013 CTO of Ripple \u2013 has reportedly sold his XRP holdings. Since the beginning of this year, rumors of XRP trading volume have been circulating in the market that it has increased by 31%. Concerns that the recent sales might be signs of lack of confidence in growing supply and liquidity.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>III. This Week Recap<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li><strong>Ethereum 2.0 will be completed on 2021<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>Delphi Digital Report reported the short and long term sustainability of Ethereum according to its future updates and rising market competition. The serenity update will possibly be completed by 2021 with its focus on PoS implantation and scalability improvements.<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1753 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/004.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/004-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<ol start=\"2\">\r\n<li><strong>Bitcoin ABC V0.19.4 Released<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>Bitcoin ABC development team announced of twitter that the newest version Bitcoin ABC 0.19.4has been released, including bitcoin-clibatching, Schnoor Java bindings, and more. The protocol upgrade will take place on May 15<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"background-color: yellow;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">BONUS2: <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/new-user-coupons\">Get 0.0001BTC<\/a> Instantly After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coincola.com\/buy-bitcoin?country_code=NG\">Making A Bitcoin Trade In Nigeria<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<ol start=\"3\">\r\n<li><strong>Shop with Bitcoin on Amazon Using Lightning<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>Bitcoin holders can now shop on Amazon and check out with Bitcoins using the lightning network. Moon, the crypto payment processing stratup, announced the lightning feature that allows shoppers to use Moon\u2019s browser extension to pay.<\/p>\r\n<ol start=\"4\">\r\n<li><strong>Japan proposed crypto regulations at G20 Summit<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>Japan is proposing a set of crypto regulations to the G20 leaders, drawing the legal framework of data security of trader database, universal regulatory, and information system security. The G20 Summit will take place on 28-29 June 2019 in Osaka.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week highlights: Market cap dropped to $170 billion 24h trading volume rose by 30% Top 10 coins experienced sharp market reversal, finding support level Bitcoin ABC protocol upgrade is happening on May 15th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Crypto Weekly, April 20 \u2013 April 26: Price Movements, Industry Highlights &amp; 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