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Web3 devs ‘more active than ever’ amid crypto winter: Report​​

Web3 developers don’t appear to be fazed by the crypto bear market, with one Web3 platform suggesting they’re “more active than ever” — particularly on the Ethereum (ETH) network. In a new Q3 2022 report on Oct. 13 by Web3 development platform Alchemy, the company said that 2022 could be the “biggest year yet” for development on Ethereum. Around 36% of all smart contracts ever deployed and verified on the blockchain have been in 2022, a count of nearly 118,000 compared to the over 323,700 ever deployed, according to the report. This is despite the price of ETH falling by nearly 66% since the start of the year and the total value locked in decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols falling around 70% year-to-date according to DappRadar. Nonfungible token (NFT) trading volumes have also taken a beating, decreasing by 98% since late January.Alchemy states the deployment of smart contracts increased by 40% from the first quarter of the year with consecutive all-time highs hit every month over the third quarter peaking at 17,376 in September alone.Monthly verified smart contracts in Q3 2022. Image: AlchemyThe data also shows smart contract deployments increased by 143% compared to the third quarter of 2021, reaching over 48,500 for the third quarter of 2022.Alchemy noted that in the two weeks following Ethereum’s Merge — when the blockchain moved from a proof-of-work to proof-of-stake consensus — smart contract deployment increased by 14% suggesting some developers may have been waiting for the event to launch their projects.The company also analyzed the usage of two Web3 script libraries Ethers.js and Web3.js, which allow developers to read blockchain data and build Web3 products.The team found the number of developers installing either library had increased by three times that of Q3 2021 to over 1.5 million downloads on average per week.Related: Demand for talent in crypto less dependent on market as industry maturesAlthough some have claimed this current crypto bear market is a good time to build products in Web3 that hasn’t always been the case in previous cycles.As evidenced in Alchemy’s data the 2017 to 2020 bear market saw a 45% decline in smart contract deployments in the middle of the cycle, from 2018 to 2019, although so far that metric has increased by 50% this year from 2021.

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Bitcoin to make new all-time-highs within 24 months: Coinshares CSO

Bitcoin (BTC) may have further to fall, but Coinshares chief strategy officer Meltem Demirors believes the top cryptocurrency will reach new all-time highs within the next 24 months.Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box on July 11, Demirors noted that Bitcoin has always been a “cyclical asset” with drawdowns from peak to trough at 80 to 90% historically. With Bitcoin currently sitting at about 65% down from its all-time highs in November 2021, Demirors believes “there is still room for some downward correction.”However Demirors noted there has been strong support around $20,000 and that she did not expect Bitcoin to fall below $14,000. She predicted the pain would be a distant memory by 2024, saying:“In the next 24 months, we will see new all-time highs in Bitcoin.”Bitcoin is currently priced at $19,401, down 2% in 24 hours and down 72% from its all-time high. A reversal may be some time off however, given Demirors can see “no near upside catalysts” — which could signal more pain in store for weaker crypto projects. “We obviously had a lot of liquidations, a lot of insolvencies that had a massive impact on the market. […] We’re talking about $10, $20, $30 billion of capital that has basically evaporated overnight.”“[We] certainly expect more pain ahead for tech stocks, growth, and also crypto.”Demiror said she expected a large number of crypto assets to be wiped out during the bear market, similar to what has been seen in tech stocks. “There’s a very long, long tail of crypto assets that I think will go to zero, that doesn’t really have any long-term prospect as we’ve seen with so many tech stocks as well.”Louis Schoeman, managing director at broker comparison site Forex Suggest, has a similar view and in a recent 9News report predicted that the current crypto downturn could kill off as much as 90 percent of all crypto projects.”This is a cleansing process,” Schoeman said, adding that only the strongest crypto projects will survive this bear market. “But it also serves as a massive opportunity for many no-coiners to enter the crypto market for the first time. Fortune favors the brave in crypto right now.”Related: Despite ‘worst bear market ever,’ Bitcoin has become more resilient, Glassnode analyst saysLast month, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said he doesn’t expect the crypto bear market to be over until there’s a better focus on applications with business-focused utility. Cuban also believes mergers between different protocols and blockchains will eventually see the crypto industry consolidate, as “that’s what happens in every industry.”

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72 of the top 100 coins have fallen 90% or more: Here are the holdouts

According to price data from CoinGecko compiled by CoinGoLive, the current bear market has seen a whopping 72 out of top-100 tokens fall more than 90% from their all-time highs.The larger cap coins are faring better than most. Among the top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap, nine have dipped less than 90% during the current market downturn. Bitcoin (BTC), the largest crypto, is down 70.3% from its November high of $69,000. Second place is Ether (ETH) which is down 78% from its high of $4,878.Others in the top ten include Binance Coin (BNB), Cardano (ADA), Solana (SOL), and Polkadot (DOT) which are down between 68% and 88%, (excluding the three stablecoins USDT, USDC and BUSD). Ripple (XRP) is the exception, tracking a fall of 90.56% from its ATH.The average fall from ATH for these top 10 coins is 79%, while among the top 20 coins the average fall from the all-time-high is 81.1%. Exchange tokens appear to be doing better than many other sectors with a 68.3% average fall from their ATHs.The best performer there is LEO token, which has only fallen 38.87%, which Cointelegraph reported saw “aggressive buying at lower levels” on June 13. LEO is the Ethereum-based utility token for the Bitfinex exchange and trading platforms managed by iFinex and is used to reduce fees for traders.Coinflex exchange’s native FLEX token is the 83rd largest crypto. It also appears relatively immune to the devastating drawback and is down just 38.6% from from ATH. FLEX is used to pay for transactions and reduce trading fees on its trading platform. The project touts its token burning mechanism as a reason for its price resilience.The utility token for the KuCoin trading platform, KCS, has seen a 61.43% drawdown from its ATH. KCS is an ERC-20 token that is used to reduce fees on the exchange and is the native token for KuChain, a blockchain developed by the exchange.However KCS could see a further dip more than 60% below its ATH if Cointelegraph’s June 12 predictions are right.Many cryptocurrencies have experienced a large portion of their losses within the past week as the total crypto market cap dropped 24% from $1.3 trillion to $996 billion. In that time, BTC also fell about 35% from $30,500 to a low of $20,216 on June 15. Related: Bitcoin bounces 8% from lows amid warning BTC price bottom ‘shouldn’t be like that’BTC is currently trading at $20,486 since the Federal Reserve announced a 75 basis point hike in interest rates to try to combat inflation. As an aside, stablecoins haven’t been immune to falls either, despite theoretically being stable. Since 2018, many have wobbled by 10% to 30% at various points including USDT, USDC, BUSD, DAI, FRAX, USDP, PAXG, CDAI and XAUT. TUSD recorded a 38.4% deviation from its peg in 2018.

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