With all eyes on the events surrounding FTX over the last 13 days, a network gradually made its way up the social ladder. Despite the chaos caused by SBF and the FTX exchange, Algorand managed to generate enough social interest.
All the hype for ALGO
According to LunarCrush, Algorand’s community activity witnessed some significant growth. In a tweet posted by the social analytics firm on 18 November, Algorand stood at the AltRank of #4, which was an impressive development for ALGO.
As @Algorand bounces from the recent dip, its community activity has been impressive. It is today’s Coin of the Day on LunarCrush!
🪐Galaxy Score™ 59/100
🚀AltRank™ 4/3991Price $0.2871 +10.255%
View real-time #algorand metrics at https://t.co/EJ99eYAzqQ $algo pic.twitter.com/BZxmtMGRSQ
— LunarCrush (@LunarCrush) November 18, 2022
Coupled with this, Algorand’s weighted sentiment grew tremendously over the past few days, as can be seen from the image below. This indicated that the crypto community had a positive and optimistic approach towards the platform.
Source: Santiment
The spike in weighted sentiment could also have impacted the growth in Algorand’s NFT volume.
StockwitsNFTs, a data and discovery platform for NFTs, also tweeted that the overall NFT volume for Algorand witnessed a 23% spike in the last 24 hours. However, its blue chip NFT collection, MNGO, observed a depreciation in its floor price during the same period.
Friday NFT market update!
🌎 @earthlingsland taking the top spot on HBAR
🚀Cardano bounces back with @book_io @pxlzNFT @MallardOrder in the top 3
🪓 @VeKingsNFT leading 24 hour volume on VeChain
🔥 @yieldling doing 3x the volume from yesterday pic.twitter.com/HTXAuwtjy0— Stocktwits NFTs (@StocktwitsNFTs) November 18, 2022
The dApps on Algorand’s network witnessed positive improvements over the past 24 hours as well. dApps such as Tinyman witnessed a growth of 17.82% in terms of unique active users, according to data provided by Dapp Radar.
This spike could be due to the fact that Tinyman had been making multiple collaborations and developments in the last few days.
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⚡️Integrated seamlessly with @tinymanorg, the leading #DEX on #Algorand.
Stay tuned! Our mission of building the best #wallet experience for the Algorand community continues.🏗 pic.twitter.com/GcMwGNcf57
— Pera Wallet (@PeraAlgoWallet) November 17, 2022
Other dApps such as Humble DeFi and Algodex also witnessed a similar growth.
Algorand’s TVL increases
The increasing activity on Algorand’s dApps could be causing the uptick observed in Algorand’s total value locked (TVL), which witnessed substantial growth over the past week. An uptick in TVL could indicate that Algorand’s presence in the DeFi space was witnessing significant growth.
At press time, Algorand’s TVL stood at $151.72 million and increased by 6.74% in the last 24 hours.
Source: DefiLlama
Along with its TVL, Algorand’s prices also witnessed a surge. At the time of writing, ALGO was trading at 0.295. Its price had appreciated by 8.89% in the last 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap.
However, its market cap continued to decline and fell by 7.66% in the last week. At press time, Algorand had captured 0.24% of the overall crypto market.