NFT Activity on Polygon Spikes While MATIC’s Price Consolidates

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  • Nansen tweeted today that more than 300,000 users minted or traded NFTs on Polygon last week.
  • MATIC’s price has fallen over the last 24 hours according to CoinMarketCap.
  • The altcoin’s price is now trading near the support at $0.7887.

A new tweet from crypto analysis site Nansen (@vignesh-karunanidhisen_ai) shows that more than 300,000 users minted or traded NFTs on the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain this past week.

Polygon NFT users (Source: Nansen)

As can be seen by the chart shared in Nansen’s tweet today, more than 332,000 users minted or traded NFTs on Polygon last week.

The price of MATIC currently stands at $0.802 at press time. This is a 1.64% drop in price over the last 24 hours according to the crypto market tracking website, CoinMarketCap. The price of the Layer 2 project has also weakened against Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) by 1.58% and 1.28% respectively.

Polygon is currently ranked as the 10th biggest project in terms of market cap, with a market cap of around $8,042,338,135. This ranks it below Cardano (ADA) and above Dai (DAI).

Daily chart for MATIC/USDT (Source: CoinMarketCap)

The price of MATIC is now resting near the daily support level at around $0.7887 and has consolidated in a parallel price channel between the support level and $0.8414 after it dropped 9.49% on December 16, 2022.

As a result, MATIC’s price is now trading below the 9-day and 20-day EMA lines. The relative positions of these lines suggest that there is still bearish pressure present on MATIC’s chart as the 9-day EMA line is positioned below the 20-day EMA line.

In addition to the bearish flag signaled by the 9 and 20-day EMA lines, the daily RSI line is also sloped negatively towards the oversold territory and is positioned well below the daily RSI SMA line.

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