Investor Insights Report - Markets Stabilize and Fundamentals Increase as Crypto Contagion Wanes
August 2022 - Cointelegraph Research
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Report Highlights
Bitcoin closed July up 16.6% at $23,325 a gain not seen since October 2021.
Ethereum unique active wallet addresses reached an all-time high in July, 48% higher than previous records.
Due to the decreased profitability of some mining operations, some have had to go offline. This reduced the difficulty of mining by 5% in June. However, the double digit increase in Bitcoin’s price in July has helped with profitability and even some expansion plans as the difficulty lags to catch up.
The SEC went after Coinbase employees for insider trading. In the SEC filings, they specifically call out nine crypto projects as being alleged securities.
July’s open interest in Ethereum provides a moderately strong signal for positive sentiment over the second half of 2022.
GameFi saw a 4.7% increase over the previous month, up 1.8 million users in July.
July brought with it a decrease of 43% in venture capital investment from the previous month. The 141 individual deals in the crypto space brought just over $1.98 billion in investment.