One of the market’s top institutional investors, Grayscale, has updated its list of investments in cryptocurrencies, adding 13 new altcoins to its portfolio. From Solana [SOL] to Polygon [MATIC] and KAVA, Grayscale’s new investments have introduced an inflow to several altcoins that have rallied since the beginning of 2021. Though their addition to Grayscale’s portfolio has turned the market sentiment bullish, there are other factors driving their price rally too.
In the case of SOL, the rapidly growing ecosystem of projects makes traders bullish in the long term. SOL’s price has risen as high as $38 while trade volume dropped by nearly 40% in 24 hours. A drop in trade volume could be interpreted as an accumulation and the beginning of a price rally.
To get started with DeFi and NFT ecosystems and projects, more traders are signing up for SOL and there has been a consistent increase in the number of active traders. Additionally, several oracle networks like Switchboard are bringing feeds to the Solana Mainnet. This has increased the popularity of Solana, making it mainstream and increasing the demand across exchanges.
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Similarly, in the case of KAVA, MKR, and DOT, the social volume seems to be signaling an upcoming price rally. KAVA’s top features make it rewarding for traders to accumulate since the network fees are optional and rewards are relatively high, with the same recently hitting an ATH too.
What’s more, KAVA has emerged as one of the most rewarding DeFi projects since the beginning of 2021, with the same seeing a hike in trade volume and market capitalization. The said hike is also indicative of increasing demand across spot exchanges.
Grayscale is known for exploring new potential products and this may have driven them to consider the trending altcoins of 2021. However, considering these altcoins, in particular, signals the potential for relatively high short-term ROIs. Since the beginning of 2021, the market capitalization of these altcoins has increased consistently.
In the past week itself, the market capitalization has increased by over 20% for altcoins like DOT, MKR, and KAVA. MKR has emerged as a top volume gainer several times over the past two weeks and this makes it further lucrative for altcoin traders to buy MKR for relatively high short-term ROIs. MKR, KAVA, DOT, and SOL are likely to rally based on these metrics.
