MANA is falling, but investors must know this before they consider getting out

Decentraland’s MANA, the native token that fuels the Ethereum blockchain-powered virtual world where users can create, experience, and monetize content and applications, has declined by 75% over the last two quarters. 

Consider this – MANA’s price has fallen from $2.7 to $0.69 within this period, with the larger market battling the after-effects of Celsius and Terra’s collapse and bearish macroeconomic conditions. 

Bigger whales say no to MANA

There is no denying the fact that general interest in Metaverse-based projects has dropped. No thanks to the persistent decline in the general cryptocurrency market and tightening conditions in the broader financial markets. In fact, investors have now turned to projects and crypto-assets that guarantee a high degree of safety for their investments. 

According to data from blockchain analytics platform Santiment, key whales holding MANA gradually let go of their holdings over the last two quarters. The count for addresses that held between 100,000 to 1,000,000 MANA tokens and 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 MANA tokens fell by 4% and 5%, respectively, within the last six months. 

Interestingly, addresses that held between 1000 to 100,000 MANA tokens have increased their accumulation within the same period. However, this category of holders has been unable to muster enough buying pressure required to drive up the price of the asset.

Source: Santiment

What’s going on in Decentraland?

With a sustained lack of interest in the Metaverse-based project, weekly sales on Decentraland have decreased steadily over the last two quarters, data from Dune Analytics revealed. 

As of 26 September, total sales made on Decentraland totalled $65,577, representing a 90% decline from the $716,089 earned in weekly sales on 4 April. 

Source: Decentraland

As for MANA, the freefall in the asset’s price within the period under review led to a considerable decline in the trading volume too. Since clinching a daily high of $1.74 billion in trading volume on 14 May, MANA’s daily trading volume has fallen by a whopping 94%. 

Thanks to the lack of pressure required to initiate a significant rally in the price of MANA, the count for daily traders also fell. For context, since the collapse of Terra, the count of daily active addresses that have since traded MANA has fallen by 66%.

Source: Santiment

Finally, over a 180-day average, a sizeable number of MANA investors have called in losses – A finding further underlining the state of the MANA market at this point. 

Source: Santiment