🔗🐳 With crypto taking a swing back down, Chainlink has stood out as a network with heavy key stakeholder dip buying. 1,659 daily $100K+ $LINK transactions is the most since 2023, and 9,531 active wallets is the most in 4 weeks. When altcoins rebound, keep an eye on this asset.

🧑‍💻 Here are crypto's top overall coins by notable development activity the past 30 days. Directional indicators represent each project's ranking rise or fall since last month:

➡️ 1) Internet Computer $ICP 🥇
📈 2) Hedera $HBAR 🥈
📈 3) Cardano $ADA 🥉
📉 4) Chainlink $LINK
📉 5) Starknet $STRK
➡️ 6) Optimism $OP
➡️ 7) Polkadot $DOT
➡️ 8) Kusama $KSM
📈 9) Ethereum $ETH
📈 10) Deepbook $DEEP

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📈🇺🇸 World Liberty Financial (WLF), the cryptocurrency-focused financial venture linked to Donald Trump and his family, continues to accumulate cryptocurrencies aggressively via its public wallet.

Among key assets, the venture's holdings now sit at:

📌 59,269 ETH (+3,921% since pre-inauguration)
📌 647 WBTC (+3,570% since pre-inauguration)
📌 19,399 stETH (+309% since pre-inauguration)

This wallet currently holds $370.4M worth of total assets, which include 44 distinct assets. Some other notable coins held in this wallet include USD Coin, Tether, Chainlink, Aave, Ethena, and even meme coins like Pepe and Mog.

WLF seems to be setting itself up as a key player in decentralized finance (DeFi). The venture's behavior through this wallet correlates with Donald Trump’s promise to make the U.S. a global leader in cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation. This high level of crypto accumulation signals confidence in upcoming policies and a belief in a strong future for the market. 💪

🔗📈 Chainlink's market value is back above $26.75 on another +7.3% surge day. Two bullish signals to watch are the declining supply on exchanges (-0.95% less LINK on exchanges in past month) and mean dollar invested age (average LINK is 6.3% younger in their respective wallets).

📊 As 2025 has kicked off with roller coastering prices for crypto's top assets, the amount of hodlers have fluctuated wildly since the new year:

🪙 Bitcoin $BTC: +102K Wallets
🪙Ethereum $ETH: +645K Wallets
🪙XRP Ledger $XRP: +58K Wallets
🪙Cardano $ADA: +2.8K Wallets
🪙Dogecoin $DOGE: +29K Wallets
🪙Chainlink $LINK: -3.3K Wallets

If wallets are rising fast, the community is comfortable in the project for the long-term. If wallets are dropping, there may be some excess FUD that indicates an opportunity to buy (as a contrarian to the panicking crowd).

🔗🐳Chainlink has retraced in the second half of December, like the vast majority of crypto has. Interestingly, though, their key active whales that hold between 1M-10M LINK have accumulated 3.58M coins (worth $76.9M) in just the past 3 days. 👀

📈 Altcoins have seen a huge breakout Tuesday, even with Bitcoin dropping as low as $92.4K before a mild recovery. For those that scooped up speculative cryptocurrencies on the dip, things have worked out well. But note that BTC has mainly led the way throughout this bull cycle.

📉 After the FOMC interest rate cuts, both crypto and equities traders were left feeling a bit concerned. Not because of the current cuts, but due to Jerome Powell's projection for 2025 to have half the amount of rate cuts as expected.

Altcoins, in particular, have gotten hammered over the past 24 hours. Assets like Avalanche (-16%), Chainlink (-16%) Litecoin (-16%), and Pepe (-17%) have pulled back considerably over the past 24 hours. If this was indeed an overreaction, there is a reasonable chance that the projects with the biggest drops will be the ones worth taking the biggest dip buy chances on.

🧑‍💻 Here are crypto's top overall coins by notable development activity the past 30 days. Directional indicators represent each project's ranking rise or fall since last month:

➡️ 1) Internet Computer $ICP 🥇
➡️ 2) Chainlink $LINK 🥈
➡️ 3) Hedera $HBAR 🥉
📈 4) Starknet $STRK
📉 5) Cardano $ADA
📉 6) Optimism $OP
📉 7) Polkadot $DOT
📉 8) Kusama $KSM
📈 9) Defichain $DFI
📈 10) sUSD $SUSD

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🔗📈 Chainlink has surpassed $29 for the first time in 37 months, generating excitement from the community. This latest decoupling of LINK's price has been supported by rising levels of whale & shark accumulation.

🐳🦈 Wallets with 100K+ LINK have added 5.69M LINK to their collective wallets in just 2 months

🐟🦐 Wallets with less than 100K LINK have dumped 5.67M LINK from their collective wallets in just 2 months

Throughout the history of crypto, large wallets scooping up coins from impatient or panicked retail traders is typically a recipe for market cap rises.

Of course, the success of large cap altcoins like Chainlink will still be dependent on Bitcoin's ability to stay propped up. If it does, there are strong signs that patient hodlers will be rewarded in the long-term.