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23.01.2025
Ontology Is Sliding Towards $0.2000

Ontology (ONT) is down 2.3% this week, trading at $0.2176, in line with the broader crypto market where Bitcoin (BTC) has declined 2.0% to $101,632. While the new U.S. administration has made some strides toward fairer crypto regulation, Donald Trump has remained silent on the highly anticipated issue of adding Bitcoin to U.S. federal reserves.

Market speculation is rampant, with figures like BlackRock CEO Larry Fink suggesting Bitcoin could surge to $700,000 per coin if sovereign wealth funds begin accumulating. Other forecasts predict Bitcoin reaching $250,000 by year-end. While such projections could foster optimism, the lack of decisive action or announcements regarding U.S. crypto reserves is weighing heavily on the market.

For Ontology, the situation remains bearish. Having breached the critical support at $0.2500 last week, the token is now approaching the $0.2000 level. A failure to provide clear evidence or statements about U.S. federal crypto reserve plans could see ONT fall even further, breaching the $0.2000 mark and deepening its losses.

14.01.2025
Tezos Is Seen Hodling above $1.200

Tezos (XTZ) has declined slightly by 0.2% this week, trading at $1.249, following Bitcoin’s (BTC) drop to $89,158, which triggered widespread altcoin sell-offs due to concerns of a potential further decline in BTC to $80,000. However, Bitcoin managed to hold above the critical support level at $89,000-$91,000, offering some relief to the broader crypto market.

Speculation about a shift in U.S. trade policy has provided additional support to crypto assets. Reports suggest the new U.S. administration may pursue a gradual increase in tariffs rather than an abrupt hike, which could help alleviate inflationary pressures and lead to a less aggressive monetary stance from the Federal Reserve.

This development is a positive signal for the cryptocurrency market and may help Tezos maintain its position above the key support level of $1.200.

16.01.2025
Delta Is Taking Off To Update Its Highs

Delta Air Lines stock rose markedly by low double digits in the first ten days of the new year. The U.S. carrier has served more than 200 million customers in 2024, when it was also recognized by J.D. Power, a leading American data analytics and consumer intelligence company, for being No. 1 in First/Business and Premium Economy Passenger Satisfaction. Travelers became more willing to spend extra money for swanky seats when meeting a high level of service. Delta is just positioning itself as the nation's premium airline. And what's more important, its Christmas quarter's earnings reportedly surpassed average analyst pool projections. Driven by stronger travel demand, smart financial management and capacity discipline, Delta business provided last three-months' profit of $1.85 per share vs $1.28 at the same period one year ago, compared to $1.75 in consensus estimates. On January 10, the airline industry leader put its future profit levels within a range between $0.70 and $1 per share in the current quarter through the end of March, while analyst expectations were focused on $0.77 cents, according to data compiled by LSEG. The starting months of each year always perform worse. It is clear that all carriers made losses in the Covid years of 2020-2022, but Delta profits only recovered into a range from $0.25 to $0.45 in the first quarter of 2023 and 2024, respectively, but Q1 profit numbers varied from $0.75 to $0.96 even in the three blessed years before the pandemic. Delta added that it is forecasting annual earnings in excess of $7.35 a share, which would be the highest in its 100-year history, based on its planned revenue growth of 7% to 9% in the March quarter from a year ago. The announcement could be compared to an adjusted profit of $6.16 a share in 2024. The company happily breaks through ticket prices' rising effects, almost undisturbed by a reduction in airline seats in the domestic market, which was peculiar for most carriers. Thus, new expectations created a fertile ground for setting new price records, even though price movements on Delta charts look most convincing among its other American rivals.

By the way, Citigroup analysts freshly updated their outlook on Delta Air Lines shares to raise their price target to $80 from the previous $77, vs the actual range around $65 per share where the stock just came after a reasonable market correction from last week's and all-time highs. Citigroup said it has included factors like higher revenue per available seat mile, projections of slightly lower fuel prices, increased taxation, a minor rise in share count, and the incorporation of fourth-quarter 2024 results into their financial model, which has projected Delta's profit at $7.49 per share in 2024 and $8.72 in 2025. Delta shares are Buy-rated at Citi, and we agree with their positive estimates in general, while keeping in mind even better price goals somewhere between $82.5 and $85.

09.01.2025
VeChain Is Suffering on Rising Borrowing Costs

VeChain (VET) has fallen 12.7% this week, trading at $0.0445, underperforming the broader cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin (BTC), the leading cryptocurrency, has declined by 5.6% to $93,220, with bearish momentum building as it approaches key support at $89,000-$91,000. This decline is largely attributed to tightening monetary conditions in the United States, which continue to weigh on risk assets. Investor confidence is further shaken by significant net outflows from spot BTC-ETFs, which lost $583 million on Wednesday, marking the second-largest single-day outflow on record.

If BTC falls below the critical support level of $89,000-$91,000, VeChain is likely to extend its losses, with prices potentially declining another 10% to $0.0400. A sustained drop in BTC could push VET even lower, towards $0.0300. Conversely, a strong rebound in BTC prices to the $100,000 level could drive VET back up to $0.0500, representing a recovery of approximately 12% from current levels.

10.01.2025
Dollar Strength Is a Given

The very first slice of statistical data on business activity from the United States this year reaffirmed an almost clear irrelevance and even potential hurtfulness of any immediate steps towards further lowering interest rates on U.S. Dollar-nominated loans from a purely economic point of view. The ISM Manufacturing PMI (Purchasing Managers Index), based on polls compiled from executives in over 400 industrial companies in late December, came out at 49.3 points vs 48.4 a month ago and 48.2 in average analyst estimates. This showed that a slowdown was occurring at a slower or even insignificant pace, keeping inflation risks on the table, especially when the price component increased from 50.3 to 52.5 with a similar rate of increase in new orders. Meanwhile, non-manufacturing PMI came out at 54.1 on Tuesday, compared to 53.5 in analyst polls and 52.1 a month ago, with a contribution of business activity components even jumped to a surprising 58.2 against declining from 57.2 in November to only 53.7 in December.

In other words, the economy is not cooling, and is rather in a positive acceleration, which in turn may lead to a recovery in wage rises and therefore to higher demand pressure, which may be reflected soon in higher producer purchase and output prices. Doubts of the major U.S. financial regulator are understandable at this point after its triple rate cut from 5.5% to 4.5% in 2024. The Federal Reserve (Fed) will now pay closer attention not only to consumer inflation measures, but also to producer prices (PPI), which is just going to be released on coming Tuesday, January 14. And so, this will become the next reference point in the further U.S. Dollar’s trajectory. The Greenback index (DX) is picking up steam since reaching a new record high for the last two years at 109.35, with its temporary pullbacks being limited by a 107.50 support area that previously served as a strong multi-month technical resistance.

In this context, the British Pound (GBPUSD) updated its lows since November 2023 to touch 1.2237 on January 9, EURUSD feels quite comfortable within a range between 1.02 and 1.0450, which corresponds to its 2-year bottom, and having a bias towards a possible further decline. The Aussie (AUDUSD) is one-step away from taking the path for a breakthrough to a quite unknown territory of its 5-year lows that were last time recorded when the initial outbreak of the Covid-19 happened.

A varying extent of the American Dollar strength is surely data dependent as the market community is eagerly waiting for the U.S. job data later today. The average expectations on new Nonfarm Payrolls is just a bit above 150,000 vs 227,000 in early December 2024 and nearly 160,000 for the previous four months on average. However, any value close to 150,000, plus or minus 20,000, or any higher number, may be considered as another positive sign for the Greenback, following the ADP national employment report which contained only 122,000 on Wednesday. The oppressive nature of average hourly wage in its dynamics, +0.4% each time from September to December, also matters.

The protective quality of investing more funds into the U.S. Dollar and U.S. bonds against tariff threats is switched on anyway, based on more than a 95% chance for the Fed to keep rates on pause at its January 29 meeting, according to CME's FedWatch tool. Federal Reserve officials never go against a well-established market consensus, when it is almost unanimous, for not to rock the boat of relative market trend stability. The central bankers' reluctance to shift the Fed fund rates lower before mid-March, if not early May, continues to play in favour of short-term speculative transactions on the foreign exchange market, bearing in mind all the listed currency instruments. Some intraday volatility may take place, especially in the case of appearing an abnormal two-digit non-farm value, but not a change in overall direction.

Perspective Peers of Ethereum: Solana

Native token of Solana blockchain protocol skyrocketed by 12,000% in 2021 thanks to the various technological innovations that it was introduced to, and it is now in great demand compared to crypto market oldies like Ethereum. The market cap of Solana is only 7% of the Ethereum, bearing a great potential behind it.

A famous crypto billionaire and founder of Alameda giant investment fund Sam Backman-Fried is backing up the development of Solana. He is well known for his FTX crypto exchange foundation, a major rival to the number one Binance crypto exchange. So, any perspective projects within the Solana network have easy access to funds and this is extremely positive for the entire Solana network. The digital industry is favouring such backups as large investors with huge resources that can support coin prices and network marketing campaigns. The current correction of the crypto market is considered by crypto enthusiasts as a good opportunity to add Solana to their long-term portfolios with 85% discount. If token prices recover to their peaks, it will mean a profit of 550% .

The major advantage of Solana is considered to be its Proof-of-History technology that aligns all network transactions chronologically. Solana’s blockchain is the only one that has the ability to sort transactions in this way. Other advantages of the protocol are distribution of the block information among validators to increase the network’s processing capacity, parallel functioning of smart contracts, processing transactions without mempool (a location where unconfirmed transactions are stored), the horizontal structure of accounts data base, and many others.

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Near Protocol Ambitions

Near Protocol is one of the major peers of Ethereum and as it was introduced quite a while ago most of the add-ons that Ethereum is only now planning to launch are already in place.

First of all, Shard Chains allow for the boosting of data capacity and transaction speed. This mechanism allows for the entire network to be divided into individual segments or shards, and each of these contain a unique number of smart contracts and balance data. In other words, the network is split into smaller working segments that exist side-by-side and enable 100,000 transactions to be made per second, while commissions are much lower than in the Ethereum network. New blocks are minted by validators according to their NEAR token stakings, or PoS protocol.

There are more advantages, such as the opportunity to create readable wallet addresses (names instead of long set of symbols and digits), the Layer2 Aurora solution for the fast launch of Ethereum-based apps, and many other. The market cap of NEAR is currently at $3.4 billion, or 1.7% of Ethereum’s massive $202 billion market cap vs 3% in April 2022. Technological advantages and large investors behind NEAR may allow the project to increase its market cap to 25% of Ethereum’s, meaning that NEAR token prices may surge by 900%.

Long-term investors may delegate their tokens to validators to receive passive income with around 10% annual yield. Investors may choose to receive interest in USN tokens with 15% annual yield. However, in this case investors may not profit as NEAR tokens may possibly rally.

 

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Ethereum’s Most Important Update

ETH is a native token for the Ethereum blockchain and is one of the two most reliable digital assets in the market along with Bitcoin. Ethereum is the first platform that became a hub for thousands of blockchain apps and other digital solutions. The recovery of ETH prices to November 2021 peaks at $4,900 would bring investors 190% profit.

Second layer solutions (Layer2) were introduced to improve stability and effectiveness of the Ethereum blockchain. These are blockchain network add-ons that are added on top of the primary blockchain. The most popular add-ons are Arbitrum, Loopring, Immutable X, and Polygon that have recently partnered with Meta (Facebook owner). In other words, the Ethereum blockchain network has a much broader use than the native blockchain itself.

Ethereum developers promise to release a new Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus protocol in late 2022. This protocol will allow miners to stake tokens to a special deposit to mine blocks. Some networks within the Ethereum blockchain have moved to PoS protocol this summer, while others are expected to move to this protocol in the middle of September.  This move will allow for the increase of processing capacity of the network to almost 100,000 transactions a second from the existing 30 transactions and lower commissions. This would also allow for ETH to switch to the deflation model when coins are algorithmically burned, while some coins would be removed from circulation as they would be blocked by staking - more than 13 million ETH or 10% of overall coins in circulation are blocked by staking. The problem is that coins are blocked for a long period of time and cannot be sold or exchanged for fiat currency.

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On the Way to the Recession: Disney

Movies and series are not the only sources for income for streaming services. One of the major sources is the broadcasting of sport events. All major streaming platforms are now struggling to get the rights to broadcast the NFL Sunday Ticket. Apple has offered $3 billion for it while Disney and Amazon are left behind with a $2 billion bet. Google has recently joined the competition to take over the broadcast from Youtube.

Nevertheless, Disney made other significant deals to broadcast sports like a $2.7 billion contract with Monday Night Football, contracts with La Liga football, and NHL for another $0.6 billion a year. Disney has more contracts to broadcast more than 22,000 sport events for its ESPN+ channel. And that costs a bulk of money. Disney has raised monthly ESPN+ subscription by $3 to $9.99 compared to $5.99 in 2020 and $4.99 in 2018. Another subscription price hike may stimulate users to switch to the Disney Bundle service that includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+. ESPN+ itself generates $4.73 per client, only 4% up compared to 2021. Thus, promoting clients to the larger service could be justified, and may add $72 per client a year. The problem is that a further increase of the cost could not be as successful as the monetisation potential, which is rather limited. The increase of the Disney Bundle subscription cost may churn clients to move to cheaper Disney+ or ESPN+ subscriptions. The company received $4.9 billion in subscription revenues in Q2 2022 with a net operational loss of $0.9 billion. Expensive sport broadcasting licenses is the major reason for such a loss. ESPN+ itself generates $110 million a month but this is  not enough to cover licenses fees, even together with advertising revenues. Other streaming giants are generating massive cash flows which they can spend on their development. So, market positions of Disney may suddenly become less sustainable than traditionally considered.

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