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Cryptocurrency News Articles
Fantom (FTM) Token Crashes after Sonic Testnet Goes Live
Sep 06, 2024 at 11:00 pm
Fantom token continued its downward trend on Friday, Sept. 6, after the Sonic testnet went live and its transactions rose.
Fantom (FTM) token price continued to trade lower on Friday, Sept. 6, even as the Sonic testnet went live and saw a surge in transactions.
At press time, Fantom (FTM) price stood at $0.387, marking its lowest level since Aug. 20 and reflecting a 27% decline from the token’s highest point in August. The testnet, meanwhile, went live on X, with a few more months expected before its completion, according to a statement by Sonic Labs.
Over 106 million transactions had been processed by the network, according to data from the testnet website.
The network was handling approximately 11 transactions per second, while the average gas per second was around 335,000.
Moreover, the time to finality — the interval between when a transaction is submitted to a node and when it is confirmed — was only 0.70 seconds. These statistics collectively contribute to rendering Sonic one of the fastest Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVMs) in the industry.
With this upgrade, the developers aim to attract more builders to the ecosystem. In line with this objective, they have also launched a $27 million bounty program to support developers in domains such as payments, lending, stablecoins, and gaming.
After the testnet phase concludes, the FTM token will transition to S, an upgrade that comes at a time when Fantom has lost both momentum and market share within the crypto industry.
Its market capitalization has fallen from over $7 billion to about $1 billion, while data from DeFi Llama shows that the total value locked (TVL) in the ecosystem has also dropped to $70 million from a record high of over $7.8 billion. Some of the largest decentralized applications (dApps) in its ecosystem include Beethoven X, WigoSwap, SpookySwap, and Beefy.
Furthermore, Fantom also has a small market share in the decentralized exchange (DEX) industry, with its DEX platforms handling over $57.9 million in the past seven days, ranking it as the 26th-largest chain in the industry.
Sonic will face significant competition in the industry from other top chains like Tron (TRX) and Solana (SOL), as well as layer-2 (L2) networks like Arbitrum and Base.
As the FTM token price continues to be under pressure, the token’s price has crashed in the past few months. It peaked at $1.2267 in March and has since dropped by over 68% to reach $0.40.
Throughout this period, the token has remained below both the 50-day moving average and the upper side of a descending channel. As a result, the path of least resistance for Fantom appears to be downward, with the next key level to watch being $0.30, which marks a further 21% decline from Friday’s levels.
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