{"id":71049,"date":"2024-02-09T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T14:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=71049"},"modified":"2024-02-09T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T14:10:58","slug":"algo-price-surges-above-0-17-algorand-new-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/algo-price-surges-above-0-17-algorand-new-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"ALGO Price\u00a0Surges Above $0.17, Algorand New Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, the ALGO price experienced an abrupt increase of approximately 2%, which mirrored the token's derivatives data and recent events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following a sudden surge in ALGO\u00a0token price rising\u00a01.92% over the past 24 hours reaching $0.1716, ALGO, a cryptocurrency backed by Algorand Technologies<\/a>, has attracted considerable attention from crypto market enthusiasts today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to market charts disclosed by the crypto platform CoinMarketCap, the token's trading volume and market cap increased by 23.24% and 1.88%, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possible explanations for the current increase in the price of ALGO tokens are as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data on ALGO Derivatives Reflects Price Increase<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Per\u00a0data provided by Coinglass\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/g>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/clipPath>\r\n <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a>, an information and futures trading platform, the open interest of the ALGO token recently increased by 1.15% and is presently at $34.96 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is consistent with the token's current price increase, which indicates an upward trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the increase in the token's trading volume suggests that this may signal the entry of fresh capital into the market, which will further support the price's ascent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequentially, according to data from Coinglass, the total number of contracts traded increased by 7.52%, reaching $44.73 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast, the open interest in ALGO futures on Binance amounted to $13.13 million, while it was $9.52 million on Bybit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This disparity has captured the attention of crypto market enthusiasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These two CEXs are primarily accountable for the substantial increase in the token's futures trading, thereby contributing to its upward price momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Algorand Developments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

However, an additional significant development seems to be driving the price increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the API Portal, the Algorand Foundation recently highlighted the launch of a new Algorand API.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This supported the development of multichain dApp by users, which increased the token's price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Algorand Ventures, the investment branch of Algorand, recently invested in Folks Finance, a lending, borrowing, and trading platform for digital assets, thereby accelerating cross-chain expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Folks Finance, the leading DeFi protocol<\/a> in Algorand, had reported an ATH TVL of $170 million as of the end of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This occurred concurrently with the token's price increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, the ALGO price experienced an abrupt increase of approximately 2%, which mirrored the token’s derivatives data and recent events. Following a sudden surge in ALGO\u00a0token price rising\u00a01.92% over the past 24 hours reaching $0.1716, ALGO, a cryptocurrency backed by Algorand Technologies, has attracted considerable attention from crypto market enthusiasts today. According to market charts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":71061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[18354,18353],"class_list":["post-71049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-algo-price","tag-algorand-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Algorand.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}