A year after The Economist wrote crypto off<\/a> as dead after FTX collapsed, Bitcoin is trading above $43,000 for the first time since April 2022, with ETH briefly crossing $2,300.<\/p>\n Crypto markets have kicked off December with a bang, with rising hopes of imminent spot ETF approvals and favourable seasonal and macro conditions helping to build on November\u2019s momentum.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n With Bitcoin up nearly 25% over the past month, retail investors are showing renewed interest<\/a> in crypto, according to a filing from brokerage firm Robinhood – trading volumes were 75% higher compared to October.<\/p>\n However, caution remains warranted as perpetual funding rates<\/a> remain elevated, particularly on dYdX, indicating traders continue to pile on the leverage as prices rise.<\/p>\n Altcoins continue to lag the world’s largest cryptocurrency, with Bitcoin dominance<\/a> hitting a new high for the year at 55%.<\/p>\n BRC-20 tokens have been on a tear over the past week as Bitcoin rallied, making ORDI<\/a> the best-performing asset in the top 100 with a 35% surge today.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Curiously, tokens linked to the infamous Terra<\/a> ecosystem have posted substantial gains \u2013 LUNA is up 50%, while LUNC has doubled in the past week.<\/p>\n The modular blockchain narrative is heating up, with Celestia\u2019s recently airdropped TIA<\/a> token surging 50% to nearly $10. The average airdrop is now worth almost $3,000.<\/p>\n Start for free<\/a><\/div>\n Other top performers include PEPE<\/a>, IOTA<\/a>, and STACKS<\/a>, which are up 50% or more on the week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Robinhood sees a spike in crypto trading activity as retail investors return. A year after The Economist wrote crypto off as dead after FTX collapsed, Bitcoin is trading above $43,000 for the first time since April 2022, with ETH briefly crossing $2,300. Crypto markets have kicked off December with a bang, with rising hopes of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-206993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206999,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206993\/revisions\/206999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top Gainers<\/h2>\n
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