November 2020 - A Great Month for Crypto

November was a great month for Crypto.   35 out of the top 36 trading tokens we cover were up Many significantly higher.   Leading was Civic +169%, Horizen +143%, Sushi Swap +136%, XRP +133%,  AAVE +123%  WOW

Coinbase Announcements Cause Major Price Moves

On November 5th, Coinbase made the announcement that Civic, District0x and Decentraland would be trading on Coinbase.   All three of these ERC20 tokens had been trading on its Coinbase Pro platform since June of 2018.   Since the majority of Coinbase volume occurs on Coinbase Pro this did not seem to be that big of a deal.  In fact regular Coinbase (used to be called Coinbase Prime) transactions are not even included by Coinmarketcap or CoinGecko, they only have Coinbase Pro trades.

Here is the Coinbase blog post that sent these three token soaring  Coinbase Blog Post - Nov 5

All three of these tokens had significant price moves.  From Nov 5th to Nov 10th Civic went up 520%;   District0x hit a high up 810%;   Decentraland hit a high up 100%.

A Closer Look at Civic

Looking at Civic more closely, it started the month at $0.0244,  reaching a price of  $0.1866 with volume increasing 182,000 on Nov 4th to 289,976,000 on Nov 10th.    The Civic website has not had any news articles posted between Oct 14th and Nov 22 (This story is related to DeFi Insurance company “Cover” and Civic is not mentioned).   Likewise the Civic company twitter account was silent during the Nov 3rd thru 10th timeframe.  Vinny Lingham is a frequent tweeter, however did not tweet any company news between Nov 3rd and 10th.  

Tokens have a long history of going up after being announced that they are going to be trading on Coinbase.   Most of these announcements caused the tokens to be added to Coinbase Pro.   I cannot recall a cryptocurrency going up as much as Civic and Distric0x did up just because added to Coinbase Prime.

Coinbase Announcement for unknown NuCypher token

Coinbase which has strict listing requirements announced on Nov 30, that you could transfer NuCypher token to its Coinbase Pro platform and that trading of NuCypher would start on Wednesday Dec 2nd (9 am Pacific Time).   On Twitter the immediate reaction was WHAT?  WHO?   Coingecko has the market cap value field filled in with a question mark.   Coinmarketcap gives it a market cap of over 60 million dollars (at the time of this writing) and ranks it at #253; however has no data for yesterday’s price for NuCypher.  

In summary this was a shocking announcement from Coinbase.   It will be very interesting to see how this actually trades on Dec 2nd.    TradingView does not have a price chart for NuCypher, since it does trade on UniSwap I am using the trading chart from DeFi Heatmap

XRP and Stellar Lumens

Two of the leading crypto in November was XRP (+133%) and Stellar Lumens (+121%).    XRP has been in a close trading range all year, spending most of its time trading between $0.20 to $0.25.   In fact it was subject to many punchlines during the year due to its stagnant performance.   However XRP fans had plenty to be happy about when its price reached $0.78 on Nov 24th.

Stellar Lumens tends to a trading correlation to XRP, this was true for November.  As both of these crptos started going up on Nov 20th, with XLM hitting its peak price on Nov 25th.

DeFi Heats UP

Major DeFi gainer in November included Sushi Swap (+136%), Aave (+123%), yearn.finance (120%) and Curve DAO Token (64%).

Bitcoin and Ethereum

The two Crypto leaders had a great month.   Bitcoin hit an all time high price on Nov 30 at $19,856 while Peter Schiff continues to talk about Tulips, Butterflies and golden rocks.   Bitcoin was up 41% in November and has a year to date gain of 170%.

Meanwhile Ethereum was up 52% in November and has a year to date gain of 244%.   Also the Ethereum V2.0 multi year update starts on Dec 1st.

In Summary,  December looks like it will have plenty of action.   Stay tuned.

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