A strong outlier in the current market situation, Monero (XMR) moves against the broader downturn that plagues the market. According to CoinGecko, Monero gained nearly 13% since last week, putting the coin under the spotlight as one of the strongest gainers within the bear market.
Monero’s simplicity lends itself to its focus on privacy and reliability, providing great value for both investors and users of the platform. This led to Monero’s semi-autonomous price movement which might continue despite the market’s bearish nature.
Monero Utilization Jumps On CoinCards
CoinCards, a gift card vendor, recently released some statistics about cryptocurrency use on its platform. According to the platform, Monero has the monopoly beating Bitcoin in utilization. This huge utilization is due to Monero’s simplicity and utility, garnering the attention of analysts on X.
Although the market is overwhelmingly bearish, analysts show bullishness with predictions about XMR’s future performance.
“While everything else looks like pre-death, the privacy coin is making higher lows and higher highs. Complete decoupling from the market,” said Crypto Van Der Linde, a cryptanalyst on the X platform.
Although Binance and Kraken have delisted XMR for their customers, the token still has a large user base that is mostly concerned with their privacy. With more individuals considering privacy to be a core issue, we might see cryptocurrency users using XMR despite its downsides of slow transaction times.
Rally Turns Sluggish
As of writing, Monero is well between the $170-$174 trading range giving the bulls a great position for more upside potential. However, the market’s bearishness has bled through to XMR’s market, slowing down gains in the long term.
XMR’s less-than-significant correlation with Bitcoin makes the coin more attractive to investors scouring the market for profit-generating cryptocurrencies within the bearish market. The relative strength index (RSI) shows that although the coin has bullish momentum, XMR bulls are nearing exhaustion in the short term.
The coin’s trading range is pretty weak as the bears are gathering momentum to cancel out short-term gains. Long-term, however, it seems that XMR bulls will rest and gather momentum before another attempt to regain lost ground.
As it currently stands, XMR eyes a breakthrough on $190 in the short term, providing a support level for the bulls to prepare for a strong upward movement. After this movement, investors and traders can target $200 in the long term.
However, if XMR succumbs to the bearish momentum within the market, the coin might retrace back to $164 with more possible losses in the short term.
Featured image from Chainalysis, chart from TradingView