Avalanche dominance under threat? Investors worry as GMX shifts to Arbitrum

According to the latest data from Artemis, the majority of GMX‘s activity has shifted from Avalanche AVAX to Arbitrum. This shift has raised concerns about the potential impact on Avalanche, as GMX is currently the largest perp by market cap and outperforms many of its competitors in terms of Total Value Locked (TVL).

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BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes has reportedly seen the value of his GMX portfolio balloon by more than $8 million in a matter of months. The blockchain-tracking Twitter account Lookonchain reports that Hayes bought 200,580 GMX between March 3rd and September 7th of last year. He spent 3,386 Ethereum (ETH) worth $5.

Millions of crypto donations are pouring into Turkey following devastating earthquakes. Major donors include Avalanche, an open source decentralized blockchain, and Bybit, a crypto exchange.

Key Points: In order to increase lending market transparency and on-chain verification, Chainlink's Proof of Reserve feature is now accessible on the Aave lending platform running on the Avalanche blockchain. The integration will enable transparency for tracking the financial health of liquidity pools on the Avalanche-based Aave platform that contains wrapped tokens like AAVE.e, DAI.

Avalanche price analysis shows a bearish trend taking over trade for the token, as price dipped for the second day running over the past 24 hours. AVAX touched a 3-month high of $22.71 on February 2, and seemed to have settled around that price point.

Altcoin Sherpa, a well-known crypto strategist, and analyst, recently made several price predictions for the cryptocurrency market in February 2023. In his recent tweets, he discussed his next levels for Bitcoin (BTC), Solana (SOL), Avalance (AVAX), and STEPN (GMT).

The Avalanche price analysis right now is negative. Bulls succeeded in extending the positive trend yesterday by trying to enhance the coin's value, but the price increase was modest.

3 February's weekly roundup of Avalanche [AVAX] pointed towards a general growth of the network. Notably, Ava Labs launched its new explorer for Avalanche P-Chain, which came with several useful features.

AVAX, the cryptocurrency that powers Avalanche's high-performance smart-contract-enabled layer-1 blockchain protocol, has been surging in 2023. The cryptocurrency is already up nearly 100% since the turn of the year, with AVAX last changing hands to the north of $21 per token, having ended 2022 under $11.

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AVAX, the native cryptocurrency of the Avalanche blockchain network is up by 14% at press time and is trading at $22.32 levels. With this recent price boost, the AVAX price is up by more than 100% on the monthly chart.