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Fantom FTM Coin pumps +73% in a Single Day amid Collaboration with YFI Yearn Finance
Fantom FTM is trading in an uptrend here like many other altcoins. The Cryptocurrency FTM just went up +73% in a single day by breaking a Falling wedge pattern with strong buying volume and surges over +272% in a week.
What is Fantom?
Fantom is a directed acyclic graph DAG smart contract platform providing decentralized finance DeFi services to developers using its own bespoke consensus algorithm.
Together with its in-house token FTM, Fantom aims to solve problems associated with smart-contract platforms, specifically transaction speed, which developers say they have reduced to under two seconds.
FTM Quick Stats
| SYMBOL: | FTM |
| Global rank: | 44 |
| Market cap: | $2,450,093,091 AUD |
| Current price: | $1.02 AUD |
| All time high price: | $1.12 AUD |
| 1 day: | +73.38% |
| 7 day: | +272.96% |
| 1 year: | +11172.81% |
FTM Price Analysis
At the time of writing, FTM is ranked 44th cryptocurrency globally and the current price is $1.02 AUD. This is a +272.96% increase since 19th February 2021 (7 days ago) as shown in the chart below.
After looking at the above candle chart, we can clearly see that FTM was trading inside the falling wedge pattern on the FTM/USD pair. The first resistance was on the $0.5672 AUD price levels which FTM broke with a strong bullish trend buying volume and is now heading towards the all-time high price in AUD. Seeing that many altcoins are crashing this week, FTM is likely to continue to increase in the uptrend.
“The Falling Wedge is a bullish pattern that begins wide at the top and contracts as prices move lower. This price action forms a cone that slopes down as the reaction highs and reaction lows converge.”
What do the Technical indicators say?
The Fantom FTM TradingView indicators (on the 1 day) mainly indicate FTM as a buy, except the Oscillators which indicate FTM as a sell
So Why did FTM Breakout?
General market sentiment suggests we are in the middle of the bull run season which could have contributed to the recent breakout. Another reason for this sudden pump in price could be the whales secretly buying FTM for the next Altcoins rally & it could also be contributed to some of the recent news of the following 3 reasons why FTM price continues to surge high:
- Yearn. Finance helps facilitate a cross-chain bridge to Ethereum
- On-chain governance boosts community involvement
- Fantom plans to integrate staking and DeFi features
Recent FTM News & Events:
- 30 June 2020 – Fantom Finance Release
- 05 August 2020 – DeFi Conference 2020
- 12 September 2020 – ATOMARS Listing
Where to Buy or Trade FTM?
Fantom has the highest liquidity on Binance Exchange so that would help for trading FTM/BTC or FTM/USDT pairs. However, if you’re just looking at buying some quick and hodling then Swyftx Exchange is a popular choice in Australia.
Author
Malik Junaid
Malik is a skilled writer with a background in Software Engineering. His interests are blockchain, cryptocurrency trading and market analysis.
