From Glory to Gloom: Toncoin’s Trials and Triumphs 😂

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Oh, Toncoin, once a soaring phoenix, now a drifting leaf caught in the autumn breeze of cryptocurrencies. It moved sideways this week—like an awkward waltz at a provincial ball—after the TON Blockchain had its feelings hurt by Tapswap, who, like a capricious lover, ran off with another blockchain for its airdrop. 💔

Toncoin (TON), bless its heart, sat dejected at $3.8515 as of Tuesday, nursing a bruised ego and lying 55% below its all-time high. Its market cap, now $9.5 billion, makes it the 16th largest cryptocurrency—but let’s be honest, it’s the 16th wheel at the DeFi soiree. 🕺💃

And Tapswap? Oh, they dumped TON for the cooler, richer guy at the party: BSC Chain. They murmured sweet nothings about BNB’s expansive ecosystem, lower transaction costs, and greater user base before flitting away. Talk about a Shakespearean betrayal for TON. 🙄

DeFi Llama, the town crier of the crypto kingdom, reported that BNB boasts over 1.17 million active addresses and over 840 dApps—the blockchain equivalent of owning a sprawling estate with lavish gardens. Compared to that, TON seems like a charming but tiny countryside inn with a total value locked at a mere $217 million.

Adding salt to the wound, Tapswap couldn’t ignore the fate of other hopefuls in the TON ecosystem. Tokens like Hamster Kombat, Catizen, and DOGS—seriously, who names these?—plunged by over 80% from their euphoric peaks. Tapswap, evidently mindful of its portfolio’s waistline, decided to hop onto the blockchain equivalent of a luxury yacht. 🚤

But wait, fellow lamenters! Don’t shed all your digital tears just yet. Beneath TON’s melancholic violin strings lies a sliver of hope. The network, unloved though it may feel, is still chugging along. On-chain data reveals that the number of Toncoins burned daily has climbed from 4,100 to a toasty 7,558. Token burns, the crypto world’s version of Marie Kondo-ing, can sometimes spark joy (and prices). 🔥

Transaction activity, too, seems to be perking up, with fees hitting a lofty 15,117 TON tokens on Monday—its highest since January. And somewhere among the medley of zeros and ones, nearly 4 million transactions managed to squeeze themselves in. Activity like that could make even a depressed token feel a flicker of relevance. 🥳

Toncoin price analysis

Picture this: June was Toncoin’s Gatsby-esque high, with prices peaking at $8.30. Fast forward to today—TON has nosedived 53% to a woeful $3.7. It’s slipped past the crucial support level of $4.5380, the crypto equivalent of losing the ancestral estate your family clung to for generations. 🏚️

To make matters worse, Toncoin has donned the notorious “death cross” pattern, as the 50-day and 200-day Exponential Moving Averages met in a one-sided tango of doom. Traders everywhere furrow their brows and mutter: “The bears are here.” 😱

And now, TON timidly lingers at the all-too-symbolic 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level. If this level gives way, brace yourself—prices may tumble to a sob-inducing $2.9875. That’s another 23% drop, and frankly, TON doesn’t need that kind of negativity in its life right now. 😩

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2025-02-11 17:20