$PORTAL has plummeted 58.1% this year, with a market cap of just $6.36 million, yet the 24-hour trading volume is 2.6 times the market cap. This spike is off the charts.
The reason is obvious.
When it launched, it was hyped as the next big thing in the blockchain gaming arena, expectations were sky-high, but nearly a year later, the progress on actual applications hasn't even reached a third of what was promised; the hype has long gone stale.
Add to that the overall weakness in the market, and new coins in the same sector are telling better stories, so all the funds are flocking to trade those new assets. With no one to support the old projects, it’s easy to smash their prices.
What’s most unusual is this trading volume.
With a total market cap of just over $6 million, a single day’s trading shot up to $16.6 million, which is equivalent to all circulating tokens changing hands two and a half times in one day.
Such a level of volatility only suggests two possibilities: either the project team and whales are liquidating their positions to prepare for a getaway, or it's a deliberate price dump to scare off retail investors while they accumulate at the bottom for something big.
I lean towards the latter.
If they really wanted to bail, there'd be no need to attract this much attention with high volume; they could just quietly dump and disappear. The previous community consensus for
$PORTAL is still there, so there’s no need to go to such extremes.
You might consider taking a small position in spot to play the lottery, but don’t mess around with shorting contracts. The odds for shorts at this level are absurdly low, and at any moment, a massive spike could bury all the shorts.
Do you think this coin is truly done for, or are the whales just playing games? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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