To many, SushiSwap is one of the most exciting projects in the DeFi space, with features ranging from swapping, stack yielding, lending, borrowing and leveraging all on one platform. Price action wise, since the beginning of 2021, SUSHI has given phenomenal returns – rallying by nearly 1000% in just two and a half months.
However, it hasn’t been doing very well since. In fact, it didn’t even participate in ‘Uptober’ or the November 2021 bull run phase. According to some, currently, it is in a very worrisome situation.
Technically, SUSHI is trading at the very bottom of a descending triangle, barely teetering on the bottom edge. Any slip-up from this point on can, quite literally, cause a freefall since there isn’t any meaningful support level until around $0.5.
In other words, no support for a further 80% fall in market cap. Even the RSI has been following the prices and with it placed around the 42-mark, it can fall further before breaching the oversold territory.
SUSHI/USDT | Source: TradingView
Additionally, on-chain metrics are throwing up major red flags all over the place. For example – Percentage of supply held by top 1% of addresses has been showing an inverse relationship to prices. Usually, the more bigger players hold on to a particular coin, the more it is expected to appreciate.
Percent of Supply Held by Top 1% Addresses | Source: Glassnode
However, in SUSHI’s case, the opposite seems to be the case. Bigger players are in it only to trade off SUSHI, with very little long-term conviction. Whenever there has been a price rally in the past, it was usually accompanied by falling percentage of supply held by these bigger players in the market.
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