Third airdrop of Optimism tokens.

It was organized to encourage delegation and voting. This time, the project distributed approximately 19 million OP tokens.
To receive these tokens, participants needed to meet certain criteria:

1. Delegate your tokens for a period of at least 7 days.
2. The total amount of delegated tokens and the duration of the delegation must be at least 18,000, or 9,000 provided that a vote has been taken.
3. The participant must have voted at least once during the period from January 20, 2023 to July 20, 2023.

You can check whether you have received tokens on the corresponding web resource.
As a result of the drop, tokens were distributed to more than 30,000 wallets, with amounts varying from $100 to $2,000 per wallet.
This example clearly demonstrates that airdrops will still live and reward those who invest in them.

#bitcoin price history

The new Bitcoin halving is scheduled for April 20, 2024. If history repeats itself, BTC could rise to $35,000 before the halving and ~$150,000 after.

Additional incentives for growth may also be the court decision on XRP and the approval of applications for spot BTC-ETFs (Pantera Capital)

The BTC cycle between halvings is 81% complete, the dynamics repeats absolutely standard. And the period after halving is inevitably accompanied by growth. Will history repeat itself again?

Bitcoin has become the undisputed leader in terms of returns in a new study. The average annual return of BTC for the period 2011-2023 amounted to 151%. This is almost 10 times higher than the index of the nearest pursuer - the Nasdaq 100 index.
The cumulative return for this period amounted to 10412288% or 104 thousand X's.

PS: and all this happens in spite of constant prolonged corrections, during which people get disappointed in the market and leave it forever. This happens especially often shortly before the start of a global growth cycle. So if you feel like quitting, it's the opposite, it's the best time to buy long-term.

An interesting metric on bitcoin predicts continued growth. Now 75% of the entire supply of BTC is in profit, and 25% is in the zone of unrealized losses (glassnode)It is interesting because it was quite accurate in determining the bottom of the market and signaled the end of growth cycles quite well. At the moment, the value of the metric is in the middle of the range after testing the lows, which means that bitcoin's growth potential remains serious.

Well, the news that Ripple was not recognized as a security gave a good impetus to the crypto market. Bitcoin is already above $31,000, altcoins are adding 5-10% each.

Bitcoin started July very weak, despite the fact that historically it is a very strong month for it. Since 2013 it has closed 6 profitable months and only 3 losing months (coinglass)
So the mood for July is still moderately optimistic. At least August and September are historically very weak and there are no expectations at all from them. So July, push on!

Total open interest in options on the VTS rose to record levels, from which we often received a change of trend (Glassnode)

The Ethereum chart is in the same position as bitcoin. The price is right under the key resistance and actually just one step away from the upside to the historical maximum.Quite strong behavior of the rate is due to the fact that the April update of the Shanghai network has brought, instead of a massive withdrawal of ETNs from the stacking, on the contrary, the growth of deposits. Despite the already rather high price of almost $2,000, Ether looks very promising in the long term.

Bitcoin has most likely already passed the bottom of the macro cycle, as most market participants recorded a loss in late 2022 or early 2023 (cryptoquant)

Historically, bullruns started after that. And it looks very promising 📈