Some highlights from last week:

The total cryptocurrency market cap increased by 3.2%, growing from $1.72T to $1.78T throughout the week. This growth can largely be attributed to Bitcoin, as BTC (+9%) was the only major asset to see positive returns over the past 7 days. DOGE (-12.8%) and UNI (-10%) took the biggest hits this week as the majors had a median weekly return of -7.1%. Long term sentiment scores remain positive, despite decreasing over the past few weeks. Trading volume (-20.7%) and Tweet volume (-16%) were down this past week, even with BTC increasing in both metrics.

Every crypto sector besides Currencies (+2.1%) saw negative returns throughout the week. DeFi experienced the worst performance at -5%.

The price of BTC traded within a 27% range this week, from the low of $31,004 to the high of $39,396. Short term sentiment flipped from positive to negative multiple times throughout the week. Despite a few significant developments taking place, there was one event that gained the most attention. El Salvador president has created and passed a bill to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender in the country. 

Bitcoin has seen tremendous growth in social activity throughout the first half of the year. BTC has gone from averaging 48.7k Tweets a day in January, to now averaging 103.1k per day, an increase of 111%.

There have been a number of recent developments in the Algorand ecosystem that have sparked excitement, as Arrington Capital has launched a $100M fund to invest in Algorand based initiatives. Additionally, ALGO has introduced NFTs and launched Channel Manager, a new solution to issue and digitize NFTs. This announcement caused Tweet volume to surge by 70%, from 877 to 1,488.

Not only has the price of SOL increased rapidly this year, but so has the Solana community on social media. There are now nearly 7,000 Tweets sent out about Solana on a daily basis. This is after filtering out bots and spam Tweets.

Huobi Token currently has the highest long term sentiment score among all of the assets that we track at The TIE. Coming in second place is Solana, and third place is Celcius.

Long term sentiment score: A measure of how positive or negative conversations on Twitter have been about a particular coin over the last 50 days vs. the previous 200 days. A score above 50 implies that conversations have been more positive during the past 50 days vs. the previous 200. A score below 50 implies that conversations are becoming more negative.