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The number of Canadian cryptocurrency users has dropped in 2023 due to bear market fears and wider macroeconomic factors, a new survey shows.

monetary policy decision, while investors assessed the potential impact of Trump’s tariff policies. The Fed is widely expected to keep interest rates unchanged in its policy statement, alongside an updated summary of economic projections (SEP).

Solana (SOL) has emerged as a standout performer, with its price doing a 10X surge. This surge in price, particularly in the aftermath of the FTX collapse, has been remarkable. This is a story of Solana's resilience but also highlights how it survived a particularly bleak crypto winter. Let's do a deep dive into the factors driving Solana's ascent and speculate on its future. Founded in 2017 by former Qualcomm engineer Anatoli Yakovenko, Solana's original vision was to challenge centralized financial systems. Developed by Solana Labs and overseen by the Swiss-based Solana Foundation, its mission is to serve as a decentralized counterpart to traditional stock exchanges. Over time, this vision has expanded to cover decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and crypto payments. Solana's mainnet went live in March 2020, leveraging a proof-of-stake mechanism complemented by a unique proof-of-history (PoH) technology. This combination enables Solana to process transactions at a theoretical peak of 710,000 transactions per second, a feat of engineering that positions it as one of the fastest blockchains in existence. Despite its decentralization, with nearly 2,000 validators, concerns have been raised about the centralization of transaction processing and storage.

crypto enthusiasts love more than the digital assets themselves, it's memes. A frenzy of crypto-based memes have gained fresh momentum last week as Bitcoin rallied. Growing expectations that the US Securities and Exchange Commission will authorize exchange-traded funds that invest directly in Bitcoin pushed the largest crypto by market value up by more than 25% over the past two weeks to around $35,000 on Wednesday — its highest level in about 18 months. The breakout gives bulls some hope even as reminders of the industry's recent woes linger. Just last week, Sam Bankman-Fried took the stand in his own defense of criminal charges stemming from the collapse of his crypto exchange FTX. He has pleaded not guilty. Memecoins like Pepe Coin (PEPE) surged along with Bitcoin. The coin based on the internet meme of a green anthropomorphic frog that has been around since the early 2000s increased 77% on Friday from the week before, according to data from crypto market tracker CoinGecko. Pepe Coin, which was issued this year, soared to a market value of more than $1 billion in May before reversing course and plummeting more than 60% in the following days, according to data tracker CoinMarketCap.

Crypto infrastructure provider Qredo has announced plans to reduce staff and expenses as it navigates the challenges posed by the ongoing bear market. 

In light of the recent rally that has seen it surge more than 40% since the start of the year, Bitcoin is about to experience only its seventh so-called “golden cross” in the last 10 years. A golden cross is a technical event where the 50-Day Simple Moving Average (SMA) crosses to the north of the 200-Day SMA. Some technicians and traders interpret a golden cross as either a buy signal, or at least a sign that price momentum has shifted in a bullish direction.

Despite BTC's value dropping 75% from its November 2021 record high, investors have not abandoned cryptocurrencies, as today's market rally demonstrates.

Coin prices across the crypto market have crashed this year, leaving many investors wondering what to do next. However, bear markets don't last forever, and some projects with strong fundamentals, real use cases, solid teams, and enthusiastic investor backing will no doubt come out the other side ready for major gains. Dash 2 Trade (D2T), RobotEra (TARO), IMPT, and Calvaria (RIA) are four such cryptocurrencies for the bear market that experts are predicting to do well in 2023.

Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs, believes that the current crypto bear market may last for another 12 to 18 months. 

Blockchain developers have slowed down their contributions to top crypto projects amid the lingering market downturn, with Bitcoin and Ethereum experiencing a decline of over 30% in developer activity over the past three months. 

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