CAKE increasing social dominance after token burn unlikely to catalyze price recovery
- Pancake Swap’s native token CAKE, witnessed a spike in its social dominance early on Monday.
- The $10.4 million token burn announced by Pancake Swap is expected to act as a bullish catalyst for the DEX’s native token.
- Total value of assets locked in Pancake Swap has been on a consistent decline, alongside the decreasing CAKE price.
Pancake Swap, one of the largest DEXes in the crypto ecosystem, announced the burn of $10.4 million worth of CAKE tokens. While a token burn is typically considered bullish for the asset, in the case of CAKE, reducing its circulating supply is unlikely to catalyze a token's price recovery.
Key on-chain metrics, like total value of assets locked on Pancake Swap and staking of CAKE token, have both decreased considerably throughout the year. CAKE price has nosedived alongside these developments since the beginning of February 2023.
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Pancake Swap awaits bullish catalysts to begin price recovery
Pancake Swap’s native token CAKE suffered a decline last week. Over the past 24 hours, CAKE price declined nearly 3% on Binance. The DEX announced a $10.4 million token burn in a recent tweet:
8,222,066 $CAKE just burned - that’s $11M!
— PancakeSwapEveryone's Favorite D3X (@PancakeSwap) August 21, 2023
Trading fees (V2 and Perpetual): 108k CAKE ($141k) +103%
Trading fees (V3): 37k CAKE ($48k) -7%
Prediction: 66k CAKE ($86k) -19%
️ Lottery: 36k CAKE ($47k) +27%
NFT Market, Profile & Factory: .7k CAKE ($1k) -3%
*%… pic.twitter.com/Wg7jBDwa7j
Token burns typically fuel asset prices, however there are other factors that are likely to contribute to CAKE’s price drop. Based on data from crypto intelligence tracker, DeFiLlama, there is a consistent decline in the total value of assets locked on Pancake Swap throughout 2023.
TVL, Staking on Pancake Swap
The volume of CAKE tokens staked has fallen alongside the total value of assets locked in Pancake Swap.
CAKE’s social dominance climbed on August 21, as seen in the Santiment chart below. The social dominance of the DEX token hit its highest level in 2023. This is an on-chain metric that reveals the relevance of the token among crypto holders.
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Pancake Swap Social dominance vs price
It remains to be seen whether the token burn and the rising social dominance can fuel a recovery in CAKE price.
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What is Bitcoin?
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Ekta Mourya
FXStreet
Ekta Mourya has extensive experience in fundamental and on-chain analysis, particularly focused on impact of macroeconomics and central bank policies on cryptocurrencies.
