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MATIC Down 65% in Just One Hour

The Matic Network (MATIC) lost around 65% of its value after some whale traders decided to dump two billion MATIC coins in one hour.

MATIC’s price Chart. Image credit TradingView

Last week, MATIC coin had a nice pump. The value of Matic Network (MATIC) grow from $0.029 to $0.04 within seven days.

MATIC’s Price Dump on Binance Exchange

Matic is accused of dumping the coin

Some members of the crypto community on Twitter have accused MATIC’s team of dumping their own tokens on the coin’ investors who bought into the FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) of last week’s big move, specially after Matic foundation transferred around 1.5 billion token to Binance exchange.

Accurate Chart Analysis

Couple of days ago, a crypto trader predicted the dump using Elliott waves analysis.


Yet, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said that the project’s team had nothing to do with MATIC price tanking 70 percent. He explains that some big traders apparently panicked, which caused this vicious selling cycle.

What is MATIC?

Matic Network is a blockchain scalability platform which provides secure, scalable and instant transactions powered by PoS side chains and an adapted version of Plasma. The project was founded by an Indian programmer, Sandeep Nailwal.

Matic project raised around $ 5.60M in it’s IEO (Initial Exchange Offering) that was held by Binance exchange. The IEO price was $ 0.00263/Coin.

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