This Coin Was Up 2.5x Last Week, Outperforming Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin By Far

Zilliqa (ZIL) rose more than 150% last week and was the biggest gainer in the period. The token associated with a blockchain that says it is the first to rely on a sharded network entirely is focused on high throughput and fast transactional speed. 

Top Gainers of Week Ending March 6, 2022 (Data via CoinMarketCap)
Cryptocurrency 7-Day % Change (+/-) All-Time High Value/Date Reached % Change (+/-) Since All-Time High
Zilliqa (ZIL) +153.58% $0.2563 On May 6, 2021 -58.95%

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Why Is It Moving? Sharding is a reference to splitting a blockchain into smaller partitions, with each subunit known as shard. This process can help the network become faster and reduce latency. 

Ethereum, a larger rival of Zilliqa, is expected to ship Shard chains in 2023, according to the project’s website.

ZIL’s price spike eclipsed the rise in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin DOGE/USD last week, which rose by 15%, 16.2% and 24.35%, respectively.

ZIL has seen a pump based on euphoria surrounding Metapolis — a metaverse. 

The metaverse runs on unity, unreal engine and Nvidia Corporation’s NVDA Omniverse platform. Metapolis is billed as the first-ever Metaverse-as-a-Service platform or MaaS.

Last week, Metapolis announced a new partnership with Agora, a global talent awards app. Agora will onboard Zilliqa as its “leading blockchain” along with Metapolis, as per a statement.

A tweet by Zilliqa noted that, in 2021, the number of ZIL addresses grew 180% compared with 2020. Correspondingly, growth has also been seen in transaction volume, which rose 172% from 11.2 million to 30.2 million. 

Last week, the project announced Valeriy Zamaraiev had taken up the role of head of distributed system engineering at Zilliqa. Zamaraiev was previously with Dfinity and has had stints as a Technical Program Manager with Google and at YouTube — both arms of Alphabet Inc GOOGL GOOG.

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