It's time to sum up the first half of 2018. Back in December, everyone was sure that we would see phenomenal market volumes by the summer, and we were right. The total capitalization fell by 70%. Bitcoin price fell by 64.45%, Ethereum – by 67.73%. But it's too soon to sell everything and go to Tibet, a correction within 60% is considered normal for traditional markets. Analysts explain this drop by launching Bitcoin futures on CBOE and CME. Futures allowed to profit from the fall in BTC price, and major players took advantage of this opportunity.

An important negative trend was the "51% attack" in Bitcoin Gold, Litecoin Cash, Verge and Monacoin networks. Hacker attacks on crypto exchanges also began to be perceived as something quite ordinary - more than 10 exchanges were attacked during these six months, including Binance, Bitfinex, Bithumb, YoBit. So opening accounts in less than 5-10 different platforms is now considered poor etiquette.

According to our data, the ICO market attracted 80.32% more funds compared to the previous six months. It is clear that such volume mainly belongs to EOS and Telegram, that managed to collect more than $ 5.7bn for both. The number of ICOs also increased by more than 30%. The greatest interest was traditionally caused by infrastructure, trading/investments, and finance projects.

You can find more figures, trends and news in our mega report: https://goo.gl/sBQHro