Bitcoin (BTC) bears appeared on in disbelief as BTC worth rallied to over $57,800 on Feb. 21, sparking a significant altcoin rally. It appears bull flags are being printed one after the opposite on coins like Polkadot and Cardano, that are taking part in out predictably.
Nonetheless, one coin that’s not getting the limelight it deserves proper now could be Yearn.finance (YFI), and at current, it appears to be like like a interval of aggressive promoting may very well be coming to an finish with a possible 50% transfer to the upside being imminent. However first, let’s check out why it has been struggling just lately.
Troubled waters for Yearn
A lot to the dismay of buyers and merchants on Jan. 20, Yearn.finance retweeted a gif of Pepe the Frog dressed as a wizard, which linked to the proposal entitled “YIP-57: Funding Yearn’s Future.”
The article outlined the plans to mint 6,666 new YFI tokens for the Yearn treasury, thus growing the YFI provide by greater than 20% and in flip, a 24.45% purple candle was printed on the day by day chart.
After the aggressive promoting eased off, the value slowly gained traction once more. Nonetheless, about two weeks in a while Feb. 4, an $11m yDAI exploit occurred, spurring on the next tweet:
“We now have seen the v1 yDAI vault has suffered an exploit. The exploit has been mitigated. Full report back to comply with.”
This led to an extra sell-off for YFI, printing one other 15% purple candle in a single day. But regardless of all this dangerous information, the value unexpectedly rallied 50% to a brand new all-time excessive at $52,700, three days earlier than Bitcoin cracked the $50K barrier.
However was this sudden? Or was it only a bull flag taking part in out albeit over a barely prolonged time period as a consequence of knee-jerk response sell-offs?
Monster bull flag on the day by day


Over on the day by day chart, we will see {that a} 52% candle was printed on Jan. 7, and after the value consolidated over a interval of 10 days, the value broke out of a traditional bull flag construction earlier than the dangerous information began circulating, inflicting holders to lose religion in founder Andre Cronje.
Nonetheless, as soon as the information had handed it was clear from the gradual 52% worth improve that bullish investor sentiment had returned, which simply so occurred to be the identical measurement because the flagpole on the considerably failed bull flag.
The excellent news for YFI holders now could be that the charts at the moment are displaying the very same sample taking part in out with a 50% candle, which might carry the value goal as much as $65,770
$200,000 in play for YFI worth


In 2020, YFI was buying and selling greater than Bitcoin, and even when you issue within the newly minted tokens, the upside is solely staggering.
With out factoring within the further tokens, the upside to return to its earlier sats worth can be in extra of 450% from the present worth.
Nonetheless, even by deducting 20% off this stage, which might signify a transfer to the 0.786 Fibonacci (fib) stage, this nonetheless places a possible upside goal round 350%. In different phrases, this places YFI at an eye-watering $200,000 per coin.
DeFi is so sizzling proper now


While the prospect of paying $200,000 per coin could seem insane, you solely have to take a look at how properly different tasks within the DeFi house are performing. Uniswap, SushiSwap and PancakeSwap all managed to perform 10x since Christmas.
However all of those have absolutely rebounded past their earlier sats worth, so now could be the time to search for one thing that hasn’t made this transfer but, and proper now, in my view, the most important most evident one to go subsequent is Yearn.
You solely have to take a look at the UNI/BTC chart to see that proper now. Every thing about YFI screams “purchase,” the place even a transfer simply to the 0.236 Fibonacci stage would signify a 70% improve in worth.


Bullish and bearish eventualities
If there’s one factor Yearn.finance has taught us, it’s at all times to count on the sudden when testing in manufacturing.


Proper now, there’s a heavy level of management round $39,000 that worth retains revisiting and serving as assist.
Ought to this stage proceed to carry, a transfer to the higher resistance of the present channel round $55,485 is the place I’d be first concentrating on, earlier than the broader breakout to $65,000.
Ought to $39,000 fail to carry, I’d be wanting round $32,500 as assist, one thing I’m not anxious about until one other Andre undertaking will get rugged.
The views and opinions expressed listed below are solely these of @officiallykeith and don’t essentially mirror the views of Cointelegraph. Each funding and buying and selling transfer includes danger. You need to conduct your personal analysis when making a call.