Mooners and Shakers: Bitcoin claws back to $40k amid new US inflation data; SHIB soars on Robinhood listing

Shiba Inu is pumping today (Getty Images)
Bitcoin has clawed its way back above US$40k at the time of writing. And that’s on a day fresh Consumer Price Index figures revealed US inflation is at a 41-year high.
According to the April CPI data published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US annual inflation rate has risen to 8.5 per cent, increasing by 1.2% since March.
Market participants were largely expecting an increase in this sort of vicinity, which might be why equities/stonks and crypto have actually recovered some ground today.
Still looming, however, is the US Federal Reserve’s next interest-rate-hiking, economy-tightening response amid increased speculation of a global recession.
It’s a US-economy-driven menagerie of cats vs mice and bulls vs bears – an uncertain narrative that’s likely to keep crypto investors on their toes for some time yet.
#Inflation is worse than you think, and #Bitcoin is better than you know.
— Michael Saylor⚡️ (@saylor) April 12, 2022
Top 10 overview
With the overall crypto market cap at about US$1.97 trillion, up about 0.2% since this time yesterday, here’s the current state of play among top 10 tokens – according to CoinGecko.

High-speed layer 1 blockchain Solana (SOL, +4.4%) is the standout performer in the majors, and that’d be because it’s one of four assets to be listed by the popular stonks-trading (and crypto-trading) platform Robinhood.
ROBINHOOD LISTS FOUR NEW CRYPTO ASSETS
ROBINHOOD MARKETS INC – COMPOUND, MATIC, SHIBA INU AND SOLANA ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON ROBINHOOD CRYPTO
— First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) April 12, 2022
And yep, those other three: DeFi blue chip Compound (COMP, +7%); Layer 2 Ethereum sidechain Polygon (MATIC, +5%); and dog-meme coin Shiba Inu (SHIB, +18%) are all faring particularly well today, too.
Meanwhile, can Bitcoin (BTC) continue back up from here in the short term? Dutch trader Michaël van de Poppe’s in a mind to think so…
#Bitcoin on next area of support and has potential upside towards $42K from here.
Seems fine.
Has to hold above $38K to avoid a sweep of the lows at $32K. pic.twitter.com/AAsj8CsZcC
— Michaël van de Poppe (@CryptoMichNL) April 12, 2022
Uppers and downers: 11–100
Sweeping a market-cap range of about US$19.5 billion to about US$1 billion in the rest of the top 100, let’s find some of the biggest 24-hour gainers and losers at press time.
DAILY PUMPERS
• Shiba Inu (SHIB), (market cap: US$14.9 billion) 18%
• Synthetix (SNX), (mc: US$1.1 billion) +8%
• ApeCoin (APE), (mc: US$3.2 billion) +6%
• Near Protocol (NEAR), (mc: US$11 billion) +5.5%
• Polygon (MATIC), (mc: US$9.8 billion) +5%
DAILY SLUMPERS
• Zilliqa (ZIL), (mc: US$1.56 billion) -10%
• STEPN (GMT), (mc: US$1.3 billion) -9%
• Mina Protocol (MINA), (mc: US$1.1 billion) -6%
• Convex Finance (CVX), (mc: US$1.7 billion) -5%
• Zcash (ZEC), (market cap: US$1.8 billion) -4%
Uppers and downers: lower caps
Moving below the crypto unicorns (in some cases well below), here’s just a selection catching our eye…
DAILY PUMPERS
• Metal (MTL), (market cap: US$149 million) +50%
• PARSIQ (PRQ), (mc: US$58m) +29%
• JPEG’d (JPEG), (mc: US$91m) +28%
• Bitrue Coin (BTR), (mc: US$122m) +26%
• MATH (MATH), (mc: US$58m) +20%
DAILY SLUMPERS
• ICHI (ICHI), (mc: US$54m) -81%
• Cult DAO (CULT), (mc: US$103m) -20%
• Onston (ONSTON), (mc: US$55m) -10%
• TitanSwap (TITAN), (mc: US$300m) -9%
• Concordium (CCD), (mc: US$69m) -9%
Around the blocks
Crypto Twitter is a hive of activity today, as per. Here’s a handful of tweets that made us briefly stop in our scrolling tracks…
— naiive (@naiivememe) April 12, 2022
Treasury Secretary @SecYellen, "Satoshi Nakamoto proposed a decentralized peer-to-peer system for making and processing payments. The #Bitcoin white paper proposed a novel method for validating transactions using cryptography that addressed the so-called “double spend” problem." pic.twitter.com/hbAnVKmCTZ
— Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) April 12, 2022
A Punk on sale for 2,900 ETH? At the current price, that’s almost US$8.8 million. Seems a tad ambitious in this current market. Still… one (#5822) did sell for about US$23.7 million a couple of months ago…
CryptoPunk 741 has been listed for sale for 2900 ETH.
This is a 0 attribute punk, of which there are only 8.
The last 0 attribute sold on 22 Feb 2021 for 550 ETH. pic.twitter.com/vvw8fcqNKc
— Phantom Scribbler (@phantom_scribbs) April 11, 2022
BLOCKCHAIN WEEK REPLAY ⏮
4:40pm – @KieranWarwick from @illuviumio – Game(Fi) Changing. A fireside chat with @jonipirovich from Blockchain & Digital Assets
Premiering NOW > https://t.co/oNKxlwioiH pic.twitter.com/nKOy2n2rAf
— Digital Economy Council of Australia (@DECAustralia) April 12, 2022
⚡️ AIRDROP STRATEGY ⚡️
We will kill 4 birds with one stone, with almost no fees!
The idea is to use a few protocols that did not launch a token yet and might do a retroactive airdrop 🪂.
Birds: @zksync, @Orbiter_Finance, @argentHQ, @ZigZagExchange
How to do it 🧵👇
— olimpio (@OlimpioCrypto) April 12, 2022
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