Will STX break $2 when the Stacks 8 upgrade is activated in 8 days?
Stacks Network is the BTC Layer 2 and one of the largest Decentralized Finance protocols on the most secure platform in the world. Decentralized FinanceLlama states that the platform manages assets worth over $109 million. With the rise of Decentralization Financial Service, it will continue to expand and improve. After more than five years of launch, the network is preparing for one of its most important upgrades: Satoshi Nakamoto. Analysts and platform supporters claim that this update will have a profound impact, especially on its ecosystem.
The team stated that the latest update will go live on October 29th. Most importantly, this transition will introduce features that improve throughput and security. In terms of scalability, Stacks may be looking to advance the Ethereum 2nd layer, which can currently handle transactions cheaply and host transaction-intensive dapps.
Once upgraded and activated, Stacks will depeg from the approximately 10-minute BTC Block generation speed. After depeg, the platform will process transactions within seconds. This change means that Stacks will handle more transactions, process them faster, and improve user experience.
However, the team stated that this depeg does not mean the end of the relationship between stackers and BTCMiner. In the team's view, not only will collaboration be strengthened, but Stacks as a second layer will be more decentralized and therefore more powerful.
As Stacks is a layer 2 protocol that relies on BTC for security, all transactions must still be confirmed on the underlying layer. Therefore, although its transaction mining will be separate from layer 1, all transactions will be completed on the BTC Mainnet. This confirmation is irreversible, thereby increasing security and eliminating the risk of transaction reversal.
Despite the optimistic upgrade of Nakamoto, the native Token STX has performed mediocrely. From the daily chart, the Token has been in a significant consolidation phase since early July. The price of STX has fluctuated between $1.20 and $2. After a big dump in early August, the Token steadily rebounded, pumping nearly 60%. Nevertheless, to form a pump trend and prompt buyers to take action to recover losses from March to July, it must break through $2.
If this uptrend is accompanied by an increase in Trading Volume, it could trigger a higher high, similar to those highs from early Q4 2023 to mid-March. In this case, STX could soar to $4, almost twice the September high.
(Source: Dalmas Ngetich)