In spite of the bearish crypto market trend, LUNA trading volume in the first quarter of 2022 was more than eight times that of the first quarter of 2021.
Terra (LUNA) reached a record price of $119.18 on April 5, 2022, after recording a trading volume of over $45 billion in the first three weeks of the fourth month of the year.
According to Be[In]Crypto Research, the trading volume recorded for Terra (LUNA) during the first quarter of the year was approximately $223.39 billion.
This is a 707% increase in trade volume recorded in the first three months of 2021 in the region of $27.68 billion.
What caused the surge in LUNA trading volume?
Improvements in the Terra ecosystem which drew the attention of millions of investors likely played the biggest role in the spike in LUNA trading volume in the first quarter of 2022.
Terra Ecosystem Improvements
In October 2021, during discussions following Columbus-5’s successful network upgrade, Do Kwon, co-founder of Terra, pointed out that the team was preparing to add at least 160 projects to the Terra ecosystem. in 2022.
The same upgrade updated several features of Terra that changed the mechanics of how LUNA operated.
This has led to an increase in liquidity locked in the Terra blockchain.
Terra opened on Jan. 1, 2022, with a total value locked (TVL) of $18.45 billion. This increased to $28.95 billion on March 31, 2022. Overall, there was a 56% increase in Terra’s opening and closing TVL in the first quarter of 2022.
Some of the individual projects on Terra that made valuable contributions to this new stage were Anchor (ANC), Lido (LDO) and Astroport (ASTRO), whose total value was locked in the billions.
The improvement in the ecosystem helped confirm Terra’s native asset, LUNA as the third-most staked cryptocurrency. LUNA trails only Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) in total value staked.
In January 2021, LUNA’s trading volume was approximately $1.7 billion with a single-day high of $261,899,675. In January 2022, LUNA’s trading volume was around $73.07 billion and reached a single-day high of $4.38 billion.
In February 2021, the trading volume of LUNA was in the region of $9.61 billion with a single-day high of around $1.15 billion. In February 2022, the trading volume was approximately $58.49 billion and had a single-day high of $6.15 billion.
In March 2021, LUNA’s trading volume was approximately $16.36 billion with a single-day high of $1.45 billion. As of March 2022, LUNA’s trading volume was around $91.82 billion and a single-day high of $6.04 billion.
Price reaction
LUNA opened on Jan. 1, 2022, with a trading price of $85.51, reached a quarterly high of $111.01 on March 30, and closed the first quarter of the year at $103.01. Overall, there was a 20% increase in the opening and closing price in Q1 2022.
For comparison, LUNA opened on January 1, 2021, with a trading price of $0.6529, reached a quarterly high of $22.33, and closed the first quarter of 2021 at $18.70. Overall, there was a 2,764% rise in opening and closing prices in the first quarter of 2021.
