Happy Friday, everyone. This is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. I'm your host, Jen Sanassi, and on today's show,

we're passing it over to Coin Desk Indices for some weekly market insights.

Wondercraft AI voice here to give you three crypto markets takeaways from this week.

And stick around.

We'll have additional analysis from Cruise Enix, ecosystem growth lead at Index Cooperative.

First, Tracy Stevens, senior index manager at Coin desk indices, provides markets highlights

for the week ending March 22nd

with data from March 19th. 17 out of the 20 assets in the CoinDesk 20 are up this week. The three

exceptions are all alternative layer ones, Solana, Avalanche, and Aptos. 11 assets have declined more than 15

percent, with light coin down 21.4%, file coin down 20.7%, and Stellar down 20.5%.

Across the 189 assets and the broader CoinDesk Market Index, credit platform AMP leads.

AMP is up nearly 60% more than this week after jumping more than 1.5x between last Monday night's close and Tuesdays open, then giving back a portion of those gains.

For our analysis section this week, Cruz Enix writes,

The surge that digital asset traders have enjoyed since the start of the year showed signs of abating this week.

17 out of 20 assets in the Coin Desk 20 index and Coin Desk Market Index retraced their gains,

and 11 assets declined more than 15%, with light coin, file coin, and stellar falling the most.

The three exceptions were all alternative layer ones, Solana Avalanche and Aptos.

Solana in particular continues to benefit from the surging interest in Salana native meme coins, where

traders are required to transact in Esol to enter and exit their position.

Other layer ones appear to be coasting on Solana's momentum.

In the computing sector, top performers, Render Network, and Pyth continued to post significant

gains, with Pithe posting

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