LEO: Why investors need to be wary of hype behind Bitfinex’s token

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Bitfinex’s LEO token has become the talk of the town, quite literally. Especially ever since it became the latest entrant into the top 20 cryptocurrencies list. However, quite frankly, it didn’t reach here by its own merit. It just managed to somehow retain its value while the rest of the market around it has been going haywire all through the month of May.

Price action-wise, LEO can be accurately described as extremely boring. Looking at numbers, in a week when Bitcoin and Ethereum corrected by 1.5% and 10% respectively, LEO gained an odd percent.

LEO/USDT | Source: Tradingview

Even if we were to look at its use cases – it hardly amounts to much. LEO token is the native coin of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange. It is used as a “quote” currency to trade against multiple cryptocurrencies. Bitfinex also offers discounts and rewards for trades using the LEO token.

The reason behind LEO’s rise through the ranks of top cryptos cannot really be credited to the coin or its ecosystem entirely. Why? Well, while all the coins around it were beaten up black and blue, this coin managed to retain its value – thus automatically rising up the ranks. That in and of itself is an achievement – it doesn’t necessarily point to a very bright future for the coin.

And, quite possibly, this could be a one-off incident too. if we were to take a look at a few other exchange tokens like WRX, FTX, and the likes – we can see those coins are not necessarily impervious to price falls. The bloodbath through the month of May has been rough on all those coins too.

However, not everything looks bad for the coin. According to data from Glassnode, active addresses using the coin have been on a steady rise in the past couple of days – especially since the