Filecoin rose sharply on Friday but why? The jump fueled social media excitement about the blockchain’s March 1 launch of its Filecoin Virtual Machine aka FVM, a software platform that will introduce smart contracts and enable developers to design decentralized applications on the Filecoin network.the coin’s price jumped from $5.4 at 10:00 UTC to a high of $8 at around 5 22:00 UTC.
Filecoin announced that it will launch smart contracts in Mar'23, making it a fully-fledged L1. FIL rose by 23% in 24 hours. There are currently 3,785 active miners on the Filecoin network, storing 18.767 EiB of information, and staking 134,023,969 FIL.
The price of FIL is $9.19 today with a 24hour trading volume of 1.2 billion dollar. This represents a 22% price increase in the last 24 hours and a 80% price increase in the past 7 days
FIL saw an increase in open interest rate, denoting increased demand and bullish sentiment in the futures market.
next targets for Fil are 9.5 and 9.9$ and stop loss at 8$