Yet some crypto watchers have raised red flags over SafeMoon’s unusual structure. It charges a 10% fee to buy tokens and another 10% to sell -- almost unheard of in the digital currency world. Half of these fees are paid to owners as an incentive to keep holding and the other half goes into a liquidity pool controlled by the developers. SafeMoon calls itself a DeFi token, or one that uses decentralized finance to govern functions through software, but it has a chief executive officer and chief operating officer. Critics also worry about the discretionary nature of the “manual” coin burns used to adjust its circulation.
Safemoon members are now joining in the thousands with competing cryptocurrencies, like Bitrise, and this could continue if the Safemoon team does not address the fundamental issues. However, Safemoon remains one of the most powerful crypto coins out there, but dominance may be short-lived.

The long term positive coherence relationship observed between online metrics and price may be the result of another factor which we hypothesise could be technical progress. As a project makes technical progress, it is likely to have a community form around it over time, increasing online activity and also demand, and hence price, of the particular cryptocurrency. An interesting avenue of future work would be to consider the coherence between price and technical progress (via looking at each projects source code repository—these are available as cryptocurrency projects are generally open-source).
Wavelet coherence plots as above highlight areas in the time-frequency space where the two series co-move. The warmer the colour, the higher the coherence (which can be interpreted as correlation) at that location in the time-frequency space; the colours used in this work range from dark blue (0, no coherence) to yellow (1, strong coherence). Statistically significant areas of coherence are surrounded by a thick black line.