Despite a challenging crypto market downturn, one cryptocurrency is defying gravity with significant gains. CORE has experienced an 11% jump in price today, trading around $0.50. Crypto analyst ‘BATMAN’ shed light on this surge via his X post to his 84k followers. 💰 📢. 🚨 According to BATMAN, the CORE validator bond saw a major shift, jumping from 10,000 to 500,000 CORE tokens. Existing validators can maintain their initial bond of 10,000 CORE but new and offline validators are required to lock in 500,000 CORE to join the network. This change is expected to create more buy pressure as nodes require greater CORE token holdings to participate. New validator requirements mean those joining the network must purchase large sums of CORE tokens. This increased demand from new validators could potentially push prices upwards. 📈 A notable pattern has emerged in past years.