Stats according to Coinmarketcap and CoinGecko -
Marketcap ---------------115 million
Fully Diluted Marketcap---1 billion
Circulating Supply ------226.5 million
Total Supply ------------2.1 billion
All Time High (release) -----$1.54
Total Value Locked (BTC before airdrop began) - 2.8 billion - which is amazing!
The current situation is that people are unloading their airdrop tokens onto the market as exchanges are buying bags to trade.
A lot of these new Layer 2 narratives are great projects but they start out with high marketcaps from their total value locked up air drop incentive. Simply put, buying and selling has not yet stabilized the price action so we see a freefall.
The timing is perfect due to market drop and Japan economic status news mixed with BTC profitability for mining cost (53k ish) for bearish momentum.
There will be a bottom. I suspect it will be at the marketcap liquidity ratio of the holders which is very hard to calculate at the moment. So to give you some sort of target (not financial advice) -
I would look to long around BTC getting a confirmed uptrend from 50 - 53k. MERL could be around .4 cents by then but what do I know?