1/ I haven't done a thread like this in a while but seems like with the influx of new people, now is a great time to do a comprehensive data summary to look at recent growth in Bitcoin and Ethereum. Almost everything we track is reaching all-time highs. Let's dive in!
2/ Total on-chain volume, a proxy for economic throughput, saw a strong increase of 51.5%, to a new yearly high of $204 billion in November. Bitcoin’s on-chain volume was 2 times higher than Ethereum’s in November.
3/ Stablecoins have exploded in 2020. Since January, the total issued supply has grown by nearly 329%.
Main reasons:
• Miners repaying Tether debt against Bitcoin
• Popularity of Tether-collateralized derivatives exploded
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Looks like the KuCoin hacker started using Uniswap to swap from shitcoins to ETH. Started with OCEAN. AFAIK this is the first time Uniswap is used following a hack
Steps:
1. From 0xeb....c23 to 0x1c...814 to 0x9e...E6b 2. 0x9e...E6b now slowly dumping OCEAN to ETH in 9 tx's
My current take on the market is that the short term outlooks is quite shit. Macro is in a bunch of uncertainty and will remain so IMO until after the election. BTC/ETH still correlated to macro. DeFi projects and meme coins have run out of market buyers and cooldown is necessary
NFT seems like a forced narrative at best. The market is not ready to explode yet, first needs interoperable L2, better creators, and then mass appeal. Think about how hard it is to convince people that Bitcoin is provably scarce. Now good luck convincing them NFTs are scarce.
The actual catalysts that are coming are Phase 0 activation and Uniswap v3, Synthetix, and other projects rolling out support for interoperable L2s. Ethereum has been borderline unusable when you need to use it the most. People won't come until that's solved or at least relieved
The people that invested in Avalanche's public sale two months ago are now up 5x from the no-lock up price of $0.85. Now trading at ~$4.3.
This was the pricing of the public sale.
The lock-up options got 10% of the amount unlocked. So even if they sell now, they cover pretty much the entire investment. There is a lot of hype but a lot of selling pressure sure must be coming as well
Never using Uniswap is not something to be proud of. Even more so as one of the main CoinDesk journalists
If you’ve never used Uniswap at this point, you have to be deliberately avoiding it. And that just shows the bias might be a tad too strong there.
I’m obviously just talking about people who are full time in the space - even more so the journalists. I don’t expect my parents to be actively using Uniswap but I absolutely expect journalists to at least try using it