🔹The market had a weak open during Asia hours and the futures premium on BTC has eroded.
🔹BTC is still holding $30,000 implying there’s a strong spot bid.
🔹However, this can change quickly and sellers have continued to offload coins with a vengeance.
2/ 1% of all BTC that can ever exist is currently locked on the Ethereum blockchain. $WBTC continues to lead the way and expand its market share.
BTC’s use as collateral in DeFi has skyrocketed in the past 1.5 yrs and is expected to continue growing as it gathers more traction.
3/ Yesterday marked the largest daily outflow of BTC from exchanges in over 7 months, with nearly 22,500 BTC leaving various exchange wallets.
Large exchange outflows have been a sign of long-term accumulation but as BTC grows in DeFi, these coins could be used as collateral.
4/ Futures basis on @DeribitExchange and @CMEGroup have slipped into backwardation after a weeks of ranging near 0%.
Term Check: Backwardation refers to a condition where spot price is higher than futures. Contango is a situation where futures prices are higher than spot prices
5/ Loans outstanding in DeFi protocols are recovering despite muted market conditions, with @AaveAave surpassing it’s previous ATH and @MakerDAO closing in on fresh highs.
@Compoundfinance, however, has been a laggard with a sharp decrease in TVL and is yet to recover.
6/ Tweets of the day!
Interesting thread speculating @ElonMusk’s long term plans for BTC.
🔹El Salvadore passed the bill that makes BTC legal tender in Central American country.
🔹Technical indicators are giving mixed signals with a bullish divergence forming while BTC defends its H&S neckline.
🔹ETH supply in smart contracts makes new highs.
2/ Yesterday, BTC attempted a test of its 2021 yearly open support level at $29,400. This level is crucial to defend if the longer-term bull market structure is to continue. This is accompanied by dip-buying and exchange withdrawals as mentioned in our previous daily.
0/ In today’s Delphi Daily, $ETH gas prices reach pre-DeFi summer levels, utilization rates in DeFi markets remain high, and implied volatility of $BTC options have fallen.
🔹 @coinbase’s announced its 4% rewards card can be spent through Apple Pay and Google Pay
🔹Next few weeks of price action are likely to be choppy, but early data suggests volatility may be culled for now.
2/ Implied volatility for various durations of BTC options have fallen over the past week, indicating cheaper options across the board (good for buyers, bad for sellers).
Implied volatility, as the name suggests, is not a measure of actual volatility.
1/ May 2021 hasn’t been kind to BTC bulls, but today was by far the worst day for the market since March 2020.
Over $2 billion in BTC positions —longs and shorts — were liquidated in today’s choppy market. Over $10 billion were liquidated across crypto perps and futures.
2/ As demand dried across BTC markets, the annualized basis for one month futures briefly traded at a big discount. @DeribitExchange had the worst reaction, with basis reaching -75%.
This was a result of heavy selling across futures market causing them to go into backwardation.
0/ In today’s Delphi Daily, we look at @0xPolygon’s continued growth, DeFi tokens leading recent relief rally, and @uniswap v2 vs. v3 capital efficiency.