🔹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.
3/ Historically, RSI bullish divergence precedes reversals. The last time bullish divergence was confirmed was 12/2019.
That being said, BTC will need to defend the $30,000 level this wk. It might be a good idea for traders to wait for reversal confirmation on the weekly close.
4/ Ethereum and DeFi usage seems relatively unfazed during market volatility seen in the last 24 hours.
ETH supply locked in smart contracts continue to make new all-time highs, currently at 23% of total circulating supply.
5/ Comparing TVL/FDV of smart contract layer 1 assets, it is apparent that $LUNA & $ETH stands out as being significantly undervalued to other L1 peers.
LUNA is also used as a reserve asset to back Terra’s arsenal of stablecoins, so TVL/FDV alone only tells part of the story.
6/ Time for tweets of the day!
El Salvador parliament passes the #BitcoinLaw and BTC is officially legal tender.
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.