🔹This past weekend saw the bulls come out on top, indicating retail sentiment is recovering.
🔹Bullish sentiment is making a comeback as @MicroStrategy’s $500 million debt raise settles today.
🔹 $BTC is at its current range high.
2/ @0xPolygon ($MATIC), @solana ($SOL), and @FantomFDN ($FTM) are the three best performing Layer 1 smart contracts platforms in 2021 so far.
$LUNA was performing on par with these assets but suffered a much sharper decline during the latest market downturn.
3/ The easiest trade of 2020 was to buy BTC from crypto exchanges and deposit it in the Grayscale BTC Trust, requiring a 6 month BTC lock up but allowing them to sell for a premium.
As the premium eroded and flipped into a discount, a major source of BTC buying dried up.
4/ Average gas prices are sitting at their lowest levels in over a year as Ethereum usage dwindles.
There are several reasons that could explain gas prices trending down. The most obvious is the drop in Ethereum usage as evidenced by falling DEX volume.
5/ @AxieInfinity’s growth over the past few months has been astounding.
Users of Axie Infinity were largely priced out of playing the game, but the team migrated most essential features to Ronin, an Ethereum sidechain built by the Axie team.
Delphi Labs presents: a Dynamic Interest Rate Model Using Control Theory
In this piece, we explore an alternative pricing solution which we believe to be more capital efficient and better suited to the dynamic crypto market. delphidigital.io/reports/dynami…
Lending OGs such as @compoundfinance and @AaveAave typically use a fixed price curve where the interest rate (IR) is determined according to the utilization rate of each money market.
While this model has proved useful and was a clever initial approach to the pricing problem, it has some limitations.
Specifically, it can be too rigid for the constantly evolving crypto market and cannot adjust to changes in external market conditions.
🔹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.