🔹BTC and ETH had been ranging from the Asia session into the London session, with a short bout of weakness emerging at New York open.
🔹BTC currently sits near its range high and traders are awaiting confirmation of either bearish continuation or an uptrend.
2/ Google trends indicates @0xPolygon is garnering attention from retail users as 1.4 million searches were made for Polygon/MATIC in May alone.
While “DeFi” and “Yield Farming” are growing in search volume as well, users are currently tilted towards Polygon.
3/ According to @Glassnode, the number of BTC held with long-term holders has been on the incline over the past few weeks after months of offloading BTC.
The sharp rise in long-term holder accumulation is a positive sign for those with mid to long term time horizons for BTC.
4/ Bitcoin futures OI is starting to tick up. Meanwhile, bitcoin’s streak of fading dominance also appears to be over.
Bitcoin dominance is rising beside OI, as is normal when the market emerges from a spell of intense fear.
5/ While DeFi assets are following the majors on this bounce, DEX volume has yet to recover. As a result of declining usage and a rising price, assets like $UNI have seen their cash flow derived valuations shoot up in the last 2 weeks.
6/ One would think that for assets like $UNI and $SUSHI, price would follow its volume.
Their correlation to BTC is a stronger influence given the current state of the market. As DeFi decouples from BTC, we likely see the relationship between fundamentals and price grow stronger
7/ Tweets of the day!
Delphi Labs introduces a new interest rate model for DeFi.
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.