🔹The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) keeps interest rate unchanged, but raises expectations for inflation.
🔹 $CHZ and $SHIB are the biggest gainers of today thus far.
🔹 $LUNA, $NEXO, and $SNX are down the most.
2/ The net positions of BTC HODLers is a strong indicator of how longer-term investors are thinking about BTC.
For the first time since turning negative in Nov. 2020, this metric has flipped positive, indicating HODLers are buyers here.
3/ BTC futures OI is slowly ticking up. BTC options OI is also starting to rise, adding almost $2 billion of fresh contracts in the last week. OI rising in tandem with price is a sign that traders are still structurally bullish on BTC.
4/ Volume for BTC options, however, is far below what we saw in April and May. Considering a ton of OI got wiped out, this isn’t too surprising.
The lack of volume is thus not a major concern. If OI continues to increase with price, volume will pick up the slack at some point.
5/ @iearnfinance’s AUM has hit $5 billion this week.
Despite this, $YFI price incurred a steep drawdown and hasn’t recovered since. This is another example of a DeFi token whose price has detached from fundamentals.
6/ DEX volumes on Ethereum are still beaten down and yet to recover. But DEX volume on Polygon has bounced hard off lows made earlier in June.
With Polygon’s success and several L2 platforms set to launch in the coming months, this could spell a second bout of euphoria 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.