🔹After yesterday’s 11% decline on BTC, the Asia, London, and New York sessions all opened up to even more selling (no surprise).
🔹Today’s biggest winners were stablecoins, and biggest losers were literally everything else.
2/ Everything is down today, except stablecoins which have done their job with respect to holding their peg.
The @Polkadot ecosystem and meme coins were the hardest hit, but every major sector/ecosystem is down over 30% over the past week.
3/ Bitcoin futures open interest is back at the same level it was at in Jan. 2021, and so its price.
OI continues to track price, contracting with price and expanding during short periods of low volatility. Seeing OI rise on declining prices if the market is structurally bearish
4/ Bitcoin options implied volatility (IV) continues to sit in the 80-100% range for contract of various durations.
We should see IV continue to inch down as long as the BTC downtrend continues. Seeing IV start to rise could be a bullish trigger.
5/ Bitcoin’s hash rate is down 50% from the top.
Ethereum’s hash rate decline hasn’t been as severe as Bitcoin’s, falling just 16% versus Bitcoin’s 50% over the same time period.
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.