0/ In today’s Delphi Daily, we dove deep into @arbitrum

We looked at Arbitrum’s bridge activity, its correlation with Ethereum gas, and it's spectacular past two weeks.

For a more detailed look 🧵👇
1/ Market Update-

🔹The market is bouncing for a second consecutive day, and every session (Asia, Europe, North America) opened up with strength.

🔹CRV is on an absolute tear today, but other top DeFi tokens are in the green as well.
2/ Less than a week after launching, the value locked in @Arbitrum’s bridge is closing in @0xPolygon.

There were a flurry of liquidity mining announcements across @Avalancheavax, @FantomFDN, and Harmony.

Arbitrum has been able to outshine it’s EVM-compatible competitors.
3/ Arbitrum’s bridge had a mere $22M locked in it on Sep. 1, which meant the bridge represented just 0.047% of total TVL in Ethereum bridges.

In the past two weeks, a few speculative farms have pushed this share up to 32%, a 640x increase.
4/ It’s no surprise that WETH/ETH, USDC, USDT, DAI, and WBTC account for nearly 90% of asset value being bridged on Ethereum.

The reason for this is pretty obvious: liquidity for these assets on Ethereum’s DeFi layer is extremely deep, in part due to their large market caps.
5/ Arbitrum’s take-off in early Sept. coincides with a sharp decrease in the median gas price on Ethereum mainnet.

Theoretically L2s like Arbitrum scale Ethereum’s throughput to a great degree.
6/ The future of L2s looks extremely promising.

The market may be looking favorably towards DeFi assets, which have had a rough past six months. Blue chips are leading the bounce, followed by derivative protocol tokens.
7/ Tweets of the day!

@OpenSea acknowledges accusations of employee front-running users.

9/ An in-depth analysis of ETH 2.0’s imminent Altair upgrade

10/ For the full report that inspired today’s thread 👇👇

delphidigital.io/reports/arbitr…
11/ Crypto moves fast. Delphi has you covered. Sign up here to get Delphi's free daily newsletter delivered right to your inbox every weekday

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Correction: The bridge TVL share chart above understated Polygon and Optimism's bridge TVL. The updated figures show Arbitrum's bridge share at 23%, which is still impressive.

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0/ In today’s Delphi Daily, we set out to answer the question of “Did the market overreact last week?”

We examined ETH/BTC trendlines, checked in on market sentiment, looked at stablecoin inflows, and analyzed a potential catalyst for L2 season.

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1/ Market Update-

🔹After a strong showing this week, BTC spent most of today chopping around between $47K and $48.5K.

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🔹BTC and ETH are finding strength, but what’s more surprising is today’s biggest winners are DeFi blue chips.

🔹DeFi coins have seen muted price action for months now, and a strong trend could catch several who ditched the sector.
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0/ In today’s Delphi Daily, we published a post mortem of yesterday’s sell-off.

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1/ Market Update-

🔹The last 24 hours have been chaotic for crypto markets, with a liquidity crisis causing some of the sharpest candle wicks we’ve ever seen.

🔹L1 tokens are rebounding the hardest with NEAR and ALGO outperforming everything, and LUNA not too far behind them.
2/ $4B and $3.6B of BTC and ETH OI were respectively wiped out yesterday.

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0/ In today’s Delphi Daily, we examined the leverage wipeout that the market experienced.

We also looked at NFT volume cooling off and $ETH emissions being deflationary for the first time.

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🔹A negative feedback loop of liquidations seems to be the primary cause, as the market punished over-leveraged apes.
2/ Open interest in ETH futures hits an all-time high, pushing ETH above $4,000.

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We examined the impact of leverage in the market, implied volatility of $BTC, CME’s open interest, and Ethereum DEX volume.

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🔹AVAX is down 18% over the last 2 days, and Avalanche ecosystem coins took a hit too.

🔹SAFEMOON and SOL are unfazed by the downturn.
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0/ In today’s Delphi Daily, we examined the recent habits of $BTC whales.

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