0/ In today’s Delphi Daily, we examined delta neutral AXS farming, LUNA burning, recent L1 rally, and yield generating NFTs.
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1/ Market Update-
🔹The broader crypto market is seeing a slight pullback after the weekend run-up, seemingly weighed down by traditional markets, with major equity indices down on the day.
🔹Nonetheless, AXS, LUNA, and DYDX were among today’s top gainers.
2/ AXS staking began on Friday and opened up opportunities for yield arbitrage via perpetual futures.
This can be done by buying spot AXS to stake, while shorting the AXS-perpetual future. The trade is delta-neutral, meaning there’s no price risk, and captures the difference.
3/ @Terra_money’s highly anticipated Columbus-5 upgrade went through on Sept. 30.
While there were no drastic price movements on the day, LUNA rallied considerably over the weekend, with price making new all-time highs for two consecutive days now.
4/ The most significant change to the token economics was the decision to burn LUNA permanently instead of transferring it to the community pool.
LUNA that had previously been sent to the community pool was burned to the tune of ~23.4m LUNA.
5/ CyberKongz, CoolCats, and GalacticApes saw floor prices rise considerably. The three have positioned themselves as yield-generative NFTs.
NBA Hall-of-Famer @shaq triggered a floor price surge of Creature World NFTs after changing his Twitter profile picture to a Creature.
6/ L1 tokens had a strong start to October, as they inched back up from the mid-September dip.
EVM compatible chains such as AVAX and FTM continue their outperformance against the field. AVAX, in particular, is holding strong as the top monthly performer.
0/ In today’s Delphi Daily, we examine the near-term bull case for ETH, and offer the slightest bit of hopium.
We analyzed ETH open interest, options buying, and usage levels.
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1/ Market Update-
🔹It’s a relieving sight to see green across the board for crypto today, although it isn’t a very convincing bounce for majors such as BTC and ETH.
🔹Coins like DYDX (+12.1%), AR (+11.6%), AXS (+10.5%), and BNB (+10.3%), are leading this bounce at the moment
2/ OI for ETH futures and options is down nearly 40% since the start of September. The market is crippled by fear, but, thankfully, there is a silver lining.
Options open interest fell as dramatically as it did at the end of this month due to a large number of recent expiries.
0/ Today’s Delphi Daily focused on Bitcoin’s current market structure, miner fees, and lightning Network activity.
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1/ Market Update-
Virtually all of crypto is in the red today.
The Sep. 21st bottom remains intact, but the market still looks fairly weak.
For now, the signs point to a ranging market, so it’s probably wise to prepare yourself for some incredibly frustrating price action.
2/ Last Friday saw the largest expiration of BTC options since Apr. 2021. This isn’t all too surprising, as quarter-end expirations tend to be larger than regular monthly expirations.
However, OI tends to recover quite dramatically over the course of the month post-expiration.
0/ In today's Delphi Daily, we explore the relief rally occurring across markets, L1s battling for liquidity and L2s gaining steam.
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1/ Market Update-
🔹 The relief rally could be partly driven by a perceived higher probability for government intervention to mitigate the potential spillover effects of an Evergrande collapse
2/ Over the past 30 days, ETH has struggled to keep up with other L1 tokens.
A likely cause for this has been the flurry of announcements regarding new incentive programs on these L1s to attract liquidity and users.
0/ In today’s Delphi Daily, we analyzed a wide variety of crypto topics
Long term holders remain unfazed as crypto slides alongside other asset classes, even as overall market sentiment shifts to fear. Meanwhile, NFTs continue to generate more interest than DeFi on Google search
1/ Market Update-
🔹Today was yet another volatile day for crypto. There was a furious leg down during the Asian open, followed by a V-shaped recovery.
🔹Since then, markets have been choppy and indecisive.
2/ Despite experiencing a heavy sell-off over the last few days, long-term holders seem to be unfazed and continue to HODL.
Therefore, this leg down was likely caused by speculators taking a risk-off stance in anticipation of macro and regulatory headline risk factors.