$ETH has had a transformative 2021 so far, and order book data suggests a maturing market.
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Total quantity (in USD) within the top 100 bids and asks has been increasing.
This is largely due to ETH's recent price movement in USD.
A more profound improvement is the 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 of the market depth with prices closer to the best bid and ask.
On Coinbase and Kraken there is now typically enough ETH on each side of the market available to absorb a $1M market order with less than 0.2% slippage.
The improving market depth for ETH across centralized exchanges is striking considering trading volume on DEXs, e.g. Uniswap V3, now rivals centralized peers.
1/9 Bitcoin has performed remarkably these past few weeks despite:
-Most of DeFi falling 50-80%
-CFTC charging BitMEX
-POTUS contracting Covid
-Delayed stimulus talks
-FCA announcing a derivative ban for retail
Why? Let’s see what we can find on-chain
2/9 Bitcoin’s Realized Cap has been steadily increasing just as it did before the 2017 bull market took off. If it continues as it did in 2017, 2021 should be an interesting year.
Chainlink has continued to perform extremely well since early 2019, briefly surpassing $8.00 per $LINK this morning.
Below we take a look at on-chain metrics to see how they stack up in recent times
Both Active Addresses and Transaction Count are up in lockstep, indicating that not only is usage up, but the number of users of the network is growing too
The Adjusted Transfer Value (7dma) has started to spike, surpassing 2020 previous highs, but still a way off mid-2019 all-time highs
On May 10, Coin Metrics’ internal systems fired off an alert that an abnormally large deposit took place on @Gemini. An hour later, markets fell almost 16%
Below we investigate the insights that holistic data strategy could provide during such an event medium.com/@coinmetrics/m…
2/ An hour after 2,500BTC was deposit onto @Gemini, CM noticed more abnormal activity on Gemini, this time in the form of an unusually large 50 $BTC trade. This potentially triggers a few significant market sells on Bitfinex and @coinbase Coinbase in the following seconds.
3/ In the following 5 minutes, there is a significant increase in trade volume across all exchanges, resulting in #Bitcoin's price dropping $800 over the period