In today’s Delphi Daily, we analyzed the resilience of marquee NFT brands, @opensea fees, @GMX_io’s surge in volume, and investors start to realize losses.
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1/ Marquee NFT brands have stayed resilient amid all the recent macro uncertainty.
While ETH has fallen 35% since the start of the year, NFTs have grown in price (in ETH terms).
Since NFTs are denominated in ETH, they are still exposed to the price changes of ETH.
2/ With the rise of NFT volumes, @OpenSea and NFT projects have been earning massive fees.
OpenSea has made $93M in marketplace fees, while projects have earned a cumulative $202M in royalty fees in January alone.
Combined daily volume on both chains hit $700M on Jan 21st, the highest the platform has ever seen. This led to the platform earning $900k in fees for GMX and GLP stakers
4/ Investors have capitulated on the recent downward movement of BTC to $35k.
As fear strikes the hearts crypto investors, $2.5B of net losses have been realized on the day that BTC hit $35k.
This level of net realized losses hasn’t been seen since June of last year.
In today’s Delphi Daily, we examined stablecoin supply growth, long-term holder’s losses, ETH burns, and NFT Aggregator competition.
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1/ Despite the current volatile environment, the stablecoin supply has grown by $5.3B over the past month.
USDC’s growth has recently become more pronounced, surging by $5.2B in supply in the last month.
USDT only grew by $700M.
2/ Long-Term Holders started going into loss as BTC tested the lows of $35k. LTHs in loss surged to 17% of all holders, which was last seen in May 2020 (circled in yellow).
Historically, it’s been a sign that the bottom may be in when both STHs and LTHs peak in losses.
0/ Friday saw the most on-chain liquidations ever, hitting a record $200M.
In today’s Delphi Daily, we explore the rash of liquidations, temp check the current market signals, and examine @FantomFDN’s climbing TVL.
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1/ As a major correction sent ETH falling from $3.2k to $2.5k in the past week, on-chain liquidations surged as positions started to hit their liquidation point.
Last Friday, money markets on ETH experienced their largest liquidation event to date, amounting to over $200m.
2/ @MakerDAO was responsible for more than 50% of liquidations stated above.
Maker stands to profit from all the liquidation events happening recently.
MakerDAO charges a liquidation penalty to the vault owners if the value of their collateral reaches its liquidation price.
In todays Delphi Daily, we examine a correlation between $BTC and $SPX, @POKTnetwork gaining attention, @GMX_io’s increase in trading volume, and @MEVprotection ’s big month.
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1/ Over the past month, the correlation between $BTC and $SPX has increased, as both risk assets were similarly affected by hawkish Fed comments
BTC has a historically low correlation with equity markets. However, since 2020, we have seen traditional players enter crypto markets
2/ @POKTnetwork has been gaining attention lately as it has been adopting and providing RPC access to multiple chains.
Pocket Network enables another layer of decentralization through its multi-chain relay protocol, removing reliance on centralized nodes and cloud services.
0/ We couldn't be more excited to announce that we, @Delphi_Digital, are co-leading Fan Controlled Sports Entertainment’s @fcflio Series A with @Animocabrands.
This is a wild one so buckle up.
1/ FCSE’s first product is Fan Controlled Football - a fan-controlled sports league in which fans call the plays.
Yes, with real players and real fans.
Behind the insanity lies a vision that has the potential to entirely reshape entertainment and fan experience as we know it.
2/ It's best to view FCSE as an entertainment company and not a sports league.
An entertainment company acutely curated for Web 3.0 with a video-game-like sports experience as its core product.