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.
3/ Ethereum burns from EIP-1559 flared up in the month so far, resulting in the largest daily deflation of -6823 ETH on January 10th.
Comparing January’s ETH emissions to previous months, it’s clear that this month’s emissions are trending heavily towards a net burn.
4/ The NFT Aggregator competition has been heating up.
@Geniexyz and @Gemxyz are two NFT aggregator platforms making it easy to shop and purchase across a number of NFT marketplaces.
They also provide the ability to bulk purchase NFTs in a single transaction.
For today’s Delphi Daily, we examined the aftermath of this week's FOMC meeting, current stablecoin utilization rates, and the amount of unique NFT buyers.
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1/ The FOMC decided to leave rates untouched but signaled for a hike in March’s FOMC. US10Y closed the trading day up 5%, and DXY was up 0.46%.
Risk assets like SPX, NDX, and crypto assets wound up pairing back their initial gains as the market digested the Fed’s commentary.
2/ Funding turned even more negative post FOMC as investors were spooked by Powell’s resolve to fight inflation.
All in all, it seems like the market is expecting Bitcoin to make a lower low after recently testing the $34k level.
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.
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 today’s Delphi Daily, we examine @FantomFDN’s TVL, @paraswap’s recent activity, on chain $BTC data of long-term holders, and how BTC responded to latest CPI data.
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1/ While the TVLs across crypto have stagnated, @FantomFDN’s ecosystem has been vibrant. Fantom has gained $1.2B (+20%) in TVL over the past week.
This comes as @AndreCronjeTech and @danielesesta, two prominent builders, have shown interest in developing the Fantom ecosystem.
2/ Since @paraswap’s airdrop on Nov 15th, activity on the DEX aggregator has stagnated.
Before the airdrop, many people speculated and used Paraswap in hopes of receiving a piece of the airdrop.
Paraswap’s downfall can be a lesson to other protocols to better design airdrops.