On June 13, the #crypto market suffered over $1 Billion in liquidations over 24 hours.
In the month of June so far, #Bitcoin suffered a drawdown of over 43% 🔻
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According to data from Coinglass, a staggering $343 million in $BTC longs were liquidated across the top 8 derivatives exchanges on June 13 — sending $BTC tumbling from $27k to under $23k in a day.
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#Bitcoin has a large number of liquidation points clustered between $7,500 and $12,500.
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$BTC broke the major $20K support level and even went below the previous all-time-high (ATH) reached in the last bull market in 2017, hitting a low of $17.7K on June 19, 2022.
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#CoinMarketCap Research examines the impact & major players affected by a slew of margin calls and liquidations that have rocked an over-leveraged crypto ecosystem in recent weeks.
In the last half a decade, dozens of countries have announced plans to launch a #CBDC of their own.
Indeed, according to @AtlanticCouncil, a staggering 105 countries are now exploring CBDCs, including 19 countries in the G20.
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Out of the G7 economies, the UK and the US are the furthest behind in terms of CBDC development, whereas a total of 10 countries worldwide have already launched their CBDC (including the Bahamas, Jamaica, Nigeria, and several countries in the Caribbean.)
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With the potential to improve financial inclusion, reduce counterfeiting, cut down cross-border transaction fees and times, and improve transparency in the money supply, CBDCs could demonstrate the viability of blockchain technology for major financial use cases.
How did Margin Calls affect the market in recent weeks? 👀
#Ethereum lost over 53% of its value, seeing $219 Million in long liquidations that same day, and collapsed from $1440 to $1200.🔻
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For #Ethereum, failure to defend the $900 and $700 price points could result in major liquidations across popular #DeFi lending protocols.
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Dive into #CoinMarketCap's research on Liquidation Cascades in Bear Markets, with an analysis of how margin calls and liquidations have affected major players in the recent weeks. 👇
Still the most active EVM-compatible chain by number of daily transactions, @BNBCHAIN has seen its average transaction fee shrink over the last year — falling from $0.36 to $0.3.
This makes it the second-most expensive EVM chain by average tx fee, behind Avalanche.
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It is still the most popular by on-chain activity, processing more transactions each day than Avalanche, Fantom, and Polygon combined, at over 5M transactions per day.