Following the SECs 13 civil charges against the leading cryptocurrency Exchange Binance, the Exchange experienced a net outflow of -10.5K BTC, with only 11 trading days recording larger outflows.
However, the current value remains a significant -29.8K BTC (-74%) smaller than the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
When assessing the net outflow in USD terms, we note a value of -$277M, the 15th largest on record. Again, when comparing this to the peak net outflow of $1.04B, the current value remains -$763M (-73%) smaller.
Breaking down the Net Transfer Volume from/to Binance by USD Size, 51% of the of outflow volume was driven by withdrawals sized $1M-$10M.
🔴 More than $10M: -$26M (9.3%)
🟠 $1M to $10M: -$141M (51%)
🟡 $100K to $1M: -$70M (25.2%)
🟢 $10K to $100K: -$29M (10.5%)
🔵 Less than… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The past week has witnessed a series of significant governance proposals 📜 and votes 🗳️ by major players within the DeFi space, including Lido, Maker and UniSwap.
What are the economic implications of these decisions and the future course for these protocols?
On May 15th, LidoDAO successfully passed a governance proposal, leading to the launch of Lido V2. This upgrade introduces stake withdrawals and a staking router, a modular infrastructure for validator pools.
After successfully launching its new Lending Protocol Spark, DeFi’s second largest protocol, MakerDAO came up with a new proposal that would radically restructure its architecture.
In accordance with the Endgame roadmap announced last year, the proposal suggests splitting the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
On May 11th and 12th, the #Ethereum network experienced two occasions where over 60% of the validators stopped performing their duties, causing a loss in Finality.
Finality refers to the state where a supermajority of validators (2/3 of the total stake) have attested to the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
With up to 60% of validators offline and absent in consensus responsibilities, the performance of the chain was degraded. About 3.68% of daily slots were missed and 253 blocks not proposed on time. This remains significantly lower than the 658 blocks missed across the Shapella… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
On a more technical level, some consensus layer clients encountered older attestations and were forced to load up older states for verification, whilst simultaneously trying to handle new incoming attestations, which eventually caused these systems to overheat and malfunction.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The topic of #Bitcoin supply concentration is a favourite for critics of the asset.
In our latest research piece, we explore how the smallest HODLers of $BTC, the Shrimp (< 1 $BTC) 🦐 and Crab (< 10 $BTC)🦀 are in fact last cycles largest accumulators.