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<ul><li>Large unlocks (over 1% of circulating supply) significantly impact prices, mainly concentrated in the week before and after the unlock. A 1% token unlock triggers, on average, a 0.3% price drop over the week preceding the unlock and another 0.3% drop over the week following the unlock.</li><li>The strongest price effects occur two days before the unlock and on the third and fourth days after the unlock. Interestingly, the actual unlock day and the day after show little price impact.</li><li>The similar magnitude of price drops before and after the unlock suggests that market anticipation is just as influential as the actual selling pressure.</li></ul>

Large unlocks (over 1% of circulating supply) significantly impact prices, mainly concentrated in the week before and after the unlock. A 1% token unlock triggers, on average, a 0.3% price drop over the week preceding the unlock and another 0.3% drop over the week following the unlock.The strongest price effects occur two days before the unlock and on the third and fourth days after the unlock. Interestingly, the actual unlock day and the day after show little price impact.The similar magnitude of price drops before and after the unlock suggests that market anticipation is just as influential as the actual selling pressure.

The Impact of Token Unlock Events on Cryptocurrency Prices: An Empirical Analysis

Data-Driven Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets, Kaiko

Kaiko

Data-Driven Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets

Kaiko is the leading cryptocurrency market data provider for institutional investors and enterprises. We empower market participants with accurate, transparent, and actionable financial data to be leveraged for a range of market activities. Kaiko’s mission is to be the foundation of the new digital finance economy by serving as a single source for market information. Our mission is premised on the idea that high-quality data drives market efficiency and greater transparency throughout the industry. For each of our enterprise clients, we build custom data plans designed for a range of use cases.

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<li>About a year ago, right as crypto trade volumes started to slump in the aftermath of the Celsius and Terra collapses, Binance vastly expanded its zero-fee trading promotions to 13 BTC pairs.</li>
<li>This practice, though not new, had never been implemented on such a large scale.</li>
<li>However, just nine months later the exchange decided to reverse this strategy and adopt a more selective approach.</li>
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About a year ago, right as crypto trade volumes started to slump in the aftermath of the Celsius and Terra collapses, Binance vastly expanded its zero-fee trading promotions to 13 BTC pairs.
This practice, though not new, had never been implemented on such a large scale.
However, just nine months later the exchange decided to reverse this strategy and adopt a more selective approach.


Analysis: The Impact of Binance's Zero-Fee Markets

<ul><li>This has been perhaps the single most consequential week for crypto in the U.S., as the SEC charged Coinbase with operating an unregistered securities exchange and charged Binance, Binance.US, and CEO Changpeng Zhao (“CZ”) with a variety of securities law violations. </li><li>Just two months ago, we chronicled the CFTC’s charges against Binance and CZ, which primarily focused on Binance’s alleged efforts to onboard high-volume U.S. traders onto Binance, rather than Binance.US (for simplicity, “Binance” will refer to the international exchange and “Binance.US” its U.S. affiliate).</li><li>This analysis showed that despite the creation of Binance.US in 2019, Binance’s trading had actually become more skewed towards U.S. hours, in fact resembling U.S.-based exchanges like Coinbase.</li></ul>

This has been perhaps the single most consequential week for crypto in the U.S., as the SEC charged Coinbase with operating an unregistered securities exchange and charged Binance, Binance.US, and CEO Changpeng Zhao (“CZ”) with a variety of securities law violations. Just two months ago, we chronicled the CFTC’s charges against Binance and CZ, which primarily focused on Binance’s alleged efforts to onboard high-volume U.S. traders onto Binance, rather than Binance.US (for simplicity, “Binance” will refer to the international exchange and “Binance.US” its U.S. affiliate).This analysis showed that despite the creation of Binance.US in 2019, Binance’s trading had actually become more skewed towards U.S. hours, in fact resembling U.S.-based exchanges like Coinbase.

<ul><li>“An estimated $100bn investment in an unknown future is super-sized and terrifying, even by Silicon Valley standards…the age of excess is over - big tech companies need to lose some weight and get into shape and earn the right to win the next major wave of innovation”.</li><li>These were comments made this week by Altimeter Capital CEO and investor in Meta, Brad Gerstner, in an open letter to the Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding their $10bn a year investment in the metaverse.</li><li>Meta, formerly Facebook, made a monumental pivot last year to capitalize on the explosive growth of the metaverse. </li></ul>

“An estimated $100bn investment in an unknown future is super-sized and terrifying, even by Silicon Valley standards…the age of excess is over - big tech companies need to lose some weight and get into shape and earn the right to win the next major wave of innovation”.These were comments made this week by Altimeter Capital CEO and investor in Meta, Brad Gerstner, in an open letter to the Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding their $10bn a year investment in the metaverse.Meta, formerly Facebook, made a monumental pivot last year to capitalize on the explosive growth of the metaverse. 

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<ul><li>Last week we dived into crypto gaming as we investigated <a href="https://etherbridge.substack.com/p/enjin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Enjin</a>, one of the leading projects in the sector. </li><li>Enjin shifted from a traditional company to blockchain organisation and has positioned itself as an integral component in the blockchain stack and crypto gaming industry going forward.</li><li>This, however, begs the question: Why will people play blockchain-based games in the future? This answer comes down to the model used by traditional games vs those blockchain-based.</li></ul>

Last week we dived into crypto gaming as we investigated Enjin, one of the leading projects in the sector. Enjin shifted from a traditional company to blockchain organisation and has positioned itself as an integral component in the blockchain stack and crypto gaming industry going forward.This, however, begs the question: Why will people play blockchain-based games in the future? This answer comes down to the model used by traditional games vs those blockchain-based.

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The Impact of Token Unlock Events on Cryptocurrency Prices: An Empirical Analysis

Large unlocks (over 1% of circulating supply) significantly impact prices, mainly concentrated in the week before and after the unlock. A 1% token...

Animoca Brands Research

Analysis: The Impact of Binance's Zero-Fee Markets

About a year ago, right as crypto trade volumes started to slump in the aftermath of the Celsius and Terra collapses, Binance vastly expanded its...

Kaiko

The Data Behind the SEC's Big Week

This analysis showed that despite the creation of Binance.US in 2019, Binance’s trading had actually become more skewed towards U.S. hours

Kaiko

An Abandoned Meta(Verse)

Meta, formerly Facebook, made a monumental pivot last year to capitalize on the explosive growth of the metaverse. However, a year later, the era...

Kaiko

Play-to-Earn

Enjin shifted from a traditional company to blockchain organisation and has positioned itself as an integral component in the blockchain stack and...

Etherbridge

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