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>After years of waiting, Ripple finally got a ruling in their highly anticipated lawsuit with the SEC: the company did not violate federal securities law by selling its XRP token on public exchanges.</li><li>The market reaction was near instantaneous.</li><li>Since Thursday, XRP is up 61% and several exchanges that had previously de-listed the token, including Coinbase and Kraken, immediately re-listed it.</li></ul>

After years of waiting, Ripple finally got a ruling in their highly anticipated lawsuit with the SEC: the company did not violate federal securities law by selling its XRP token on public exchanges.The market reaction was near instantaneous.Since Thursday, XRP is up 61% and several exchanges that had previously de-listed the token, including Coinbase and Kraken, immediately re-listed it.

XRP Volume Surpasses BTC Following Landmark Ruling

<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. 

Digital Asset Management Firm, Etherbridge

Etherbridge

Digital Asset Management Firm

Etherbridge is a digital asset management firm investing in the value of information and trust

<ul><li>Last week we began a Metaverse series, starting with Decentraland. Decentraland was one of the first blockchain-based Metaverses to emerge, but it sure wasn't the last.</li><li>We have seen several emerge since it launched, and no other Metaverse has offered it competition quite like The Sandbox.</li><li>As the Metaverse comes into the mainstream, and we see the competition between centralised and decentralised heat up, it is worth exploring the different approaches and competitors that exist. </li></ul>

Last week we began a Metaverse series, starting with Decentraland. Decentraland was one of the first blockchain-based Metaverses to emerge, but it sure wasn't the last.We have seen several emerge since it launched, and no other Metaverse has offered it competition quite like The Sandbox.As the Metaverse comes into the mainstream, and we see the competition between centralised and decentralised heat up, it is worth exploring the different approaches and competitors that exist. 

Decentraland (MANA CURNCY)

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

XRP Volume Surpasses BTC Following Landmark Ruling

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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

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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...

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The Sandbox

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