Data-Driven Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets, Kaiko

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Data-Driven Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets

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<ul><li>Three Arrows Capital famously blew up because of a series of bad trades, primarily Luna and GBTC.</li><li>What happened to Luna is obvious: it went to 0 because of UST’s flawed peg maintenance mechanism.</li><li>The GBTC situation was a bit more complex: “Grayscale allowed big investors like 3AC to purchase shares directly by giving Bitcoin to the trust.</li></ul>

Three Arrows Capital famously blew up because of a series of bad trades, primarily Luna and GBTC.What happened to Luna is obvious: it went to 0 because of UST’s flawed peg maintenance mechanism.The GBTC situation was a bit more complex: “Grayscale allowed big investors like 3AC to purchase shares directly by giving Bitcoin to the trust.

<ul><li>Towards the end of last year, I published the first liquidity ranking system for crypto assets, comparing each asset’s liquidity ranking to its market cap and investigating which token’s market cap is the most misleading from a liquidity standpoint.</li><li>In Q1 of this year I provided an update to the ranking system as overall market liquidity hit 10 month lows. </li><li>The good news is that global liquidity has been more or less flat over Q2, with no further drops apart from  the tokens featured in the SEC lawsuits and a handful of exchange-specific drops in liquidity, such as Binance.US.</li></ul>

Towards the end of last year, I published the first liquidity ranking system for crypto assets, comparing each asset’s liquidity ranking to its market cap and investigating which token’s market cap is the most misleading from a liquidity standpoint.In Q1 of this year I provided an update to the ranking system as overall market liquidity hit 10 month lows. The good news is that global liquidity has been more or less flat over Q2, with no further drops apart from  the tokens featured in the SEC lawsuits and a handful of exchange-specific drops in liquidity, such as Binance.US.

<ul><li>Asset Metrics is perhaps the most powerful product that Kaiko has ever released.</li><li>With a single endpoint, users are able to fetch historical liquidity and volume data for any asset we cover, including all instruments and all exchanges – centralized or decentralized.</li><li>Additionally, it includes historical holder data for a wide variety of ERC-20 tokens.</li></ul>

Asset Metrics is perhaps the most powerful product that Kaiko has ever released.With a single endpoint, users are able to fetch historical liquidity and volume data for any asset we cover, including all instruments and all exchanges – centralized or decentralized.Additionally, it includes historical holder data for a wide variety of ERC-20 tokens.

LDO's Shifting Market Structure: Unveiling Asset Metrics

<ul><li>Last week, the Shapella upgrade went live without a hitch, enabling millions of staked ETH to be withdrawn.</li><li>While Ethereum's Merge upgrade last September was more of a "buy the rumor sell the news" type of event, Shapella appears to have had the opposite impact on price.</li><li>ETH spot prices dropped by nearly 18% post-Merge while they are up 11% since Shapella, despite fears of mass selling. </li></ul>

Last week, the Shapella upgrade went live without a hitch, enabling millions of staked ETH to be withdrawn.While Ethereum's Merge upgrade last September was more of a "buy the rumor sell the news" type of event, Shapella appears to have had the opposite impact on price.ETH spot prices dropped by nearly 18% post-Merge while they are up 11% since Shapella, despite fears of mass selling. 

<ul><li>Last quarter I published the first liquidity ranking system for crypto assets, comparing each asset’s liquidity ranking to its market cap and investigating which token’s market cap is the most misleading from a liquidity standpoint.</li><li>Liquidity has arguably never been at more of a premium than right now in crypto, with USD payment rails being shut down and market makers pulling orders from exchanges.</li><li>With market depth at 10 month lows, price volatility has picked up and so it is essential investors can accurately evaluate the liquidity of each individual asset to gain an understanding of how much short term volatility to expect.</li></ul>

Last quarter I published the first liquidity ranking system for crypto assets, comparing each asset’s liquidity ranking to its market cap and investigating which token’s market cap is the most misleading from a liquidity standpoint.Liquidity has arguably never been at more of a premium than right now in crypto, with USD payment rails being shut down and market makers pulling orders from exchanges.With market depth at 10 month lows, price volatility has picked up and so it is essential investors can accurately evaluate the liquidity of each individual asset to gain an understanding of how much short term volatility to expect.

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Is StETH Liquid Enough?

The GBTC situation was a bit more complex: “Grayscale allowed big investors like 3AC to purchase shares directly by giving Bitcoin to the trust.

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Q2 Liquidity Ranking for Crypto Assets

In Q1 of this year I provided an update to the ranking system as overall market liquidity hit 10 month lows. The good news is that global liquidity...

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LDO's Shifting Market Structure: Unveiling Asset Metrics

Asset Metrics is perhaps the most powerful product that Kaiko has ever released. With a single endpoint, users are able to fetch historical...

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ETH's Big Post-Shapella Rally

While Ethereum's Merge upgrade last September was more of a "buy the rumor sell the news" type of event, Shapella appears to have had the opposite...

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Q1 Liquidity Ranking for Crypto Assets

Liquidity has arguably never been at more of a premium than right now in crypto, with USD payment rails being shut down and market makers pulling...

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