Data-Driven Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets, Kaiko

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Data-Driven Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets

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Crypto

Virtual currencies are decentralized, math-based digital assets in which transactions can be performed cryptographically without the need for a central issuing authority. The first specification and proof of concept of Bitcoin, the first widely used virtual currency, was published in 2009 based on a paper published pseudonymously by Satoshi Nakamoto.

<ul><li>Market depth is a widely used measure of liquidity, commonly calculated across the order books of cryptocurrency pairs on centralized exchanges (CEXes).</li><li>It provides the amount of bids and asks at varying distances from the mid-price, encompassing a range from -0.1% to 10%.</li><li>This chart shows cumulative ETH-USDT bid and ask volumes at various levels on the ten largest CEXes.</li></ul>

Market depth is a widely used measure of liquidity, commonly calculated across the order books of cryptocurrency pairs on centralized exchanges (CEXes).It provides the amount of bids and asks at varying distances from the mid-price, encompassing a range from -0.1% to 10%.This chart shows cumulative ETH-USDT bid and ask volumes at various levels on the ten largest CEXes.

Comparing Liquidity on Uniswap and Binance

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<ul><li>Exceptionally low liquidity, macro factors, and a flurry of bad news were among the drivers of last week's flash crash, pushing BTC to its lowest level in months and spurring a wave of liquidations across derivative markets. </li><li>While BTC 2% market depth has stabilized over the past few months at around 5k BTC, it remains more than 50% below its pre-FTX highs.</li><li>As BTC prices began falling towards $25k around 8pm UTC on August 17, market depth dropped 50% to just 2k BTC.</li></ul>

Exceptionally low liquidity, macro factors, and a flurry of bad news were among the drivers of last week's flash crash, pushing BTC to its lowest level in months and spurring a wave of liquidations across derivative markets. While BTC 2% market depth has stabilized over the past few months at around 5k BTC, it remains more than 50% below its pre-FTX highs.As BTC prices began falling towards $25k around 8pm UTC on August 17, market depth dropped 50% to just 2k BTC.

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<ul><li>This week, news broke that the oldest crypto market maker, GSR, has been scaling back operations - particularly in the U.S. - while a number of top executives have left the company.</li><li>This is yet another hit to U.S. and global liquidity and volumes; in May, Jump Crypto and Jane Street revealed they were reducing crypto operations.</li><li>This week, we’ll take a look at the state of the crypto market, including volatility, liquidity, and volumes, and then examine some budding narratives and tokens.</li></ul>

This week, news broke that the oldest crypto market maker, GSR, has been scaling back operations - particularly in the U.S. - while a number of top executives have left the company.This is yet another hit to U.S. and global liquidity and volumes; in May, Jump Crypto and Jane Street revealed they were reducing crypto operations.This week, we’ll take a look at the state of the crypto market, including volatility, liquidity, and volumes, and then examine some budding narratives and tokens.

<ul><li>The Curve 3pool – long one of the most important sources of liquidity for DAI, USDC, and USDT – has continued to bleed this summer, shrinking by $175mn.</li><li>This outflow has been primarily led by USDC; users have withdrawn $125mn of Circle’s stablecoin.</li><li>By this metric, USDT has remained roughly even while $60mn DAI has been removed, $25mn of which came in just three transactions on July 31.</li></ul>

The Curve 3pool – long one of the most important sources of liquidity for DAI, USDC, and USDT – has continued to bleed this summer, shrinking by $175mn.This outflow has been primarily led by USDC; users have withdrawn $125mn of Circle’s stablecoin.By this metric, USDT has remained roughly even while $60mn DAI has been removed, $25mn of which came in just three transactions on July 31.

<ul><li>Curve's 3pool and Uniswap V3’s main USDT-USDC pool both became imbalanced heading into the weekend as USDT selling escalated.</li><li>However, this trend actually started in mid-July, with $100mn net selling on Uniswap from July 15 to July 22.</li><li>While the net selling eased in the last few weeks of July, it picked up again on July 31, the day after the Curve exploit (these two events seem to be unrelated).</li></ul>

Curve's 3pool and Uniswap V3’s main USDT-USDC pool both became imbalanced heading into the weekend as USDT selling escalated.However, this trend actually started in mid-July, with $100mn net selling on Uniswap from July 15 to July 22.While the net selling eased in the last few weeks of July, it picked up again on July 31, the day after the Curve exploit (these two events seem to be unrelated).

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