Easing inflation in the US hyped market sentiment in crypto’s favor in January, despite some headwinds brought by Genesis’ bankruptcy and a law enforcement action against Bitzlato, accused of laundering $700M, with Binance being the last destination for the funds. Over the past 30 days, Bitcoin and Ethereum have increased by almost 40% and 30%, respectively. The outlier of last month’s rally was Solana, up by 140%, which may be attributed to the hype created by the meme token called BONK. Optimism stood out within the realm of scalability solutions, increasing by 132%. As for decentralized applications, staking-as-a-service platform Lido, increased by 117% over the past month; users have been allocating billions to collect rewards.
Figure 1: Price and TVL Development of Major Crypto Sectors
Source: 21Shares, Coingecko, DeFi Llama. Data as of January 30.
Key takeaways from this report:
• Former CEO of troubled crypto exchange FTX pleads not guilty, and crypto lender Genesis files for bankruptcy,
• Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade still on schedule, Polygon zkEVM mainnet launching soon, and Fantom to introduce account abstraction in its next upgrade.
• Liquid staking protocols experience tremendous growth, DeFi continues to embrace the onboarding of Real World Assets (RWAs).
• NFT marketplaces and GameFi protocols continue migrating to Polygon; Seoul is launching a metaverse for its public services by 2026.
Spot and Derivatives Markets
Figure 2: Total Liquidations
Source: Coinglass
Over the past month, we have seen the largest short squeeze in months of over $2.57 billion liquidated on Binance, OKX, and Bybit. This dynamic is an indication that there were more funds betting against Bitcoin and the recent positive rally disappointed their positions. The recent price action is simply a regression to the mean. We are back to levels where we were post the LUNA debacle and pre-FTX. However, it is important to note that this rally may not be long-lasting as we may face mispriced headwinds.
On-chain Indicators
Figure 3: Inflation Rate of Bitcoin versus Ethereum
Source: Glassmode
Since the Merge of September 15 last year, Ethereum’s supply change is now nearing -3K ETH, according to data collected by Ultra Sound Money. That means that ETH is gradually becoming a deflationary asset, thanks to a post-Merge mechanism that removes a portion of ETH that has been spent on transaction fees. That is in comparison to its rival cryptoasset, which has also progressed on the deflating front on the back of Bitcoin’s halving slated to happen next year. The fact that Bitcoin’s native, unaltered, underlying technology is bringing its inflation down, is very telling of Bitcoin’s core value proposition akin to gold: scarcity.
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Amundi USD Corporate Bond UCITSETF EUR Hedged Acc (CBDE ETF) med ISIN LU2977997381, försöker att följa Bloomberg US Corporate Liquid Issuer (EUR Hedged) index. Bloomberg US Corporate Liquid Issuer (EUR Hedged) index följer utvecklingen av företagsobligationer denominerade i amerikanska dollar. Rating: Investment Grade. Valutasäkrad till euro (EUR).
Den börshandlade fondens totala kostnadskvot (TER) uppgår till 0,09 % per år. Amundi USD Corporate Bond UCITSETF EUR Hedged Acc är den enda ETF som följer Bloomberg US Corporate Liquid Issuer (EUR Hedged) index. ETFn replikerar utvecklingen av det underliggande indexet genom urvalsteknik (genom att köpa ett urval av de mest relevanta indexkomponenterna). Ränteintäkterna (kupongerna) i ETFen ackumuleras och återinvesteras.
Den börshandlade fonden lanserades den 4 mars 2025 och har sitt säte i Luxemburg.
Det betyder att det går att handla andelar i denna ETF genom de flesta svenska banker och Internetmäklare, till exempel Nordnet, SAVR, DEGIRO och Avanza.
AXA IM Global Inflation-Linked Bond Opportunities UCITSETF förvaltas aktivt och investerar minst 50 procent av sina tillgångar i inflationslänkade obligationer utfärdade av OECD-länder. Resten kan flexibelt investeras i andra OECD-obligationer för att hantera inflationsexponering. Investerare kan handla ETFen i euro eller amerikanska dollar.
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AXA IM Global Inflation-Linked Bond Opportunities UCITSETF – USD Accumulation
Produktutbudet inom Deutsche Börses ETF- och ETP-segment omfattar för närvarande totalt 2 479 ETFer, 202 ETCer och 261 ETNer. Med detta urval och en genomsnittlig månatlig handelsvolym på cirka 25 miljarder euro är Xetra den ledande handelsplatsen för ETFer och ETPer i Europa.
Xtrackers är glada att kunna meddela att företaget från och med den 1 juli 2025 kommer att sänka den årliga totala kostnadskvoten (TER) på fyra av sina ETFer på dess kärnmarknader – två Xtrackers-obligations-ETFer och två Xtrackers-aktie-ETFer.
Detta är Xtrackers sätt att förmedla stordriftsfördelar och göra deras produkter ännu mer attraktiva.
Totalt påverkar förändringarna ETFer med en volym på över 20 miljarder euro¹.
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