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All-positive week since September, Lido Flips MakerDAO, and More!
Markets entered their first all-positive week since September. Bitcoin and Ethereum are up by 3% and 9%, respectively, over the past week. Having March as a date for Ethereum’s Shanghai Upgrade, where staked ETH withdrawals are slated to begin, has boosted market sentiment, especially with protocols like Lido, which increased in returns by over a whopping 60%, as seen in Figure 1. Other outliers in last week’s rally include Optimism, which is up by nearly 32%, and Cardano, up by 25%.
Figure 1: Weekly TVL and Price Performance of Major Crypto Categories
Source: CoinGecko, DeFi Llama. data as of January 9 (close price).
Key takeaways
• Coinbase, Huobi and Genesis lay off at least 20% of staff, Wyre scales back and limits withdrawals.
• ETH core developers hoping to launch Shanghai testnet by February
• With $6.6 billion in assets, Lido Finance surpasses MakerDAO to become the largest DeFi app
• Solana NFT trading volume soars, despite adverse market conditions.
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Spot and Derivatives Markets
Figure 2: Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Perpetual
Source: Glassnode
The current open interest perpetual futures, – is almost at levels equivalent to two years ago, right after a sharp dip before the peak of the 2021 bull market. Bitcoin was almost $40K on January 9, 2021 when the open interest was $6.3B, with the same level today, BTC trades at circa $17K. This trend may indicate that momentum behind the movement is slowing and the direction of prices could reverse.
On-chain Indicators
Figure 3: Total Value of Staked ETH
Source: Glassnode
The amount of ETH that has been deposited to the ETH2 deposit contract has increased by 2% month-over-month to total almost $16M. Later in this report, we delve deeper into what that means to many protocols in DeFi, namely those working on liquid staking solutions.
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