Data-Driven Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets, Kaiko

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Data-Driven Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets

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<ul><li>Binance.US is bleeding. One week after the SEC lawsuit, market makers and traders have fled the exchange en masse.</li><li>Liquidity, as measured by aggregated market depth for 17 tokens on the exchange, has fallen nearly 80% over the past week.</li><li>On June 4, the day before the SEC lawsuit, market depth was $34mn. Today, market depth is just $7mn.</li></ul>

Binance.US is bleeding. One week after the SEC lawsuit, market makers and traders have fled the exchange en masse.Liquidity, as measured by aggregated market depth for 17 tokens on the exchange, has fallen nearly 80% over the past week.On June 4, the day before the SEC lawsuit, market depth was $34mn. Today, market depth is just $7mn.

<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>The rise in popularity of BRC-20 tokens, essentially memecoins on the Bitcoin blockchain, has pushed Bitcoin fees to 2 year highs.</li><li>BRC-20s have massively increased demand for Bitcoin blockspace for the first time in recent history, with the network suffering from congestion and unconfirmed transactions as a result.</li><li>Over the weekend, Binance had to pause BTC withdrawals twice as they hadn’t accounted for a surge in BTC fees in the amount they pay miners, which had caused many transactions to go unconfirmed.</li></ul>

The rise in popularity of BRC-20 tokens, essentially memecoins on the Bitcoin blockchain, has pushed Bitcoin fees to 2 year highs.BRC-20s have massively increased demand for Bitcoin blockspace for the first time in recent history, with the network suffering from congestion and unconfirmed transactions as a result.Over the weekend, Binance had to pause BTC withdrawals twice as they hadn’t accounted for a surge in BTC fees in the amount they pay miners, which had caused many transactions to go unconfirmed.

Binance Halts Withdrawals as BTC Fees Surge

<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.

<ul><li>On Monday, Hong Kong made its intentions clear to open the door to crypto trading for retail. </li><li>Reports claim that China is quietly encouraging the move, using Hong Kong as a testing ground for what safe crypto trading might look like.</li><li>The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) outlined various caveats for retail investing in crypto, namely hinting at only having a small subset of the largest tokens available to trade.</li></ul>

On Monday, Hong Kong made its intentions clear to open the door to crypto trading for retail. Reports claim that China is quietly encouraging the move, using Hong Kong as a testing ground for what safe crypto trading might look like.The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) outlined various caveats for retail investing in crypto, namely hinting at only having a small subset of the largest tokens available to trade.

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A Crypto Friendly Asia: What It Will Mean For Markets

Reports claim that China is quietly encouraging the move, using Hong Kong as a testing ground for what safe crypto trading might look like.

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