Curve Launches Native Stablecoin, FTX Attempts Clawbacks from Genesis
Market Update
- Traditional equity indices are under pressure today following yesterday’s 25bps interest rate hike and additional regional bank weakness. The SPY (-0.72%) and QQQ (-0.31%) are approaching last week’s lows, while the DXY (+0.33%) is rising after Fed Chair Powell reiterated his stance that the inflation fight is far from over. BTC and ETH are in line with equities today, falling 0.66% and 0.87%, respectively. Meme coin PEPE has skeptics shaking their heads as it has risen 74% over the last 24 hours. Pepe’s market cap is just below $700 million, making it the 71st largest coin by market cap. Many are beginning to speculate if it can continue its meteoric rise to compete with the likes of older meme coins like DOGE and SHIB.
- Decentralized exchange Curve Finance (CRV) deployed its native stablecoin crvUSD on Ethereum mainnet. The competition for decentralized stablecoins has picked up in recent months after concerns over stablecoins reignited after USDC temporarily lost its peg during the SVB banking crisis. crvUSD is an overcollateralized stablecoin backed by digital assets and pegged to $1. Investors can mint crvUSD by depositing their assets into Curve as collateral. crvUSD differentiates itself from other CDPs via its lending-liquidating algorithm that constantly rebalances a user’s position as crypto prices fluctuate. Curve’s unique algorithm prevents dramatic liquidation events. Instead, Curve liquidates assets gradually as the price deviates below liquidation levels and swaps back to the collateral asset as price recovers. crvUSD isn’t available to the public yet, but over $20 million crvUSD was minted in the first few minutes following contract deployment.
- According to the latest court filings, bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is attempting to claw back approximately $3.9 billion from crypto lender Genesis. Genesis is similarly facing bankruptcy, but FTX claims the lender was instrumental to FTX’s fraudulent business model and the exchange's demise. FTX’s lawyers are seeking $1.8 billion in loans and a $273 million collateral pledge allegedly given to Genesis from FTX’s sister company, Alameda. Additionally, FTX would like to retrieve $1.8 million of withdrawals Genesis and its subsidiaries made prior to the exchange filing for bankruptcy. FTX’s legal team is trying to utilize bankruptcy laws that allow firms to try and claw back “avoidable transfers” that occur in the 90 days before declaring bankruptcy. Given that Genesis had withdrawn funds legally and is facing its own bankruptcy problems, it seems unlikely that the clawbacks will prove successful.
Daily Technical Strategy
Mark L. Newton, CMT
Head of Technical Strategy
Please note that Mark is out-of-office Thursday and Friday and will not be providing technical updates. Please see below for Wednesday's analysis.
Polygon remains one of the better technical risk/rewards given its recent stabilization near an important intermediate-term uptrend from last Summer's lows. This area at $0.94-$1.05 lines up with the uptrend line along with prior lows from March, and the 50% retracement area of its entire rally from last June lows, adding to the significance of the significance of this area. Despite the ongoing downtrend from this past February, daily momentum indicators like RSI have nearly reached oversold levels, and it wouldn't take much before MATIC starts to turn back higher in another rally to test and exceed this year's highs. The ability to surpass $1.10 would be quite important, leading to $1.20, followed by an eventual retest of $1.55. Conversely, any violation of $.90 would be technically negative, postponing the rally and allowing for a decline down to $0.79, which would be the first meaningful area to consider important under $0.90. Bottom line, given that $0.90 does not lie too far away, MATIC is thought to represent an attractive risk/reward which should be favored for gains in the weeks ahead.
Daily Important Metrics
All metrics as of May 4, 2023 11:20 AM
All Funding rates are in bps
Crypto Prices
Symbol | Market Cap | Last Price | Daily Change | Year to Date | Relative to BTC YTD |
BTC | $560B | $28,932 | ↑ 2.45% | ↑ 75% | |
ETH | $228B | $1,892 | ↑ 2.32% | ↑ 58% | ↓ -17% |
ADA | $14B | $0.3899 | ↑ 2.37% | ↑ 58% | ↓ -17% |
DOGE | $11B | $0.0784 | ↑ 1.01% | ↑ 12% | ↓ -63% |
MATIC | $9.1B | $0.9884 | ↑ 0.89% | ↑ 30% | ↓ -45% |
SOL | $8.6B | $21.86 | ↑ 2.30% | ↑ 121% | ↑ 46% |
DOT | $6.7B | $5.69 | ↑ 1.58% | ↑ 31% | ↓ -44% |
LINK | $3.6B | $7.04 | ↑ 2.67% | ↑ 27% | ↓ -48% |
NEAR | $1.7B | $1.84 | ↑ 2.67% | ↑ 45% | ↓ -30% |
Exchange Traded Products (ETPs)
Symbol | Premium to Nav | Last Price | Daily Change | Year to Date | Relative to BTC YTD |
GBTC | ↓ -38% | $16.77 | ↑ 2.57% | ↑ 102% | ↑ 28% |
BITW | ↓ -57% | $10.83 | ↑ 1.17% | ↑ 102% | ↑ 27% |
ETHE | ↓ -51% | $9.11 | ↑ 0.77% | ↑ 91% | ↑ 17% |
BTCC | ↑ 0.08% | $5.31 | ↑ 1.72% | ↑ 75% | ↑ 0.60% |
News
QUICK BITS
CryptoPotato FTX Attempts $3.9 Billion Clawback from Genesis The move is consistent with previous clawback attempts from Voyager, political figures FTX donated to, and others. |
MARKET DATA
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REGULATION
Coin Telegraph SEC steps back from defining digital assets in new hedge fund rules The SEC and its staff are “continuing to consider” the term “digital assets” despite proposing a definition of the ter... |
FUNDRAISING AND M&A
BtcEthereum Fedi Raises $17 Million In Fundraising Round Led By Ego Death Capital The company, now having raised $21.21 million, aims to pre-launch the alpha version of its federated operating system later in May.Fedi, Inc., a U.S.-based dev... |
CryptoPotato DeFi Aggregator Portals Secures $2M in Seed Funding Spearheaded by Lightshift Capital [PRESS RELEASE – Calgary, Canada, May 3rd, 2023] Portals, the platform that simplifies Web3 by enabling anyone to bundle complex DeFi actions, has announced the... |
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