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WEEKLY RECAP Funding through the first week of March was strong, rising 10% from $162 million to $177 million. Total deal count fell 23% but was still impressive, with 31 deals. Infrastructure remains the dominant category, representing 85% of total fundraising and 61% of the deal count. DeFi tallied 26% of the deal count this week, including a $4.5 million strategic round by Blackwing, a modular blockchain for liquidation-free leverage trading....
The day commenced with a flurry of activity, beginning with an NFP figure that exceeded expectations, juxtaposed with an unemployment rate that also surpassed forecasts. This combination pushed short rates lower and led the fed funds futures market to anticipate a full rate cut by the June FOMC meeting. The DXY dropped to a low of 102.4 before making a comeback. In crypto, the day started with significant momentum as...
In a volatile day, BTC (-4.51%) has made a new all-time high, briefly surpassing $69k before retracing to the low $65k range. ETH -6.94% (+1.55%) is showing strength, trading around $3.7k as attention may shift towards Ethereum and related names ahead of the Dencun upgrade next week. Layer-2 tokens support that notion, as OP and ARB 0.14% are outperforming today, gaining 13.46% and 4.44%, respectively. Some of the meme-mania has subsided, with...
BTC has soared to a new all-time high market cap, and is currently hovering just above $67k, with its sights set on $69k. Meanwhile, ETH -6.94% is slightly behind, inching up to just under $3600. The market appears to be adopting a barbell strategy, with Bitcoin maintaining its strength, yet beyond meme coins, few assets are significantly outperforming. The sustained rallies in DOGE, BONK, PEPE, and SHIB unmistakably signals the resurgence...
RESEND: Bitcoin ETF Equilibrium Price Dynamics: ETF likely to drive significant rise in daily demand
BY POPULAR DEMAND, WE ARE RE-SENDING THIS BITCOIN PRICE IMPACT OF SPOT ETF REPORT FROM JULY 24, 2023 The Bitcoin spot ETF was finally approved. And we are seeing the surge in price of Bitcoin because of attractive supply and demand dynamics.We received multiple requests to resend this report from July 24, 2023 which looked at supply and demand dynamics if a spot ETF was approved.In short, we believe a...
WEEKLY RECAP Despite total deal count rising 33% to 36 deals, total fundraising fell almost 40% to $143 million. Only three projects raised over $10 million this week, and the average deal size was $6.5 million. Similarly to last week, funding was concentrated in Infrastructure and DeFi, together representing 95% of total fundraising and 81% of the deal count. CeFi continues to be an unpopular category, with just two deals...
Bitcoin experienced an uptick in premarket trading, approaching $63k, and is now stabilizing just above $61k. As we will expand on below, yesterday's price action was special in light of the GBTC outflows that were experienced. The BTC premium on Coinbase has decreased since the market opened, suggesting possible additional redemptions in GBTC today. However, the decrease isn't as pronounced as yesterday. ETH -6.94% is currently hovering just below $3400, generally...
In today's video, we discuss the acceleration of Bitcoin ETF flows, leading us to believe there is more near-term upside, the investment thesis for the Helium Network, and how the Coinbase outage is an encouraging sign for retail activity returning. https://vimeo. com/918165913/aa34b30b3d? share=copy
FLOWS BEGET MORE FLOWS We have recently discussed the potential return of crypto being correlated with equities due to the new category of market participants entering the fold. However, price action this week suggests that inflows into the BTC ETFs may be throwing water onto that theory. It seems apparent that, at least in the near-term, that the ETF flows narrative is gaining steam, and it is likely that the...
Marathon Announces Strong Earnings and Bitcoin L2, Gemini Comes to Settlement Agreement
The January PCE report this morning was largely in line with expectations, alleviating fears of a reacceleration of inflation. U.S. equities responded positively to the data, with SPY gaining 0.17% and the QQQ rising 0.42%. Crypto markets are mixed, with BTC declining 0.78% to $62k and ETH -6.94% rising 1.45%. Yesterday marked the largest day of net inflows into Bitcoin ETFs since the launch, totaling $673 million and bringing cumulative AUM...
