Coin Metrics' State of the Network: Issue 154
Get the best data-driven crypto insights and analysis every week: Crypto, Global Markets Fall Amid Renewed VolatilityBy Kyle Waters and Nate Maddrey As US equity markets closed Monday, bitcoin (BTC) hovered around $31K, the weakest level this year. As the macroeconomic environment and outlook for future interest rates has quickly shifted in 2022 almost every asset class has been stricken with increased volatility. BTC has increasingly been tracking US equities during the latest correction, and the correlation between BTC and the S&P 500 is nearing all-time highs. At the same time, BTC has moved inversely to risk indicators like the VIX and traditional safe haven assets like gold. Source: Coin Metrics’ Formula Builder Historically, BTC has not been very attached to equity markets. However, the increased correlation could reflect the growing maturity of the crypto asset sector, as relatively more BTC spot trading volume shifts to US market hours. So far, Q2 2022 has featured a record amount of spot volume occurring during US trading hours. Source: Coin Metrics Market Data Feed But within the asset class, many crypto assets are starting to trade more closely with one another as volatility picks up. The average 90-day rolling correlation of daily returns across the pairs below has risen throughout 2022. The correlation of returns between BTC and ETH has also been increasing over the past few months. Source: Coin Metrics Reference Rates; Includes all 861 pairwise correlations for: 1INCH,ADA,AAVE,ALGO,ATOM,AVAX,AXS,BCH,BNB,BSV,BTC,CELO,COMP,CRO,CRV,DASH,DOGE,DOT,EOS,ETC,ETH,FTM,FTT,ICP,LINK,LTC,LUNA,MANA,MATIC,MKR,SAND,SHIB,SNX,SOL,TRX,UNI,XLM,XMR,XRP,XTZ,YFI,ZEC. TerraUSD (UST) Falls Under its $1 PegThe market was thrown into turmoil on Monday as the UST stablecoin rapidly began to fall under its $1 peg. After a tumultuous weekend, UST dropped from about $.995 to $.98 on Monday afternoon. Then starting at 18:27 UTC (14:27 ET), UST suddenly fell from $.98 down to $.92 over the course of about 15 minutes. UST had a market cap of over $18B going into Monday and is used extensively in DeFi applications, so a collapse risked triggering ripple effects throughout the entire crypto ecosystem. Source: Coin Metrics Reference Rates At about 18:34 UTC (17:43 UTC normalized block timestamps) the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) began moving BTC from their $1B+ reserve. Thirteen minutes later UST price bounced back up to about $.95. All 42,530 BTC from the LFG address was initially transferred out. Then at 19:37 UTC 28,206 BTC were transferred back into the same address. But a few hours later it was transferred back out, leaving the account at 0. The Luna Foundation Guard issued a statement that the withdrawn BTC had been loaned to market makers and used to help support the UST peg. The loan was in addition to the $750M that the LFG loaned to an OTC desk on Sunday May 8th also to help defend the peg, as well as a loan of $750M UST with plans to repurchase BTC once market conditions normalized. Throughout the ordeal billions were withdrawn from Anchor Protocol, which at one point held over 70% of circulating UST supply. After the initial de-pegging UST dropped as low as $.63 overnight. As it dropped below $.70 UST trading was effectively halted on Binance, the largest exchange in the world. But with support from the LFG reserves and others it was able to partially bounce back, climbing back to about $.90 by Tuesday morning. LUNA, however, did not see a similar recovery - LUNA remained at about $30 on Tuesday morning, down 50% over the previous 24 hours. Despite the tumult, many fundamentals remain strong. There are signs that BTC holders that bought over the last couple of years have resolutely kept their positions, with only 34% of total BTC supply moving in the last year (66% held for at least 1 year). Source: Coin Metrics’ Formula Builder Amidst a bloody day in almost every major market, BTC managed to close the day above $30K. May/9/2022 a day to remember
Nasdaq -4%
TLT +1%
Gold -2%
Oil -7%
NatGas -12%
URA -8%
Soyb -2%
VNQ -4%
ARKK -10%
COIN -19%
MSTR -25%
BTC -12.5% (since Friday close)
ETH -14% (same)
LUNA -35% (same)
$UST lost its peg dropping 8%, pushing crypto into a tailspin
$BTC held 30k Network Data InsightsSummary MetricsSource: Coin Metrics Network Data Pro (updated through Monday May 9th) Many network fundamentals held steady throughout the last week despite the price volatility. BTC and ETH active addresses both rose ~1% week-over-week. Active addresses and value transferred for USDC and USDT, the largest stablecoins by supply, rose as many looked to seek refuge from the latest market decline. Network HighlightsAs transfer value on Bitcoin has picked up, adjusted value settled (in USD) per byte is at an all-time high. Value settled per byte is one of the best measures of a network’s economic density and efficient use of block space. Source: Coin Metrics’ Formula Builder Coin Metrics UpdatesThis week’s updates from the Coin Metrics team:
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