Liquidity Abundance As the Bitcoin Spot Price consolidates below the new ATH of $73k, the Long-Term Holder cohort has entered their distribution phase, selling to new investors at higher prices. This represents an injection of new capital into the asset class, driving the realized cap up to new heights.
Taking Profit As the Bitcoin market hits resistance at a new ATH of $73k, the Long-Term Holder cohort have ramped up their overall distribution pressure. The market is currently seeing over $2.6B/day in realized profit, as investors start to take chips off the table.
Adjusting Trading Strategies to the Upcoming Bitcoin Halving: Is This Cycle Different? This article explores how the upcoming Bitcoin halving, combined with the significant demand from ETFs, reshapes traditional trading strategies, emphasizing the need for traders to adapt to this new trading landscape.
Ethereum's Dencun Upgrade The Dencun upgrade has activated successfully, introducing a new architecture for Layer-2 solutions to anchor into the mainchain. It also introduces modifications to the staking pool. Both could impact Ethereum's monetary policy.
Bitcoin Breaks to New Highs Bitcoin has broken to its fourth cycle all-time-high, rallying above $72k, and pushing sentiment one step closer to Euphoria. The classic wealth transfer from the HODLer cohort to speculators is now well underway, with significant upticks in spot profit taking, and demand for futures leverage.
Finance Bridge: Bitcoin's New All-Time High In our March 2024 Finance Bridge we explore Bitcoin's new ATH, key volatility drivers, speculative asset interest, & ETF effects. Includes BTC halving insights & an update on Glassnode's recent momentum & risk frameworks.
Bitcoin Attacks The ATH Bitcoin continues to surprise the market, with its recent rally pushing towards all-time-highs, even prior to the upcoming halving event. In this report, we assess how the demand inflows from the US Spot ETFs are interacting with the supply being released by Long-Term Holders taking profits.
Introduction to Bitcoin Halving for Directional Traders Discover the impact of the upcoming Bitcoin halving on the supply, demand, and valuation of BTC. Learn how traders can adapt their strategies to navigate these dynamics and the Bitcoin market post halving.
Speculation In Both Directions The risk appetite for Bitcoin investors is increasing, with growing signs of speculation appearing across capital flows, exchange activity, derivatives leverage, and even institutional demand.
Moving Out On The Risk Curve With strong market momentum following the Bitcoin spot ETFs, several indicators are hinting at early signs of investor capital moving out on the risk curve. In this piece, we explore how capital starts to rotate through assets, by tracking asset performance, TVL, and trade volumes on DEXs.
Approaching Supply Discovery Bitcoin investors have been rewarded for their patience and conviction, with BTC prices rallying to multi-year highs above $50k. The volume of supply held at a loss is also thinning quickly, with just 13% falling into this category.
An Automated Trading Strategy Grounded in Machine Learning and On-Chain Analytics Discover how Glassnode's Data Science team used a machine learning algorithm to identify on-chain metrics with the most predictive power and subsequently used them to create a successful quantitative trading strategy.
Finance Bridge: ETF Milestones, Stablecoin Surge, and Volatility Trends February's Finance Bridge examines the impact of Bitcoin ETF approvals, a surge in stablecoin supply, and emerging volatility trends. Essential insights for directional and momentum traders.
Assessing Risk in a Bitcoin Bull On-chain data provides both investors and analysts with a plethora of new tools to diagnose and assess the state of the chain from a multitude of viewpoints. In this article, we produce a new framework for assessing the degree of market risk across various data categories.
Tracking Market Momentum with On-chain Data On-chain data provides analysts and investors with a remarkable degree of transparency into the performance, adoption, and investor positioning within digital assets. In this piece, we highlighted several approaches and frameworks for assessing market momentum across various data categories.
Who's next? With the Bitcoin ETF becoming a classic sell-the-news event, we explore the market's risk appetite for tokens further out on the risk curve. There are some indicators alluding to ETH outperformance, as well as interesting divergences in altcoin price action relative to the majors.
The End of the Beginning: The SEC Approves Spot Bitcoin ETFs 2024 has opened with a roller-coaster ride for Bitcoin, as ten new spot ETFs begin trading in US markets. The event was historic and chaotic, with BTC prices setting both new multi-year highs, and YTD lows. Bitcoin has welcomed traditional finance into it's world.
Coinbase + Glassnode: The Q1 Guide to Crypto Markets The Guide to Crypto Markets is a joint publication of Coinbase Institutional and Glassnode, and aims to provide a comprehensive view of the metrics and trends that matter the most to institutional investors.
2023 Yearly On-chain Review In this last edition for the year, we will do a whirlwind tour of what changed this year, on-chain. We will explore how the Bitcoin, Ethereum, Derivative, and Stablecoin landscapes have evolved in 2023, and how this sets up the space for an exciting road ahead.
Round-Trip Bitcoin performed a round-trip this week, rallying to new yearly highs before selling off back towards its weekly open. After such a powerful 2023 thus far, the rally seems to have met resistance, with several indicators suggesting a degree of near-term exhaustion.
Gaining Ground Bitcoin continues to lead as one of the best performing assets globally in 2023. Not only has BTC appreciated over 140% YTD, it has more than doubled relative to gold, and still dominates against the rest of the digital asset industry.
Twists and Turns The growth rate of the Ethereum validator set has slowed in recent weeks, as an increasing number of validators voluntarily exit. This has slowed the rate of ETH issuance. Alongside increasing ETH burnt via EIP1559 due to growing network activity, the ETH supply has turned deflationary once again.
Keeping A Firm Grip The volume of Bitcoin supply in profit has reached the levels last was seen 2 years ago as the market came off the Nov 2021 ATH. However, the magnitude of unrealized profit held within these coins remains modest, and thus far insufficient to motivate long-term holders to lock in profits.
Finance Bridge: Spotlight on Spot Bitcoin ETFs and Their Impact Explore with us the potential impact of Spot Bitcoin ETF approvals in our latest issue. We try to estimate the potential demand for these ETFs and provide metrics that translate this demand into impact projections. Read for a practical look at how ETFs could influence BTC's market cap and value.
Supply Squeeze The fourth Bitcoin halving is fast approaching, being an important milestone both for the asset, and for investors. In this edition, we deep dive into the impressive tightness of BTC supply, and demonstrate how we can measure investor accumulation patterns in the lead up to the event.
