BTC Market Pulse: Week 9 Bitcoin markets weaken post-Bybit hack, with $2.91B ETF outflows, -$461M Spot CVD, and -$1.48B in Perp CVD. Futures OI declines, leverage unwinds, and profitability drops (NUPL at 0.52). Liquidity is thinning, raising downside risk without renewed demand.
Bybit Hack Postmortem Bybit’s historic $1.48B hack triggered panic withdrawals and a market-wide sell-off, pushing the price 20% below its ATH. With the market trading 5% below the cost basis of short-term holders, new investors faced severe pain, intensifying their loss realization.
Expanding Cost Basis Distribution (CBD) Coverage: ETH, ERC20, and SPLs Now Included We're expanding Cost Basis Distribution (CBD) beyond Bitcoin to Ethereum (ETH), ERC-20, and SPL tokens - providing deeper insights into evolving cost bases and enhancing visibility into investor positioning, market conviction, and capitulation across assets.
BTC Market Pulse: Week 8 Bitcoin shows mixed signals: weak spot demand ($7.45B volume), cautious derivatives ($46.17B OI, -$169M CVD), and slowing ETF flows. On-chain activity and liquidity inflows are fading, while 86% of supply remains in profit. Without a catalyst, momentum may stall.
Falling Tides Bitcoin is trading in the $93k-$97k range, leading to a wider digital asset market cooldown. Capital inflows are weakening, and derivatives activity is declining. Short-term holder accumulation patterns somewhat resemble May 2021, which was a relatively challenging set of market conditions.
BTC Market Pulse: Week 7 Bitcoin markets show diverging signals: weak spot activity, $45B in futures open interest, and cooling retail interest. Liquidity is rising, sell pressure is easing, and institutions remain active. With volatility low, the market is poised for a breakout.
Profiling the Sell-Off The digital asset market has encountered tumultuous waters in recent weeks, with investors experiencing sharp price falls, and locking in substantial losses. The Altcoin space was the worst hit, with a significant decline in valuations. In this report, we analyze the severity of the sell-off.
BTC Market Pulse: Week 6 Bitcoin shows weakening momentum as price strength fades and sell-side pressure persists. Futures OI tops $47B but contracts, funding rates drop, and on-chain activity slows. Liquidity remains strong, ETFs rise modestly, but signs of trend exhaustion emerge.
Gemini + Glassnode: 2025 Crypto Market Trends Discover institutional-grade insights on the key market drivers and trends shaping crypto in 2025.
A New Mindset The regulatory environment surrounding Bitcoin is constantly changing, and new financial instruments such as derivatives and ETF products continue to develop. In this article, we analyze how the composition of digital asset investors is changing around it.
Thinking Ahead The current bull market shows several structural similarities to the 2015–2018 cycle. We explore this idea from the perspective of the drawdown profile, price performance, and Realized Cap change. We also address misconceptions about the exchanges and ETF balances.
Seeking Liquidity Following two months of consolidation, Bitcoin has broken upwards from its rangebound conditions and surged to a new ATH of $109k. In this article, we evaluate the conditions leading into this move to demonstrate signals of impending volatility.
Challenging Critical Support As the Bitcoin market corrects from the $108k ATH, a significant proportion of froth has come out of the market, whilst demand remains relatively robust. Unrealized losses are primarily held by short-term holders; however, stress levels are relatively modest compared to previous drawdowns.
Analyzing the Movement of Capital Across the Solana Asset The last two years have been remarkable for Solana, recording a staggering price appreciation of +2,143%. In this article, we utilize the new breakdown metrics for Solana to inspect and understand the underlying capital flows responsible for the dramatic ascent.
Resilience and Synchronicity Bitcoin continues trading above the psychologically important $100k price level, supported by a consistent inflow of capital. Long-Term Holders are capitalizing on this liquidity, taking the opportunity to distribute supply at scale, setting a new ATH in profit realized of $2.1B.
Time is Money: How Coin Age Shapes Bitcoin’s Spending Patterns We examine the relationship between a coin's age and its spending likelihood. We discover a power-law dynamic that governs this likelihood, highlighting a smooth and mathematically elegant decay in spending behavior as coins grow older.
A Monumental Milestone Bitcoin’s journey from the Genesis Block to $100k per BTC is a historic moment and a new high watermark in adoption. With 19.8M BTC mined, $131T in transfer volume processed, and 1.12B transactions, the $100k price milestone is yet another sign of Bitcoin's resilience.
Navigating Post-ATH Trends Bitcoin's rally to the $99.4k ATH moved investor holdings to extreme profit levels, resulting in a sharp redistribution of supply. Several risk metrics are elevated and signalling caution, while realized profits and funding rates are starting to cool down, hinting at a period of consolidation.
Touching Distance Following a flurry of consistent new ATHs, Bitcoin is just a stone's throw away from reaching a price of $100k per coin. Explosive price action tends to result in a significant increase in the unrealized profit of holders, and Long-Term Holders are ramping up their distribution in response.
BTC active addresses accelerate - what about TON, BNB, and SOL? Glassnode now supports SOL, BNB and TON metrics, enabling ecosystem analysis across chains. Read below to see how you can perform a simple yet effective comparative analysis of key fundamental data with Bitcoin's $100K milestone as a backrop.
Riding the Liquidity Tide Bitcoin continues to relentlessly establish new ATHs, supported by robust capital inflows from both ETFs and the Spot Market, with over $62.9B entering the market over the last 30 days. As the market proceeds to heat up, Long-Term Holder spending begins to rise in tandem.
Fasanara Digital + Glassnode: Institutional Perspectives on Digital Assets As Bitcoin nears $90K and institutional demand surges, Glassnode’s Q4 2024 Digital Asset Report with Fasanara Digital offers guidance on the bull market, covering spot market dynamics, ETF inflows, and capital rotation. Download now for actionable analytics.
Trumping to a New ATH Bitcoin’s rally to a new ATH is driven by strong spot demand and institutional inflows, with over 95% of supply in profit. This article explores on-chain indicators, highlighting robust spot buying momentum, rising ETF AUM, futures premiums, and the potential for sustained gains in this ATH phase.
Bitcoin Breaks To New ATHs In the wake of the highly anticipated US Presidential Election, Bitcoin has broken to a new ATH of $75.4k. Under the surface, volatility continues to brew across option markets while on-chain capital inflows continue to expand, suggesting a persistent inflow of new demand.
A Stones Throw The Bitcoin spot price has continued to march higher, trading up to $69k, only 6.8% below the ATH. The price uptick has broken through several critical levels using technical and on-chain inputs. This is one of the first signs of positive price momentum since late June.
