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Pre-Merge Ether Exchange Inflows of Over $1B Trigger Fears of Price Drop
The cumulative inflow of $1.2 billion is supposedly the largest in six months.
Updated May 11, 2023, 6:59 p.m. Published Sep 15, 2022, 6:08 a.m.
A huge amount of ether is being moved to centralized cryptocurrency exchanges leading up to Ethereum's pivotal technological overhaul, the Merge.
The crypto community is worried about a price slide due to the influx of ether into exchanges.
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Cryptocurrency lender Nexo deposited 450,000 ETH worth $720 million to digital assets exchange Binance late Wednesday, according to data tweeted by Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik. While crypto exchange Bitfinex received 288,442 ETH worth $490 million.
The cumulative inflow of $1.2 billion is supposedly the largest in six months. The total number of ETH held in centralized exchange wallets has jumped to a two-month high of 25.34 million.
An influx of coins into exchanges is usually taken to represent investor intention to sell, while outflows typically represent an intention to hold for the long term.
"Highest exchange inflows in 6 months. Thanks, Svanevik, for alerting. Again be careful," one Twitter user said.
Trader and analyst Alex Kruger said very high inflows point lower. However, Hal Press, founder of North Rock Digital, tweeted that the two inflows are likely fork-related rather than a predetermined sell program.
Perhaps coins have been moved to exchanges to collect potential Ethereum fork token ETHPOW on an exchange, so those can be liquidated immediately instead of receiving the so-called airdrop in a hardware wallet.
Hochan Cheung, head of marketing at South Korea-based analytics firm CryptoQuant, said the coins have been moved to derivative exchanges, which indicates investors are trying to hedge their position in case of price volatility around the Merge, slated to happen in three hours from now.
Read more: The Ethereum Merge Is Done, Opening a New Era for the Second-Biggest Blockchain
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