Liquidity


Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: Bitcoin's Fragile Rally Is Built on Shrinking Liquidity

Large holder deposits have hit exchanges and realized losses are climbing, according to CryptoQuant and Glassnode, indicating the market’s rally is being built on thin liquidity.

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'Liquidity Crisis': $12B in DeFi Liquidity Sits Idle as 95% of Capital Goes Unused

This inefficiency disproportionately affects retail liquidity providers, with 50% losing money due to impermanent loss, and net deficits exceeding $60 million, a new report finds.

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Crypto Long & Short: Licences, Liquidity and the Shifting Geography of Exchange Quality

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Joshua de Vos shares insights from a recent Benchmark report on how the exchange landscape is maturing and becoming more execution-focused, but increasingly uneven as regional licensing diverges, liquidity fragments, and transparency advances inconsistently. Then, we take a look at where the digital assets market may be headed in the final weeks of 2025 with Andy Baehr’s “Vibe Check."

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1inch Unveils Protocol Letting Multiple DeFi Strategies Share the Same Capital

Aqua introduces a "shared liquidity layer" that enables capital from a single wallet to back multiple trading strategies simultaneously.

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Markets

Crypto Liquidity Still Hollow After October Crash, Risking Sharp Price Swings

Despite calmer prices after October’s brutal leverage wipeout, bitcoin and ether market depth remains structurally thin, creating a more fragile trading environment.

Liquidity void in crypto persists (Simon Hurry/Unsplash)

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ETH Liquidity Check: Is it Catching Up with Bitcoin?

Kelly Ye and Helena Lam of Avenir Group explore how liquidity indicators could reveal underlying capital flows and liquidity conditions for ether, and how there may still be ample room for expansion as institutional interest accelerates.

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Markets

Pump.fun Creates Liquidity Arm to Back Memecoins Amid Revenue Slump

The Solana memecoin launchpad says its new Glass Full Foundation will inject liquidity into select ecosystem tokens.

Pump.fun's swap tool (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Liquidity Crunch Points to Fresh Volatility as New Cycle Builds: Sygnum Bank

Bitcoin’s role as a safe haven is getting a fresh boost from turmoil in U.S. treasuries and a weakening dollar, analysts said.

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Markets

Bitcoin's Volatile Liquidity Run Could Lead to New Record Highs

Bitcoin behaved differently on Sunday, with CME futures leading the volatile price action.

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CoinDesk Indices

Death by a Thousand Pools: How Liquidity Fragmentation Threatens DeFi

Securing sustainable liquidity will be essential for DeFi's future, says Jason Hall of Turtle Club.

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