Liquidity

Liquidity

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Fresh Money Flows to Crypto as Stablecoin Market Expands After 18-Month Downtrend

Tether's USDT added $7 billion to its market cap since September, a sign of capital entering the crypto market, Matrixport noted.

Stablecoin market cap (Coin Metrics)

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Trading Crypto on Binance Becomes Challenging as Order Book Liquidity Tanks 25%

Order book liquidity refers to the capacity to trade quickly at quoted prices.

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Bitcoin Is Up 70% a Year After FTX Debacle, but 'Alameda Gap' in Liquidity Persists

The 'Alameda gap' refers to the worsening of order-book liquidity following the collapse of the FTX group a year ago.

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Bitcoin Cash Sees Biggest Liquidity Jump in Q3, Bitcoin and Ether Lag: Kaiko

Liquidity refers to market's ability to absorb large orders at stable prices.

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Crypto Liquidity Heavily Concentrated on Handful of Exchanges: Kaiko Data

Liquidity, as measured by trade volume and market depth, appears to be heavily concentrated on just a handful of platforms, according to Kaiko data. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents "The Chart of the Day."

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Uniswap Liquidity Signals ETH Optimism

Decentralized exchange Uniswap says that when we look at the distribution of liquidity across different price ranges in the Uniswap pool, liquidity providers (LPs) are currently supplying the most liquidity above ether (ETH)'s current price tick. This could mean Uniswap LPs are expressing an expectation of optimism and market upside for ETH on the whole. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents "The Chart of the Day."

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Synthetix Posts 12.5% Gain Amid Binance Outflows, Bucks Bearish Bitcoin Trend

One newly-created wallet withdrew $7.7 million of SNX and $3.9 million of LPT to prompt the tokens to surge.

SNXUSD chart (TradingView)

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Binance Is Contacting Low-Cap Crypto Projects in Bid to Boost Trading

The crypto exchange is conducting a "risk management initiative" targeting some crypto projects with a relatively small market capitalization or whose tokens form lower-liquidity trading pairs.

Two large stacked blocks displaying Binance's logo at a trade show.

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SBI-Owned B2C2 Eyes European Expansion With Acquisition of Rival Trading Firm Woorton

B2C2 will now have access to Woorton's EU license that will permit it to serve institutional clients in the EU.

UK Parliament (Ugur Akdemir/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Bridge Protocol LayerZero Passes 50M Cross-Chain Messages

The milestone highlights the demand for crypto users to transfer liquidity between chains and conduct cross-chain token swaps.

LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino at Crypto Bahamas 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)