A 50% Increase in Tether Supply Points to Another Bitcoin Rally: Analyst
Bitcoin should brace for another upside move as a large Tether supply waits to enter its market, according to TradingShot. The independent market analysis firm said that the USDT supply increased by more than 50 percent since August 2020. While it may have fueled the 18 percent price rebound in the Bitcoin market a month later, its actual impact on the cryptocurrency’s spot rate remains undiscovered. “There has been a significant increase in crypto buying […]
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As the market capitalization of the stablecoin tether nears $80 billion, with its current $77.9 billion valuation, data from onchain researchers at Santiment indicates that tether addresses valued at $1 million own more than 80% of the entire supply. Tether’s Whales Command More Than 80% of the Supply The U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin has grown exponentially during the last few years and according to today’s metrics there’s 77.9 billion tether (USDT) in circulation today. Tether is the most dominant stablecoin out of all the stablecoins in existence in terms of market....
On Monday, the total market capitalization of all stablecoins topped $150 billion. The largest stablecoin is remains Tether’s USDT. However, according to a new analysis, stablecoin whales control 80% of the tether supply. Stablecoins Whales Control USDT Supply With a current market capitalization of $77.9 billion, data from onchain researchers at Santiment shows that tether […]
On Wednesday, Bitcoin logged a supersonic bull run, hitting $13,000 for the first time in 15 months. The rally started after PayPal announced its foray into the cryptocurrency sector, leading analysts to believe that the $138 billion global payments firm drove the latest Bitcoin adoption. But at least one of them disagreed. In a tweet published earlier Thursday, the pseudonymous analyst claimed that Bitcoin went upwards because of an abundant supply of Tether’s stablecoin, USDT. […]
The Tether printers have been fired up again as the USDT circulating supply has started to tick up. The world’s largest stablecoin, Tether (USDT) has expanded its circulating supply following almost three months of reductions, in what could be a sign the crypto markets are slowly recovering. The first mint in almost three months occurred on July 29, and there have been three more, with the latest on August 2, according to CoinMarketCap. The USDT injections have been small, however, lifting Tether’s market cap by just 0.7% or just under $500 million.USDT market cap 7D -....
On-chain data shows that a bullish combination has just formed for Bitcoin, which may signal that a rally could be ahead for the asset. Sharks & Whales Are Accumulating Both Bitcoin, Tether Right Now According to data from the on-chain analytics firm Santiment, both the sharks and whales of BTC and USDT have been accumulating recently. The metric of interest here is the “Supply Distribution,” which keeps track of the total amount of a given asset that the different holder groups carry. In the current topic, sharks and whales are the entities of interest. For Bitcoin, the....