Bitcoin and Ethereum held on exchanges drops to a multi-year low, here’s why
Lucrative DeFi investing opportunities and increasing participation from institutional investors are driving the amount of Bitcoin and Ethereum held on exchanges to new lows. Recent global developments have put a spotlight on the cryptocurrency sector as people across the world begin to question the decision making process of governments and central banks. Multiple metrics like the increasing amount of Ether (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) locked in DeFi, soaring transaction and on-chain activity and the plummeting BTC and Ether reserves of top exchanges show that investors are becoming....
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On-chain data shows that the Bitcoin supply on exchanges has continued to go down despite the crash, and has now hit a multi-year low of 13.27%. Percentage of Bitcoin Supply On Exchanges Sinks To Multi-Year Low As per the latest weekly report from Glassnode, the percentage of the BTC supply on exchanges has now declined to a multi-year low of around 13.27%. The “percentage of supply on exchanges” is an indicator that measures the percent of the total circulating Bitcoin supply that’s currently stored in exchange wallets. When the value of this indictor goes up, it means....
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Cryptocurrency reserves held on digital asset exchanges have been dropping to new lows, as some of the top exchanges have seen significant bitcoin reserve balance drops. A few months ago trading platforms had a lot more bitcoin reserves on hand and onchain data shows a few exchanges have seen customers steadily drain 187,000 bitcoins ($2.1B) from exchange-owned cold wallets. In February, Coinbase had 1 million bitcoin under management and today reserves are down over 9% as 92,000 bitcoin ($1B) has left the exchange. Today, according to Bituniverse’s online exchange balance rank....
Only 8.1% of Bitcoin is held on exchanges compared to Ether where almost one-quarter of the supply sits on exchanges. Almost one-quarter of Ethereum’s (ETH) circulating supply is held on cryptocurrency exchanges, according to analytics platform ViewBase.The website shows that 26,768,260 ETH are on exchanges, equating to 23.6% with a value of $10.3 billion. Almost 26 million of these tokens are held by 10 centralized exchanges, with Coinbase alone sitting on 8,521,807 ETH — 7.5% of the supply. Ether is miles ahead of Bitcoin (BTC) in terms of the percentage of tokens held on exchanges.....
While the second-largest crypto asset by market cap has gained more than 15% in value against the U.S. dollar during the last week, the number of ethereum stored on exchanges has dropped significantly during the last few weeks. In less than two years, more than 29% of the ether held on exchanges has left centralized trading platforms and since December 2021, roughly 5.89% or 1.51 million ether has left exchanges. Number of Ethereum on Exchanges Continues to Drop Seven days ago, Bitcoin.com News reported on the number of bitcoin (BTC) held on exchanges and how the metric dropped to the....