Welcome back to Efficient Frontier’s biweekly newsletter!
For the last few weeks fear has reigned supreme in the crypto markets along with unusually low volatility, a rare combination.
Since our last newsletter, Bitcoin has been ranging between $43,000 and $37,400, slowly trending lower as the weeks progressed, continuing its 6-month down trend.
BTC’s 30-day volatility is 2.24% at the time of writing. The previous low was in November 2020, when Bitcoin consolidated under $20,000 for several weeks.
Bitcoin’s daily trading volume reached a 16-month low of $4.22 billion on April 22nd.
Liquidations and perpetual funding rates are low. Funding is alternating between slightly negative to slightly positive since April 12th. This is also the case for short/long ratio, showing traders are trying to decide the market’s direction.
So what’s next? We‘re staying tuned.
To end on a positive note, the number of deals in Q1 of 2022 broke records. Q1 saw 514 deals with the average deal netting $32.3 million to founders with a record inflow of $14.66 billion into crypto companies, according to CoinTelegraph.
36 crypto companies raised more than $100 million in Q1 of 2022, according to Arcane.
Investments flowing in the mining industry are reflected in the rise in Bitcoin’s hash rate, which on Monday hit a new record of 270 ET/s!
News & links
1. Chinese tech giant TenCent hiring for several blockchain and Web 3.0 positions
2. Panama legalizes cryptocurrency and set a 0% tax
3. Central African Republic makes Bitcoin legal tender
4. First city to mine Bitcoin: Fort Worth, Texas
5. Fidelity allows US savers to put Bitcoin in retirement accounts
Team news
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Thank you for reading, this is our last markets newsletter in this format. Stay tuned for our content reboot!
