Рыночная упаковка: Bitcoin Crosses $41.9K as Ether Futures Interest Grows 85% So Far in 2021

Bitcoin hit a fresh all-time high Friday as investors continued to scoop up some of its limited supply. The ether futures market also hit records as derivatives traders check out the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

New all-time highs are again the topic of the day on Friday, the third straight day the price of bitcoin hit a record level. Вокруг 15:00 универсальное глобальное время (10 утра. И), the price of bitcoin changed hands at $41,962, согласно CoinDesk 20 данные. Price has dropped since, в $39,304 на момент публикации.

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“BTC is currently in price discovery with a lot of demand and limited supply,” Joel Edgerton, chief operating officer of Bitflyer USA. “Everyone that holds bitcoin thinks it will go higher, so they hold.”

According to data aggregator Glassnode, bitcoin’s current circulating supply is at 18,594,037 BTC – and investors seemingly can’t get enough of the world’s oldest cryptocurrency.

“The continued relentless money flows into BTC from institutional and some retail buyers provides significant positive drift,” said Chad Steinglass, head of trading for derivatives firm CrossTower. “As more and more coins are locked away in long-term investments and are essentially removed from circulation, squeezing available inventory tighter and tighter.“

“Everyone without BTC is afraid of missing out and wants to buy,” OkCoin’s Edgerton added. “Borrowing [U.S. доллар] stablecoins to buy BTC is the crypto carry trade.”

The top three stablecoins – tether (USDT), U.S. dollar coin (USDC) and dai (DAI) – collectively have a market capitalization of $28 миллиард, much of which consists of tether – $22,916,992,958, согласно CoinGecko.

“The doors are fully open and the buying pressure has been building up massively this whole year based on macro cycles, COVID-19, Соединенные штаты. election and a feeling of general anxiety,” said Henrik Kugelberg, an over-the-counter bitcoin trader. “In the short term I expect a setback of perhaps 15%, but it will just be a bump in the massive bull run – $100,000 this year is totally possible!”

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Action in the bitcoin derivatives market was heavy as well. Джейсон Лау, chief operating officer for San Francisco-based exchange OKCoin, noted almost $1 billion in liquidations occurred there Thursday. “The majority of these liquidations were longs and it was the third-highest amount since November.”

At BitMEX alone, над $100 million in liquidations have occurred on the venue’s bitcoin market over the past three days, с участием $65 million buy liquidations signaling short-oriented traders got squeezed versus $42 million in the crypto equivalent of a margin call for long positions.

На рынке опционов, Denis Vinokourov, head of research at brokerage Bequant, noted that traders are liking the $36,000 strike price for bitcoin.

“Given the outsized focus on bitcoin’s $36,000 options strike for the end of January options expiry, which comes with a raft of optionality plays and risks, this disconnects bitcoin from fundamentals, so to speak,” Vinokourov told CoinDesk. “It will be interesting to see whether the market will be able to compartmentalize this bitcoin risk away from the rest of the market.”

Эфир (ETH) was down Friday, торговать вокруг $1,159 and slipping 6.5% в 24 часов с 21:00 универсальное глобальное время (4:00 вечера. И).

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Янв. 1, ether futures open interest, или OI, on major derivatives venues was at $2 миллиард. В четверг, OI had ballooned 85% to a record $3.7 billion according to aggregator Skew. Binance was leading the way with $820 million in OI, над 20% of the total ether futures market.

“ETH still hasn’t touched its previous all-time high of over $1,400,” noted Brian Mosoff, chief executive officer of investment firm Ether Capital. “To date, there has been less access to invest in ether versus bitcoin. As we await the pending launch of the CME [эфир] futures, community members who are more crypto-native and have less restrictions about how to hold ETH are likely looking to front-run the launch.”

Цифровые активы на CoinDesk 20 are in the red Friday. Notable losers as of 21:00 универсальное глобальное время (4:00 вечера. И):

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