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Institutional Investors Are Leaving Ethereum Products: What’s Happening?
Ethereum products face a significant downturn based on the market correction as sentiments fall. Institutional investors remain a driving force behind crypto assets and have increased investments year-to-date (YTD). While yearly crypto highs are linked to institutional activities following the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs, outflows are due to massive sell-offs sparked by macro factors.
Ethereum products have taken a tumble as traditional investors reacted to the price drop last week. Total outflows dampened hopes of a bullish rally however, expectations of a spot ETF listing in the summer resonate with instructors. Let’s delve into how Ethereum products fared so far.
Ethereum Products See Outflow
Generally, crypto institutional funds saw outflows last week with $585 million exits as the correction stings. Ethereum products recorded $58.3 million outflows in the last seven days. This reduced the total inflows this month to $23.6 million while YTD flows stood at $36 million.
This weekly decline wiped out accumulated inflows this year following the jump after Bitcoin ETFs and anticipation towards Ethereum products. With the approval given, investors await potential listing of these which becomes an investment window to the asset class. Interestingly, Ethereum products still have a cumulative $14.7 billion in assets under management (AUM). This growth shows the level of inflow marked in Q1 2024 during the market highs.
Ethereum wasn’t the only asset with exits in its institutional products as Bitcoin recorded the bulk of outflows. Last week, Bitcoin funds saw $630 million in losses plunging the AUM to $70.6 billion
Ethereum Price Impact
The major cause of the present market situation is the declining price of crypto assets. The total market cap dropped from $2.6 trillion to $2.26 trillion amid the bearish outlook. ETH trades at $3,387, falling from $3,700 at the peak of Ethereum ETF anticipation. Although the price remains low, holders point to future highs should macro factors flip. These price crashes led to outflows on the institutional front.
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One of the most popular dog-themed meme coins, Shiba Inu, has once again made headlines with a colossal surge in its burn rate. The latest update from the tracker Shibburn revealed that over 900 million SHIB were burnt over the past month, June. This glimmered immense hope for the meme coin’s future price movements as supply takes a vital hit.
So, let’s delve deeper into Shina Inu’s market statistics to understand why market sentiments have taken an optimistic turn.
Massive Token Burn Ignites Market Optimism
According to the insights offered by Shibburn, the token burn mechanism incinerated 918.07 million SHIB over the past month via 237 transactions. This gave rise to a 148.69% surge in Shiba Inu’s monthly burn rate.
Meanwhile, today’s data revealed that the community witnessed the incineration of a staggering 301.68 million coins. This gave rise to a colossal 1392.60% upswing in the daily burn rate.
The total number of coins burned from the initial supply now evaluates to 410.727 trillion SHIB. As mentioned above, Shiba Inu’s supply further takes a massive blow, in turn staging as a bullish factor for the token.
Notably, as the supply diminishes, SHIB’s price has noted significant gains today, July 1, mirroring the burn’s impact.
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SHIB Price Soars
At press time, SHIB’s price noted an uptick of 3.67% to trade at $0.00001735. Its 24-hour bottoms and peaks were $0.00001669 and $0.00001756, respectively.
Also, it’s worth noting that the price upswing coincides with the broader crypto market recovery. Meanwhile, the abovementioned burn rate upswing adds to it.
Coinglass data shows a market uptrend for the Shiba Inu coin today, as its Futures OI and derivatives volume upsurged. SHIB OI was up 2.85% to $35.71 million, whereas the volume rocketed 61.98% to $72.13 million.
However, Shiba Inu’s RSI rested at 34, hinting at some downside pressure on the asset. This could result in volatility in SHIB’s price movement in the short run.
However, the broader market sentiments remain optimistic, primarily attributable to the continuous massive SHIB burning. Also, Santiment’s data showcasing SHIB’s undervalued position in the market potentially paves the way for a $0.00003 price target, CoinGape Media reported. The colossal spike in the burn rate further bolsters Shiba Inu’s potential bullish future.
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On Sunday, June 30, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a blog post explaining the road ahead for Ethereum and how they might have to part ways with the epoch-and-slot mechanism of its existing rollup-centric roadmap. Buterin proposes a new SSF mechanism to improve the transaction time latencies of the order of hundreds of milliseconds or even less.
Ethereum Eyes Single-Slot Finality
Currently, the Ethereum Gasper consensus employs a slot-and-epoch mechanism wherein validators cast votes in each 12-second slot. Also, all validators get the opportunity to vote once, over 32 slots. Later, a PBFT-like consensus algorithm takes care after two epochs (12.8 minutes), thereby providing a strong economic assurance known as finality. However, there are two major concerns with this approach.
- The complexity and several interaction bugs between the two slot-by-slot voting mechanism as well as the epoch-by-epoch finality mechanism.
- The 12.8-minute finality period is pretty slow and inconvenient for the users.
To simplify this, Buterin proposes a single-slot finality mechanism similar to the Tendermint consensus, wherein Block-N is finalized even before the creation of Block N+1. The major difference from Tendermint is the retention of the “inactivity leak” mechanism. This will allow the Ethereum blockchain to continue and recover even if nearly one-third of validators go offline. Vitalik Buterin calls this a “Secure Speed Finality” SSF mechanism.
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Addressing A Few Challenges With the SSF Mechanism
Vitalik Buterin also highlighted some key challenges associated with Single-slot finality (SSF) in the Ethereum ecosystem. He explained that the naive implementation of the SSF would require every Ethereum staker to publish two messages every 12 seconds, imposing a significant load on the Ethereum network. In his blog post, Buterin said:
“While there are clever ideas to mitigate this issue, including the recent Orbit SSF proposal, it remains a challenge. Although SSF significantly improves user experience by accelerating ‘finality,’ it doesn’t eliminate the need for users to wait 5-20 seconds.”
While implementing the SSF mechanism in Ethereum, Buterin suggests implementing Orbit-like techniques in order to reduce the total number of validators signing per slot and address the key goal of lowering 32 ETH minimum staking.
“This approach might cause the slot time to increase to approximately 16 seconds,” added Buterin. However, he added: “Designs like Orbit SSF are very recent, suggesting that the design space of slot-and-epoch designs where something like Orbit SSF is the epoch is still quite under-explored”.
The Ethereum developers are still figuring out the ideal solution in order to improve the finality. Last month, Buterin shared updates made with Ethereum Layer-2 solutions. The Ethereum L2 activity has touched fresh all-time highs recently.
Ethereum is thriving as an ecosystem right now with L2 activity hitting fresh all time highs every other day and the L1 roadmap being executed on with laser precision
Meanwhile, crypto twitter is acting like Ethereum is failing and in dire need of an emergency intervention
— sassal.eth/acc 🦇🔊 (@sassal0x) July 1, 2024
The Ethereum Layer-2 Blast recently announced the launch of its native token and BLAST airdrop.
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As we bid adieu to a dull and boring Q2, the broader cryptocurrency market is showing a healthy bounce with the Ethereum (ETH) price surging by 5% shooting all the way past $3,500 levels. This development comes as whale activity spikes ahead of the spot Ethereum ETF scheduled to come next week on July 8.
Ethereum Whale Activity Spikes, ETH price Jumps
On-chain data provider Spot on Chain has reported that a significant whale, reportedly Abraxas Capital, has withdrawn a massive 60K ETH, valued at $203 million, from crypto exchange Bitfinex, at a price of $3,387 in the past 24 hours. The ETH price has already rallied 4% since then giving the whale an unrealized profit of nearly $6.5 million.
A massive whale (probably Abraxas Capital) has withdrawn 60K $ETH ($203M) from #Bitfinex at ~$3,387 in the past 17 hours.
The whale then lent $ETH to #Spark to borrow $119M in stablecoins and deposited it to #Binance.
The $ETH price is up by 3% (17H), suggesting a $6.27M… pic.twitter.com/6oomnzlrSq
— Spot On Chain (@spotonchain) July 1, 2024
As of press time, the Ethereum price is trading 4.19% up at $3,499 with a market cap of $420.7 billion. The daily trading volume for Ethereum has also shot up by 50% to $9.8 billion. For this ETH price rally to sustain, it must give a daily closing above $3,500 so that the bulls can eye the next target levels of $4,000 and above.
Amid the strong excitement around spot Ethereum ETF, whales have been swapping other altcoins for ETH recently. Last week, a PEPE whale converted $18 million of their PEPE coins to Ethereum expecting a major rally going ahead.
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Ethereum ETF Excitement Continues
As reported by CoinGape, the launch of spot Ethereum ETF faces some delay from the previous timeline of July 4. Last Friday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sent back the S-1 forms to issuers asking them to resubmit them by the 8th of July.
ETF Store President Nate Geraci has stated that the S-1 revisions are relatively minor while suggesting that the regulators can approve issuers for trading within the next 14-21 days. While the timeline of the launch still remains uncertain, the SEC has hinted at the possibility by the summer end. This could probably keep the ETH price moving forward amid the investor excitement.
Nate Geraci has also made the prediction that the spot Ethereum ETF will be the second-most successful debut in the ETF history, only after spot Bitcoin ETFs.
Early (& easy IMO) prediction…
Spot eth ETFs will be 2nd most successful debut in ETF history, only behind spot btc ETFs.
So two most successful ETF launches in 30+yr ETF history will occur this yr.
Bitcoin & ether.
Paying attention yet?
— Nate Geraci (@NateGeraci) June 30, 2024
Also Read: What to Expect from Ethereum Price In July
The presented content may include the personal opinion of the author and is subject to market condition. Do your market research before investing in cryptocurrencies. The author or the publication does not hold any responsibility for your personal financial loss.
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