Exchange Weekly | Exchanges may provide Staking services or become a trend; the traffic of each exchange has dropped significantly (12.9-12.15)
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Editor | Hao Fangzhou
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Binance traffic has dropped significantly;
There are still security risks in centralized exchanges;
Exchange Weekly Trends
Exchange Weekly Trends
On December 14, data showed that the number of shorts on BitMEX and Binance is currently slightly more than the number of longs. However, Bitfinex is decoupled from other exchanges in terms of long-short positions. The number of longs on the exchange is currently at an all-time high, with a staggering 87%/13% long/short ratio.
On Dec. 13, a U.S. court dismissed a $150 million lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
Exchange data statistics
Exchange data statistics
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source:Alexa
According to Alexa statistics, the Binance website UV (unique visitors) this week was 608,000/day, a decrease of 29.6% from last week; at the same time, PV (page views) was 3.648 million/day, a decrease of 24.6% from last week. Binance, as the leading exchange in the encryption world, accounts for most of the market traffic, which shows that the market traffic has declined recently.
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source:Dapptotal
Note: According to the statistics of Dapptotal combined with the historical price trend of BTC, it is found that the number of active users of DEX users is positively correlated with the price. In December 2017, the price of BTC reached a peak of 120,000 US dollars, and the number of users of Dex reached a peak of 9340; in April and May of 2018, the price of BTC rebounded again, and the number of active users of DEX also rebounded again; therefore, the number of users of DEX can be used as a judgment A reference indicator of market trends, but in the transaction volume and number of transactions counted by Dapptotal, the research institute found that its trend is not as highly correlated as the number of users and the price of BTC, so the number of users is intercepted as a reference indicator.
Note: According to the statistics of Dapptotal combined with the historical price trend of BTC, it is found that the number of active users of DEX users is positively correlated with the price. In December 2017, the price of BTC reached a peak of 120,000 US dollars, and the number of users of Dex reached a peak of 9340; in April and May of 2018, the price of BTC rebounded again, and the number of active users of DEX also rebounded again; therefore, the number of users of DEX can be used as a judgment A reference indicator of market trends, but in the transaction volume and number of transactions counted by Dapptotal, the research institute found that its trend is not as highly correlated as the number of users and the price of BTC, so the number of users is intercepted as a reference indicator.
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source:Bakkt Volume Bot
The trading volume of monthly delivery contracts this week was US$75 million, down 8% from last week; the open interest was US$6.3 million, down 3% from last week.
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source:AMBCRYPTO
In 2019 alone, more than 10 exchanges were hacked, losing a combined $170 million worth of cryptocurrencies, according to Bobby Ong, co-founder of crypto analytics site CoinGecko.
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source:pass pass
According to Tongtongtong, according to the quantitative scoring of each exchange in the three dimensions of liquidity (75%), asset reserves (15%) and website traffic (10%), Binance ranked first in the list with a comprehensive rating of five stars name. In addition, Coinbase Pro held 979,200 BTC in November, far exceeding other exchanges.
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source:aicoin
analyst point of view
analyst point of view
Staking services on exchanges could be the next trend in the cryptocurrency world.
According to a recent report, Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, has overtaken Polychain Labs as the largest validator for Tezos (XTZ). As the Ethereum Beacon chain is about to go online, the concept of Staking is also very popular this year, and many entrepreneurs and capital have entered the track of PoS service providers. However, as time goes by, the advantages of exchanges as traffic entrances have become more and more highlight.



