Market Makers are out again as the internet-computer:native daily trading volume drops from $154M to $57M. This week, ICP is 29% up vs the USD. However, longs were liquidated more than the shorts. Make it make sense...
A rising price does cut ICP issuance. It also cuts the burn. Almost nobody counts the second half. Node provider rewards are set in XDR, not in ICP. The network owes a fixed value each month and mints whatever ICP that value costs, so a higher price mints fewer ICP for the same
ICP supply check. 8 September, complete UTC day. Minted 20,553.2 ICP. Burned 1,525.0, of which 1,523.21 was cycles and 1.77 was transaction fees. Net emission +19,028.2. Inflationary. That is six times an ordinary day, so the useful question is where it came from. Not node
In September alone, approximately $322 million has already been lost to crypto hacks. Over the past year, more than $2 billion was lost to hacks and exploits. Of that total, $1.35 billion was stolen from DeFi protocols, while $758 million was lost through vulnerabilities in
ICP supply check. Last 24 hours. Minted 6,304.8 ICP. Burned 1,926.1 ICP, of which 1,923.15 was cycles and 2.99 was transaction fees. Net emission +4,378.7. Inflationary. There is an argument going around that a rising price cuts ICP inflation. Half of it is right, and today
940,000 ICP moved to OKX this morning. Here is what it actually was. 09:18:39 UTC. Binance's primary wallet sent 940,000 ICP to an unlabeled address. 09:18:47 UTC, eight seconds later. That address sent all 940,000 on to OKX's hot wallet. 09:19:29 UTC. Binance sent the same
365,819 ICP left Binance and arrived at OKX. Elapsed time, about one minute, through a single address in between that carries no label. If you only watch exchange inflows, OKX today shows a large deposit and it reads as supply arriving. It is not new supply. It was sitting on
This morning at 07:28:48 UTC, 156,744.1998 ICP moved into a single account. That is exactly twice 78,372.0999, an amount that arrived at the same account four separate times in August: on the 16th, the 22nd, the 23rd and the 29th. Each came from a different sending address, used
I compared YTD financials for $ICP against 10 other chains. Full breakdown goes live today on my second channel: A few things worth keeping in mind: 1) Every chain on this list posted a loss this year 2) These ratios can look better than they really
ICP supply check, Sep 4 (UTC): Minted: 2,936 ICP Burned: 848 ICP Net: +2,088 ICP Yesterday the day closed 20.6 ICP short of deflationary, and we said that was not a trend, it was two independent series crossing. Today shows why. Minting barely moved. 2,893 yesterday, 2,936