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Retail BTC buying pushed quarterly premium higher, but institutions reduced long positions

Dec 14, 2020 3 min read
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The strong rally over the weekend is also reflected in the premium on futures. The OKEx BTC futures annualized rolling three-month basis has now reached over 14%, with similar levels seen on Nov. 24 when BTC moved up to $19,400 levels. This shows that the market’s confidence in the price trend for the next three months remains very strong. In addition, this high quarterly premium provides opportunities for arbitrageurs.

Major altcoins fail to outperform while OKB gains 10%

Bitcoin’s mid-week pullback left almost all of the major altcoins failing to outperform it for the week. Ether ( ETH) and Litecoin ( LTC) dropped by 2.23% and 2.52%, respectively. However,

XRP suffered a sell-off and lost 17% of its value in the last week after the end of SPARK’s airdrop for XRP holders. One highlight among major altcoins was OKB, which gained more than 10% in the past seven days. Overall, major altcoins failed to develop an independent trend, and Bitcoin’s dominance has not changed much.

SushiSwap becomes the biggest winner of yearn.finance’s merger

In the DeFi sector, the total value locked reached $15 billion for the first time last Tuesday, but that number dropped in Bitcoin’s pullback. And at the same time, the price of many major DeFi tokens went down over the past week.

Uniswap ( UNI) dropped by 10.23%, though its seven-day volume still took 60% of DEX trading, as per Dune’s data. The market remains bullish on SushiSwap ( SUSHI), which rose 7.32% last week, expecting more upside from its merger with yearn.finance. Compound ( COMP) also rose another 5% over the week while most DeFi tokens were down 5% to 15%.

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