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Ethereum Whales Increase in Number Despite 30% Price Drop

Piyasi Mitra
September 7, 2020
12:36 pm

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Despite a 30% price drop, about 68 Ethereum whales joined the network, adding crypto asset worth millions in the form of holdings.
Ethereum’s demand starting in June was stimulated by the rising demand for the Decentralized Finance space

A tweet from Crypto user Ali Martinez dated September 6 shed light on this interesting trend. Citing data from Santiment, he showed how the number of crypto users holding between 1,000-10,000 ETH surged by 68 in a span of just three days since August 31. The drop comes while the cryptocurrency’s value dipped 30.2% from $367 on August 31 to a monthly low of $326 on September 5.

‘@santimentfeed‘s holder distribution chart shows that as #Ethereum was falling, there was a spike in the number of addresses with millions of dollars in #ETH, colloquially known as whales.

Roughly 68 new whales holding 1K to 10K $ETH have joined the network in the past 3 days. pic.twitter.com/HucYyMPQ2p
— Ali Martinez (@ali_charts) September 6, 2020

As an analysis indicates, Ethereum’s demand starting in June was stimulated by the rising demand for the Decentralized Finance space, as did the rising gas costs that touched a high of roughly 485 Gwei on September 1 with number of daily transactions surging. However, the average gas fee is now just 98 Gwei following the price drop, coupled with projects like Sushi decreasing by 88% in a span of 5 days.

The corroborating data points towards accumulation behaviour among crypto traders who bought ETH positions when the asset was trading at its weekly low. This might suggest their underlying bullishness towards the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency as per market capitalization.

As small traders sold off their Ethereum positions following the dip, the ‘whales’ preferred to purchase them at cheap rates.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has recently shared that the solutions to Ethereum’s scalability problems do exist, it’s just that their usage is not being considered. To those complaining that gas fees are too high, his answer to that is ‘then more people should be accepting payments directly through zksync/loopring/OMG.”

To those replying with "gas fees are too high", my answer to that is "well then more people should be accepting payments directly through zksync/loopring/OMG". Seriously, scaling to 2500+ TPS for simple-payments applications is here, we just need to… use it. https://t.co/J2KMJyLKv6
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) September 1, 2020

Latest data from Whale Alert revealed a certain Ethereum whale moving 216,016 ETH worth $76 million, transferred from an anonymous wallet to another unknown wallet on September 7. This doesn’t come as a surprise, as an earlier research report by Santiment which evaluated 850 of the market’s leading crypto-assets revealed that over 50% of the total supply for 727 of these digital currencies was found in the top 100 addresses alone.

At the time of writing this article, Ethereum’s market capitalization stands at $38,065,780,251 for a price of $338.44, and trading volume for the second ranked cryptocurrency is marked at $17,453,403,514.