CoinGecko Q3 2022 Quarterly Report

CoinGecko Q3 2022 Cryptocurrency Report

DeFi Analysis
- Q3 2022 DeFi Overview
- Q3 2022 DeFi Multichain Market Share
- Q3 2022 DeFi Ecosystem Overview
- Q3 2022 Cross-chain Bridge Liquidity
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Table of Contents
Analysts:
Market Landscape
- Q3 2022 Spot Market Overview
- Q3 2022 Crypto Dominance
- Q3 2022 Cryptocurrency Price Returns
- Q3 2022 Top 15 Stablecoins Overview
- Q3 2022 Total Crypto Market Cap & Bitcoin vs. S&P 500
- Q3 2022 Notable Events Timeline for Q2 2022
- Meme Moon
- Tornado Cash Sanctions
- Cardano Vasil Hard Fork and ATOM 2.0
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Founders’ Note 2
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
- Q3 2022 NFT Trading Volume across Top 8 Chains
- Q3 2022 NFT Platform Trading Volumes
- Q3 2022 Top NFT Collections
- Launch of Sudoswap
- Sudoswap Triggers Debate over NFT Royalties
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Bitcoin Analysis
- Q3 2022 Bitcoin Price vs. Trading Volume
- Q3 2022 Bitcoin Mining Hash Rate
- Bitcoin Energy Usage
- Q3 2022 Bitcoin vs. Major Asset Classes Price Returns
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Win Win
Exchanges
- Q3 2022 Top 10 Cryptocurrency Exchanges
- Q3 2022 Top 10 Centralized Exchanges (CEX)
- Q3 2022 Top 10 Decentralized Exchanges (DEX)
- Q3 2022 Derivatives Exchanges –Perpetual Swaps Volume
- Q3 2022 Derivatives Exchanges – Bitcoin Perpetual Swaps Open Interest
- Q3 2022 Performance of GBTC and $BITO
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Dillon Yap
Shaun Lee
Ethereum Analysis
- Q3 2022 Ethereum Price vs. Trading Volume
- Ethereum Roadmap Post-Merge
- Q3 2022 Ethereum Consensus Layer Staking
- State of Ethereum Post-Merge
- Ethereum Proof-of-Work (PoW) Forks
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Zhong
Weng Dee
Benjamin Hor

CoinGecko Q3 2022 Cryptocurrency Report 2
Founders’ Note
Bobby Ong
COO
TM Lee
CEO
After the carnage during Q2 2022, Q3 was a relatively quiet quarter, with the market largely in consolidation mode despite mid-season bullish anticipation for the
Ethereum Merge, where total crypto market cap briefly touched $1.2T. However the rally didn’t last long, with an increasingly challenging global macro environment
wreaking havoc on financial asset classes.
BTC pretty much ended the quarter where it started, around the $19,000 level. ETH is ~25% up, though at peak it briefly exceeded $2,000, which was double the
~$1,000 price level it started the quarter at. Total market cap closed out the quarter at ~$986B. The Merge narrative did have positive ripple effects towards related
tokens, with LDO and RPL seeing significant gains this quarter. The Merge also triggered the launch of more liquid staking offerings from more providers such as
Coinbase, Liquid Collective and Frax.
Speaking of ETH, congratulations to the Ethereum Core Dev team and community for a successful Merge, which has been years in the making, and went off without a
hitch. It’s a monumental technical feat, and sets the foundation for the next phase of the network’s development.
Q3 was also a quarter of regulatory turbulence. The US OFAC sanction on Tornado Cash sent shockwaves
throughout the industry and reignited significant concerns and discussions over government censorship. Also
affected were centralized stablecoins, in particular USDC, which lost $8.8B or 16% of its market cap over the
quarter. There were also multiple crypto legislations making their way through Congress, while the CFTC
taking enforcement action against a DAO was also particularly noteworthy. One can only hope for more
regulatory clarity moving forward as policymakers and regulators continue to grapple with the industry.
The token value and TVL of DeFi projects largely mirrored that of the overall market, not much of a surprise
given that the majority of DeFi is still built on Ethereum. Meanwhile, overall NFT volumes continue to decline
from Q2, in line with trading volumes of tokens. However that has not stopped certain collections such as
Pudgy Penguins, ENS and y00ts rising to prominence, while the launch of Sudoswap and its AMM model for
NFTs garnered a lot of excitement and attention.
Considering global geopolitical tensions and macroeconomic turmoil, the near-term outlook for crypto looks
likely to remain challenging to say the least. At the same time, devs continue to build throughout the bear
market, efforts which will hopefully pay off as the market eventually recovers. For everyone else watching and
trading the market, hold on to your seats, it’s going to be a rocky road ahead!

MARKET LANDSCAPE
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Total Volume Traded Total Market Cap Trendline (Total Market Cap)
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Q3 2022 Spot Market Overview
Crypto market only inched slightly higher in Q3 2022 despite mid-August rally
+6.5%
Total Market Cap
Change in Q3 2022
Market Cap
Total crypto market cap seems to (so far)
have found a bottom when it hit a low of
$875B on 19th July. In Q3, total market cap
rallied up to ~$1.2T before falling again to
end the quarter at 6.5% or about ~$100B
higher than end-Q2.
Average Q3 trading volume stood at
~$90B, slightly lower than the ~$100B levels
of Q2.
Source: CoinGecko
Total Market Cap & Spot Trading Volume (Jan – Sept 2022)
Trading Volume
ALGO exited the Top 30, while ETC took
its place having had a boost after the
Merge, clinching 23rd place. Some notable
moves within the Top 30 include XRP
overtaking BUSD at #6 (+60%), MATIC
moving from #19 to #15 (+66%), and UNI
which jumped from #27 to #18 (+129%).
$986B

Q3 2022 Crypto Dominance
Relative crypto dominance between the top coins crabbed along
Crypto Dominance (Jan – Sept 2022)
In Q3, Bitcoin dominance fell slightly from
41.1% to 38%, while ETH climbed from
14.3% to 16.4%.
Source: CoinGecko
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The Top 7 cryptocurrencies remained the
same, except for XRP overtaking BUSD at
#6.
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Within the Top 30, top gainers in market
dominance were UNI, ETC, and ATOM
which increased their relative market share
from 0.25% to 0.49%, 0.22% to 0.39%, and
0.23% to 0.38% respectively.

Q3 2022 Cryptocurrencies Price Returns
A tiny bit of relief – except for P2E
As for the Top 5 exchange tokens, BNB and OKB made a good recovery,
while LEO continued to slide. FTT and CRO closed out the quarter pretty
much flat. This is in contrast to last quarter where LEO outperformed all other
Top 30 coins just by staying resilient.
Within the top 5 cryptocurrencies, all fared relatively well with each either
staying resilient or making a decent recovery from Q2. XRP outperformed,
recovering close to 50% in Q3, followed by BNB and ETH.
Source: CoinGecko
Play-To-Earn tokens saw no relief in Q3, taking double digit beatings on top
of the already brutal last quarter.
DeFi token prices surely lived up to the “DeFi is Dead” meme last quarter. By
contrast, the Top 5 DeFi tokens are the only category in green across the
board this quarter. LDO led the pack by a large margin, increasing by 3.5x in
Q3, likely benefiting from the Ethereum Merge narrative. It’s worth noting
however these gains are merely recoveries from the significant drop in the
previous quarter.

Market Cap
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Q3 2022 Top 15 Stablecoins Overview
Muted quarter for stablecoins as OFAC sanctions wreak havoc on USDC
Top 15 Stablecoins Market Cap Breakdown (Jan – Sep 2022)
Source: CoinGecko
$68.0B
+$1.7B (+2.5%)
$47.3B
-$8.8B (-16.0%)
$20.9B
+$3.2B (+18.4%)
$6.4B
+$74.0M (+1.2%)
$1.4B
-$4.1M (-0.3%)
-3.1%
Top 15 Stablecoins Market
Cap Change in Q3 2022
The Top 5 stablecoins remained the same,
having no new entrants or changes in order. There
were notable changes in market cap within the
Top 5, with USDC dropping 16% or $9B after the
Tornado Cash sanction, and BUSD being the main
beneficiary of this, increasing by 18% or $3B.
USDT also saw a slight increase, possibly having
absorbed some of the selloff of USDC. Meanwhile
DAI and FRAX remained about the same in
terms of market cap from Q2.
Outside the Top 5, FEI dropped out of the Top 15,
while USDX broke in. Some notable changes
include TUSD (-27% or $0.32B), GUSD (+90% or
$0.15B), USTC (-20% or $0.16B), and USDN (-84%
or $0.65B)
The market cap of the Top 15 stablecoins remained
relatively similar, losing 3% or $4.7B in absolute
terms.
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Q3 2022 Total Crypto Market Cap & Bitcoin vs. S&P 500
Decoupling no where in sight as crypto continues to move in tandem with equities
S&P 500
Total Crypto Market Cap & Bitcoin vs. S&P 500 (Jan – Sept 2022)
The total crypto market cap correlation
with the S&P500 was 0.85 (high) in Q3
2022. This was a slight decrease from the
correlation coefficient of 0.92 in Q2 2022.
Source: CoinGecko, MarketWatch
The total crypto market cap also
continued moving in lockstep with
Bitcoin, with their correlation at 0.9. This is
however a decrease from a perfect
correlation of nearly 1 during Q2 2022.
Though Bitcoin was comparatively more
volatile, the S&P 500 fell by 5.2%, which
is 5x more than Bitcoin’s 1% drop in Q3
2022. This was also in contrast to the total
crypto market cap which rose by 6.5%.

Q3 2022 Notable Events Timeline
The ghost of Terra still haunts us
1 Jul 2 Aug
15 Sep
27 Sep
Cardano Vasil
hard fork
completed
ETH Merge
completed
16 Sep
Hodlnaut halted
withdrawals
Wintermute
hacked for
$160m
14 Jul
27 Sep
27 Sep
Nomad bridge
exploited for
$190m
Binance launched
auto-conversion of
USDC, USDP, TUSD
into BUSD
Celsius filed for
Chapter 11
bankruptcy
8 Jul
8 Aug
29 Sep
20 Sep
Ethereum PoW
hard fork went live
Nexo sued by
8 US states
FTX won bid
to buy Voyager
Dogechain
launch
13 Aug
Three Arrows Capital
filed for Chapter 15
bankruptcy
Sudoswap
launch
Gamestop NFT
marketplace
launch
12 Jul 21 Jul
Zipmex halted
withdrawals
Tornado Cash
sanctioned by
OFAC
Solana Slope
wallet
exploited
3 Aug
9 Aug
Interpol issued
red notice for
Do Kwon
27 Sep

Meme Moon
Stablecoin Memecoin
§ While Terraform Labs pivoted to a new chain, the abandoned Terra Classic
(LUNC) seem to have retained a following.
§ Its market cap is 10x that of the relaunched Terra Luna at the end of Q3
($2.1B vs $410M).
§ In Q3 the proposal to implement a burn tax of 1.2% per transaction was
approved, which resulted in a LUNC price increase. However, this did not
last long.
§ Currently, the burn rate averages around 200M LUNC / day.
§ There was a second round of airdrop of Terra 2.0 (LUNA) tokens to
holders which were mistakenly left out of the first round.
§ In the immediate aftermath, LUNA saw a spike in price but these gains
were erased with the issuance of an arrest warrant and Interpol red
notice for Do Kwon.
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Q3 2022 Price Return
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Terra Classic (LUNC) Price (Q3 2022) Terra 2.0 (LUNA) Price (Q3 2022)

Tornado Cash Sanctions
OFAC sanctions wrecks TC, sends shockwaves across the industry
On Aug 8, US OFAC sanctioned Tornado Cash (TC),
adding its website and its contract addresses to the
SDN list for laundering proceeds from cybercrimes.
Immediately following the sanction, a list of TC
resources were banned, including their Github
repositories.
A few days later, Netherlands authorities arrested
Alexey Pertsev, a developer who worked on TC. He is
currently still being held in jail awaiting charges.
A month later, the Treasury Department updated its
FAQs, providing further clarity on what is permitted /
prohibited. Notably “interacting with open-source
code itself, in a way that does not involve a
prohibited transaction with Tornado Cash, is not
prohibited.”
A week after the FAQ update, Github unbanned TC’s
repositories.
The effect of Tornado Cash sanctions rippled across the entire crypto stack
Front-end
dApp /
Smart
Contract
Protocol
Node
Operator
§ DeFi projects with US entities or significant US presence such as dYdX, Aave, Balancer
and Uniswap blocked accounts associated with TC from their official front-end.
However alternative front-ends can actually be spun up fairly easily.
§ The DeFi protocols / smart contracts themselves remain uncensored, and any user
can still interact with them on-chain.
§ US-based centralized stablecoin issuer Circle also immediately froze the USDC
within the sanctioned addresses. However thus far the other centralized stables
USDT, BUSD etc have not followed suit to preemptively freeze their assets.
§ The impact of these sanctions did not stop with centralized stables. There were
significant discussion surrounding decentralized stables, particularly DAI where a
significant portion of its underlying collateral is in USDC, and there is a risk that it could
be sanctioned and the collateral frozen.
§ Worries surrounded US-based node operators who may be forced to comply with
current and future sanctions, particularly as Coinbase is currently the node operator
with the largest stake. CEO Brian Armstrong had to come out on Twitter to reaffirm
their commitment to not implementing censorship at the validator layer.
§ On the protocol layer, the main concerns surrounded mev-boost. As Flashbots is a US
entity they are forced to comply with the sanctions, but the team has proceeded to
open-source the code for other devs to fork.
§ Infura and Alchemy blocked TC’s access, igniting discussion on decentralized RPCs.
Infura later announced plans for a Decentralized Infrastructure Network.

Cardano Vasil Hard Fork and ATOM 2.0
Cardano reached a new milestone while ATOM unveils ATOM 2.0
CIP-31 and CIP-33 aims to improve transaction throughput and
increase concurrency by improving the output process for the Plutus
smart contract language.
CIP-32 aims to improve the development process by modifying the
way data is communicated between parties on the blockchain.
Diffusion pipelining is an upgrade for block propagation time, allowing
blocks to be transmitted without full validation. At the same time
making changes to the consensus layer to improve block propagation
across nodes.
Tokenomics of ATOM will be revamped, with the aim to reduce
inflation and reach a target emission rate of 300,000 ATOM per
month (0.1%). If the proposal passes, validators would be rewarded
with revenue generated under the new Interchain Security model. This
new model is meant to improve scalability and overall IBC connectivity.
A core feature of Interchain Security include Interchain Scheduler (IS)
which is a Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) system that allows
validators to reorder transactions within a block. This would allow The
Cosmos Hub to earn more revenue by selling blockspace.
The third tenet revolves around governance. The Interchain Allocator
(IA) feature will be a coordinated liquid staking service for the entire
IBC. At the same time, there is a push for a Governance Stack which is
essentially advocating for an assembly of DAOs across different
blockchains.
Cardano carried out its Vasil Hard
Fork on September 22, 2022.
ATOM released its whitepaper for
ATOM 2.0, “The Cosmos Hub,” on
September 26, 2022.

BITCOIN ANALYSIS
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Q3 2022 Bitcoin Price vs. Trading Volume
Krabby Patty
BTC Price Trading Vol
Bitcoin Price and Spot Trading Volume Apr ‘21 - Oct '21
Bitcoin Price and Spot Trading Volume (Jan– Sept 2022)
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BTC Price Return in Q3 2022
BTC crabbed its way through Q3 of 2022.
After having hit its yearly low of $17,760 in
Q2, BTC has mainly stayed within the
$18k and $22k range during Q3.
BTC hit a quarterly high of $24,433 but
soon fell back to the $18k and $22k range,
where it currently remains.
Some noteworthy Q3 events affected BTC:
• Blackrock, the world’s largest asset
manager, launched a private BTC trust
• MicroStrategy entered an agreement
to sell $500 million in shares to fund
more purchases of BTC
• Increase of interest rates by the US
Fed saw investors exit risky assets for
USD and Treasury bonds
• Taro test version launched, allowing
Bitcoin developers to create assets on
the blockchain via Lightning Network
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Source: CoinGecko
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Q3 2022 Bitcoin Mining Hash Rate
Bitcoin hash rate continues to trend upwards
Bitcoin's Total Hash Rate (Jan – Sept 2022)
Hash Rate TH/s
Bitcoin’s total hash rate continued to edge
upwards throughout Q3, even as the bear
market deepens.
Some operators have began selling some
of their BTC holdings in order to fund their
operations.
The market has claimed its first Bitcoin
mining victim. Compute North, a bitcoin
mining hosting provider filed for
bankruptcy in September. Meanwhile,
mining operator Hut 8 continued to stack
BTC, having accumulated over 8,000 BTC
from its operations.
Despite all these, overall hash rate is
still trending upwards (for now), even
hitting a new ATH on 11 September.
4.8%
Bitcoin’s hash rate increase
in Q3 2022
Q1 2022 Hash Rate
-3.5%
Q2 2022 Hash Rate
-1.7%
New All-Time-High (ATH)
281m TH/s
Source: Blockchain.com
Q3 2022 Hash Rate
4.8%

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Electricity Heating Transportation
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Misplaced focus? Bitcoin’s energy use has been scrutinized since its inception
Global Energy
Consumption
Bitcoin Energy Usage
Source: CCAF, Climate Watch, IEA
104 TWh
Annualized electricity
use
53 MtCO2e
Annualized GHG
emissions
0.47%
global electricity
use
0.11%
Global GHG
emissions (2019)
• Methane capture*
• Incentivise
buildout of low
carbon energy
• Permissionless
platform for building
dApps with positive
impacts e.g. ReFi
Note: Methane (CH4), while less abundant in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2), is 84x more potent at trapping heat than CO2 over a 20-year period and is responsible for about 1/3 of current warming.
Using methane to power mining can limit short-term warming and buy society time to decarbonize and phase out fossil fuels.
Bitcoin mining has always been criticized for its
alleged outsized carbon emissions and climate change
impact. Looking at the figures however, it seems these
criticisms are arguably disproportionate and often
misleading.
low-carbon
38%
fossil fuels
62%
global electricity
use
Recently, Ethereum’s successful transition to
proof-of-stake and subsequent >99% reduction in
energy use has renewed attention and
comparisons to Bitcoin.
However, Bitcoin and Ethereum have
fundamentally different use-cases. Both
technologies have unique features that could be
leveraged to create positive externalities in their
own ways.

USD Reigns Supreme!
Bitcoin vs. Major Asset Classes in Q3 2022
While Q3 was rather choppy for Bitcoin, it managed to
outperform other asset classes outside of the US
Dollar Index (DXY). However from a YTD perspective,
it still experienced the largest loss amongst all other
asset classes.
Q3 2022 Bitcoin vs. Major Asset Classes Price Returns
Price
Return
Bitcoin dipped hand-in-hand with US equities, but
largely managed to recover compared to the equities
market.
Fiat currencies have been performing poorly against
the US Dollar. The EURO and GBP have nearly hit
parity against the USD. Meanwhile, central banks
across the world have mimicked the Federal Reserve
in raising interest rates to stem the outflow while also
combating inflation.
Source: Yahoo Finance
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BTC Crude Oil Gold TLT DXY YEN

ETHEREUM ANALYSIS
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Q3 2022 Ethereum Price vs. Trading Volume
The Merge – a successful non-event
Source: CoinGecko
+25.7%
ETH Price Return in Q3 2022
Ethereum Price and Spot Trading Volume (Jan – Sep 2022)
ETH finally broke away on a rally in early
Q3 but failed to break the $2,000
resistance, peaking at $1,982 in mid-
August before tumbling back down again.
ETH price started climbing again in late
August, just 2 weeks before the Merge.
Despite being touted as the most bullish
event ever for Ethereum, the upswing was
brief.
A combination of high CPI, anticipation for
an aggressive FOMC hike, and traders
moving in to “sell-the-news” mode meant
the selloff started even days before the
Merge.
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The Merge
In the end, The Merge hypetrain ran into a
headwind of bearish macroeconomic
conditions, with the general consensus of
it being a “successful non-event”.
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Ethereum Roadmap Post-Merge
After The Merge, Ethereum is now 55% complete according to Vitalik
Source: https://ethereum.org/
Beacon Chain
Berlin
London
Altair
Arrow Glacier
The Great Renaming
Ropsten Testnet Merge
Gary Glacier
Sepolia Testnet Merge
Goerli Testnet Merge
Bellatrix
01 Dec 2020
15 Apr 2021
05 Aug 2021
27 Oct 2021
09 Dec 2021
24 Jan 2022
08 Jun 2022
30 Jun 2022
06 Jul 2022
10 Aug 2022
06 Sep 2022
Pre-Merge
The Merge
15 Sep 2022
The Surge
Ethereum’s scalability will be greatly
improved by sharding, boosting TPS from
15-40 to 100,000
Post-Merge
The Verge
Storage is optimized through Verkle Trees,
making validation more scalable, faster
and easier to set-up, allowing more
validators to join in
The Purge
Excess historical date to be purged to
reduce network congestion and hard drive
space requirements for validators
The Splurge
Miscellaneous updates and upgrades, “the
fun stuff”
Ethereum 2025

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Rocket Pool Huobi Abyss Finance Stakewise
Others
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Q3 2022 Ethereum Consensus Layer Staking
Staked ETH plateauing after spike in Q1 2022
Closer to and after the Merge, there has
been more liquid staking offerings that
have come to market from the likes of
Coinbase, Cloud Collective and Frax.
Total staked ETH surged past 14k ETH
just after the Merge, representing 11.6% of
total ETH supply.
Lido is the leader in ETH staking with
30% of all staked ETH, though this is
distributed between 30 node operators.
It was also the one that gained the most
staked ETH in Q3, followed by Coinbase,
Figment, Binance and Kraken.
Source: Glassnode
Total Staked ETH in Validators (Jan – Sep 2022)
Q1 2022
Total Staked ETH +25%
11,028,546
12,994,347
8,852,770
Q2 2022
Total Staked ETH +17.8%
Q3 2022
Total Staked ETH +8.24%
14,054,455
13.8%
8.3% 6.6%
2.9%
2.0%
2.1%
28.8%
30.2%
Staked ETH

State of Ethereum Post-Merge
Ethereum’s net token emissions have slowed significantly post-Merge
Ethereum Supply (Jan – Sep 2022)
118,000,000
118,500,000
119,000,000
119,500,000
120,000,000
120,500,000
121,000,000
Ethereum Number of On-Chain Transactions & Average Daily Gas Price (Jan – Sep 2022)
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Average Gas Price (Gwei) # of On-Chain Transactions
Source: Etherscan
Merge
-95%
Reduction in Average Daily
Net Emissions Post-Merge
Since the Merge, Ethereum’s net token
emissions have slowed significantly, giving
credence to earlier anticipation of ”triple-
halving”.
Average daily net emissions have
decreased from +9,587ETH since the
start of 2022 to +560ETH post-Merge.
While the Merge was not meant to
improve scalability, it’s interesting that
average gas price has stayed low (~10 –
20 gwei) despite a small spike in on-chain
transactions post-Merge.
Ethereum block times have slightly
improved from ~13 – 13.5 secs to ~12.1
secs post-Merge, though this is likely not
noticeable by normal users.
ETH Supply
Gas Price
(Gwei)
# of On-Chain
Transactions

Ethereum Proof-of-Work (PoW) Forks
Despite earlier hype, ETH PoW forks have not gained much traction in price or hash power
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Price of ETH PoW Forks (September 2022)
1-Sep 1-Oct
16-Sep 24-Sep
9-Sep 13-Sep 20-Sep 28-Sep
5-Sep
$27.59
$11.85
$1.95
Source: CoinGecko; 2Miners; Etherscan; state.etherfair.org
Price
~208TH/s
Combined hashrate on all
ETH PoW Forks
Prices of ETHW and ETHF have fallen by
~80% and ~98% respectively since launch,
while ETC is ~40% down compared to its
price at the start of the year.
At present, the hashrate on these forks
are hovering ~150TH/s (ETC), ~50TH/s
(ETHW) and ~8TH/s (ETHF) respectively.
For ETC, this is already a 70x increase
from its hashrate at the start of 2022.
Another PoW chain, Ravencoin has saw its
hashrate increase from 3 to 15TH/s
Just prior to the Merge, ETH hashrate was
870TH/s. Post-Merge, only ~170TH/s
seem to have migrated to other chains,
indicating ~700TH/s in hashpower may
have been shut down.

DEFI ANALYSIS
24

2.0%
2.5%
3.0%
3.5%
4.0%
4.5%
5.0%
5.5%
6.0%
6.5%
7.0%
$20B
$40B
$60B
$80B
$100B
$120B
$140B
$160B
DeFi MarketCap DeFi Share of Market (DeFi/Global Market Cap)
Q3 2022
$45B
Q2 2022
$36B
25
Q3 2022 DeFi Overview
Although market moved sideways, the DeFi sector bucked the trend
Late Q1 2022 Recovery Collapse of Terra
The resurgence of DeFi’s market share was
largely due to the narrative surrounding
the Merge.
Notable, there was an uptick in trading
volume and volatility for governance
tokens of liquid staking protocols such as
Lido (LDO) and Rocket Pool (RPL).
Despite the overall crypto market showing
no significant signs of improvement,
DeFi market cap actually increased
significantly in Q3 from $36B to $45B.
However this is still ~70% down from the
start of the year.
Market Cap % of Market
+25.6%
Increase in DeFi Market Cap
compared to 1st July 2022
Source: CoinGecko
DeFi Market Cap and DeFi Share of Overall Market (Jan – Sep 2022)
The increase in market cap mostly came
from DeFi’s blue-chip protocols such as
Uniswap and Aave.

56% 55% 52% 51%
55% 59% 57% 58% 58%
3% 3%
3% 3%
5%
8% 9% 9% 10%
7% 7%
6% 7%
8%
9% 9% 9% 9%
8% 8%
10% 10%
9%
10% 10% 9% 9%
6% 6%
6% 6%
5%
4% 4% 3% 3%
3% 3%
2% 2%
3%
3% 3%
4%
7% 7% 11% 13%
7%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Ethereum Tron BSC Others Avalanche Polygon
Solana Arbitrum Optimism Cronos Fantom Terra Classic
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Q3 2022 DeFi Multichain Market Share
As Terra imploded, old and new contenders arise to take its spot.
$154B $146B $154B $100B
While Ethereum’s TVL has shrunk by 67%
since the start of the 2022, it is still the
most dominant network in Q3,
controlling up to 58% of multi-chain TVL.
However, it’s dominance has weakened
slightly compared to Q2, as more
altchains continue to pop up.
Tron’s TVL increased by 40% to $5.5B,
narrowly surpassing BSC to become the
2nd most dominant network, thanks to
the high incentives offered by its USDD
algo-stablecoin.
Multi-chain Total Value Locked (TVL) Breakdown (Jan – Sep 2022)
$58B $56B
-13.8%
Decrease in Multi-chain DeFi TVL
since 1st July 2022
Source: DefiLlama
*Monthly TVL is calculated by taking the average TVL on daily basis for each month.
*After the collapse of Terra in May 2022, the original Terra network was renamed as Terra Classic.
Market
Share $140B $65B $62B
Unsurprisingly, TVL on Solana continues
to shrink, dropping by 15% in Q3 due to
the multitude of exploits that occurred
on the network such as Slope wallet,
Nirvana and Crema Finance.

Q3 2022 DeFi Ecosystem Overview
Liquid staking and DEXes made strong gains in Q3
Asset
Management
$0.30B
Fixed Interest
$0.07B
DeFi enjoyed a decent rebound in Q3 2022, as most sectors managed to stem
the bleeding and then some. Overall, the DeFi market cap grew by ~31%
compared to the previous quarter. Even though Ethereum has plunged 33%
to $1,330 from its quarterly high in mid-August, it is still up by 26% compared
to Q2, aligning with DeFi’s rise in market cap.
Besides maintaining its status as the largest constituent of DeFi, DEXs
notched a significant increase in market share, rising 36.8% to $10.9B.
Notably, the liquid staking sector nearly tripled its market cap to $1.54B in
Q3, largely driven by the Merge narrative. Lido, the market cap leader in that
category, rose 264% to $1.60 within the same period.
Although the fixed interest sector grew by an impressive 90%, largely due to
the BarnBridge V2 launch, it is also the smallest, representing only 0.3% of
the overall DeFi market.
Market Cap of Each DeFi Category (Q3 2022)
Total DeFi Market Capitalization
as of 1st October 2022*
$24.5B
(+31.3%)
Source: CoinGecko
* Categorical market cap includes only governance and utility tokens (excluding stablecoins and wrapped tokens)
Total DeFi Market Cap 31.3%
44.5% Decentralized Exchanges 36.8%
18.5% Oracles 18.9%
15.8% Lending 16.7%
7.5% Derivatives 25.4%
6.3% Liquid Staking 271.7%
4.2% Yield Aggregators 18.7%
1.8% Insurance 12.5%
1.2% Asset Management -63.3%
0.3% Fixed Interest 89.7%
Weightage
(By 2022 Q3 Market Cap Share)
Sector QoQ %Change

$2.3B
$4.8B
28
Q3 2022 Cross-chain Bridge Liquidity
WBTC, JustCryptos and Multichain storm way ahead of the competition
Interestingly, the JustCryptos bridge has the 2nd highest TVL of $2.3B,
ahead of popular EVM bridges such as Multichain and Stargate. Liquidity
on the Tron-based bridge has grown by 196% in Q3 2022. Yet, it is no
surprise that more users are bridging over to Tron, thanks to the
ecosystem offering high yields on USDD.
Even though Stargate offers lower yields to liquidity providers compared
to Celer and Synapse, they seem to be way ahead of the pack in
liquidity, having more than 3x the TVL of cBridge. However, it still a far
cry away from its ATH TVL of $4.2B during its initial release.
Surprisingly, Terra Bridge still has some remnants of liquidity, even
though it’s reduced by 90% from $1.47B earlier in April 2022.
In Q3 2022, exploits on bridges are still a reality. As the latest victim, the
Nomad Bridge was hit for $190M, making it the 5th largest exploit in the
space. As it stands, 4 of the top 5 exploits currently involve bridges,
and it is unlikely that it will change anytime soon.
Top 12 Bridges with Highest Liquidity (as of 1st
October 2022)
Source: DeFiLlama
$1.8B $489M
$309M
$437M
$238M
$272M
$211M
$146M $106M
$150M
WBTC JustCryptos
Multichain
Poly
Network
Portal
Stargate
Orbit
Bridge hBTC
Synapse
Terra
Bridge
Celer
cBridge
Thorchain
As of 1st October, the top 12 bridges command over $11.26B worth of
liquidity. However, that’s a 57% plunge compared to the start of the year.

NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS (NFTs)

Q3 2022 NFT Trading Volume across Top 8 Chains
NFT winter has arrived
Top 8 Chains for NFT Trading Volume (Jan – Sep 2022)
$5.78B
$4.01B
$2.86B
$4.17B
$3.28B
$0.92B
$0.71B $0.65B $0.48B
$0.29B
$0.24B
$0.20B
$0.37B
$0.34B
$0.12B
$0.07B $0.07B
$0.13B
$0B
$1B
$2B
$3B
$4B
$5B
$6B
$7B
Ethereum Solana Flow BNB ImmutableX Polygon WAX Panini
$13.9B $9.6B $2.3B
Since then, trading volume has tumbled
83% from the start of the year. Recent
months have logged numbers even lower
than July 2021, right before NFT summer.
It seemed like NFT was slated for explosive
growth in 2022, being named “word of the
year” and coming off a record-high volume
in January this year. But as it turns out, that
was the peak.
76.4%
Trading volume decrease
from Q2 2022 to Q3 2022
Most notably, Ronin and Avalanche have
fallen out of the Top 8, replaced by
ImmutableX and Panini. Recent sports
mania has somewhat spilled over to the
NFT space, propelling Flow in to the Top 3.
Solana, fueled by y00ts and DeGods,
managed to double its September volume
while all its competitors faltered.
Source: FootPrint Analytics; Cryptoslam

$5.42B
$3.82B
$2.64B
$3.62B
$2.71B
$0.73B $0.54B $0.52B $0.36B
$0.29B
$0.24B
$0.20B
$0.35B
$0.31B
$0.12B
$0.07B $0.07B
$0.13B
$0.26B
$0.13B
$0.16B
$0.38B
$0.36B
$0.14B
$0.22B
$0B
$1B
$2B
$3B
$4B
$5B
$6B
$7B
OpenSea MagicEden LooksRare X2Y2 CryptoPunks
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Q3 2022 NFT Platform Trading Volumes
MagicEden gains ground on OpenSea dominance in a struggling market
Top 5 NFT Marketplaces (Jan – Sep 2022)
Volume $13.5B $9.2B $2.1B
Latest numbers in Sep 2022 show that as
much as ~85% of X2Y2’s volume
potentially came from wash-trading,
which would have given it the edge over
OpenSea in the leaderboard. The same
goes for LooksRare which despite its
already meager volume, is still apparently
driven by ~87% wash trades.
The NFT market took a heavy hit in the past
quarter, registering a -71% fall in volume.
-77.4%
Trading volume decrease
from Q2 2022 to Q3 2022
MagicEden was the only one that saw
growth in September, doubling its MoM
volume and dominance while the rest of
its competitors continued to slip. With its
recent foray into Ethereum, as well as the
headline-grabbing launch of y00ts (see
Slide 33), MagicEden (22%) has gained
ground on OpenSea’s (60%) dominance,
but it remains to be seen if it can sustain its
current momentum.
Source: FootPrint Analytics
*OpenSea volumes incudes Ethereum, Polygon and Solana
**Wash trades on LooksRare and X2Y2 are excluded

Pudgy Penguins
Q3 2022 Top NFT Collections
As the Pengus make their comeback, Solana NFTs continue to bring the heat
32
Top 10 Collections on Ethereum Top 10 Collections on Solana
Ethereum Name Service
DigiDaigaku
Bored Ape Yacht Club
Pudgy Penguins once again took the NFT space by
storm as the rarest Pengu in the collection, a unique
left-facing Pudgy, was sold for 400 ETH (~$630k).
Besides that, the team had also announced a new
advisory board as well as the creation of the Pudgy
Toy line.
Besides that, DigiDaigaku also became one of the
most popular collections in Q3 2022, championing
the concept of Free-to-Own (F2O). Released during a
stealth mint in August, the collection of 2022 NFTs
reached an ATH of 21 ETH (~$31k) after its creators,
Limit Break, raised $200M in funding.
Over on Solana, y00ts and DeGods attracted all the
attention. Since y00ts was first announced, the project
has generated plenty of buzz and attention to the
Solana NFT scene. The y00ts scholarship, which is
basically similar to a whitelist, allowed 15,000 people
to mint their first y00ts t00bs, including the likes of
Wayne Rooney and Lil Baby.
RENGA
Azuki
Art Blocks Curated
RTFKT Clone X Forging SZN 1
Otherdeed for Otherside
Mutant Ape Yacht Club
y00ts
DeGods
ABC
Galactic Geckos
Cets on Creck
Shadowy Super Coder DAO
Primates
Blocksmith Labs
Trippin Ape Tribe
Aurory
With over 2.3 million unique domains registered,
ENS climbed quickly to the top ahead of the Merge, as
well as the attention surrounding the ‘999 club’ and
the ‘10k club’ where you can only gain access if you
have the ENS with the required digits.

Launch of Sudoswap
Sudoswap surges ahead of competition with new, royalty-free NFT AMM
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Source: Dune (@0xRob)
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200
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2,000
$0.0M
$0.5M
$1.0M
$1.5M
$2.0M
$2.5M
$3.0M
$3.5M
Jul-22 Jul-22 Jul-22 Jul-22 Aug-22 Aug-22 Aug-22 Aug-22 Sep-22 Sep-22 Sep-22 Sep-22 Sep-22
Trading Vol. Daily Users
Total Volume = $1.4M
DAU = 83
Total Volume = $31.1M (+2,041%)
DAU = 1,101 (+1,231%)
Total Volume = $21.8M (-30%)
DAU = 547 (-50%)
Within just a month of its launch, the
SudoSwap-mania caught on fire and
exploded to >$30M in trading volume in
August – a whopping 20x MoM increase.
SudoSwap, like others, was eventually
buffeted by the NFT downturn trend in
September. Yet, its rising popularity
among traders is undeniable, even
overtaking powerhouses like
CryptoPunks and LooksRare in monthly
volume for both August and September.
A large part of this is due to how
sudoAMM is designed to facilitate liquidity
exchange, and also its cost efficiency in
being royalty-free.
Sudoswap Trading Volume and Daily Active Users (Jul – Sep 22)
$362M
$129M
$69M
$22M
$21M
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Total Volume (Sep)
Sudoswap introduces old DeFi concepts
such as LPs and bonding curves to NFT
trading – think Uniswap but for JPEGs.
To learn more about how SudoSwap works,
check out our introductory article here.

Sudoswap Triggers Debate over NFT Royalties
NFT marketplaces chooses sides
34
Sudoswap’s rise ignited heated discussions about the role of royalty in Web3 and NFTs, with one party (Team Creator) clamoring over this supposed step-
back, and another (Team Trader) lauding this innovation.
Team Trader
Team Creator
X2Y2 also joined in the royalty fray, announcing a new feature, allowing buyers to customize the amount of royalty paid.
MagicEden on the other hand decided to side with Team Creator, releasing Metashield, a royalty enforcement that helps creators identify NFTs that
bypass royalties. The creators will be free to “shield” the NFTs in question as they see fit, including blurring the image, changing the metadata or flagging
the NFT.
The NFT-royalty debate is still ongoing with no end in sight yet, but at the end of the day crypto is ultimately a capitalistic space where everything
eventually comes down to where the most money can be made. Unless it becomes embedded as in the case of MagicEden’s Metashield, it is likely that
the broader market will pivot to whichever platform offers the best cost efficiency, while only the hardcore fans will still pay royalties to support their
favorite creators.
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Q3 2022 Top 10 Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Spot trading volumes are starting to recover in-time for Uptober?
$1.3T
Top-10 Cryptocurrency Exchange (CEX + DEX) Trading Volume (Jan – Sep 2022)
CEXes have continued to increase their
dominance. The CEX:DEX ratio has
increased to 95% in Q3 2022 from 89% in
Q2 2022.
Spot trading volumes have been
decimated, briefly dipping even below
$1T in July and August before recovering in
September.
In line with a global slowdown of the
economy and financial markets, traders
and investors alike have naturally de-
risked from crypto assets. DEXs have
suffered more than CEXes as most
crypto degens left the market.
-20.8%
Top 10 (DEX + CEX) Total Trading
Volume Decline from Q2 2022
to Q3 2022
$1.3T $0.9T $0.9T $0.9T $1.0T
Trading
Volume
Source: CoinGecko
Total Trading Volume ($ Trillion)
$1.5T $1.2T $1.3T
$1.31T
$1.02T
$1.20T $1.18T $1.21T
$0.86T $0.85T $0.84T
$0.94T
$0.18T
$0.15T
$0.13T
$0.09T
$0.11T
$0.08T $0.07T $0.06T
$0.05T
$0.0T
$0.2T
$0.4T
$0.6T
$0.8T
$1.0T
$1.2T
$1.4T
$1.6T
CEX DEX

Q3 2022 Top 10 Centralized Exchanges (CEX)
CEXs are seeing some recovery towards the end of September
Top-10 centralized exchanges recorded a
total of $2.62T in spot trading volume in
Q3 2022, dropping below the $3T mark for
the first time in a quarter since the bull
market began.
-24.0%
Top 10 CEX Total Trading
Volume Decline from Q2 2022
to Q3 2022
BitMart is a dark horse, having grown
from 2% at the start of the year and
reaching 9% this quarter. This is
indicative of an overall trend where newer
and more retail-oriented exchanges like
Crypto.com have suffered significant
losses. While older exchanges favoured by
OG degens are still retaining traction.
Binance has finally captured more than
50% of the market. One reason could be
the imposition of zero-fee Bitcoin spot
trading across all 13 trading pairs on their
platform.
Source: CoinGecko
$1.3T
Top 10 CEX Trading Volume Breakdown (Jan – Sep 2022)
Market
Share
39% 41% 43% 43%
48% 47% 47%
51% 52%
2% 2%
4% 5%
7% 7% 7%
8% 9%
8%
10%
10% 8%
6% 9% 9%
8% 8%
14%
12%
11% 10%
7% 5% 7%
6%
7%
9% 9%
8%
6% 6% 7% 5%
7%
7%
5% 5% 5%
4%
7% 8% 8%
7%
6%
3% 4% 4%
6%
5% 5% 5%
4%
4%
6% 6% 5% 6%
6% 5% 5%
4% 3%
5% 5% 4% 5%
5% 6% 6% 4% 3%
8% 7% 7% 7% 3% 2% 2% 2% 2%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Binance BitMart UpBit OKX Coinbase FTX Gate.io KuCoin Huobi Crypto.com
$1.0T $1.2T $1.2T $1.2T $0.9T $0.8T $0.8T $0.9T

Q3 2022 Top 10 Decentralized Exchanges (DEX)
DEXs, meanwhile, are just spiralling down
It seems that the play for market share is
favoring expansionary growth across
different chains. Single-chain DEXes such
as Pancakeswap are slowly losing market
share, dropping by 60.1% over the quarter.
Top 10 DEXs recorded a total of $179.0
billion in spot trading volume in Q3
2022, giving a monthly average of $60B.
Compare this with Q2 2022 which saw a
total of $287B and a monthly average of
$95B.
-37.5%
Top 10 DEXs Total Trading
Volume Decline from Q2 2022 to
Q3 2022
Combined across all chains, Uniswap is still
the dominant DEX with ~64% market
share. Dodo, however, has been steadily
growing QoQ as it starts capitalizing on its
expansion to other chains.
Source: CoinGecko
Top 10 DEX Trading Volume Breakdown (Jan – Sep 2022)
Market
Share
Total Trading Volume ($ Billion)
$178B $148B $129B $93B $115B $78B $68B $60B $50B
56%
67%
61%
54% 54%
60%
68% 65% 64%
3%
8%
7%
7% 3%
4%
7% 9% 10%
12%
9%
10%
16%
12%
9%
7% 9% 8%
7%
3%
3% 5%
13%
14%
6% 5% 8%
2% 2%
3% 3% 3% 3%
15%
5%
5%
8% 8%
2% 2% 3% 2%
4% 6%
8% 3%
3% 3% 4% 3%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Uniswap Dodo Pancakeswap v2 Curve Balancer Sushi Serum THORChain Quickswap Jupiter

Q3 2022 Derivatives Exchanges – Perpetual Swaps Volume
Monthly average has dropped below the $3T mark for the first time in the year
Trading volume for all perpetuals across
the Top 10 derivatives exchanges
decreased by $750 billion in Q3 2022.
Relative market share between exchanges
and their market positions remained
largely the same throughout the first
three quarters of the year.
The only ones that have managed to
increase their market share are Bybit and
OKX. Nonetheless, Binance still remains
the top dog, controlling more than half of
the market (54%) trading volume.
Source: CoinGecko
-8.0%
Top 10 Perpetual Swap
Trading Volume Decline in
Q3 2022
Aggregate Monthly Perpetual Trading Volume Dominance (Jan – Sep 2022)
Market
Share
53% 52% 51% 54% 53% 54% 53% 55% 54%
17% 18% 19% 15% 15% 15% 17% 16% 16%
7% 7% 8% 9% 10% 11% 11% 10% 11%
10% 10% 9% 9% 10% 9% 8% 8% 8%
3% 3% 3% 4% 4% 4% 4% 4% 4%
3% 3% 3% 3% 3% 3% 3% 2% 2%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Binance OKX Bybit FTX KuCoin Gate.io BitMart Huobi dYdX BitMex
$3.4T $3.0T $3.3T $3.0T $3.3T $3.1T $2.9T $2.9T $2.8T

Q3 2022 Derivatives Exchanges – Bitcoin Perpetual Swaps Open Interest
Gate.io is gaining market share at the expense of Binance
Open interest (OI) across the top-10
derivatives exchanges recorded a total of
$2.2 trillion in Q3 2022. A slight decline in
OI is reflective of the overall bear market
where trading interest has dropped.
Source: CoinGecko
-2.7%
Top 10 Bitcoin Perpetual Swap
Open Interest Decline in
Q3 2022
Not much has changed throughout the
quarter, except for Gate.io whose OI has
grown by 19.4% over the quarter. Binance,
meanwhile has seen some significant
losses, and lost 7.6% of its share of OI in
Q3.
Aggregate Monthly Bitcoin Perpetual Open Interest Market Share (Jan – Sep 2022)
Market
Share
Total Open Interest ($ Billion)
$900B $736B $887B $945B $737B $620B $683B $820B $740B
36% 37% 36% 35% 33% 31% 30% 31% 30%
22% 21%
19%
17% 19% 20% 20% 20% 20%
10% 9% 13%
12% 13% 14% 17% 16% 16%
11% 11% 10%
11%
11% 12% 12% 12% 12%
6% 7% 8%
10%
10% 10% 9% 9% 9%
5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 6% 7% 8%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Binance FTX Gate.io Bybit OKX Deribit KuCoin Bitfinex Huobi BitMex

-5%
-3%
-1%
1%
3%
5%
-40%
-20%
0%
20%
40%
GBTC BITO
$0.0B
$1.0B
$2.0B
$3.0B
$4.0B
$5.0B
$0B
$10B
$20B
$30B
$40B
GBTC BITO
42
Q3 2022 Performance of GBTC and $BITO
GBTC ends the quarter with ATH discount of 36%, with no ETF in sight still
Source: YCharts
Bitcoin Price and Spot Trading Volume Apr ‘21 - Oct '21
Total AUM of GBTC & BITO (Jan – Sep 2022)
GBTC & BITO Premium/Discount to Net Asset Value (NAV) (Jan – Sep 2022)
$30.1B
$1.2B $1.3B
$29.8B
$0.6B
$12.4B $12.4B
$0.6B
+0.71% (Q3 2022)
-0.16% (Q3 2022)
GBTC Deviation from NAV (Q3 2022)
Average = 32.25% Discount
Lowest Discount = 28.51%
Highest Discount = 36.37%
BITO Deviation from NAV (Q3 2022)
Average = 0.02% Premium
Highest Premium = 0.25%
Highest Discount = 0.23%
0.02% 0.06% 0.10% 0.05%
-21.3%
-25.5%
-31.4%
-36.2%
Since the SEC’s rejection of GBTC’s ETF
application, the trust has seen a steady
widening of its discount to NAV,
particularly in September which saw it end
the quarter at an ATH discount of 36%.
Despite GBTC’s legal threats, the SEC is
unlikely to change their tune anytime soon.
SEC has repeatedly cited “fake Bitcoin
trades” as the reason for not approving a
spot Bitcoin ETF, a problem that’s
apparently still rampant today.
Just like BTC, the total AUM of GBTC and
BITO ended the quarter pretty much
where they started. Still, these are
figures way down from the beginning of
the year – -58.5% and -53.1% YTD
decrease in AUM respectively. For GBTC,
the nightmare doesn’t stop here…
Meanwhile, BITO has been able to keep
the value of its AUM in-line with the
NAV. In fact, BITO even managed to
capture a bit more market share while
maintaining an AUM of >$600M, thanks to
competitor SPBC’s misfortune of a ~50%
drop in AUM in Q3.

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