Ethereum whales hit their highest since January 2018

Santiment data shows that the whales have taken advantage of the drop in ether to buy cryptocurrency at comfortable prices.

The number of wallets. containing more than $ 100,000 of ETH rose to its highest level since January 2018. Whales have become more active amid the fall in the altcoin price from $ 4358 to $ 2015, it says in the team report.

In just one week, the capitalization of Ether fell by more than 35%. Today, the ETH rate is holding around $ 2320, the total value of the cryptocurrency has decreased to $ 266 billion.

As analyst Miko Matsumura pointed out on Twitter, the whale’s interest in the airwaves has grown significantly over the past few weeks. In terms of the concentration of cryptocurrency in the hands of the largest addresses, ETH even surpassed Bitcoin. the expert emphasized.

Altcoin is also in high demand from institutional investors.

This trend is evidenced by data from the Skew team, which drew attention to a sharp increase in open interest in Ethereum options. On the Deribit, OKEx and Huobi exchanges, this indicator in May reached $ 7 billion, $ 349 million and $ 1 million, respectively.

By the end of the month, open interest in the product began to decline due to a massive ETH rollback.

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