JPMorgan Breaks Down November’s Crypto Meltdown

In response to Wall Road financial institution JPMorgan, cryptocurrency buying and selling volumes fell final month because the market skilled a broad pullback.

The financial institution signaled a pointy slowdown in stablecoin turnover, with common every day quantity down 26% month-on-month, and in addition considerably weaker decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible token (NFT) volumes.

Issues about leverage within the system, rumors of a attainable new crypto winter and underperformance versus shares all weighed on valuations and exercise, overshadowing a handful of mergers and acquisitions and product launches, analysts led by Kenneth Worthington mentioned in Tuesday’s report.

Flows into US-listed crypto merchandise additionally turned unfavourable, the analysts wrote. U.S. bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) noticed web outflows of $3.4 billion in November, wiping out October’s web inflows.

U.S. ether-traded merchandise posted their worst month ever, with $1.4 billion in web redemptions, the report mentioned.

Buying and selling exercise additionally deteriorated. Complete spot volumes fell 19% month-on-month in November, based mostly on CoinDesk information, with TradingView suggesting an analogous decline of ~23%, in accordance with JPMorgan.

Bitcoins BTC$89,770.37 its market worth fell 17% to $1.8 trillion, nonetheless outperforming ether ETH$3,173.51whose market capitalization fell 22% to $361 billion, the analysts wrote.

Crypto considerably underperformed conventional inventory benchmarks, with the S&P 500 flat and the Nasdaq 100 down about 2% final month.

The whole crypto market capitalization fell 17% to $3.04 trillion, whereas crypto-related public shares misplaced 21% of their worth.

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