In this week’s podcast, Imran Lakha and David Brickell welcome James van Straten from Cryptoslate as they take a look into the world of on-chain analytics.
James writes reports analyzing these important metrics to help traders forecast trends in crypto assets. This unique approach and the granularity of the flow data that is unavailable in TradFi markets has become somewhat of a must-have tool for serious crypto investors over the years. They also dive into the latest macro and crypto headlines including the ETH ETF that has suddenly come back on everyone’s radar. Imran explains how much the event risk has distorted the ETH vol surface and what flows they have been seeing.
The following topics is covered:
0:00 – Introduction
1:14 – Crypto market overview and political changes
4:42 – The biggest one-day move for ETH since May ’21
5:20 – What does CryptoSlate?
8:27 – How to trade with on-chain analytics?
11:58 – James first experience with Bitcoin
13:48 – Microstrategy becomes the biggest company on earth?
14:44 – What about Bitcoin miners?
17:57 – Deep-dive in on-chain analytics with James van Straten
29:04 – Thoughts on the charts and James’s target for Bitcoin.
32:50 – Short volatility update from Imran
36:20 – Trading thoughts on the Ethereum ETF scenario
39:08 – Key-takeaways
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