The tariff news cycle has unleashed a wave of FUD on the Bitcoin market. Here’s how the whales on the largest exchange have been reacting to it.
Bitcoin Exchange Inflows Have Been Dropping On Binance Recently
In a CryptoQuant Quicktake post, an analyst has talked about how the Bitcoin Binance whales have been behaving recently. The first indicator shared by the quant is the Exchange Whale Ratio, which measures the ratio between the sum of the top 10 deposits and the total exchange inflow for any given platform.
The ten largest transfers to an exchange generally correspond to the activity of the whales. Thus, the Exchange Whale Ratio tells us about how the whale inflow activity compares against that of the entire platform.
As the below chart shows the 365-day exponential moving average (EMA) of the Bitcoin Exchange Whale Ratio for Binance has been climbing up throughout this cycle, meaning that the whales have been making up for an increasingly larger share of the deposits to the exchange.
The trend in the BTC Binance Exchange Whale Ratio over the last couple of years | Source: CryptoQuant
Generally, investors deposit their coins to exchanges when they want to sell, so the Exchange Whale Ratio having a large value can suggest whales are making up for a big part of the selling activity on the platform.
The 365-day EMA of the Binance Exchange Whale Ratio has continued to rise recently, implying the bigger picture continues to be that the whales on the largest cryptocurrency exchange are still ramping up their selling pressure.
In the short-term view (30-day EMA), however, whales have been losing inflow dominance. It’s possible that this is only a temporary deviation and the trend would go back to that of an increase soon, but in the scenario that it’s truly an early sign of a trend shift, then Bitcoin could see a bullish effect from this.
The Exchange Whale Ratio only measures what part of the total inflows the whales make up for. Here is another metric that shows the size of the whale exchange inflows themselves:
Looks like the value of the metric has gone down recently | Source: CryptoQuant
As displayed in the above graph, the 30-day sum of the Binance Whale to Exchange Flow measured at around $8.5 billion during last year’s peak. Today, the metric has come down to just $4.9 billion.
Thus, it would seem that the whales have significantly lowered their deposit activity during the last few months. The trend is interesting, given that the market has been going through a phase of a panic recently owing to all the news related to the tariffs.
“In conclusion, during this complicated period, it appears that Binance whales are not panicking,” notes the analyst.
BTC Price
Following a recovery surge of over 7% during the past week, Bitcoin has returned back above the $85,000 level.
The price of the coin seems to have risen recently | Source: BTCUSDT on TradingView
