Like a ton of assets in the crypto-market, Ethereum’s [ETH] price jumped over the weekend. Even at press time, the second-largest cryptocurrency in market value maintained a 5.11% hike in the last 24 hours. Needless to say, this has brought some calm to the market. Especially since much of it was flashing red over the weekend.
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However, despite the gains registered on the charts, whales did not seem to be content. As pointed out by Ali_charts, a crypto-analyst on Twitter, addresses holding 1000 to 10000 ETH added $600 million to their holdings.
The information, derived from Glassnode, revealed that the whales took the action when ETH was still hovering above $1,680 on the charts.
<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>#Ethereum whales with 1,000 to 10,000 $ETH added around 400,000 #ETH to their holdings in the recent #crypto market dip, worth around $600,000,000. pic.twitter.com/OMfebJoPVh— Ali (@ali_charts) March 14, 2023
So, does the accumulation mean ETH still has a tendency to climb further? Well, according to Glassnode, the Network Value to Transaction (NVT) signal had a reading of 98.45, at press time. The metric often reflects the 90-day moving average trend of the daily transaction volume, rather than a day-to-day valuation.
Compared to its value in recent times, the aforementioned NVT signal is a high one. And, the last time it was as high was back in February 2020. Hence, it seemed to confirm that investors were pricing ETH at a premium while the market cap’s growth outpaced its on-chain transaction volume.
Source: Glassnode
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