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Market Insights: FEB 2025 | Week4

Wavebridge Research/ Strategic Bitcoin Holdings: States Lead the Way The US state of Utah is close to finalising a bill to include Bitcoin as a state reserve asset. If finalised, Utah will become the first US state to hold Bitcoin as an official reserve asset. In Georgia, Senate Bill 178

Market Insights: FEB 2025 | Week3

Wavebridge Research/ Bitcoin Ownership Trends: Retail Dominance, Institutional Investments, and New Indices Bitwise's analysis of Bitcoin holdings found that 69.4% of the total Bitcoin supply is concentrated in the hands of retail investors. In its Q4 2024 report, Bitwise noted that retail investors hold more bitcoin than

Market Insights: FEB 2025 | Week2

Wavebridge Research/ Crypto Trading Volume on Centralized Exchanges Drops to $9.3 Trillion in January Combined spot and derivatives trading volumes on centralised exchanges totalled $9.3 trillion in January, down 20.2% month-on-month. Spot trading fell 22.9 per cent to $2.88 trillion, while derivatives trading was down

Market Insights: FEB 2025 | Week1

Wavebridge Research/ Bitcoin Price Correction, ETF Outflows, and Institutional Influence Bitcoin prices corrected in the wake of the dips and the US imposition of foreign tariffs. Bitcoin spot ETFs saw outflows of $457.6 million, while Ethereum spot ETFs saw outflows of $136.2 million. Institutional investors have become increasingly

Market Insights: JAN 2025 | Week3

Wavebridge Research/ US Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Investments and Regulations The US Department of Justice said that $12 billion worth of bitcoin stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in a 2016 hack should be returned to the exchange. The Wisconsin Investment Board has invested $105 million in BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF,

Market Insights: JAN 2025 | Week2

Wavebridge Research/ Bitcoin's Evolution and Market Dynamics It's been 16 years since the first Bitcoin-related tweet. Sixteen years ago, on 10 January 2009, Hal Finney, an early Bitcoin user and computer scientist, tweeted ‘Running Bitcoin’. Bitcoin grew by an average of 154 new millionaire wallet addresses

Market Insights: JAN 2025 | Week1

Wavebridge Research/ Rising Bitcoin Adoption and Network Advancements Bitwise predicts that inflows into US spot Bitcoin ETFs in 2025 will exceed last year's levels. Currently, US spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen cumulative net inflows of approximately $35.66 billion. Bitcoin hashrate reaches record highs, significantly strengthening network security

Market Insights: DEC 2024 | Week5

Wavebridge Research/ Bitcoin’s Growth and Clean Energy Milestone Bitcoin's market capitalisation was around $82.8 billion on 1 January this year, and has now reached $1.91 trillion. The market capitalisation of the cryptocurrency market as a whole was around $1.67 trillion at the start of

Market Insights: DEC 2024 | Week4

Wavebridge Research/ Bitcoin Network Achievements and Market Dynamics Bitcoin ETFs launched in the US earlier this year hold 1.4 million BTC, while US-listed companies have purchased and held around 297,000 BTC. Institutional investors bought 859,454 BTC in 2024 alone. That's eight years of Bitcoin issuance

Market Insights: DEC 2024 | Week3

Wavebridge Research/ Bitcoin Network Achievements and Market Dynamics Since its inception, the Bitcoin network has processed a total of $1.31 trillion in transactions, with more than 1.12 billion transactions resulting in a market value of more than $2 trillion. Investors have recorded a total of $1.27 trillion