Singapore-based cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has seemingly invested over $84 million on the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, Ethereum ($ETH), as its value dipped beneath the $4,000 mark.
In keeping with blockchain journalist Colin Wu, Etherscan information reveals that Three Arrows Capital has withdrawn hundreds of thousands from cryptocurrency buying and selling platforms Binance and Coinbase onto its pockets.
The journalist detailed that earlier the agency transferred 14,833 ETH, value roughly $56 million, from the exchanges to its pockets. Over the previous week, which noticed the price of ETH steadily drop from round $4,400 to $3,700 on the time of writing, Three Arrows Capital transferred 22,416 ETH from exchanges to its pockets.
These transactions got here after it moved 91,477 Ether from exchanges onto its pockets on December 7, shortly after Three Arrows Capitals’ CEO Su Zhu said that he had “deserted Ethereum regardless of supporting it previously,” as he believes “Ethereum has deserted its customers regardless of supporting them previously.”
In a tweetstorm, the CEO famous that Ethereum was struggling “from the Founders Dilemma” as “everyone seems to be already far too wealthy to recollect what they initially got down to do.” Within the tweetstorm, he defended that transaction charges on Ethereum had been too excessive for newcomers to have the ability to undertake the chain.
Afterward, Su Zhu revealed he used the unsuitable then when he stated “abandon.” The CEO famous that whereas Ethereum is “nonetheless unusable for newcomers,” he would “nonetheless bid it onerous on any panic dump.”
Ethereum’s transaction charges, as CryptoGlobe reported, have hit new highs final month whereas the decentralized finance (DeFi) activity on the Solana blockchain, which has negligible transaction charges, shot up. Regardless of the charges paid to maneuver funds on Ethereum many are nonetheless betting on it, including Canadian healthcare services firm Ask The Doctor.
In November, combination open curiosity throughout cryptocurrency derivatives merchandise elevated to a median of $36.6 billion, up from $31.4 billion in October. Open curiosity throughout BTC futures merchandise rose to $18.9 billion, up 14.7% from October, whereas open curiosity for ETH futures merchandise rose 16.9% to $8.1 billion, a new all-time high.
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