LINK - Staking is live

Assets covered: $LINK

Metrics used: Price, Supply on Exchanges, Supply Distribution, MVRV 30D,

Chart: https://app.santiment.net/s/XagoNfqW

Chainlink just launched their staking v0.1 early access, let's take a look at how things went.

Price

LINK's trading volume have fallen off quite a bit ever since early November. Although, there was some excitement when updated details of staking emerged on 22nd Nov, driving prices higher but eventually fizzed out.

A price/volume divergence could be seen as staking drew closer, suggesting waning demand for LINK. Those that wanted to get in, already did.

Chainlink staking

Since launch, almost half the community pool has been filled, with majority of LINK coming in within the hour of staking launch according to the contract's historical balance.

Momentum seems to have slowed down quite a bit. In the beginning, addresses were mostly maxing out the initial staking upper limit of 7,000 LINK.

But now, it's mostly smaller amounts.

Supply on exchanges

Interestingly, when Chainlink announced new staking details, it marked the local bottom and saw a huge spike in Supply on exchanges.

Price didn't falter either, even with the huge supply. Seems like someone knew that the update would see increased demand for LINK and was using this opportunity to patiently distribute LINK.

Who could this be?

Looking at the top transactions on that date, it seems that an address associated with the Chainlink treasury moved LINK to Binance during then.

Welcome new LINK community members.

Supply distribution

Whale addresses have been on a decline since 22nd Nov while retail addresses have grown. This could be due to a few possibilities:

1. Whales upon finding out the initial staking limit is 7,000 link decides to split its huge stash
2. Retail actually accumulating LINK while whales distributed.

#2 can be observed in Supply on Exchanges section.

LINK's MVRV 30D which measures the short-term profit/loss of holders is showing that we have just topped out in the Danger Zone, where historically saw APE’s price decline shortly after as a local top form, and making our way slowly into the Opportunity zone.

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