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Liquid-staking > Bitcoin ETF? Why did some coins do well?Trying to make sense of what happened this week in the markets - glad that Tezos is getting some shine but what made this week interesting is that it coincided with Bitcoin's ETF - news which didn't really help Bitcoin all that much but it helped a *select few* coins, while most of them actually went down. My gut tells me that both $XTZ and NYSE:SUI have something "normal people" want - which is basic, L1 liquid staking that allows people to earn "interest" on their money in a way where they don't have to lock it up. (Don't get me started on ETH on this one, lol.) LSE:TIA might've gotten some attention because they were marketing their liquid staking protocol recently but it's similar to other workaround solutions where you get tokens instead of the actual coin itself. I think it's safe to say that most people won't bother with L2 staking since managing sub-tokens within a currency itself is just too much work, and too much risk. This is mostly just a hunch the hypothesis right now is that some of the money that was supposed to flow into Bitcoin ETFs took a closer look at saw liquid staking as something potentially appealing since it's one of the few things in crypto that's easier to understand. What do you think?
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by RyanTanaka
The Market Has Spoken - "Liquid Staking" is the FutureFollowing this week's inflation report and the much-anticipated "The Merge" on Ethereum's ecosystem, the crypto markets took a massive dip - in particular, ETH itself. This is the classic "buy the rumor, sell the news" pattern as the hype towards the merge date neared, then the massive-selloff right after. But not all coins were in the red - COSMOS (ATOM) did very well this week, and showed a very strong decoupling pattern from the rest of the pack. Why? Because they currently offer the best staking rewards (15%+!) out there, beating both the banks and its competitors by a very large margin. If you wanted to sell ETH but stay in crypto, it was the most obvious option to go with, at least on paper. ETH2 has the problem of being illiquid (there is no set date for when you can withdraw your funds), as well as expensive - which will likely lead to the coin struggling over the long-term as coins that offer low-fee liquid staking (ADA, XTZ, DOT, MATIC, AVAX, etc.) has had a much longer time. ETH2 "final form" isn't likely to happen any time soon (some say as long as 6 years) so they are currently behind the curve of industry standards, not ahead. Whether they can catch up to the rest is yet to be seen. Now that ETH has de-coupled itself from proof-of-work, we're going to start to see public attention towards different aspects of Web3 and DeFi - and staking rewards is likely to be the talk of the town, especially as we go further into the recession.
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by RyanTanaka