Ethereum Bullish Signal: Whales Add $1B More To Their Holdings

Keshav Verma

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On-chain data shows Ethereum whales have added $1 billion more to their holdings recently, something that could be bullish for the crypto’s price.

Ethereum Whales Now Hold 947,940 ETH More In Their Wallets

As per data from the analytics firm Santiment, this jump in the whale holdings is the 5th largest in this year so far.

The relevant indicator here is the “Supply Distribution,” which tells us the percentage of the total Ethereum supply that each wallet group has right now.

Wallets are divided into these groups based on the number of coins they are currently holding. For example, the 1-10 coins group includes all wallets that are storing amounts in this range at the moment.

The Supply Distribution metric for this cohort then measures what percentage of the total supply is made up by the sum of coins in these wallets specifically.

Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in this Ethereum indicator for the 10k-1m coins group over the last twelve months:

Looks like the value of the metric has sharply gone up in recent days | Source: Santiment

The significance of the 10k-1m coins group is that it represents the wallets owned by large Ethereum whales. In the USD, this range corresponds to holdings worth between $10.9 million and $1 billion.

As you can see in the above graph, the Supply Distribution value for this ETH wallet group has shot up recently.

This latest spike amounts to an increase of 1.8%, which means these whales have added almost 1 million ETH more to their holdings now. At the current exchange rate, this amount converts to more than $1.1 billion.

In the past year, there have only been four instances where this Ethereum indicator has seen a larger single day increase.

Interestingly, during these past few occurrences where whales added similar amounts to their holdings, ETH vs BTC price chart grew by an average of 3.2% in the days following the pattern formation.

If a similar trend follows this time as well, then the current accumulation from whales may also have a bullish impact on the price of Ethereum in the coming days.

ETH Price

At the time of writing, Ethereum’s price floats around $1.1k, down 4% in the last week. Over the past month, the crypto has lost 13% in value.

Below is a chart that shows the trend in the price of the coin over the last five days.

The value of the crypto seems to have plunged down during the last couple of days or so | Source: ETHUSD on TradingView

Featured image from Abigail Lynn on Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, Santiment.net

Keshav Verma

Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021.

Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to.

In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career in Physics, but the onset of COVID led to a shift in plans. The virus meant that the college classes had to be delivered in the online-mode and with it came free time for him to explore other passions.

Initially only seeking to make some beer money, Keshav unexpectedly landed clients offering real projects, after which there was no looking back. Writing was something he had always enjoyed and to be able to do it for a living was like a dream come true.

Keshav completed his Physics degree in 2022 and has been focusing on his writing career since, but that doesn’t mean his passion for Physics has ended. He eventually plans to re-enter university to obtain a masters degree in the same field, but perhaps only to satiate his own interest rather than for using it as a means to find employment..

Keshav has found blockchain and its concepts fascinating ever since he started going down the rabbit-hole back in 2020. On-chain analysis in particular has been something he likes to research more about, which is why his NewsBTC pieces tend to involve it in some form.

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Because of his enthusiasm for anime and games, he also self-learned Japanese along the way to consume some of the untranslated gems out there. The skill didn’t merely remain as just a hobby, either, as he put it to productive use during his exploration for small-time gigs at the start of COVID, fulfilling a couple of Japanese-to-English translation jobs.

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