Zap: Bitcoin dominance
by: Friktion Research Contributors
This week we cover crypto markets, correlations, crypto volatility , the Defi landscape, and Volt performance.
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Crypto Markets
The decline of assets further up the risk curve continues, amidst the broader macro narrative anticipating the tightening of money supply to reign in inflation. BTC Dominance creeped up close to 1 year highs this week as alts continue to lag behind.
Correlations
Breaking of correlations between BTC and US Tech that we highlighted last week still persists. This is the second week in a row where a weekend rally into the ~$31,400 BTC level was quickly sold back down to $29,500 on the following Monday.
SOL and other alts continue to underperform BTC and ETH this week. The Solana network experienced a 4-hour outage on Jun 1 caused by an issue with durable nonces that caused forks in large portions of the network, breaking consensus.
Upcoming Macro events to keep an eye out for:
- June 10, CPI
- June 15, FOMC
Crypto Volatility
We saw another week of muted volatility, with realized volatility lagging behind implied volatility.
BTC/USD
High: 32280.0
Low: 29333.0
Close: 30716.0
Range: 9.59%
Realized Volatility: 51.782
ETH/USD
High: 2007.7
Low: 1742.8
Close: 1927.0
Range: 13.7%
Realized Volatility: 67.519
SOL/USD
High: 48.1125
Low: 35.9175
Close: 46.0
Range: 26.5%
Realized Volatility: 120.37
AVAX/USD
High: 29.0885
Low: 22.1885
Close: 27.144
Range: 25.4%
Realized Volatility: 126.33BTC implied volatilities and skew (25d call IV — 25d put IV) have fallen back down to pre-Luna levels, as spot prices have been rangebound for the past 4 weeks.
This market environment has worked out quite well for Friktion’s Volt #03, a strategy to harvest yield in crab markets. Since inception, the Volt has generated 5.6% in returns for its depositors, a 31.9% APY.
Defi Landscape
Defi TVL has remained roughly flat at $100B, with all of the top 10 projects seeing outflows week over week.
Protocol revenue has dropped dramatically across the board while their corresponding token values have traded roughly in line month over month, suggesting either the market thinking the downtick in protocol revenues as transitory or perhaps not purely valuing these governance tokens as a multiple of fee revenue generation.
Solana transaction volume has dramatically fallen in the past few months, suggesting a slowdown of activity on the chain.
Despite recent struggles with the Solana chain, Friktion remains committed in delivering best in class yield products across all market cycles.
Volt Performance
Friktion’s Volts #01, #02, and #03 are well positioned this week to generate yield for its users in this rangebound market environment.
Some highlights of the week include:
- 30–60% APY on SOL Puts
- 35% APY on SOL High Voltage Calls
- 52% APY on AVAX calls
Friktion’s Volt #04 Basis Strategy has done well in capturing delta-neutral yield in SOL during the persistent negative funding market regime on Mango.
The strategy has failed to find an entry point for long basis in the BTC Volts due to persistently positive funding rates on Mango.
About Friktion
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