Huobi Blockchain Big Data Weekly Insights (Vol.24 2018/11/14–2018/11/21)
All data in this report was captured and analyzed by Huobi Research; please cite the source “Huobi Blockchain Big Data” for reference.
This Week:
- This week, there was a drastic increase in the number of large BTC and ETH transactions. The number of large BTC transactions increasd by 60%, of which transactions over 1000 BTC increased by 295% compared to last week. The number of large ETH transactions increased 89.2%, in which transactions over 10000 ETH increased by 416%.
- Transaction fee drastically increased for both BTC and ETH, in which BTC’s increased by 90% and ETH’s increased by 31%.
- EOS DApp activity decreased by 6%, the first weekly decreased since October; total DApp transaction volume decreased from 106 million to 0.66 million EOS, down by 37.7%.
- Social Media Data：
BTC, BCH, and ETH were most discussed cryptocurrency in China and overseas; In the Events category, “Fork”, “Contract” and “Bounce” were the hottest words in China, while “Bots”, “Mining” and “Fiat” were the hottest words overseas; in the Exchange and KOL category, “Huobi”, “Jihan Wu” and “Binance” were the hottest in China, while “Satoshi”, “Binance”, and “Coinbase” were the hottest overseas.
Among Github repositories, ETH, BTC and EOS were the top Cryptocurrencies projects that received the most stars in a week; EOS, BTC and NEO were the projects that received the most watchers in a week; ETH, IOTA and ADA were the projects with the most code commit submission this week
- Market Trading Data：
The price of major Cryptocurrencies crashed this week, led by BCH which had the largest decrease of 55.75. Ripple had the smallest decrease of 14.14%.
1. On-Blockchain Data
1.1 Active Bitcoin Addresses
This week, the number of active Bitcoin addresses was the same as that of last week, remaining at 3.81 million.
There were 1.296 million new Bitcoin addresses created this week, decreased by 5.4% from last week’s 1.37 million.
1.2 Bitcoin Transactions
The overall transaction volume on Bitcoin network was 8.647 million BTC, drastically increased by 60% from last week’s 5.412 million. There were overall 1.926 million transactions this week, decreased by 0.4% compared to last week. The average trading volume per transaction increased by 60.4% to 4.49 BTC this week.
1.3 Bitcoin Transaction Fee
The overall transaction fee on Bitcoin network drastically increased from 132 BTC to 250 BTC this week. Average transaction fee was 0.00013 BTC, increased by 90.7% from last week.
1.4 Concentration of Wealth on Bitcoin
Concentration of wealth on bitcoin increased. Top 10 addresses held 5.34% of all Bitcoins, 0.12% less than last week; top 10–100 addresses held 0.1% more Bitcoins than that of last week; top 100–1000 held 0.13% more Bitcoins than that of last week; other addresses held 0.11% less Bitcoins than that of last week, reaching 64.13% of all Bitcoins.
1.5 BTC Large Transactions Monitor
Huobi Research defines “extra-large transactions” as individual transactions worth over 10,000 BTC, and “large transactions” as those worth between 1,000–10,000 BTC. This week, there were 15 extra-large transactions on Bitcoin network. The number of large transactions drastically increased from 318 to 868 this week.
1.6 Bitcoin Transaction Volume Distribution
Transaction volume increased mainly for 1k-10k, in which the proportion of transaction volume increased from 10.4% to 22.1%.
1.7 Active Ethereum Addresses
The number of active addresses in Ethereum has decreased by 0.3% from 1.111 million to 1.108 million.
1.8 Ethereum Transactions
The overall transaction volume on Ethereum has drastically increased by 89.2% to 23.03 million ETH. There were overall 3.934 million transactions this week, increased by 2.8% compared to last week; average transaction volume increased by 84% from last week to 5.85 ETH.
1.9 Ethereum TPS
The average transaction per second (TPS) on Ethereum network this week increased by 0.2 to 6.5 tps this week.
1.10 Ethereum Transaction Fee
The overall transaction fee on Ethereum network has drastically increased from 10k to 13k ETH this week, while the average transaction fee on Ethereum network was 0.0033 ETH, increased by 27.4% this week.
1.11 Concentration of Wealth on Ethereum
The concentration of wealth on Ethereum network has drastically increased compared to last week: top 10 accounts held 12.65% of all ETH, increased by 0.34% from last week; top 10–100 addresses held 25.12% of all ETH, decreased by 0.45% compared to last week; top 100–1000 addresses held 24.74% of all ETH, decreased by 0.25% compared to last week; the rest addresses held 37.5% of all ETH, decreased by 0.54% from 38.04% of last week.
1.12 ETH Large Transactions Monitor
Huobi Research defines “extra-large transactions” as individual transactions worth over 50,00 ETH, “large transactions” as those worth between 10,000–50,000 ETH, “other transactions” as those worth less than 10,000 ETH. This week, there were 21 extra-large transactions and 165 large transactions (33 large transactions last week), showing a drastic increase from last week.
1.13 EOS Transactions
There were 31.5 million transactions on EOS this week (including transfer, RAM collateral/purchase, CPU collateralization), increased by 0.7% from last week, rising in nine consecutive weeks.
1.14 EOS DApp Activity
Based on transaction volume, FastWin, BetDice, EOSMax, BlackJack, and EOS Knight were the 5 most popular EOS dApps this week.
Based on the information above, Huobi Research analyzed total number of transactions and total transaction volume of all 162 currently active EOS dApps. Currently, gambling dApps accounted for 77.9% of total EOS transaction volume (80% last week) and 91.3% of total number of transactions (91.76% last week), the most popular among all dApp categories.
The activity of EOS dApps decreased by 6% this week, the first decrease in a single week ever since October 2018. Meanwhile, the transaction volume decreased from 106 million by 37.7% to 66 million.
There were 9 gambling dApps and 1 game dApp (EOS Knight) among the 10 most popular EOS dApps this week.
1.15 ETH DApp Activity
Based on transaction volume, IDEX, Dice2win, CryptoKitties, FolkDelta and Ethereum Name were the 5 most popular ETH dApps this week.
Based on the information above, Huobi Research analyzed total number of transactions and total transaction volume of all 1191 currently active ETH dApps. Currently, cryptocurrency exchange dApps accounted for 63% of total ETH transaction volume and 34% of total number of transactions, the most popular among all dApp categories.
The activity of ETH dApps increased by 3.9% this week.
1.16 TRON DApp Activity
Based on transaction volume, TRON Bet, TRON Dice, and Dice Bet were the 3 most popular TRON dApps this week.
Based on the information above, Huobi Research analyzed total number of transactions and total transaction volume of all 21 currently active TRON dApps. Currently, gambling dApps accounted for 99% of total TRON transaction volume and 98% of total number of transactions. Nearly all TRON dApps are gambling dApps.
2. Social Media Data
2.1 Keyword Analysis (China)
Huobi Research analyzed text using NLP Word Cloud to extract relevant keywords and understand the overall sentiments from China’s largest Cryptocurrency online community 8btc.com. Specifically, we break down the keywords to three categories: Cryptocurrencies, Events, and Exchanges/Opinion Leaders.
In the Cryptocurrency category, NLP World Cloud Analysis suggests Bitcoin, Ethereum, and BCH as the top Cryptocurrencies receiving the most widespread attention. For Bitcoin and Ethereum, discussions mainly focused on price and trading strategies; For BCH, discussion mainly focused on the BCH computing power competition between Wu Jihan and CSW.
In the events category, NLP Word Cloud suggests “Fork”, “Contract” and “Bounce” as the hottest words of the week. “Fork” refers to multiple cryptocurrency exchanges’ attitudes toward BCH fork, and the impact it had on the market sentiment; “Contract” refers to the discussion on the price has fallen sharply recently, with some investors taking advantage of contracts to short, as well as Huobi’s new “contract trading” service which generated much discussion; “Bounce” refers to cryptocurrency investors’ expectation for a price bounce after the crash.
In the Exchanges/Opinion Leaders category, NLP Word Cloud suggests “Huobi”, “Jihan Wu”, and “Binance” as the hottest words of the week, with discussions mainly focused on daily exchange issues including log-in issue, transaction, the rate and so on. Discussions on Huobi focused on its new “contract trading” service, and discussions on Jihan Wu focsed on the BCH split between Wu and Craig Wright.
2.2 Keyword Analysis (Overseas)
We also performed NLP Word Analysis on Reddit’s r/CryptoCurrency Subreddit to understand the trending topics and overall sentiments overseas, and we similarly broke down the keywords into three categories: Cryptocurrencies, Events, and Exchanges/Opinion Leaders.
In the Cryptocurrencies category, NLP Word Analysis suggests BTC, BCH, and ETH as the three cryptocurrencies that received the most widespread attention this week. For BTC and ETH, discussions on mainly focused on price and trading strategies. BCH was highly discussed because of the computing power competition between bitcoin ABC and bitcoin SV.
In the Events category, NLP Word Analysis suggests “Bot”, “Mining”, and “Fiat” as the hottest words of the week. “Bot” refers to the discussion on how to trade and profit with quantitative transaction by robot; “Mining” refers the continued decrease in Bitcoin’s mining difficulty; “Fiat” refers to the discussion on purchasing Cryptocurrencies with fiat money.
In the Exchanges/Opinion Leaders category, NLP World Analysis suggests “Satoshi”, “Binance”, and “Coinbase” as the hottest words of overseas this week, for Coinbase and Binance, with the normal discussion on general topics among platform users. For Satoshi, with the discussion on CSW which is refer to “Australian Satoshi”.
2.3 Github Code Activity
Among all GitHub repositories this week:
- ETH, IOTA and ADA were the projects with the most code rows;
- ETH, BTC and EOS were the projects with the most forks;
- ETH, BCH, and XMR were the projects with most code commit submissions;
- IOTA, BTC and DASH were the projects with the most new issues;
- ETH, BTC and EOS were the projects with most stars;
- EOS, BTC and NEO were the projects with most watchers.
2.4 Overall Telegram Activity
We measured the vitality of telegram community by the chat volume among the relatively active community telegram groups:
The top three activist telegram groups this week were: 1) EOS China (Chinese group), 2) EOS English group, 3) TRON English group.
2.5 Popular Cryptocurrency Telegram Activity
We measured the vitality of EOS community by the chat volume among the selected EOS community telegram groups: EOS General Chat (English technology/ ecology group), EOS China (Chinese group); and measured the vitality of TRON community by the chat volume of TRONnetworkEN.
The number of chats in EOS community telegram groups increased by 50% compared to last week, and the number of TRON telegram groups increased by 1000.
3.Market Data
3.1 Rate of Return/ Trading volume
In the cryptocurrency market this week, the price of Cryptocurrencies crashed, while trading volume for most Cryptocurrencies increased. BCH experienced the largest decrease of 55.75%, and Ripple received the smallest decreased of 14.14%; In terms of trading volume, ADA had the largest increase of 224%, while BCH had the largest decrease of 85%.
3.2 Cryptocurrency Price Correlations
Correlation amongst assets is the degree to which they move in tandem. The matrices above show Pearson correlations and p-values that are computed from log-returns of volume-weighted average daily prices over the past week. The Cryptocurrency price correlations is relatively high this week except the correlation between Stellar and Ripple, Cryptocurrencies price move in the same directions.
High correlations were observed between the price of top 10 Cryptocurrencies. Except for Ripple and Stellar, the correlations between prices were generally over 0.95.
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