Prime 8 Exchanges Management 91.7% of Crypto Market Depth: 2023 Report

• The report reveals the highest eight exchanges collectively management 91.7% of market depth.
• Binance is the dominant participant within the crypto market, with a 30.7% market depth.
• Kaiko attributed the rise partially to the trade’s zero-fee buying and selling promotion.

In a current report, main information analytics agency Kaiko positioned the focus of liquidity within the crypto market underneath scrutiny. The report delves into the main points of liquidity distribution throughout varied exchanges amid market fluctuations and multi-year lows in buying and selling quantity and volatility.

Kaiko acknowledges that extremely concentrated crypto markets possess each benefits and downsides. On the optimistic aspect, they supply a concentrated supply of liquidity, benefiting common merchants.

Nevertheless, the agency claims the focus may also pose a major threat to the business, as exemplified by the FTX collapse. It argued that many centralized exchanges lack elementary safeguards for merchants within the occasion of failures, hacks, or market manipulation.

Kaiko claimed to compile information on common 1% market depth and cumulative commerce quantity for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) for this report. The agency additionally took account of over prime 28 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. Its findings revealed a focus of liquidity that has intensified over time.

Based on Kaiko, Binance grew to become the dominant participant in 2023 by commanding 30.7% of the worldwide market depth. It additionally talked about that the trade accounted for 64.3% of world commerce quantity. In the meantime, the report confirmed that the highest eight exchanges collectively management 91.7% of market depth and 89.5% of buying and selling quantity.

Moreover, the report famous that Binance’s market share in spot quantity rose from 38.3% in 2021 to 64.3% in 2023. Kaiko attributed the rise partially to the trade’s zero-fee buying and selling promotion.

Whereas the focus of market depth for Binance decreased from 42% to 30.7%, Kaiko advised that the promotion had a extra pronounced influence on buying and selling quantity than market depth. The opposite exchanges that command over 90% of world market depth in 2023 embody OKX, Bitfinex, Coinbase, KuCoin, Kraken, and Bybit.