Market share of prime crypto exchanges passes $1T: CryptoCompare report

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Market share of prime crypto exchanges passes $1T: CryptoCompare report

Out of the 160 cryptocurrency exchanges analyzed in a current report, half management roughly 85% of the overall market share.In keeping with a Cry


Out of the 160 cryptocurrency exchanges analyzed in a current report, half management roughly 85% of the overall market share.

In keeping with a CryptoCompare Analysis report printed at present, exchanges that the analytics agency rated as “prime tier” gained 13% of the market share from October to January. This put the market share of those 84 exchanges at roughly 74% with greater than $1 trillion in belongings.

Nevertheless, CryptoCompare stated this proportion probably rose to 85% for January. Provided that the overall market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies is $1.47 trillion on the time of publication, the market share of those exchanges could now be greater than $1.2 trillion.

Supply: CryptoCompare

The report attributed the rise in market share to retail {and professional} crypto merchants turning to exchanges with seemingly decrease threat as the value of Bitcoin (BTC) surged previous $20,000 in late December and $30,000 in January. 

Nevertheless, one of many extra vital causes for the elevated market share could also be CryptoCompare score 16 extra exchanges as “prime tier” than in October — a designation meant to measure an alternate’s stage of threat relatively than their superiority. The agency famous that many exchanges are actually complying with “toughened” KYC and AML necessities. Many are additionally offering elevated transparency, and enhancing their total operational standing. 

In keeping with CryptoCompare’s outcomes, the agency stated that 44% of the 160 exchanges analyzed supplied the flexibility to “question full historic commerce information by way of a public API endpoint,” in comparison with 37% in July. As well as, the proportion of exchanges rated as having “poor or insufficient” KYC methods in accordance with CipherTrace had fallen from 44% in July to 33% in January.

The report particularly mentions Coinbase, Gemini, Bitstamp, Kraken, itBit and Luno because the “lowest threat exchanges. Others corresponding to Binance, FTX, OKCoin, Huobi World, and Bitfinex are listed within the subsequent “decrease tier” class.