Arbitrum price declines as institutional investors shed ARB holdings
- ARB price is in a downward trend as institutions like Mandala Capital and CAP Finance shed their Arbitrum token holdings.
- Institutional investors are depositing their ARB token holdings in centralized crypto exchanges.
- ARB price declined nearly 10% over the past week as BASE protocol takes the lead among Layer 2 chains.
Arbitrum is one of the largest Layer 2 chains in the Ethereum ecosystem and the token’s price has been in a downtrend since mid-April 2023. Institutional investors have transferred their ARB tokens to centralized exchanges, gearing up to shed their holdings.
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ARB price continues to bleed as institutions shed their tokens
Arbitrum (ARB), an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution token, is in a downward trend. The factors fueling ARB’s decline range from Coinbase BASE’s rising popularity to institutional investors’ losing interest in the token.
Arbitrum is facing intense competition from Coinbase Layer 2 BASE, a blockchain that was launched in the second week of August. Since its mainnet launch, BASE’s revenue has exceeded that of Arbitrum and the cumulative volume of daily transactions on BASE left competitors ARB and Optimism (OP) to bite the dust. Find out more about that here.
ARB price slipped from its April 18 peak of $1.81 to $1.00 at the time of writing. The Layer 2 token’s price is in a consistent decline. Over the past week, ARB price yielded nearly 10% losses as BASE protocol takes the lead.
On-chain intelligence tracker, SpotOnChain, shared details of Mandala Capital and CAP Finance’s ARB transfers and sales.
Institutions appear to be selling $ARB as $ARB price has been down by ~20% over the past month.
— Spot On Chain (@spotonchain) August 21, 2023
1. Mandala Capital deposited 3.6M $ARB to #OKX at $1.017 on avg ($3.67M) over the past 3 hrs.
2. CAP Finance sold 1M $ARB for 1.02M $USDC at $1.02 on avg 18 hrs ago.
Details pic.twitter.com/4Dtrd3s0g6
Mandala Capital deposited 3.6 million ARB tokens to OKX, a centralized exchange. CAP Finance sold a million ARB tokens at an average price of $1.02.
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Ekta Mourya
FXStreet
Ekta Mourya has extensive experience in fundamental and on-chain analysis, particularly focused on impact of macroeconomics and central bank policies on cryptocurrencies.
