Nearly 25% of ETH's Circulating Supply Stored on Centralized Exchanges

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Notably, nearly all of the 26 million tokens are being kept on 10 centralized exchanges. Coinbase alone has custody of 8,.5 million ETH tokens, roughly 7.5% of the supply.

By comparison, the total number of BTC stuck on cryptocurrency exchanges equates to approximately 8.1 percent of the circulating supply of Bitcoin.

Analysts say that ETH hodlers are looking to sell while BTC hodlers are stashing their coins

This could imply that BTC hodlers are much less eager to sell their coins that ETH hodlers. Earlier in October, renowned cryptocurrency analyst, Willy Woo wrote on Twitter that when the number of coins kept on cryptocurrency exchanges drops, “It’s a sign that new buyers are coming in to scoop the coins off the markets and moving them into Cold Storage Cold Storage Cold storage is a computer system or mode of operation that is designed for the retention of inactive data, in this case private keys for cryptocurrencies. This helps put up resilient barriers against theft by hackers and malware, and is often a necessary security protocol especially dealing with large amounts of Bitcoin.In order to “own” a cryptocurrency, one must be in control of a cryptocurrency’s private keys. As such, private keys are long strings of random characters that can be used to se Cold storage is a computer system or mode of operation that is designed for the retention of inactive data, in this case private keys for cryptocurrencies. This helps put up resilient barriers against theft by hackers and malware, and is often a necessary security protocol especially dealing with large amounts of Bitcoin.In order to “own” a cryptocurrency, one must be in control of a cryptocurrency’s private keys. As such, private keys are long strings of random characters that can be used to se Read this Term.”

When coins on spot exchanges drop, it's a sign that new buyers are coming in to scoop coins off the markets and moving them into cold storage HODL, we are seeing new HODLers right now. Very macro bullish. pic.twitter.com/XKsOsyYGIq

— Willy Woo (@woonomic) October 7, 2020

In other words, coins are being bought and transferred into private digital wallets for long-term hodling. Therefore, Woo said low numbers of coins on exchanges is “macro bullish.”

By contrast, a high number of coins on exchanges could indicate that hodlers are eager to offload their coins. Therefore, ETH hodlers could be looking to cash out.

However, Bitcoin seems to be growing in popularity as a long-term investment asset. Earlier this month, Finance Magnates reported that BTC’s migration off exchanges has reached its highest point in months.

Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is 67 - Greed pic.twitter.com/ksuUNIZVt1

— Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index (@BitcoinFear) October 29, 2020

At the same time, data from Glassnode shows that there has been growth in the number of new Bitcoin wallet addresses being created each day: 480,000 — roughly six times the number of new Ether wallets that are being created daily.

Furthermore, Finance Magnates reported that Bitcoin’s Fear and Greed Index, which measures the likelihood of market participants to buy (greed) or sell (fear) their coins, has been decisively skewed toward greed for most of the month of October.