GMX trading volume explodes amidst crypto market rally

• Buying and selling exercise has surged on GMX.
• This was due to the overall market rally prior to now few days.

Main on-chain derivatives protocol GMX [GMX] achieved a single-day buying and selling quantity of $652 million on 4th December, marking its fourth highest buying and selling quantity for the reason that yr started, AMBCrypto discovered. 

This surge in buying and selling exercise on the protocol coincides with the continued rally of main cryptocurrencies, as Bitcoin [BTC] and Ethereum [ETH] proceed to commerce at yearly highs. 

Knowledge obtained from Dune Analytics revealed that the V2 iteration of the buying and selling protocol accounted for $260 million of this quantity whereas producing $218,000 in single-day charges.

This marked the second-highest single-day payment generated by GMX V2 since January. The primary one was on ninth November, when the protocol’s charges totaled $222,000. 

Supply: Dune Analytics

State of GMX

Up to now this month, GMX’s complete worth locked (TVL) has risen by 4%. As of this writing, the protocol’s TVL was $578 million, its highest stage since August.

With the elevated buying and selling exercise recorded within the final week, the worth of all derivatives contracts traded on GMX in December has totaled $1.02 billion.

GMX recorded a derivatives quantity of $5 billion in November, representing its month-to-month highest since June, in response to DefiLlama.

Relating to protocol charges, GMX has seen a sum of $1.61 million paid in complete charges by merchants to make use of the platform within the final week.

The trade’s month-to-month charges, which had trended downward since April, rebounded in November to finish the 30-day interval above $10 million. 

Income derived so removed from this month’s charges is $524,000. In November, GMX noticed a month-to-month income of $4 million.

The trade recorded its highest month-to-month income in March when it pocketed $6 million from the $19 million it obtained as transaction charges. 

GMX’s value motion

The trade’s native token GMX has seen extreme value swings within the final month.

Though it has managed to document an 11% uptick throughout that interval, the worth progress is probably going because of the normal bullish sentiments within the crypto market.

For context, new demand for GMX has trended downward since 18 November, in response to knowledge from Santiment. It has since dropped by 55%.

Lifelike or not, right here’s GMX’s market cap in ARB’s terms

Likewise, the every day rely of distinctive addresses concerned in GMX transactions has fallen inside the identical interval.

At 260 as of fifth December, the rely of GMX’s every day energetic addresses has plummeted by 30% since 18th November. At press time, the altcoin traded at $52. 

Supply: Santiment