Whales of the Optimism network
The activity of Whales on the Optimism network in 2023 has been determined in this dashboard. Various aspects of the Optimism network have been investigated to find out the behavior of Whales.
Optimism is one of the most famous second layer solutions of Ethereum, which is provided with the aim of making Ethereum more scalable. This second layer solution increases the speed of transactions in the Ethereum network and significantly reduces the cost of transactions.
Crypto whale is a familiar name for cryptocurrency market participants. A digital currency whale is someone who has a significant amount of a cryptocurrency in their wallet. For example, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, owns about 1% of all Bitcoins, which is equivalent to 1 million Bitcoins.
As mentioned, these users have a lot of assets in their wallets. With the support of this large asset and of course intelligence and vigilance, by creating pressure in the market for buying and selling, they move the market rate.
The large capital of whales in the financial market of digital currencies is considered both an advantage and a disadvantage. Walls, with their high assets, have the incentive or greed to increase their assets by manipulating the market. This causes the strength and development of this platform. On the other hand, this large capital and large property gives them more voting rights; In this case, the mission of the blockchain network, which is the decentralization of transaction confirmation, will be questioned. Along with these whales, by creating heavy chaos, they will push the market to their advantage, and newbies may face serious losses.
The data provided by Flipside has been used to handle this analysis.
This dashboard is divided into three major sections as below:
1- Swap activity by Whales
- Identification of Whales→ Track the swaps with higher than 100k USD value
2- Track the activity Whales on NFTs
- Identification of Whales→ Find out the NFT traders with more than 10k purchase volume or 100 purchase count
3- Track Bridge actvity by Whales
- Identification of Whales→ Determine the transactions with higher than 100k USD transfer volume on bridge
4- Used metrics
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Count of Whales, transactions by Whales and Volume of Whales activity
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Share of Whales on each market
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Popular programs, tokens or collections among Whales

