Analytics Platform Suspects Institutional Buying of CRV Tokens

Lookonchain, the onchain and smartmoney analytics platform, has spotted significant transactions involving Curve DAO (CRV) tokens. According to a recent tweet, Lookonchain noticed four fresh wallets that withdrew 10.2 million CRV, equivalent to $8.12 million from the Binance exchange in the past seven days.

Lookonchain noted that all four wallets involved in the transaction were newly created and held only CRV tokens. It suspected institutional investors could be responsible for the transactions and implied the move could signal a potential buying of CRV tokens.

Some of the respondents to Lookonchain’s tweet downplayed the significance of the transactions. A particular respondent identified as GiO on Twitter laughed over the post and brandished the idea of institutional buyers as not genuine. Another respondent who identifies as Mememiner thinks the transacted volume is insignificant. He asked to be alerted when the buyers hold more CRV tokens than the dev team.

CRV is the native token of Curve DAO, one of the largest decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. It is a decentralized exchange for stablecoins launched in 2020 and uses an automated market maker (AMM) to manage liquidity. The project has a market cap of $688,921,822 and a circulating supply of 868,471,914 CRV.

CRV traded at $0.0.7923 at the time of writing after recovering from a local low of $0.5590, which it fell to about a month ago. CRV has performed underwhelmingly after rallying to $1.2989 in February 2023. It lost nearly all of its yearly gains between February and June. However, a bounce of the local low could push the price higher if it overcomes the resistance at the $0.8536 region. At the time of writing, the cumulative gain of CRV for 2023 was 51.81%.