Santiment Intelligence

🧵 Most crypto traders react to headlines and whatever their timeline algorithms tell them they should care about. With Santiment, our members reacts to objective data to see how greedy or fearful all of crypto social media is to make more informed decisions. Sanbase Pro and Sanbase Max unlock real-time on-chain, social, and exchange metrics that reveal where smart money is moving before the crowd catches on. Whale behavior, sentiment shifts, network activity, and hidden trends are all visible on one platform built for traders who want an edge, not guesswork. Leveraging on-chain, social, development and other data sources, Santiment has developed dozens of specialized tools, indicators and strategies that help users identify, contextualize and react to market events and anomalies. Below are some of our many features you can take advantage of today. 👇

🧑‍💻 Here are crypto's top 10 privacy coin projects by development. Directional indicators represent each project's ranking positioning since last update: ➡️ 1) @chainlink ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca 🥇 ➡️ 2) @aztecnetwork $AZTEC 🥈 📈 3) @zama $ZAMA 🥉 📉 4) @dashpay $DASH ➡️ 5) @hoprnet $HOPR ➡️ 6) @nym $NYM ➡️ 7) @zcash $ZEC 📈 8) @duskfoundation $DUSK 📈 9) @monero $XMR 📈 10) @firoorg $FIRO 📖 Read about the @santimentfeed methodology for filtering notable github activity data from project repositories, and why it is so useful for crypto trading: medium.com/santiment/a-di… 🧐 Track the @santimentfeed privacy project watchlist here, and analyze which projects are standing out based on development activity and other vital metrics: app.santiment.net/screener/priva…

📈 Bitcoin's net realized profits hit +207.56M on Sunday, the highest mark in a month. When a high level of profit taking occurs while markets are on the rise, it's generally a bullish signal that the uptrend can continue. 🧐 When someone moves Bitcoin on the blockchain, we can compare what they paid for it vs. what it's worth now. If they moved coins they bought at $50K and after Bitcoin crossed $80K (which it just did for the first time in 3 months), that's realized profit. The below chart shows the total of all those gains (and losses) across the entire network in a given period. 🤔 So why would people taking profits be bullish? 1) Profit-taking at $80K means demand absorbed the selling. Think of it like a stress test. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin was sold by profit-takers... and the price still broke $80K. That means there were buyers willing to step in and absorb all that supply. Strong demand absorbing heavy sell pressure is a classic sign of a healthy, confident market. 2) Realized profits are highest near price strength, not weakness. The spike in realized profits happened as Bitcoin pushed to a month-high price. That correlation tells you people feel confident enough to sell into strength, which historically happens more in the middle of bull runs than at the end of them. 3) It "resets the cost basis" of the market. When old holders sell their coins for profit, those coins get picked up by new buyers at ~$80K. This raises the average price people paid for Bitcoin across the network. New buyers at $80K are unlikely to panic-sell at $79K — they just got in. This creates a stronger support floor under the price. 4) A month-high in profits, not an all-time high. The chart shows this is the biggest realized profit spike of the past month. Bitcoin survived and climbed after those too. A moderate profit-taking event that the market shrugs off is a sign of resilience, not fragility. 🔗 Track Bitcoin's realized profit/loss metric any time here on Santiment: app.santiment.net/charts/btc-rea…

The Arbitrum freeze story took a turn missed by many (Santiment MCP + Claude): 🗳️ Arbitrum DAO opened a vote May 1 to release the $71M frozen ETH to DeFi United (the Aave-led Kelp recovery fund). 16.9M $ARB voted yes in the first hour. No opposition. ⚖️ April 30: a US federal court issued a restraining order blocking any movement of the funds. Plaintiffs are terrorism victims with $877M in unpaid judgments against North Korea, claiming the seized ETH as DPRK assets. 📊 $ARB social mentions are now in their second wave — 22/4h on Apr 30 (court order news), quiet for 3 days, climbing again today (17/4h). The DAO ratified the freeze. The court re-routed the funds. DeFi recovery is now dependent on a US court hearing.

🧑‍💻 Here are crypto's top 10 DeFi projects by development. Directional indicators represent each project's ranking positioning since last month: ➡️ 1) @chainlink $LINK 🥇 ➡️ 2) @deepbookonsu $DEEP 🥈 📈 3) @lidofinance $LDO 🥉 📈 4) @eulerfinance $EUL 📈 5) @injective $INJ ➡️ 6) @uniswap $UNI 📈 7) @babylonlabs_io $BABY 📈 8T) @curvefinance $CRV (On Ethereum) 📈 8T) @curvefinance $CRV (On Arbitrum) 📈 10) @yearnfi $YFI 📖 Read about @santimentfeed's methodology for covering development activity for over 4,000 projects: medium.com/santiment/a-di… 🧐 Track the DeFi watchlist here, and analyze which projects are standing out based on development activity and other vital metrics: app.santiment.net/watchlist/proj…

📊 April was full of hacks, lawsuits, and chaos… yet crypto was able to rebound and get back on a somewhat bullish track. Why? From historic exploits to retail fear to defiant whale accumulation, Santiment's April market report reveals what's driven markets. 👇 app.santiment.net/insights/read/…

📈 Cryptocurrencies are surging Friday, with Bitcoin jumping as high as $78.9K and continuing to tease a breakout above $80K. $ZEC (+10%) and $TAO (+9%) have been notable standouts, while $M (-10%) and $WLFI (-9%) continue to bleed. Check out Santiment's data screener for more easy-to-digest infographics like this one here: app.santiment.net/screener?utm_s…

📺 We are LIVE discussing the end of week crypto pump, and what metrics are revealing as May kicks off with a bang. Can this latest rally finally push Bitcoin above $80K, or do you expect another bull trap? 👇 youtube.com/live/D5Z5-OKQB…

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🐳 On-chain data indicates that Dogecoin's whales have just hit a 6-month high in activity, with 739 $100K+ transfers in just a 1-day span. Additionally, of the 149 whale wallets holding at least 100M Dogecoin, they now collectively hold an all-time high of 108.52B $DOGE (worth $11.6B). The memecoin's +14% price rise over the past 10 days is very likely not just a coincidence. Follow along with this Santiment chart here to see if their accumulation continues: app.santiment.net/charts/doge-wh…

🗣️ According to social data, these are the topics driving markets Thursday: 🇺🇸 Fed Chair Shift: Fed holds rates at 3.50–3.75% in Powell’s final FOMC. Kevin Warsh cleared the Senate committee and is poised to become the next chair, sparking bullish crypto chatter about imminent rate cuts and monetary easing. 🚀 MegaETH Launch: Spotlight on MegaETH’s token launch is dominating feeds. Listings and spot/perp trading rolled out across major exchanges and venues, with real‑time data and integrations touted as a key differentiator. 🫴 Charity Coins: Spotlight on “charity coins”: Pumpfun launched a feature routing creator fees directly to verified charities. Traders praise transparency and on-chain donations; some projects claim real impact (classrooms, solar, Starlink). 💸 USDC Payments: Big platforms and banks are wiring stablecoins into real payments. Meta now pays select creators in USDC via Solana and Polygon through Stripe. Visa and Shinhan Card are testing or expanding USDC rails, aiming for faster, cheaper settlement for global users. 🕵️ SPC Rug Allegations: Reporters and traders call out $SPC as an instant rug after its token launch. It raised millions in an ICO, listed on exchanges and bought KOL promotions, then crashed over 90% at TGE. 📰 Follow the top trending stories in crypto every day on Santiment's dashboard here! app.santiment.net/social-trends/…

🤯🦇 Since its local top above $0.30 5 months ago, $BAT has quickly faded, dropping over -60% of its market cap. However, Santiment data indicates we've just seen the highest day of address activity on the Basic Attention Token network in 6 years. 5,196 unique addresses interacted on the network after BAT Ambassadors set up a DAO and transferred 73 million $GUANO tokens to it. The BAT community contributors and ambassadors have formalized this DAO initiative tied to governance, experimentation, and incentive alignment within the ecosystem, building on earlier discussions and community calls throughout March. The transfer of tens of millions of $GUANO tokens likely required thousands of wallets to claim, move, or interact with the new system, which explains the sudden explosion in daily active addresses. In short, this wasn’t organic “retail usage” alone. It was a structural event that forced dormant or inactive wallets back on-chain all at once. Spikes in active addresses can historically indicate renewed interest or the early stages of a narrative shift, especially when tied to new utility or governance layers. But context matters. BAT’s long-term value still hinges on adoption within the Brave ecosystem and utility growth. All of this said, if this DAO evolves into a meaningful coordination layer that drives engagement, incentives, or new use cases, it could mark the beginning of a fundamental turnaround. 🔗 Track Basic Attention Token’s utility with this handy Santiment chart! app.santiment.net/charts/bat-act…

$WLFI dropped 17% in 36 hours after governance voting opened on its token unlock proposal (Santiment MCP + Claude): 📉 Price: $0.074 (Apr 28 peak) → $0.061 (now), -17%. 🐋 Whale transactions hit 15 in a single 4h window on Apr 29 — matching the highest reading of the past two weeks, aligned with the price drop. 🗳️ The vote: 99.5% approval, quorum already cleared. Top 4 wallets control ~40% of voting power. The vote passed. The price didn’t.