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      Japanese led cryptocurrency bubble

      Hitesh Malviya by Hitesh Malviya
      May 25, 2017
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      Much of the data at Japanese exchanges are not actually available, so I did a bit more digging myself and decided to provide additional evidence and estimates for Japanese investors’ market share in the global market.

      Summary

      1. Coinmarketcap does not reflect the complete up-to-date stats and Japanese exchanges are mostly excluded from the list.
      2. Altcoin trading volume at coincheck is hidden in the Poloniex’s trading volume and the Polo’s seeming dominance can be misleading.
      3. The Japanese exchange Zaif alone would account for 10.5% of global XEM trading if properly listed on coinmarketcap.
      4. Based on my rough estimation, Japanese investors account for 35.2% of global XEM trading and likely more than 40% of global XRP trading.

      Japanese exchanges don’t have any significant altcoin trading volume?

      Looking at popular websites like coinmarketcap.com, there is no presence for Japanese exchanges or JPY trading in general for altcoins. Considering JPY having about 30% of total Bitcoin trading volume and many new Japanese investors hyping about altcoins on social media and more, the numbers don’t add up and something is very off.

      In short, the reason for the seeming absence in the global market is that Japanese exchanges don’t publish stats for altcoin trading and therefore, the true influence of the Japanese market is “hidden” on popular crypto analytics sites. I am going to explain why this is the case and also attempt to estimate the market shares of Japanese investors for XEM and XRP as a reference.

      The relationship of coincheck and Poloniex and why Poloniex’s dominant figures are misleading

      Coinmarketcap suggests Poloniex is the dominant exchange for altcoin trading and while it’s probably true that Polo is still the largest altcoin exchange in the world, the numbers can be very misleading.

      As a matter of fact, Coincheck, the most popular exchange for altcoin trading in Japan, is merely a broker between Poloniex and Japanese investors, providing an interface for JPY trading and buying coins from Polo in the background. Thus, trading volume at coincheck is completely hidden and included in the Polo’s volume, further inflating Polo’s dominance on paper.

      (Users buy altcoins from coincheck as opposed to trade against other users)

      Coincheck doesn’t publish any data for altcoin trading, so it’s not very clear how much of the Polo volume accounts for Japanese traders at coincheck but you should be aware that Polo’s dominant numbers don’t tell the entire story.

      (The relationship between coincheck and Poloniex has not officially been verified but this seems most likely the case and it’s a public secret at this point. The fact coincheck goes down when Polo does is probably good enough evidence)

      Now, even though there is no public data for altcoin trading at coincheck, I’ll attempt to estimate the Japanese market shares for XEM and XRP based on the information I have gathered.

      Calculating Zaif’s market share for XEM trading

      Although coincheck doesn’t provide data for altcoin trading, Zaif, another prominent Japanese exchange, does and we can estimate coincheck’s trading volume from Zaif’s volume as well.

      I gathered data for XEM trading volume at Zaif and Poloniex from May 7th to May 18th and here is what I found(see this spreadsheet for details)

      1. Daily average trading volume of 19,597,627XEM at Zaif (Approximately 4.8 million USD equivalent at the current rate)
      2. Zaif has 16.78% to Polo’s XEM trading volume and would account for 10.5% of the global market share assuming Polo’s global market share fixed at 70%(referring to coinmarketcap’s daily snapshot)
      3. Zaif alone has a significant portion for XEM trading although missing from the global list. (it’s excluded from the list due to no trading fee but it actually charges a small fee currently)

      Now I will try to estimate Japanese market share in the global market, based on the Zaif’s volume as well as some other info I have gathered.

      Estimating Japanese market share for XEM

      (I will start off by making a lot of assumptions from here and the numbers I come up with may be significantly off from the reality but I believe they will still be informative for many)

      I ran a simple twitter poll, asking Japanese investors where they buy XEM. I’m aware Twitter poll is certainly not the best way to collect the most accurate data but here is what I got. (n=843)

      The result “feels” about right and is not far from my own observation of the community, so let’s assume Japanese investors’ trading volume is equally split between the three exchanges.
      (Serious traders tend to use Poloniex, so the average volume per person is likely higher there than at the other two exchanges)

      Based on that assumption, here is what I found (see the spreadsheet for how I came up with them)

      1. Daily average XEM trading volume by Japanese investors (Zaif, coincheck and Poloniex) are estimated to be 52,520,240 XEM (approximately 14.4 million USD equivalent at today’s rate)
      2. XEM market share by Japanese investors in the global market would stand at 35.2%.
      3. This is more or less inline with the Bitcoin-JPY trading market share although I’d initially expected it to be even higher (close to 50% of the global volume)

      Estimating Japanese market share for XRP

      Unfortunately, Zaif doesn’t list XRP, so I cannot employ the same strategy to estimate XRP trading volume by Japanese investors. However, assuming the Japanese XEM market share is 35.2% and taking account of popularity of XRP in Japan, I’d guess the Japanese market share for XRP would be even higher than that of XEM. I cannot really give an accurate estimation here but it should lie somewhere between 40% and 50%.

      Also, note that during the past few days, as the XRP price has dropped, XEM price has gone up significantly, coincidentally or not. If anyone is interested, researching the correlation between the XRP and XEM prices may discover interesting stats and further support my theory of Japanese-caused cryptocurrency bubble

      Takeaways

      Here are some takeaways from my additional research.

      1. The estimates I gave are rough, but they seem to support the theory of Japanese caused crypto bubble based on my observation.
      2. Coinmarketcap is a great resource but you shouldn’t count on it too much as the source of truth.
      3. Japanese exchanges should do a better job being more transparent and providing more data for the public’s sake in my opinion.

      So, here it is. I didn’t plan on doing this much research on this topic initially but I became very surprised how little people outside Japan understand about the market and how it’s quietly affecting the entire market at the same time.

      I hope my findings will help traders and enthusiasts understand the current landscape better and make more informed decisions.

      Originally published at: https://medium.com/@coin_and_peace/additional-evidence-for-the-japanese-led-cryptocurrency-bubble-2c13ab2a4d49

      Hitesh Malviya

      Hitesh Malviya is the Founder of ItsBlockchain. He is one of the most early adopters of blockchain & cryptocurrency enthusiast in India. After being into space for a few years, he started IBC in 2016 to help other early adopters learn about the technology.
      Before IBC, Hitesh has founded 4 companies in the cyber security & IT space.

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