LDO contributes massively to VC portfolios, but here’s the catch
Major VCs (Venture capital) such as Dragonfly and Wintermute observed massive gains in their portfolio over the last few months. According to new data, it was observed that LDO was a prominent token in their respective portfolios.
Dragonfly’s portfolio grew by 39.2% over the last month, it was holding more than 41 million LDO. This was almost half of their overall portfolio.
For Wintermute LDO made up 17% of its $89 million portfolio. However, the fund that profited most was Paradigm. Their portfolio consisted of 90% LDO tokens. And, they saw it grow by 40% in the past month.
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Source: Dune Analytics
These VC funds have managed to increase their profitability, but investors should proceed with caution.
Over the last month, the overall velocity of LDO declined, this implied that the frequency with which LDO was being traded, went down.
Along with that, the percentage of large addresses holding LDO also decreased. Thus, whales were losing interest in the LDO token.
However, new addresses continued to get attracted to LDO as network growth saw an uptick.
Source: Santiment
Furthermore, the number of unique depositors on Lido increased according to Dune Analytics. 123,840 unique depositors were present on the Lido protocol, at the time of writing.
Coupled with that, the number of unique users on the protocol also increased by 38.06%.
Due to this, the revenue generated by Lido also increased by 32% according to Messari’s data.
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This spike in revenue contributed to Lido’s treasury which surged of late. However, it appeared that the treasury funds weren’t being put to use as the number of code commits being made on the Lido protocols GitHub had
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