Market sentiment significantly impacts crypto prices as it reflects investors' emotions and beliefs about the market. Positive sentiment can boost prices, while negative sentiment can cause a decline. Factors influencing sentiment include news events, regulatory developments, and investor opinions, which collectively shape the overall market outlook and drive price fluctuations in the cryptocurrency market.
Ethereum's MVRV (Market Value to Realized Value) and NVT (Network Value to Transactions) ratios suggest that the cryptocurrency might be undervalued. The MVRV ratio shows that current prices are nearly 63% higher than the dollar-cost average of the whole network in the last two years. Meanwhile, the NVT metric raises concerns with an all-time high 134 ratio, indicating ETH's daily capitalization is 134 times higher than the daily volume transacted on the Ethereum network2. These insights into overvalued cryptocurrencies are similar to stocks' Price-to-Earning (P/E) ratio2.
The 30DMA net flow for BTC and ETH reveals consistent accumulation for Bitcoin in February and March, with outflows dominating. Ethereum saw considerable inflows in mid-March and late May, but the 30DMA net flow has been negative, indicating accumulation. However, over the past eight days, ETH outflow has slowed down.