Crypto spot buying and selling is at its lowest degree since March 2019, in response to digital property information supplier CCData, shedding some mild on the soporific state of the market. Spot buying and selling quantity on centralized exchanges fell 7.78% to $475 billion in August, whereas quantity in derivatives fell over 12% to $1.62 trillion, the second-lowest since 2021. An occasion resembling Grayscale’s court docket victory over the SEC final week would have been anticipated to stoke a rally in crypto costs, however even this didn’t spur merchants into exercise. “The low spot buying and selling quantity and the fluctuations within the open curiosity information counsel that the market is presently pushed by hypothesis,” CCData stated.