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Reading on-chain data

Every transaction is public. That means the market's fundamentals — who's buying, who's selling, who's holding — are legible if you know where to look.

> What you can see

Wallet balances and flows, exchange inflows and outflows, whale accumulation, stablecoin supply, active addresses, and miner/validator behavior. Dashboards like Dune, Nansen, Glassnode, and Arkham aggregate this into readable charts.

> Signals that matter

BTC flowing OUT of exchanges = coins moving to cold storage (bullish supply squeeze). Stablecoin supply expanding = dry powder building up. Rising active addresses on a chain = real usage growing. Falling MVRV = market getting cheap relative to what holders paid.

> Limits of on-chain

On-chain data lags narrative and macro. It's excellent for confirming a thesis and terrible for calling short-term tops. Combine it with market structure and macro — never rely on any one metric in isolation.