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The Bitcoin Coinbase Premium Gap has witnessed a sharp decline into the 
negative zone recently, with its value now sitting at one of the lowest in the 
last 18 months. Bitcoin Coinbase Premium Gap Has Plunged In a new post on X, 
CryptoQuant community analyst Maartunn has talked about the latest trend in 
the Bitcoin Coinbase Premium Gap. This indicator keeps track of the difference 
between the BTCUSD price on Coinbase and BTCUSDT price on Binance. Related 
Reading: Bitcoin Retail Optimism Returns To End 2025—What Usually Follows? 
Coinbase is mainly used by traders in the US, especially the large 
institutional entities, while Binance hosts a global traffic. As such, the 
Coinbase Premium Gap reflects the difference in behavior between American and 
offshore whales. When the value of the metric is greater than zero, it means 
the asset is trading at a higher value on Coinbase than Binance. Such a trend 
implies users of the former are applying a higher amount of buying pressure 
(or lower amount of selling pressure) as compared to the userbase of the 
latter. On the other hand, the indicator being negative suggests Binance may 
be observing a higher amount of accumulation as the cryptocurrency is going 
for a higher price on the platform. Now, here is the chart shared by Maartunn 
that shows the trend in the Bitcoin Coinbase Premium Gap over the last year 
and a half: As displayed in the above graph, the Bitcoin Coinbase Premium Gap 
has fallen into the negative territory recently, implying the American 
investors have shifted their behavior to one of higher selling pressure/lower 
buying pressure. In other words, demand from US traders has gone down. 
Currently, the indicator is sitting at a value of -$122, which means the 
cryptocurrency&#8217;s price is trading at a discount of $122 on Coinbase relative 
to Binance. The last time that the metric fell to such a low level was during 
the price crash in November. In recent times, US institutional entities have 
played an impactful role in the market, so the Coinbase Premium Gap, which 
acts a proxy of their behavior, has tended to have some correlation with the 
asset&#8217;s spot price. This pattern was once again seen in November, when a 
drawdown occurred in the cryptocurrency alongside a plunge into the red zone 
for the metric. So far, Bitcoin has managed to be relatively stable even with 
the low demand from the American whales, but it only remains to be seen how 
long that will continue, given the scale of the discount on Coinbase. Related 
Reading: Bitcoin Equilibrium: Active Market Participants Just Breaking Even 
The current value of the Coinbase Premium Gap is one of the lowest in the last 
18 months, being seen on only five occasions in this window. BTC Price Bitcoin 
has been following an overall sideways trajectory recently as its price is 
still floating around $88,900. Featured image from Dall-E, CryptoQuant.com, 
chart from TradingView.com

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