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Trust Wallet Token (TWT) has surged by nearly 150% in the last six days, bucking the downturn in the cryptocurrency market, whose net capitalization has crashed by almost $100 billion in the same period.

TWT whale accumulation picks up momentum

TWT’s price reached an intraday high of $2.43 on Nov. 15, a day after establishing a record high at nearly $2.75. At its lowest in 2022, the token was changing hands for $0.40, which makes it one of the year’s best-performing assets, with over 225% year-to-date gains.

The Trust Wallet Token’s uptrend picked up momentum in November following the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, prompting a bank run situation wherein traders withdrew their funds from exchanges en masse.

For instance, the total number of Bitcoin (BTC) in FTX’s wallets dropped to zero in the week ending Nov. 13. Similarly, the exchange’s Ether (ETH) reserves fell from 611,000 to just 2,800 in the same period.

Distrust in centralized exchanges seems to have boosted the appetite for self-custody wallets. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao’s endorsement of the token’s parent platform, Trust Wallet, has also played a major part in driving up the TWT price. 

Bitcoin (BTC) sellers are nursing their largest overall losses since March 2020, one on-chain metric suggests.

Data from on-chain analytics firm Glassnode confirms that Bitcoin’s spent output profit ratio (SOPR) has now fallen to two-year lows.

BTC on-chain losses mount

As Bitcoin holders attempt to pull funds from exchanges into noncustodial wallets, those moving coins around are doing so at multi-year high losses.

SOPR divides the realized value of coins in a spent output by their value at creation. In other words, as Glassnode summarizes, “price sold / price paid.”

As Cointelegraph reported, SOPR fluctuates around 1 and tends to be below that level during Bitcoin bear markets and above it in bull markets.

On-chain data from Glassnode show Bitcoin’s (BTC) movements hit a new record for the largest net decline in aggregate BTC balances on exchanges, reducing by 72,900 BTC in one week. 

A similar movement occurred in April 2020, November 2020 and June 2022, with the current outflow leaving around 2.25 million BTC on exchanges.

Exchange exodus for Ether, but not stablecoins

While Ether (ETH) did not see an all-time high outflow from exchanges, 1.1 million ETH was withdrawn from exchanges over the last week. According to Glassnode, this marks the largest 30-day exchange balance decline since September 2020 during the decentralized finance (DeFi) summer in the same year.

Related: Exchange outflows hit historic highs as Bitcoin investors self-custody

Contrary to Bitcoin’s and Ether’s declining balances on exchanges, stablecoin balances remain net positive on exchanges, meaning their balances are growing. Over $1.04 billion in Tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC), Binance USD (BUSD) and Dai (DAI) moved to exchanges on Nov. 10. This marks Nov. 10 as the seventh-largest stablecoin inflow to exchanges.