{"id":551741,"date":"2026-02-05T06:53:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/coinbase-premium-hits-yearly-low-hinting-at-institutional-selling\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T06:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:53:44","slug":"coinbase-premium-hits-yearly-low-hinting-at-institutional-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/coinbase-premium-hits-yearly-low-hinting-at-institutional-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase premium hits yearly low, hinting at institutional selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMTIvMDE5YjExODYtMjIxYy03MmEzLWIyZDUtMTNjMGQ3MTQ1Mjhk.jpg\" alt=\"Coinbase premium hits yearly low, hinting at institutional selling\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The price difference between Bitcoin on Coinbase and Binance has dropped to its lowest level since December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Coinbase Premium Gap, a metric used to estimate demand for Bitcoin from institutional investors relative to retail investors, has fallen to its lowest level in over a year \u2014 signaling a potential sell-off by professional investors, according to an analyst.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-coinbase-premium-deeply-negative-is-66k-btc-price-next\">Coinbase Premium<\/a> is the price difference between Coinbase\u2019s BTC\/USD pair and Binance\u2019s BTC\/USDT pair.<\/p>\n<p>When it turns negative to this extent, it means that the price of Bitcoin (<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price\">BTC<\/a>) on Coinbase Advanced Trade (formerly known as Coinbase Pro) \u2014 a platform mainly used by professionals, institutions and high-net-worth individual accounts \u2014 is lower than on Binance, a platform accessible to everyone and widely used by retail investors, CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Darkfost_Coc\/status\/2019181066133676259\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Darkfost_Coc\/status\/2019181066133676259\">said<\/a> on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/coinbase-premium-gap-falls-to-yearly-low-signalling-institutional-selling-cryptoquant\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price difference between Bitcoin on Coinbase and Binance has dropped to its lowest level since December 2024. The Coinbase Premium Gap, a metric used to estimate demand for Bitcoin from institutional investors relative to retail investors, has fallen to its lowest level in over a year \u2014 signaling a potential sell-off by professional investors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":551742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-551741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}