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Is Solana overtaking Ethereum?
Ethereum’s strategic pivot reprioritising their roadmap to focus on scalability of the mainnet and enhancing the user experience has led to a 5-10 percent outperformance of Ether over Solana....
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Which blockchains do actually make money?
The top blockchains by market capitalisation include an odd mix of projects that are generating substantial revenues vs those that have yet to create any meaningful economic value. While the latter...
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Digital nugget: What will catalyse the next leg of the bull market?
Despite continued positive newsflow from the political and regulatory front and continued indications of institutional adoption, the crypto market has been consolidating over the past two months....
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Digital nugget: Can memecoins have value?
After an already substantial outperformance of memecoins in this cycle, the launch of memecoins by the new US President and his wife highlighted the sector further. Despite their lack of fundamental...
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Digital Nugget: Are corporate treasuries investing in Bitcoin? 
Despite frequent references to the “growing trend of corporate treasuries making allocations to Bitcoin”, very few have actually done so. But this could change.  Bitcoin held by corporate...
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Digital Nugget: Alt season 2025 
Gary Gensler’s resignation ignited the long-awaited altcoin outperformance. User adoption and the exact form and pace of crypto regulation will dictate whether the “alt season” will continue to...
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What will unlock the real-world asset tokenisation opportunity?
Despite predictions of trillions of dollars of opportunity in tokenisation, volumes remained extremely small until the 2022 rate-hike cycle catalysed the demand for fiat yields from crypto-native...
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Digital Nugget: Is Solana on track to flip Ethereum?
Solana has substantially outperformed ether since the beginning of 2023. As Ethereum’s transaction volumes and revenues declined, Solana’s growth trends continued to fuel its superior relative...
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Digital Nugget: Is crypto a “Trump trade”?
Narratives and market movements suggest that crypto is seen as a “Trump trade”. However, there has also been a visible shift in the Democrats’ stance as well as the SEC’s stance toward...
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Digital Nugget: Crypto’s future lies in its use cases
As the much anticipated altseason seems elusive in the current cycle, investors wonder whether it is worth looking beyond Bitcoin and investing in the “rest of the market.” The outperformance of...
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Digital Nugget: Low correlation between crypto and risk assets persists
After the 2022 spike, the correlation between the crypto market and risk assets has reverted to the historically typical low levels. More recently, risk assets and the crypto market have been moving...
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Digital Nugget: Bull market corrections
Corrections during a crypto bull market can be quite severe, especially by the standards of traditional markets, and they can sometimes last many months. However, as long as the bull cycle is in...
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Digital Nugget: Bitcoin’s drivers post-halving
The price of Bitcoin has more than quadrupled since the low of the last bear market in November 2022. Despite the significant rise, the potential for further strong performance remains with a number...
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Digital Nugget: Crypto market bull cycles – Corrections strengthen the uptrend
Although Bitcoin has made a new all-time high in mid-March, indications are that there is potential for significant continued performance in the current bull cycle. Considering a combination of...
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Ether’s catalysts 
After prolonged underperformance, Ethereum has a number of strong catalysts in place. Since the announcement of BlackRock filing to launch Bitcoin ETFs last June, Ether has underperformed Bitcoin by...
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Learn more from the Sygnum digital nugget about the Bitcoin halving

Digital Nugget: Bitcoin halving
Bitcoin has a lot of positive fundamental drivers currently. The upcoming Bitcoin halving is considered to be one of these. In this note, we explore the impact the halving is likely to have on...
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Sygnum Digital Nugget - portfolio distribution in 2024

Digital Nugget: Diversification after the failure of the 60/40 portfolio
The balanced portfolio, consisting of 60 percent equities and 40 percent bonds, has been the mainstay of investors for decades, providing exposure to higher returns from equities and protecting the...
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Digital Nugget: Ordinals, inscriptions and NFTs
“Bitcoin NFTs” called Ordinals have gained tremendous popularity since the beginning of 2023. The “inscriptions” methodology used in their creation has since spread to other networks. We...
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