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Digital Nugget: Constructing crypto portfolios

Digital Nugget: Constructing crypto portfolios
As institutional investment in crypto assets increases, more attention focuses on what exactly to invest in. Initially, new investment in crypto tended to flow simply to Bitcoin and increasingly to a...
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Digital Nugget: Zero Knowledge – catalysing growth and unlocking new use cases

Digital Nugget: Zero Knowledge – catalysing growth and unlocking new use cases
Applying zero-knowledge cryptography to blockchain projects may be the most important innovation since the successful realisation of distributed ledger technology. Protocols based on Zero-Knowledge...
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Digital Nugget: Investable tokens

Digital Nugget: Investable tokens
With over 22,000 tokens in the crypto market, it is necessary to segment the market and filter for investable tokens. In this note, we provide a guide to narrowing down the universe to what is...
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Digital Nugget: The potential for growth in decentralised lending

Digital Nugget: The potential for growth in decentralised lending
Decentralised lending was battle-tested in 2022, and it proved superior to centralised lenders. However, its product range is very narrow. Below, we examine the potential for decentralised lending to...
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Digital Nugget: What is the point of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)?

Digital Nugget: What is the point of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)?
While most of the world’s central banks are enthusiastically prototyping CBDCs, their motivations why are not always clear. What do central banks mean by digital currency? The puzzle starts with...
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Digital Nugget - Can we rebuild trust in the crypto industry

Digital Nugget: Can we rebuild trust in the crypto industry?
The last few months’ cascade of failures by centralised projects serving the crypto market highlighted both the power of decentralised transparency and point to weaknesses in the regulatory...
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Digital nugget - not the end of attractive crypto yields

Digital Nugget: Not the end of attractive crypto yields
As a result of the bear market and the recent crises, yields in the crypto market are currently only slightly above fiat money market rates. However, unlike fiat money markets, crypto yields have...
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Digital Nugget- Bless curse

Digital Nugget: Crypto bear markets – a curse or a blessing?
The bear market pullbacks in a technological innovation cycle sow the seeds of extraordinary performance for the upcycle that follows. Most traditional asset classes operate within the constraints of...
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Digital nugget - ETH merge

The Ethereum “Merge” – opportunities & risks
The current overwhelmingly bullish narratives on Ethereum in the market and a generally bullish positioning by market participants going into The Merge raise the question: has the recent 100 percent+...
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Digital nugget - The crypto market is the white swan

Digital Nugget: The crypto market is a white swan
While the crypto market is more volatile than traditional asset classes, the returns have stayed within the expected range – unlike major asset classes, which have experienced market moves that...
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Digital Nugget: Crypto winter

Digital Nugget: A repeat of the 2018-19 Crypto Winter?
Despite parallels drawn based on the price action, the fundamentals of today’s crypto market are nothing like they were in during the previous Crypto Winter. Below we highlight the key differences...
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Digital Nugget: end of stablecoins

Digital Nugget: The end of the algorithmic stablecoin?
The Terra USD (ticker: UST) stablecoin losing its peg to the dollar likely marks the end of algorithmic stablecoins, or at least it will prevent them from reaching any meaningful market...
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Digital nugget - not the end of attractive crypto yields

Digital Nugget: Crypto yield trumps high-yield debt
The yields available in the crypto market offer higher returns with lower risk than high-yield bonds. In this article, we compare the relative risks. The relatively high interest rates available in...
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Digital Nugget: Generating income

Digital Nugget: Generating income in the crypto market
The crypto market offers numerous opportunities to earn a yield. Some opportunities parallel the traditional markets (such as a market for borrowing and lending yields, or for yields resembling...
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Digital Nugget: Raising rates

Digital Nugget: Are rising rates positive or negative for the crypto market?
The crypto market has exhibited close negative correlation with interest rate expectations over the last couple of months with a narrative taking hold that rising interest rates are bearish for...
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Digital nugget - M&A in crypto assets - the next trend

Digital Nugget: M&A in crypto assets – the next trend?
After isolated examples in the past, 2021 saw the beginnings of a trend towards mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the crypto asset market. In this article, we consider what M&A mean...
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Digital Nugget: Meme coin

Digital Nugget: Meme coins – All bark, no bite
2021 was not only the year of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and NFTs, but also of meme coins such as Dogecoin, SHIBA INU, and Safemoon. This has been a puzzling phenomenon: why do these tokens exist and why...
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Digital Nugget: Factors behind crypto returns scaled

Digital Nugget: Factors behind crypto returns – an introduction to sentiment scores
Sentiment scores can give short-term indications about market direction. In this article, we outline an approach to sentiment scores for cryptocurrencies – one of several factors that can be...
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