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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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Digital Nugget - The flipenning

Digital Nugget: The Flippenning – Will Ethereum overtake Bitcoin? 
Since its launch in 2009, bitcoin has remained the dominant cryptocurrency by market capitalisation. Bitcoin’s dominance (its share of the total crypto market capitalisation) currently stands at a...
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Digital Nugget: crypto hedge fund

Digital Nugget: Crypto hedge fund strategies – how have they been performing?
Crypto hedge funds have delivered exceptional returns, far exceeding those of traditional hedge funds. As the crypto hedge fund space is still relatively small and opaque, hedge fund indices that...
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Digital Nugget - how does the ETP structure protect investors

Digital Nugget: How does the ETP structure protect investors?
Many regulators and traditional custodians in leading jurisdictions for mutual funds are still in the process of adopting digital assets in general and crypto currencies in particular. Meanwhile,...
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Digital Nugget: Raising rates

Digital Nugget: Is the bull market over?
A correction after the steep 6-month rally was neither unexpected nor unhealthy, and the magnitude of the correction was very much in line with bitcoin’s past track record. However, five negative...
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Digital Nugget - How do I choose a crypto hedge fund

Digital Nugget: How do I choose a crypto hedge fund?
As a lot of investors are relatively new to the asset class, it is a common and reasonable choice to outsource the active management of crypto assets to a hedge fund. For those already familiar with,...
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Digital Nugget - Is Binance eating Ethereum for lunch

Digital Nugget: Is Binance Coin eating Ethereum’s lunch?
Binance Coin has been a constituent of the Sygnum Platform Winners Index since inception on the basis of its own native chain. It has been sitting at a small weight until about two months ago when...
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Digital Nugget: Interoperability goes MOON

Interoperability goes MOON – Sygnum Platform Winners Index welcomes Polkadot
Interoperability goes MOON – Sygnum Platform Winners Index welcomes Polkadot The Sygnum Platform Winners Index selects tokens that show the highest acceptance based on adoption by the financial...
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Digital nugget - Ethereum

Digital Nugget: Good News On Ethereum Priced In?
Good News On Ethereum Priced In? After ether hit an all time high of $1,459.93 and outperformed bitcoin, which itself experienced a tremendous bull run, almost 2.5x from the beginning of last year to...
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Digital nugget - investing for growth or income scaled

Digital Nugget: Investing for growth or income – crypto wins on both counts
Investing for growth or income – crypto wins on both counts Investors have been attracted to crypto assets for the high upside potential and the tremendous growth opportunity of the new...
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Digital Nugget: Active or passive

Digital Nugget: Active or passive – which approach works best in crypto investing?
Active or passive – which approach works best in crypto investing? Despite what you hear from vested interests, neither active or passive investing is clearly better than the other in crypto...
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