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Trusted, high-quality insights are essential for making effective investment decisions in the crypto space. Browse these regularly updated set of publications, produced by Sygnum Asset Management’s team of in-house researchers and analysts, to future-proof your investments

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Sygnum House View – The crypto market awaits catalyst
The crypto market continued to lack a strong catalyst in September, with no decisive developments on either the Bitcoin cash ETF approvals or a long-awaited breakthrough in adoption for use cases. As...
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Sygnum September House View

Sygnum House View – Crypto’s hidden potential amidst market uncertainty
A directionless, low volatility crypto market was affected by a sudden flash crash mid-August. The selloff did not appear to have any particular trigger and was in part attributed to mostly...
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House View August

Sygnum House View – Crypto market awaits clarity amid regulatory developments
The crypto market rallied mid-July on the news of a favourable ruling in Ripple’s case vs the SEC. This was, however, followed by a largely technical correction driven by options expiries,...
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Sygnum House View - Jul

Sygnum House View – Bitcoin ETF filing ushers in a bullish era
The crypto market continued the previous month’s downtrend in June on negative developments such as the SEC’s lawsuit against the largest crypto exchange, Binance. After a -10 percent fall the...
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Sygnum House View – Jun 2023
The crypto market moved mostly sideways in May with low volumes and low volatility, apart from a 10 percent correction after major market makers announced they were pulling back from the US due to...
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Sygnum House View – May 2023
Coinbase’s announcement that they might leave the US due to the regulatory environment triggered a correction that disrupted the bullish sentiment in April as such a move by the largest US-based...
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Sygnum House View – Apr 2023
The crypto market initially fell ~15 percent as US bank failures impacted several key crypto service providers, including a portion of the cash reserves for one of the leading stablecoins. However,...
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Sygnum House View – Mar 2023
The crypto market proved extremely resilient in the face of regulatory topics in the last few weeks. Crypto also decoupled from macro asset classes, which have been under pressure. As equities, bonds...
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Sygnum House View – Feb 2023
After signs of seller exhaustion last year, the crypto market started the year with a strong rally. This January was the best start of the year for the crypto market since 2013, and this happened in...
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Sygnum House View – Jan 2023
As it happened several times last year, the crypto market traded in an extraordinarily narrow range again in December, closely resembling a flat line. The only slight movement was due to a level of...
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Sygnum House View – Dec 2022
The crypto market appreciated slightly at the beginning of November as macro sentiment was turning more positive. Just as it was looking like the market bottomed out, news of the FTX fraud hit and...
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Sygnum House View – Nov 2022
The crypto market was unusually flat and stable with very low volatility throughout October, until a brief rally that appeared to be related to covering expiring short futures positions, lifted...
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Sygnum House View – Oct 2022
The crypto market rose cautiously at the beginning of September, on the hopes of lower inflation figures and Ethereum driving outperformance again in the run up to the Merge upgrade. The...
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Sygnum House View – Sep 2022
The crypto market traded sideways in August until a sharp minus 10 percent drop mid-month that was not precipitated nor explained by any crypto-specific or macro news. After the Fed’s...
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Sygnum House View – Aug 2022
The crypto market started to recover in July as the negative news around the crypto lending crisis petered out and most of the deleveraging appeared to have concluded. The bullish interpretation of...
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Sygnum House View – Jul 2022
The lasting downtrend in the crypto market put pressure on the risky business models of several centralised entities, starting with centralised lender Celsius, causing prices to move sharply lower....
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Sygnum House View – Jun 2022
The 6-month long bearish sentiment in crypto was compounded in May by the collapse of Terra, one of the top ten cryptocurrencies and the stablecoin the project supported – the third largest...
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