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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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Crypto market outlook blog post

Outlook for blockchain protocols: Key themes to dominate in 2023
The Ethereum Merge upgrade and the success of Layer-2 solutions were the highlights of last year in the blockchain protocol space. Our Head of Investment Research, Katalin Tischhauser, has identified...
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House View

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 crypto market update

Crypto market outlook 2023
Sygnum has published its crypto market outlook 2023 report, the latest report from our Sygnum investment research. This report analyses 2022 developments and provides insights for key sectors and...
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Sector primer: Decentralised Finance (DeFi)

Sector primer: Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
This article is part of our sector indices primers. Find out more about this series here and get the full report here. Definition Decentralised finance (or DeFi) is the replication of various...
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Crypto sector indices research report

Crypto sector indices research report
In today’s crypto market, sector selection matters! Sygnum’s crypto sector indices tracks the performance of 21,000 individual crypto protocols and uses a rules-based system to filter and...
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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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House View

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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Cryptocurrencies: better money report. Simple principles to consider what qualities make one type of money better than other.

Cryptocurrencies: better money?
Simple principles to consider: what qualities make one type of money better than other. ​​Fiat currencies around the world are losing their purchasing power rapidly. Despite the relative strength...
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Crypto sector indices research report

Sygnum crypto sector index series
Sygnum has leveraged its crypto community involvement and regulated digital asset banking experience to launch the first institutional, rules-based crypto sector indices framework. The Sygnum crypto...
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House View

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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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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House View

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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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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House View

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 report - Valuing crypto assets

Crypto Market Update Q4
In our Crypto market update: From “Flight-to-quality” to “Flight-to-growth” report, we analyse the current bear market in crypto, its key sector and segments and provide an...
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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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House View

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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