James Bennett, CEO of ByteTree, discussed onchain insights and observations about bitcoin. The bitcoin price went to USD 58K over the weekend before retracing back to USD 48K. This challenges the notion that bitcoin is a store-of-value asset at this time, not that it won’t…

Tim McCourt, CME Group global head of equity index and alternative investment products, came to the crypto space from traditional finance, similar to many other market participants. He has been with the CME Group for about eight years running their equity index business line and…

“China is a sleeping giant,” said Napoleon, “When she awakes she will astonish the world.” But what of India? Napoleon wasn’t the only one to discount this great nation, including some of today’s most seasoned world-watchers who eyeball China while ignoring the similarly meteoric rise…

This article investigates the relationship between market efficiency and liquidity in cryptoasset markets. The empirical evidence is currently scarce, with most existing studies focusing on a small cross section of the most liquid cryptoassets. This, however, offers a limited picture. Therefore, we extend our analysis…

Slowly, then all at once, that’s how things change; and this is especially true with institutions and digital assets. Up until recently, institutional money avoided digital assets like the plague, but the tide has since changed, and dramatically so. The growth of Grayscale and, in…

FalconX is a digital asset trading platform for institutional investors that delivers trading, credit and clearing solutions in a one-stop format. One of the things they do is to help enterprises put bitcoin on their balance sheets. Their backers include Fidelity, Coinbase and American Express,…

The bitcoin price hit a new all-time high of $51,000. Meanwhile, companies have been scooping up BTC for their balance sheets in massive amounts, the most notable of which has been Elon Musk’s Tesla, which is buying $1.5 billion of bitcoin for its treasury. Anton…

Aaro Capital is behind the Aaro DLT Multifund, an institutional quality fund-of-funds designed to capture the investment opportunity in distributed ledger technology (DLT) and crypto-assets. Peter Habermacher, Aaro Capital co-founder and CEO, spent some time with host Paul Gordon to discuss the investment proposition for…

Bitcoin mining is quite profitable again for those miners who survived the last bear market. Chris Bendiksen, head of research at CoinShares, is one of the most active researchers in the space and he joined host Paul Gordon to discuss the state of the bitcoin…

Happy Chinese New Year, to those who celebrate, including Bitcoin – which appears to have started the party early. A wave of good news sent Bitcoin soaring yesterday after it was revealed that BNY Mellon, the world’s largest custodian of assets under management (and America’s…

No one enjoys paying sales tax, but it is at least one of the more transparent ways for the state to raise revenue, especially when compared to printing money. But there’s a payment that’s arguably as pernicious as any government levy, and which most of…

The notion of efficient markets (Fama 1970) suggests that a lack of return predictability is the key criteria for efficiency. The market microstructure literature emphasises a separate measure of financial market quality, namely, the amount of private information reflected in prices. As Kyle (1985) points…