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The article describes how institutional crypto data services can support research, trading, and risk management. It highlights combining real-time and historical information from centralized exchanges, decentralized venues, and blockchains, including spot…
This conference recap presents qualitative themes about institutional participation in digital assets. It reports that attendees observed broader participation by traditional financial institutions, and links growing interest to regulatory, market-structure,…
This market commentary reviews the December 2024 Federal Reserve decision and inflation releases alongside crypto options activity. It argues that strong seasonal equity sentiment and bullish crypto narratives could reduce volatility, while noting that the…
The proposed daily stock screen combines three filters: price range, at least two limit-up moves within a 500-day lookback, and a selected company type. The accompanying discussion says company characteristics may relate to financial performance, while…
The article surveys how market and blockchain data may inform long-term crypto investing and short-term trading. For fundamental research, it lists measures such as market capitalization, supply, trading activity, network use, token holders, velocity, total…
This market snapshot examines a broad crypto selloff alongside macroeconomic and policy developments. It tracks spot prices, realized volatility, trading volume, open interest, funding, ETF flows, stablecoin supply, order-book depth, and DeFi liquidations.…
This report excerpt proposes assessing crypto-market stress through volatility regimes, flows, leverage, liquidity, daily range and volume, and persistent funding. Its central example is the October 2025 Bitcoin selloff: an initial macro-driven decline was…
This report examines Bitcoin spot liquidity across six market regimes, focusing on the October liquidation cascade. It tracks order book depth at several distances from mid-price, exchange volume shares, and a composite resilience measure based on depth…
This market note links crypto performance and options positioning to the prospect of persistently high interest rates, upcoming US inflation releases, and central-bank commentary. It characterizes Bitcoin as more resilient than Ether and reports stronger…
This podcast overview discusses Nexus Mutual, an Ethereum-based mutual insurance protocol focused on covering smart contract and decentralized finance risks. The protocol combines member-provided capital with a market for assessing covered risks: the team…
This podcast discussion describes how institutional crypto desks combine spot trading, derivatives, lending, and market making, drawing on experience from traditional finance. It covers ETF creation and redemption mechanics, hedging flows into underlying…
This market snapshot reviews digital-asset activity around the period following Bitcoin spot ETF filings. It describes spot trading volumes as returning toward typical levels while Bitcoin and Ether prices remained above the levels cited in the report. It…
This market recap examines BTC and ETH options during a sharp rally tied to expectations of approval for a spot BTC ETF. It tracks realized and implied volatility, term structure, call skew, options activity, and dealer gamma. The reported moves include a…
This weekly market recap discusses Bitcoin and Ether options through realized volatility, term structure, skew, trading flows, and dealer gamma positioning. It reports that realized volatility had fallen over the preceding week as prices stayed within their…
The document describes using historical volatility patterns to guide trading and risk decisions in BTC and ETH derivatives. It discusses a volatility cone, which displays realized volatility distributions across time horizons, and realized volatility grouped…
This article explains how crypto order book heatmaps display resting limit orders across price and time, and how traders can use them to inspect apparent supply, demand, and liquidity. It describes combining books from centralized exchanges and comparing…
This weekly market commentary links macro events, including US inflation data and Federal Reserve expectations, with Bitcoin and Ether price behavior and options positioning. It describes Bitcoin and Ether volatility and term structures, including a return…
This podcast overview describes a crypto options venue's altcoin contracts, collateral arrangements, and trading tools, including its integration with another exchange. It discusses options across several digital assets with varied expirations and strikes,…
The article introduces altcoins and decentralized finance as possible sources of diversification and excess returns. It describes an altcoin-season indicator based on the share of leading altcoins outperforming Bitcoin over a specified period, with a 75%…
This market commentary surveys Bitcoin and Ether options conditions for the week of May 14, 2023. It relates macroeconomic uncertainty, Federal Reserve expectations, and recent spot-price declines to implied and realized volatility, volatility risk premium,…
This digital asset snapshot combines price dispersion, order-book conditions, derivatives positioning, ETF flows, stablecoin movements, and DeFi lending measures to describe crypto market stress. Its central reading is mixed: BTC funding is negative while…
This research article examines whether lending activity in USDC, USDT, and DAI helps forecast Ethereum volatility. It describes time-series autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation analysis, then uses Granger causality tests to assess whether past…
This weekly market commentary reviews crypto options conditions around January 29, 2023. It interprets Bitcoin options term structure as having moved into backwardation during a spot rally, suggesting the market priced more near-term movement. It also…
The document introduces a chart for examining an options butterfly across constant maturities. It defines the structure as long one call and one put with a short position in two at-the-money options, and says users can select among several delta levels and…