Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
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This conference recap highlights themes discussed at Consensus 2024, including institutional participation in digital assets, interest in blockchain applications such as tokenization of real-world assets, and the prospect of consolidated crypto trading. It…
The report describes tests of 14 Ethereum trading strategies using stablecoin issuance and Uniswap V2 USDC/ETH pool activity. It outlines signals based on rolling issuance sums, moving averages, standard-deviation thresholds, Pearson correlation, and pool…
The document introduces candlesticks as a compact record of price movement during a chosen period. The body marks the open and close, while the upper and lower wicks mark the period’s high and low. A close above the open is presented as bullish, and a close…
The document explains how comparing implied volatility (IV) surfaces across dates can reveal patterns that a single snapshot misses. It describes tracking Mark IV and Forward IV across maturities with term-structure time-lapse views, and comparing…
This introductory guide compares market, limit, stop, and take-profit orders for cryptocurrency trading. A market order seeks the best available price and usually prioritizes execution, while a limit order specifies the price at which a trader is willing to…
The document outlines the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, a framework for crypto-assets outside existing financial-services rules. It describes requirements for public token offers, including clear disclosures, white papers,…
The document explains how Bitcoin can be represented as an Ethereum ERC-20 token backed by BTC held on another network. This structure is intended to combine Bitcoin’s liquidity with Ethereum smart contracts, allowing the token to be used in decentralized…
The roadmap outlines planned upgrades to Hummingbot’s strategy framework, bot management tools, and core architecture. Its strategy plans include configurable scripts, reusable components for cross-exchange market making, dollar-cost averaging, statistical…
This introductory article explains cryptocurrency futures as contracts used to gain exposure to expected price movements without directly holding the underlying coins. It outlines long and short positioning, noting that short sellers aim to buy back at a…
The article distinguishes among spend-based crypto card cashback, staking rewards, and referral or sign-up bonuses under the U.S. tax treatment it describes. Cashback tied to a purchase is generally treated as a rebate rather than income. Staking rewards are…
This introductory guide explains how an exchange order book records bids and asks and how its matching engine fills orders. It connects liquidity and order-book depth to the price impact of market orders, defines the bid-ask spread and mid price, and…
This document describes Binance’s SBE WebSocket feeds for spot market data, including trades, best bid and ask updates, incremental depth changes, and partial book snapshots. It explains how to connect to one or multiple streams, authenticate with an API…
This introductory guide recommends spreading a crypto portfolio across multiple tokens and varying allocation sizes. It frames diversification as a way to avoid relying on a single asset and suggests researching a project’s market capitalization, roadmap,…
This introductory post explains cryptocurrency trading and presents general reasons a trader might use an automated trading bot. It describes bots as tools that can execute preset rules continuously, which may reduce the influence of fear or greed and free a…
This case study describes a hedge fund seeking to add digital asset strategies and the data infrastructure needed to research and trade them. Its requirements included real-time and historical market data, high-volume feeds for algorithm development and…
This weekly report reviews a sharp crypto selloff alongside higher US yields, China-related risk concerns, and the upcoming Federal Reserve outlook at Jackson Hole. It describes heavy BTC futures and perpetual liquidations, falling open interest, a temporary…
This overview describes meme coins as cryptocurrencies whose popularity often depends on humor, online communities, and attention rather than a distinct practical use. It gives examples including Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, Pepe, and Bonk, and notes that tokens may…
This weekly market note connects US inflation releases and speculation about Federal Reserve leadership to moves in gold, bonds, and crypto. It interprets mixed producer and consumer inflation readings, resilient employment, and possible political pressure…
This explainer describes exchange API keys as credentials that let trading software interact with a cryptocurrency account without using the account email address or password. The stated bot functions include reading portfolio balances and retrieving,…
This guide surveys ten cryptocurrency trading bot platforms, describing their strategy types, free-plan restrictions, and usability. It introduces bots as software that connects to exchanges and executes predefined rules, then compares offerings that include…
This guide explains Bitcoin mining as the process that validates transactions, adds blocks, and issues new bitcoin. Miners use specialized computers to repeatedly hash block data while changing a nonce, seeking an output that meets the network's target.…
The document presents perpetual futures funding rates as indicators of leveraged positioning as well as periodic payments. Sustained positive rates suggest crowded long exposure and may precede a pullback, while negative rates during a rising market can…
The document describes the delivery of historical and current market and blockchain datasets through cloud storage, including data in a format suited to analytical workflows. The described coverage includes decentralized exchange trades and liquidity,…
This quarterly recap surveys digital-asset market developments in Q2 2024, including softer token prices and trading activity, regulatory progress, Bitcoin exchange-traded fund flows, memecoin trading, and launches of new layer-two and layer-three networks.…