Over the past seven days, the FS CryptoFX Agg Index increased by 6.3%, compared with a 15.0% correction for the S&P 500. Bitcoin started the week with another massive loss of 16% and fell below $4,500 key level during Monday’s (3/16/20) session. However, since then, Bitcoin price sharply rebounded and climbed up to nearly $7,000 Friday morning and finished the week at $5,800.

Benchmark Crypto Indices Weekly Performance Review — March 24



Sector Rotation
Bitcoin has been the leader since the crypto market selloff. Because of that, both FS CryptoFX Commodity index and FS CryptoFX Large-cap 10 index have been the best performing indices within both sector-based indices and size-based indices in the past four weeks. The Privacy sector had been trailing other sectors since Feb 9th. 
 
However, during the past week, the Privacy sector was the best performing group within the crypto space – FS CryptoFX Privacy index was up 15%. Dash (+34%) and Zcash (+15%) were the biggest contributors to this outperformance.

Benchmark Crypto Indices Weekly Performance Review — March 24



The laggardship of the FS CryptoFX Platform Index persists. Amid the broad recovery in the crypto market, the FS CryptoFX Platform index fell 1.1%. The big players within the sector, Ethereum, Stellar, and Tezos, were down in the past week. FS CryptoFX Platform index has been underperforming since the start of March.

Benchmark Crypto Indices Weekly Performance Review — March 24



The hard fork is alive and well
A hard fork of the Steem blockchain, the Hive blockchain officially launched on Friday 3/20. The move comes in response to Tron founder, Justin Sun’s takeover of the Steem network, a cryptocurrency based social media blogging site, which left many Steem community members less than satisfied to say the least.

Abstracting from controversy surrounding Sun’s move and allegations that various exchanges aided in the takeover, the launch of the Hive network is significant. Hearkening back to the rich history of blockchain forks, of which the Bitcoin/BCash/BSV and ETH/ETC forks are top of mind, the launch of the Hive network is a reminder that hard forks are an inherent feature of public blockchains.

Think about it like a revolution where people declare independence, set up a new country, elect new leaders, many citizens move there, and they issue a new currency that most citizens now only recognize as valid, leaving the old one worthless. That’s the analogy for what is being attempted here. Will it work? We will have to wait to see how it plays out.

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