Crypto Research

Sean Farrell, VP of Digital Assets at FSInsight, chats with Carrie Presley about the recent boost in Bitcoin price. Did the Amazon headline boost Bitcoin to 40K or is there more going on? Sean provides his insight into the crypto market, macro temperature, and recent headlines. *Recorded July 29, 2021

Avalanche - A unique approach to building a scalable digital economyOverview of the Avalanche network and ecosystemDiscussion of recent platform upgrades and performanceLive Q&A with John Wu (President of Ava Labs)

As a personal note, this will be my last crypto weekly with Fundstrat. It’s been great working with Tom and team, and I’ve learned a lot from Fundstrat over the past nearly two years while here. For those wondering, I’m transitioning to Grayscale where I’ll join the team as the Head of Research. For readers that would like to stay connected, feel free to follow me on Twitter (@David_Grid) or...

CompoSecure Holdings, LLC ("CompoSecure," or the "Company") designs and manufactures metal payment cards for many of the world's leading financial institutions. The Company was the first to produce a metal card in 2003 in partnership with American Express and has since forged deep relationships with additional issuers/resellers such as JP Morgan Chase, Capital One, and Fiserv ( Slide 12 ). The Company produces cards for a variety of proprietary and...

BITCOIN RALLIES OFF ~$30K SUPPORT AGAIN BUT CRYPTO REMAINS IN A CHOPPY MARKET Crypto is still in a doldrums of summer as many investors have taken a sell in May and go away approach. We think these combined factors below are partially why crypto remains in a choppy market environment for now: -Institutional investors taking money off table early in year locking in performance fees -Many institutional investors who were...

This report recaps the most impactful headlines from the first half of 2021. We then review year-to-date digital asset performance and analyze on-chain data to get a sense of where we are in the crypto market cycle. BATTLE OF THE HEADLINES _Bitcoin’s Environmental Impact_ In the first half of 2021 crypto reentered the mainstream, frequently intersecting with the zeitgeist’s most controversial characters like Elon Musk as well as new ones...

In our first crypto weekly of 2H 2021, we dive into the following:* Crypto Had Strong 1H vs. Global Assets Despite VolatilityBitcoin Still Consolidating After Sell In May & Go Away CorrectionBitcoin Trading Volume Down As Market Enters Summer DoldrumsEthereum Resuming Outperformance vs. Bitcoin After Recent PauseSmaller Cap Crypto Assets Underperforming vs. Bitcoin But Starting To TurnCrypto Mining Stocks Peaked vs. Bitcoin During Feb & Bottomed Mid-MayInvestors Selling At A...

In this Crypto Weekly, instead of discussing our usual views on the market, we’re going to talk about something a little different – our thought on stablecoins, borrowing & lending platforms, earing yield, leverage, risks, and regulation. We think it’s worth discussing these areas to expand on our notes from last Friday and Monday on leverage in the crypto lending space and given the House Financial Services Committee holds a...

AVALANCHE (AVAX) is a next-generation smart contracts platform that’s structured as a publicly-owned crypto network protocol. Ava Labs supports the Avalanche protocol in its mission to build a high-performing, secure, and energy-efficient cryptonetwork for decentralized applications ("dApps"), novel financial primitives, and new interoperable blockchains. Using its innovative technology approach, the Avalanche protocol is creating a new crypto-native economy for frictionless real-world and digital asset exchange, composable financial application primitives and derivatives,...

After bottoming on bad news a week ago, Bitcoin and crypto had been rallying heading into yesterday’s Fed meeting, but crypto markets fell slightly alongside other major asset classes following the Fed policy statement, and have remained roughly flat this morning. Source: Fundstrat, Bloomberg The Federal Reserve spooked some market participants with its commentary around inflation expectations, tapering and rising interest rates. Source: Fundstrat, CNBC, New York Times Inflation has...

Bitcoin and crypto markets have been hit with a wave of bad news headlines over the past couple months and prices have taken a sharp hit in response. China’s regulatory crypto crackdowns have been some of the largest contributors to the market action. This morning, news of further crackdowns started circulating after the major Chinese internet service providers Baidu and Weibo started censoring searches for the three largest Asian crypto...