It was a successful year for digital currency markets as excess fiscal and monetary expansion in response to the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with continued innovation within crypto asset technology has caused the total market capitalization for the cryptocurrency market to swell to over $700 billion as the digital asset market…

The price of bitcoin rallied nearly 30% in the month of October as the floodgates opened to push digital assets mainstream (Chart 1.0). PayPal’s entrance into the digital currency space, allowing users to buy, sell and hold several cryptocurrencies in their PayPal wallets, caused traders to bid up the price…

After releasing the first liquidity mining token model back in June, Compound Finance has paved the way for parabolic growth in the DeFi space. Since the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi has ballooned from around $1B to over $9.5B or a +850% increase in three months. Liquidity mining, or…

As we continue to make our way through the second half of 2020, COVID-19 continues to propagate fear, uncertainty and doubt (“FUD”) throughout the world. The United States’ unemployment (see Figure 1) along with several other labour statistics have rebounded off of their March lows as the continuous lockdown of…

This month DeFi markets experienced unprecedented growth as the total value locked in DeFi surged from just under $979 million to $1.57 billion. In other words, the total value locked in DeFi has grown an astonishing +60% in June. Make no mistake, this parabolic growth in DeFi markets was no…

Bitcoin’s halving, which is expected to occur on May 11, 2020, is potentially going to disappoint many traders as it is most likely to be not just a “non-event” for the price bitcoin, but a bearish event. On one hand, market dynamics reveal short term bearishness for the price of…

Initial Stages of the Outbreak — December 31, 2019 — February 11, 2020 On December 31, 2019, Chinese Health officials inform the World Health organization that 41 people had contracted mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, China. Thinking that the outbreak originated from a popular Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, a day afterward…

Coronavirus fears, which initially seemed to be nothing more than an afterthought, have finally materialized as COVID-19 has turned into a global pandemic. This black swan event has caused global markets to sell off sharply causing investors to abandon risky assets for safe-haven securities. In less than two weeks, the…

Alpha is defined as the excess return on an investment given the expected risks taken to generate those returns. Alpha is often referred to as “skill” or “edge”. On the other hand, beta is defined as risk premiums given by the market. …