Data-Driven Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets, Kaiko

Kaiko

Data-Driven Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets

Kaiko is the leading cryptocurrency market data provider for institutional investors and enterprises. We empower market participants with accurate, transparent, and actionable financial data to be leveraged for a range of market activities. Kaiko’s mission is to be the foundation of the new digital finance economy by serving as a single source for market information. Our mission is premised on the idea that high-quality data drives market efficiency and greater transparency throughout the industry. For each of our enterprise clients, we build custom data plans designed for a range of use cases.

Crypto

<ul><li>Asset Metrics is perhaps the most powerful product that Kaiko has ever released.</li><li>With a single endpoint, users are able to fetch historical liquidity and volume data for any asset we cover, including all instruments and all exchanges – centralized or decentralized.</li><li>Additionally, it includes historical holder data for a wide variety of ERC-20 tokens.</li></ul>

Asset Metrics is perhaps the most powerful product that Kaiko has ever released.With a single endpoint, users are able to fetch historical liquidity and volume data for any asset we cover, including all instruments and all exchanges – centralized or decentralized.Additionally, it includes historical holder data for a wide variety of ERC-20 tokens.

LDO's Shifting Market Structure: Unveiling Asset Metrics

Senior Cryptocurrency Analyst, Steno Research

Mads Eberhardt

Senior Cryptocurrency Analyst

Macro and Geopolitical Research House

Steno Research

Steno Research is a new macro and geopolitical research house. We are based out of Copenhagen, Denmark, but have an international team and a strong network of sources and partners around the world. The team is lead by Andreas Steno, previous global head of strategy at Nordea Bank, and Mikkel Rosenvold, former chief consultant in the Danish Ministry of Finance.

<ul><li>It has been exactly eighteen months since Ethereum made the big switch from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake, an event widely known as the Merge.</li><li>In simple terms, after the Merge, the responsibility for verifying transactions and proposing new blocks on the Ethereum network shifted from miners to holders, provided they choose to become stakers.</li><li>To maintain the blockchain as stakers, holders lock up their Ether in the network.</li></ul>

It has been exactly eighteen months since Ethereum made the big switch from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake, an event widely known as the Merge.In simple terms, after the Merge, the responsibility for verifying transactions and proposing new blocks on the Ethereum network shifted from miners to holders, provided they choose to become stakers.To maintain the blockchain as stakers, holders lock up their Ether in the network.

Crypto Moves #19 – Liquid Staking Protocols Are Ethereum’s Saver

Crypto Research and Data, Delphi Digital

Delphi Digital

Crypto Research and Data

Institutional-Grade Crypto Research & Data

Delphi Digital seeks to produce unbiased, actionable content for our clients on critical themes affecting digital assets and distributed ledger technology. Our team is committed to providing investors and institutions with key insights through a diverse suite of products including individual project analysis, bespoke research, and tailored consulting services.

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<li>Traditional equities confer specific rights to their holders, such as voting power and dividends. Tokens offer distinct advantages, including implementation versatility, composability—especially within DeFi—and other functionalities unattainable with securities.</li>
<li>The innovative designs of tokens play a pivotal role; they not only channel value back to the token holders but also exert a direct impact on the token’s market value.</li>
<li>In this report, we explore four value accrual mechanisms implemented by tokens. These include: (i) Buyback and Burn; (ii) Real Yield; (iii) Tax-Tokens; and (iv) Book Value Tokens</li>
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Traditional equities confer specific rights to their holders, such as voting power and dividends. Tokens offer distinct advantages, including implementation versatility, composability—especially within DeFi—and other functionalities unattainable with securities.
The innovative designs of tokens play a pivotal role; they not only channel value back to the token holders but also exert a direct impact on the token’s market value.
In this report, we explore four value accrual mechanisms implemented by tokens. These include: (i) Buyback and Burn; (ii) Real Yield; (iii) Tax-Tokens; and (iv) Book Value Tokens


More Than Just Governance: Unpacking Value Accrual Mechanisms in Crypto

<ul><li>Three Arrows Capital famously blew up because of a series of bad trades, primarily Luna and GBTC.</li><li>What happened to Luna is obvious: it went to 0 because of UST’s flawed peg maintenance mechanism.</li><li>The GBTC situation was a bit more complex: “Grayscale allowed big investors like 3AC to purchase shares directly by giving Bitcoin to the trust.</li></ul>

Three Arrows Capital famously blew up because of a series of bad trades, primarily Luna and GBTC.What happened to Luna is obvious: it went to 0 because of UST’s flawed peg maintenance mechanism.The GBTC situation was a bit more complex: “Grayscale allowed big investors like 3AC to purchase shares directly by giving Bitcoin to the trust.

<ul><li>Towards the end of last year, I published the first liquidity ranking system for crypto assets, comparing each asset’s liquidity ranking to its market cap and investigating which token’s market cap is the most misleading from a liquidity standpoint.</li><li>In Q1 of this year I provided an update to the ranking system as overall market liquidity hit 10 month lows. </li><li>The good news is that global liquidity has been more or less flat over Q2, with no further drops apart from  the tokens featured in the SEC lawsuits and a handful of exchange-specific drops in liquidity, such as Binance.US.</li></ul>

Towards the end of last year, I published the first liquidity ranking system for crypto assets, comparing each asset’s liquidity ranking to its market cap and investigating which token’s market cap is the most misleading from a liquidity standpoint.In Q1 of this year I provided an update to the ranking system as overall market liquidity hit 10 month lows. The good news is that global liquidity has been more or less flat over Q2, with no further drops apart from  the tokens featured in the SEC lawsuits and a handful of exchange-specific drops in liquidity, such as Binance.US.

Lido DAO Token (LDO CURNCY)

LDO's Shifting Market Structure: Unveiling Asset Metrics

Asset Metrics is perhaps the most powerful product that Kaiko has ever released. With a single endpoint, users are able to fetch historical...

Kaiko

Crypto Moves #19 – Liquid Staking Protocols Are Ethereum’s Saver

It has been exactly eighteen months since Ethereum made the big switch from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake, an event widely known as the...

Steno Research

More Than Just Governance: Unpacking Value Accrual Mechanisms in Crypto

Tokens offer distinct advantages over traditional equities, with versatile implementation and unique functionalities unattainable with securities....

Delphi Digital

Is StETH Liquid Enough?

The GBTC situation was a bit more complex: “Grayscale allowed big investors like 3AC to purchase shares directly by giving Bitcoin to the trust.

Kaiko

Q2 Liquidity Ranking for Crypto Assets

In Q1 of this year I provided an update to the ranking system as overall market liquidity hit 10 month lows. The good news is that global liquidity...

Kaiko

LDO's Shifting Market Structure: Unveiling Asset Metrics

Asset Metrics is perhaps the most powerful product that Kaiko has ever released. With a single endpoint, users are able to fetch historical...

Kaiko

Crypto Moves #19 – Liquid Staking Protocols Are Ethereum’s Saver

It has been exactly eighteen months since Ethereum made the big switch from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake, an event widely known as the...

Steno Research

More Than Just Governance: Unpacking Value Accrual Mechanisms in Crypto

​Tokens offer distinct advantages over traditional equities, with versatile implementation and unique functionalities unattainable with securities....

Delphi Digital

Is StETH Liquid Enough?

The GBTC situation was a bit more complex: “Grayscale allowed big investors like 3AC to purchase shares directly by giving Bitcoin to the trust.

Kaiko

Q2 Liquidity Ranking for Crypto Assets

In Q1 of this year I provided an update to the ranking system as overall market liquidity hit 10 month lows. The good news is that global liquidity...

Kaiko

Tokens offer distinct advantages over traditional equities, with versatile implementation and unique functionalities unattainable with securities....