29 March 2022 Bitcoin & Crypto

Crypto Index Tracker: Smart Contracts and Metaverse Lead Bull Run

By Bilal Hafeez and Dalvir Mandara
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Crypto markets have been rallying ever since the Fed initiated its hiking cycle. Indeed, we argued this would be the case in our recent bitcoin update. The total crypto market cap has now exceeded $2tn over the past week for the first time since the start of February. As for specific performance, all major coins are in the green. Our Smart Contract Index and our Metaverse Index are up the most at 16% each (Charts 1 and 2). Next, our Bitcoin Index and our DeFi Index are both up around 14% each. Lastly, our Privacy Index is up 10%.

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Smart Contract Platform Index: VeChain (VET) is up the most at 40% and Terra (LUNA) is up the least at 2%. Ethereum (ETH) is up 15%.
DeFi Index: Loopring (LRC) is up the most at 42% and Terra (LUNA) is up the least at 2%.
Metaverse Index: RedFOX Labs (RFOX) is up the most at 37% and Aavegotchi (GHST) is up the least at 3%.
Privacy Index: Verge (XVG) is up the most at 21% and Keep Network (KEEP) is up the least at 4%.
Bitcoin: This is up 14%.

What Are in the Four Indices?

Here are the indices in more detail:

Bitcoin: the OG of crypto markets deserves its own category and is in many ways the true benchmark for any other crypto market.
Smart contract platforms: after bitcoin, the big innovation was to have blockchains that were more programmable. These could host smart contracts or decentralised applications and have allowed the emergence of the metaverse and defi. Ethereum (ETH) is the most popular version of a smart contract platform. As well as ethereum, we also include some key competitors. The constituents of this index are: Ethereum (ETH), Cardano (ADA), Avalanche (AVAX), Solana (SOL), Fantom (FTM), VeChain (VET), Terra (LUNA), EOS (EOS), and Chainlink (LINK). We also include Polkadot (DOT) which allows interoperability between blockchains and the use of smart contracts via parachains.
Metaverse: coins associated with the creation of a virtual space/digital world on the internet using a combination of augmented reality, virtual reality, and social networks. The constituents of this index are Axie Infinity (AXS), The Sandbox (SAND), Decentraland (MANA), Enjin Coin (ENJ), Aavegotchi (GHST), Terra Virtua Kolect (TVK), Ultra (UOS), Phantasma (SOUL), RedFOX Labs (RFOX), and Gala (GALA).
Decentralised Finance (DeFi): financial services built on top of blockchain networks with no central intermediaries. This can be a broad category, so we narrow this down to platforms that focus on lending/borrowing, yield farming, automated market making and decentralised exchange tokens. The constituents of this index are: Aave (AAVE), Compound (COMP), Uniswap (UNI), Yearn.finance (YFI), Loopring (LRC), PancakeSwap (CAKE), Maker (MKR), 1inch (1INCH), Thorchain (RUNE), and Terra (LUNA).
Privacy Coins: coins that obscure transactions on the blockchain to maintain the anonymity of its users and their activity. The constituents of this index are Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), Dash (DASH), Verge (XVG), Horizen (ZEN), Beam (BEAM), Secret (SCRT), Decred (DCR), Keep Network (KEEP), and Dusk Network (DUSK).

Dalvir Mandara is a Quantitative Researcher at Macro Hive. Dalvir has a BSc Mathematics and Computer Science and an MSc Mathematical Finance both from the University of Birmingham. His areas of interest are in the applications of machine learning, deep learning and alternative data for predictive modelling of financial markets.

Bilal Hafeez is the CEO and Editor of Macro Hive. He spent over twenty years doing research at big banks – JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Nomura, where he had various “Global Head” roles and did FX, rates and cross-markets research.

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Crypto Index Tracker: Smart Contracts and Metaverse Lead Bull Run

What Are in the Four Indices?

Bilal Hafeez is the CEO and Editor of Macro Hive. He spent over twenty years doing research at big banks – JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Nomura, where he had various “Global Head” roles and did FX, rates and cross-markets research.

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