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Institutional Investing

Chain Analysis and Metrics

Analysis

How do you recognise actionable insights?

  • What is the best way to execute a strategy to take advantage of insights?
  • What is the best way to spread risk?
  • What metrics matter most?

Knowledge Checklist

Wealth managers decide how to proportion client funds into digital assets for optimal risk and reward.

  • Use Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model to value Blockchains
  • The differences between crypto token funds and crypto yield funds
  • How market-neutral crypto yields provide an alternative to corporate bonds and fixed income, with low-volatility and monthly liquidity
  • Key strategies of crypto hedge funds: yield farming, margin lending, and DEX liquidity provision
  • How DeFi yields compare to corporate bonds, treasuries, and other fixed-income assets
  • Leverage DeFi-as-a-Service (DaaS) to generate consistent yield across a diversified portfolio
  • Track developer counts in each blockchain ecosystem to judge which has the critical mass for scale
  • Reduce smart contract risk by using a diversified portfolio of DeFi protocols
  • What portion of your portfolio should be allocated to digital assets vs. conventional
  • ESG within blockchain investing

Quant Funds

  • Four types of crypto funds
  • primary trading strategies of crypto quant funds
  • design portfolio by researching crypto quant funds to create a fund of funds
  • How the portfolio of underlying funds performed
  • How pro forma portfolio of crypto funds achieved +84% net in '21
  • How pro forma portfolio of crypto funds achieved +10% net return in 1H 2022 while many other crypto funds were down big
  • Why avoiding major market drawdowns matters so much for long-term investment results
  • Why the upcoming Ethereum merge scheduled for September is driving ETH prices
  • Ethereum bulls | how to earn ETH-on-ETH returns (USD Fund vs. ETH Fund)
  • Risk | How the fund of funds model can mitigate risk and drawdowns

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