Digital-Asset Research Runs on More Than One Clock
Blocks, trading venues, and public reports mark time differently. Research becomes unreliable when those clocks are flattened before the sequence is understood.
RESEARCH NOTES · 01—06
Six practical notes on moving from digital-asset data to portfolio judgement. Each note makes the evidence boundary and review question explicit.
Blocks, trading venues, and public reports mark time differently. Research becomes unreliable when those clocks are flattened before the sequence is understood.
A compact institutional note should expose its evidence, judgement, and decision triggers so disagreement can be located and the conclusion can be updated.
Supply, circulation, and redemption answer different questions. Combining them too early creates a clean chart with an ambiguous story.
Theoretical exposure is not the same as an implementable position. Account design, key governance, asset support, and operating hours reshape the opportunity set.
Institutional execution depends on more than reported turnover. Depth, dealer balance sheets, settlement rails, and internal operating windows can fail at different speeds.
A portfolio view of crypto assets needs more than a full-sample coefficient. It needs an account of when co-movement changes and what may be driving it.