Crypto's Make or Break Moment

OCT 05, 2022 • 13 Min Read

Kevin Kelly, CFA + 2 others

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Introduction

Crypto markets have been attached at the hip to traditional risk assets for the better part of the last 12 months. For better or for worse, everything has been distilled down into one big macro trade. Equities appear to be on the verge of another major test, and so far, there has not been enough evidence of any real decoupling between crypto assets and traditional assets, which we wrote about recently. In order for us to have any strong conviction in the idea of a break in the crypto <> macro relationship, we would need to see more sustained evidence of divergences in markets, and that simply hasn’t materialized yet.

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Kevin Kelly, CFA + 2 others