• Last week, cryptoassets decoupled from traditional financial assets such as equities on account of the global IT infrastructure outage caused by the faulty CrowdStrike software update.
• Our in-house “Cryptoasset Sentiment Index” has continued to climb and signals a slightly bullish sentiment.
• The global IT outage buoyed crypto market sentiment on account of the fact that major cryptoasset networks like Bitcoin continued to operate completely unaffected. This resulted in a decoupling of Cryptoasset Sentiment from Cross Asset Risk Appetite.
Chart of the Week
Performance
Last week, cryptoassets decoupled from traditional financial assets such as equities on account of the global IT infrastructure outage caused by the faulty CrowdStrike software update.
An estimated 8.5 million Microsoft Windows systems crashed and were unable to restart after an incorrect security software update was released by American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike on July 19. The biggest outage in the history of information technology was brought on by this, according to some reports.
This led to widespread global disruptions in transportation and financial sector operations that weighed on traditional financial markets. In contrast, the global IT outage buoyed crypto market sentiment on account of the fact that major cryptoasset networks like Bitcoin continued to operate completely unaffected. This resulted in a decoupling of Cryptoasset Sentiment from Cross Asset Risk Appetite (Chart-of-the-Week).
We think that this outage has made more investors aware of the meaning of a single-point-of-failure and the benefits of decentralized blockchain technology that underpin cryptoassets.
Moreover, although it has to be emphasized that this latest outage was not the result of a cyber attack, the IMF has just recently reiterated warnings that both the frequency and costs of cyber attacks has been rising globally which poses a threat to financial stability.
We think that Bitcoin and other cryptoassets may offer a pristine hedge against these kind of risks which is also supported by the latest outperformance.
Meanwhile, we saw a major announcement by incumbent president Biden to not pursue re-election in November which has led to a spike in election odds of current vice-president Kamala Harris relative to Trump. At the time of writing, betting markets price an election probability of 60% for Trump and 40% for Harris, according to PredictIt.
The market is awaiting further impulses from the speeches by both Trump and Kennedy Jr. at the upcoming Bitcoin Conference on the 27th of July.
Besides, a major focus this week will be the official trading launch of Ethereum spot ETFs in the US. Bloomberg analysts expect a launch to happen tomorrow (23rd of July) barring any unforeseeable last-minute issues. We expect a significant impact of these ETF flows on Ethereum’s performance post trading launch as outlined here.
In general, among the top 10 crypto assets, Solana, Avalanche, and Dogecoin were the relative outperformers.
Overall, altcoin outperformance vis-à-vis Bitcoin has decreased again compared to the prior week, with only 10% of our tracked altcoins managing to outperform Bitcoin on a weekly basis. Ethereum also underperformed Bitcoin on a weekly basis.
Sentiment
Our in-house “Cryptoasset Sentiment Index” has continued to climb and signals a slightly bullish sentiment.
At the moment, 9 out of 15 indicators are above their short-term trend.
Last week, there were significant declines in the BTC 25-delta option skew and BTC relative put-call volume ratios which tend to be bullish signals.
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index has also reversed sharply and currently signals a “Greed” level of sentiment again as of this morning.
Performance dispersion among cryptoassets has increased slightly again but remains at low levels. This means that altcoins are still very much correlated with the performance of Bitcoin.
Altcoin outperformance vis-à-vis Bitcoin has declined again compared to the week prior, with only 10% of our tracked altcoins outperforming Bitcoin on a weekly basis, which is consistent with the fact that Ethereum also underperformed Bitcoin last week.
In general, increasing (decreasing) altcoin outperformance tends to be a sign of increasing (decreasing) risk appetite within cryptoasset markets and the latest altcoin underperformance is a signal of decreasing appetite for risk at the moment.
Meanwhile, sentiment in traditional financial markets as measured by our in-house measure of Cross Asset Risk Appetite (CARA) worsened and decoupled from the improving Cryptoasset Sentiment as shown in our latest Chart-of-the-Week.
Fund Flows
Fund flows into global crypto ETPs continued to be very positive but decelerated slightly compared to the prior week.
Global crypto ETPs saw around +1,393.1 mn USD in net inflows across all types of cryptoassets which is still very positive but somewhat lower than the +1,852.5 mn mn USD in net inflows recorded the prior week.
Global Bitcoin ETPs saw net inflows of +1,304.9 mn USD last week, of which +1,197.8 mn USD in net inflows were related to US spot Bitcoin ETFs alone. US spot Bitcoin ETF net inflows accelerated a bit compared to the prior week.
Last week saw a significant deceleration in net inflows into Hong Kong Bitcoin ETFs to only +18.4 mn USD after +451.9 mn USD in net inflows in the prior week.
The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) continued to see some net outflows, with around -56.1 mn USD last week.
Meanwhile, global Ethereum ETPs also saw a slight deceleration in net inflows last week compared to the week prior with positive net inflows totalling +65.6 mn USD. Hong Kong Ethereum ETFs also attracted some capital last week (+14.5 mn USD).
Altcoin ETPs ex Ethereum also an increase in net inflows of around +21.4 mn USD which was higher than last week.
Thematic & basket crypto ETPs continued to see only minor flows with only +1.2 mn USD, based on our calculations. The ETC Group MSCI Digital Assets Select 20 ETP (DA20) saw neither in- nor outflows last week (+/- 0 mn USD).
Meanwhile, global crypto hedge funds continued to increase their market exposure even further. The 20-days rolling beta of global crypto hedge funds’ performance increased to around 0.80 (up from 0.72) per yesterday’s close.
On-Chain Data
Bitcoin on-chain data have continued to improve at the margin over the past week. Whale net exchange transfers have declined significantly to only ~4k BTC over the past week, down from a peak of 30.8k BTC reached on the 10th of July. This has significantly decreased selling pressure on Bitcoin exchanges. Whales are defined as network entities that control at least 1,000 BTC.
In fact, net buying volumes on bitcoin spot exchanges continued to be positive although they have decelerated again more recently. However, overall net transfers to bitcoin exchanges still remained relatively high over the past week implying significant transfers to exchanges by smaller investors.
This is one of the reasons why BTC exchange balances have continued to stay elevated near year-to-date highs according to data provided by Glassnode. In contrast, ETH exchange balances have moved mostly sideways over the past week.
That being said, both realized profits and losses have significantly declined since the beginning of July.
Besides, the transfers by the Mt Gox trustee wallets to Kraken did not affect selling pressure on exchanges meaningfully, yet. We also don’t expect the distribution of these bitcoins to be a significant drag on performance over the coming weeks since we only expect a small percentage of those coins to be liquidated.
The Mt Gox trustee balance has fallen to 89.8k BTC more recently, down from approximately 139k BTC in a sign of imminent redistribution of those coins to former holders.
Other large holders such as the US government have not distributed more bitcoins recently. However, a potential distribution still remains a risk over the short- to medium term since they had already distributed some bitcoins on the 25th of June. At the time of writing, the US government still controls around 207k BTC.
The overall hash rate in the Bitcoin network continued to recover in a sign of decreasing economic pressure on Bitcoin miners.
However, we have seen a notable decline in aggregate BTC miner balances more recently as miners sold the most bitcoins since January 2023 into the most recent rallye.
Continuing BTC miner distribution could also exert some downside pressure on the market in the short term.
Futures, Options & Perpetuals
Last week, both BTC futures and perpetual open interest continued to increase in a sign of a return in risk appetite. Futures liquidations were dominated by short liquidations as prices generally moved up.
Perpetual funding rates increased to a 1-month high which also signals increasing risk appetite. When the funding rate is positive (negative), long (short) positions periodically pay short (long) positions. A positive funding rate tends to be a sign of bullish sentiment in perpetual futures markets.
The 3-months annualized BTC futures basis rate also continued to increase to around 12.8% p.a.
Besides, there was a very significant increase in BTC options’ open interest which was mostly driven by an increase in BTC call option demand as evidenced by the continued drop in put-call open interest ratio.
This is consistent with the fact that both relative BTC put-call volume ratios as well as the 1-month 25-delta option skew also declined significantly signalling a drop in relative demand for put options.
Meanwhile, BTC option implied volatilities have increased significantly following the continued rallye. At the time of writing, implied volatilities of 1-month ATM Bitcoin options are currently at around 65.1% p.a. Bottom Line
• Last week, cryptoassets decoupled from traditional financial assets such as equities on account of the global IT infrastructure outage caused by the faulty CrowdStrike software update.
• Our in-house “Cryptoasset Sentiment Index” has continued to climb and signals a slightly bullish sentiment.
• The global IT outage buoyed crypto market sentiment on account of the fact that major cryptoasset networks like Bitcoin continued to operate completely unaffected. This resulted in a decoupling of Cryptoasset Sentiment from Cross Asset Risk Appetite.
To read our Crypto Market Compass in full, please click the button below:
This is not investment advice. Capital at risk. Read the full disclaimer
FTSE 100 är Storbritanniens största aktiemarknadsindex. Den spårar de 100 största brittiska företagen. FTSE 100-indexet väger sina beståndsdelar med fritt flytande marknadsvärde. ETF-investerare kan dra nytta av kursvinster och utdelningar av FTSE 100-beståndsdelarna. För närvarande spåras FTSE 100-indexet av elva olika börshandlade fonder för FTSE 100 som har årliga förvaltningsavgifter på mellan 0,07 och 0,20 procent per år.
Att olika index kan ge olika resultat är klart. Ett av de mest klassiska exemplen på detta är S&P 500 och Nasdaq-100 i USA. Båda två är så kallade benchmarks som ofta nämns i nyheterna, men de spårar olika saker.
När det gäller brittiska large caps så finns det ett enda index, FTSE 100. Den som överväger att investera i någon av dessa fonder har det således lätt.
Finns det sedan flera olika börshandlade fonder som täcker samma index eller segment är det förvaltningskostnaden som avgör. När det gäller FTSE 100 ETFer är skillnad relativt liten, mer korrekt 0,13 procent är skillnaden mellan den billigaste av dessa börshandlade fonder, HSBCs och iShares Core ETFer och den dyraste, UBS ETF (LU) FTSE 100 UCITSETF (GBP) A-dis som UBS erbjuder.
Antar vi att dessa fonder ger samma avkastning kommer den som har lägst avgift att utvecklas bäst, allt annat lika. Grundregeln är alltså, betala aldrig för mycket då detta kommer att äta upp din avkastning.
Investera i FTSE 100 med hjälp av börshandlade fonder
Nedan har vi listat börshandlade fonder som spårar FTSE 100. Utöver dessa ETFer finns många andra typer av börshandlade fonder som valt att investera i Storbritannien.
För ytterligare information om respektive börshandlad fond klicka på kortnamnet för att se alla de artiklar som återfinns på denna sida som behandlar dessa ETFer.
En jämförelse mellan olika FTSE 100 ETFer
Förutom avkastning finns det ytterligare viktiga faktorer att tänka på när du väljer en FTSE 100 ETF. För att ge ett bra beslutsunderlag hittar du en lista över alla FTSE 100 ETFer med information om kostnad, vinstanvändning, fondens hemvist och replikeringsmetod.
Virtune Staked NEAR ETP (VIRNEAR ETP) med ISIN SE0025837735, är en fysiskt ppubackad börshandlad produkt (ETP) som sömlöst kombinerar exponering mot NEAR med fördelarna av staking. Genom att inkludera staking möjliggör denna ETP för investerare att generera ytterligare avkastning på sin NEAR-investering. Detta möjliggörs genom en transparent och fysiskt backad struktur med institutionell säkerhetsnivå.
Varför välja ETP:er framför direkta kryptoinvesteringar?
Virtunes Börshandlade Produkter (ETPer) erbjuder ett säkert och reglerat sätt att få 1:1 exponering mot kryptotillgångar som NEAR, utan komplexiteten av direkt ägande. Med förenklad skatterapportering, förvaring med institutionell säkerhetsnivå, och handel genom din lokala nätmäklare eller bank, är ETP:er ett attraktivt alternativ för investerare som söker ett enkelt och säkert sätt att investera i kryptotillgångar.
Det enklaste sättet
Virtunes ETPer handlas direkt på reglerade börser lika enkelt som att handla en aktie via din nätmäklare eller bank, utan behov av digitala plånböcker, privata nycklar eller krypto-börser.
Skattefördelar
Investering i krypto genom ETPer förenklar ofta skatterapporteringen, eftersom de behandlas som traditionella värdepapper, vilket minskar komplexiteten att spåra enskilda krypto-transaktioner.
Alla dina investeringar samlade på en plats
Integrera dina krypto-investeringar enkelt i din traditionella portfölj. Detta förenklar analys, diversifiering och den övergripande hanteringen av dina investeringar, vilket ger dig mer kontroll och klarhet över din finansiella tillväxt.
Institutionell säkerhetsnivå
Virtunes ETPer är 100% fysiskt backade. Som en reglerad kapitalförvaltare inom krypto erbjuder Virtune en högre nivå av säkerhet och skydd jämfört med att hålla krypto direkt i personliga plånböcker.
Ytterligare investerarskydd
Virtune använder en Säkerhetsagent vars syfte är att skydda och representera investerarna i våra produkter. Kryptotillgångarna förvaras separat i cold storage (offline) hos Virtunes förvaringsinstitut Coinbase.
4%extra årlig avkastning genom staking
Med Virtune Staked NEAR, får du en extra årlig avkastning utöver NEARs egen utveckling. Den extra avkastningen genom staking tillförs och reflekteras i ETPens pris på daglig basis.
Virtune använder non-custodial staking, vilket innebär att Virtune stakar direkt från cold storage. Detta säkerställer att Virtune under inga omständigheter överför kryptotillgångar till en tredje part utanför Virtunes kontroll.
Ovanstående siffror är endast för illustrativa ändamål.
Tekniken som möjliggör framtidens AI
NEAR Protocol (NEAR) är en blockkedjeplattform med fokus på att möjliggöra AI-drivna lösningar. NEAR kombinerar användarvänliga utvecklingsverktyg med kraftfull infrastruktur för att stödja nästa generation av intelligenta applikationer.
Det betyder att det går att handla andelar i denna ETP genom de flesta svenska banker och Internetmäklare, till exempel Nordnet, SAVR, Levler, DEGIRO och Avanza.
iShares $ Corp Bond ESG SRIUCITSETF EUR Hedged (Acc) investerar i räntebärande företagsobligationer med investment grade-värde, denominerade i amerikanska dollar med en minsta återstående löptid på ett år. Obligationerna väljs ut enligt ESG-kriterier. Andelsklassen är valutasäkrad mot euron.
iShares Core UK Gilts UCITSETF EUR Hedged (Acc) följer utvecklingen av investment grade-obligationer denominerade i brittiska pund. Andelsklassen är valutasäkrad mot euron.
iShares MSCI Europe Quality Dividend Advanced UCITSETF EUR (Acc) ger exponering mot företag med högre direktavkastning och kvalitetsegenskaper från utvecklade europeiska marknader. Samtidigt strävar fonden efter att förbättra sin koldioxidreduktion och ESG-betyg jämfört med MSCI Europe Index.
iShares MSCI USA SRIUCITSETF EUR Hedged (Acc) investerar i aktier i amerikanska företag med hjälp av en ESG-strategi i toppklass. Företag som är verksamma inom kontroversiella affärsområden eller bryter mot principerna i FN:s Global Compact är undantagna. Andelsklassen är valutasäkrad mot euron.
iShares € Govt Bond 0-1yr UCITSETF EUR (Acc) investerar i eurodenominerade statsobligationer från eurozonens medlemsstater. Dessa har en återstående löptid på minst 0 till högst 12 månader. Obligationerna har en fast ränta och måste ha investment grade-status vid tidpunkten för inkludering i indexet.
Produktutbudet inom Deutsche Börses ETF- och ETP-segment omfattar för närvarande totalt 2 525 ETFer, 203 ETCer och 278 ETNer. Med detta urval och en genomsnittlig månatlig handelsvolym på cirka 25 miljarder euro är Xetra den ledande handelsplatsen för ETFer och ETPer i Europa.