Industry Reports

Navigating Cryptocurrency Regulation – 2021 – World Economic Forum

An Industry Perspective on the Insights and Tools Needed to Shape Balanced Crypto Regulation

Sep 14 – Read More

Strategies for adopting DLT/ Blockchain Technologies in Arab Countries

The Arab Regional Fintech Working Group examines the potential value, viability, and practicality of blockchain in Arab region.

Aug 18 – Read More

Tokenised Securities in APAC – A State of Play

ASIFMA's 2021 overlay provides a concise supplementary update covering key recent developments and emerging trends occuring in the Tokenised Securities space.

Jun 24 – Read More

3rd Global Crypto Asset Benchmarking Study

This report by the University of Cambridge collates data from entities operating in four main segments of the industry: exchange, payments, custody, and mining.

Jun 15 – Read More

Buyer and Seller Behavior: Analyzing Bitcoin’s Fundamentals

Ark Invest introduces a framework to analyze bitcoin’s fundamentals in more depth than we believe is usually possible for any traditional asset.

Apr 14 – Read More

Asia’s Crypto Landscape – A Messari Report

The key exchanges, funds, and market makers that define crypto in China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Southeast Asia, with commentary on regulatory and investment trends.

Mar 18 – Read More

The DeFi Series — An overview of the ecosystem and major protocols

This article aims to introduce the overview landscape and share knowledge collected around the several most major protocols. In this piece we touched the overlap on user base of Maker and Compound, and with additional research on user base and systematic risks.

Mar 16 – Read More

CoinDesk Quarterly Review – Q4 2020

CoinDesk's latest quarterly review looks at the performance of Bitcoin and Ether compared to macro assets and other crypto assets, and at their progress, milestones and value drivers over the final three months of 2020.

Mar 15 – Read More

2020 Q4 Ethereum DeFi Report – Consensys

A review and analysis of DeFi protocols and performance in Q4 2020 by ConsenSys Codefi.

Mar 15 – Read More

CryptoCompare: Exchange Review – November 2020

CryptoCompare’s Exchange Review aims to capture the key developments within the cryptocurrency exchange market. Their review focuses on analyses that relate to exchange volumes, which include those related to crypto derivatives trading, market segmentation by exchange fee models, and crypto to crypto vs fiat to crypto volumes.

Mar 15 – Read More

Banking on Bitcoin: The State of Bitcoin as Collateral

Bitstamp and Arcane Research examine how Bitcoin could become an important part of the solution to solve for increasingly risky traditional collateral backed assets and unstable financial markets, eventually challenging to become the dominate collateral asset of the future.

Mar 2 – Read More

Ark Invest – Big Ideas 2021

ARK aims to identify large-scale investment opportunities by focusing on who we believe to be the leaders, enablers, and beneficiaries of disruptive innovation. While we believe innovation is the key to growth, the opportunities it creates can be missed or misunderstood by traditional investment managers who are more focused on sectors, indexes, short-term earnings, and price movements.

Feb 4 – Read More

CMCC Global Bitcoin Report – January 2021

CMCC Global presents a comprehensive report of important Bitcoin milestones, trends, metrics, and insights.

Feb 4 – Read More

Re: FINCEN 2020-0020 RIN 1506-AB47 Requirements for Certain Transactions Involving Convertible Virtual Currency or Digital Assets

Appeal by members of The Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association (“GDCA”)

Jan 6 – Read More

Blockchain 50: The Innovators Using Blockchain & Crypto To Transform Industries

The 2020 Blockchain 50 cohort includes companies from all around the globe across varying investment stages of development, from early-stage startups to well-funded unicorns. Combined, these companies have raised over $3B across 113 deals since 2017.

Dec 16 – Read the Article

S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021

S&P Dow Jones Indices, a division of financial data provider S&P Global Inc, said on Thursday that it will launch cryptocurrency indices in 2021, making it the latest major finance company to enter the nascent asset class.

Dec 3 – Read the Article

Regional Liquidity Report – Q2 2020

2020: Regional Exchanges on the Rise - Across the world, regional exchanges are emerging to dominate their respective domestic markets. Unlike most reports that examine the top global exchanges, especially the ones that service US citizens, this report examines the rise of regional exchanges from a non-US centric perspective

Sep 3 – Read More

Liquidity Solutions Guide

AlphaPoint has come together with our liquidity partners to provide access to new liquidity products, enabling buying power, and interest bearing accounts.

Jul 15 – Read More

Central Bank Digital Currency Policy‑Maker Toolkit

The World Economic Forum’s CBDC Policy‑Maker Toolkit seeks to address the need for a concise, high‑level CBDC decision framework that provides comprehensive and risk‑aware information to policy‑makers. The document serves as a guide to ensure that any CBDC deployment is cautious and fully considers alternative solutions, risks, deployment and governance strategies, multistakeholder input and other salient factors. Notably, it is intended to serve as a complement to additional research that any policy‑maker considering CBDC should conduct.

Jul 1 – Read More

Credit Suisse: Blockchain 2.0 – Crypto Currencies are Only the Beginning

In this in-depth report, we analyse the market implications of blockchain technology in light of the Bitcoin boom. We believe the rise of bitcoin and Initial Coin Offerings highlights how transformative the underpinning blockchain technology will be across sectors, with financial services and capital markets at the front of the queue.

Jul 1 – Read More

Building Block(chain)s for a Better Planet

Blockchain is a foundational emerging technology of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, much like the internet was for the previous (or third) industrial revolution. Its defining features are its distributed and immutable ledger and advanced cryptography, which enable the transfer of a range of assets among parties securely and inexpensively without third-party intermediaries.

Jul 1 – Read More

CFTC chair says ETH is a commodity; anticipates ETH derivatives to trade in the US soon

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair believes that ether (ETH) is a commodity, according to Yahoo Finance.

Oct 10 – Read More

Ethereum at the crossroads: The Istanbul hard fork and its implications

The Ethereum community is divided on the best way to handle the imminent launch of Ethereum 2.0. The most likely scenario will see Ethereum and Ethereum 2.0 run as two separate but connected blockchains, each with its own token. An alternative scenario would see Ethereum incorporated as a shard of Ethereum 2.0. The situation has some similarities to the contentious Bitcoin Segwit2x debates of 2017.

Aug 23 – Read the Article

Issues, Risks and Regulatory Considerations Relating to Crypto-Asset Trading Platforms

The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published this Consultation Report on Crypto-Asset Trading Platforms to encourage the public to comment on the identified issues, risks, key considerations and related toolkits.

Jul 31 – Read the Article

Full Report: Boosting Institutional Trading in a Fast-Evolving Market

AlphaPoint offers insight into more widespread adoption of cryptocurrency trading in the institutional space, along with other industry executives from Gemini, Nasdaq, and CoinMarketCap.

Jun 17 – Read More

The Crypto Challenge: Boosting Institutional Trading in a Fast-Evolving Market

Examining the prospects for more widespread adoption of cryptocurrency trading in the institutional space, along with insight from industry executives from Gemini, Nasdaq, and CoinMarketCap.

Jun 12 – Read More

SEC’s Digital Asset Framework Falls Short

AlphaPoint's Chief Legal Officer contributes her insight to this piece on the guidance released by SEC's FinHub addressing their analysis framework for digital investment contracts.

May 1 – Read the Article

French Lender Societe Generale Issues $112 Million Bond on Ethereum

French financial services giant Societe Generale Group has issued about $112 million worth of bonds in the form of a security token on the public Ethereum blockchain.

Apr 25 – Read the Article

Cryptoassets Among FCA Top Priorities for Upcoming Year

The UK Financial Conduct Authority said in its 2019/2020 business plan issued last week that sometime during the upcoming year, it will publish a feedback summary and issue finalized perimeter guidance in response to its consultation paper on cryptoassets issued earlier this year.

Apr 22 – Read the Article

AlphaPoint And Elevated Returns Partner To Launch A “Secondary Market For $1 Billion Tokenized Real Estate Shares”

AlphaPoint and Elevated Returns have partnered to build an exchange to activate a secondary trading market involving more than $1 billion in tokenized real estate. The trading platform is set to focus on the Southeast Asian market, with an official launch date yet to be announced.

Apr 19 – Read the Article

SEC Comments on ‘BitWise Asset Management’ Case

This lengthy memorandum discussion concerns NYSE's proposed rule change to list and trade shares of the Bitwise Bitcoin ETF Trust.

Apr 16 – Read the Article

Digital and Digitized Assets: Federal and State Jurisdictional Issues

Prepared by the American Bar Association, this White Paper summarizes existing federal and state regulatory regimes governing digital assets in the US, discusses the emerging issues that will affect digital asset markets and their participants, and outlines analogous efforts taken by international regulators and other national governments.

Apr 16 – Read the Article

Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – Mitigating Risks from Virtual Assets

The FATF is setting out more detailed implementation requirements for effective regulation and supervision/monitoring of virtual asset services providers.

Apr 16 – Read the Article

Crypto Assets Among International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSC)’s Priorities

In 2019, IOSCO will focus on how platforms where crypto-assets are traded are regulated and will also examine regulation of investment funds with exposures to crypto-assets.

Apr 16 – Read the Article

FinTech Guide 2019, by Chambers and Associates

The FinTech guide 2019 provides expert legal commentary on key issues for businesses. The guide covers the important developments in the most significant jurisdictions.

Apr 16 – Read the Article

Financial Stability Board (FSB) Crypto-Assets Regulators Directory

This FSB directory, created for a G20 Summit, delivers information on the relevant regulators and other authorities in FSB jurisdictions and standard-setting bodies who are dealing with crypto-assets issues, and the aspects covered by them.

Apr 16 – Read the Article

SEC’s Framework for “Investment Contract” Analysis of Digital Assets

If you are considering an Initial Coin Offering, sometimes referred to as an "ICO," or otherwise engaging in the offer, sale, or distribution of a digital asset, you need to consider whether the U.S. federal securities laws apply.

Apr 16 – Read the Article

DTCC Outlines Guiding Principles for Post-Trade Processing of Tokenized Securities

Paper identifies post-trade responsibilities that should be undertaken to establish confidence in security token platforms and protect market stability.

Apr 16 – Read the Article

SEC Chairman Giancarlo Remarks on Digital Currency at ‘International Futures Industry Conference’

“Improving the Past, Tackling the Present, and Advancing to a Digital Market Future”

Apr 16 – Read the Article

State Virtual Currency Laws: ULC Urges States To Withdraw Model Act

“States are urged to refrain from enacting legislation pending the result of the committee’s work.” - Uniform Law Commission

Apr 16 – Read the Article

University of Cambridge – Global Cryptoasset Benchmarking Study

The study gathers survey data from more than 180 cryptoasset companies and individuals, covering 47 countries across five world regions, providing new insights into the current state of the cryptoasset industry.

Mar 22 – Read the Article

Exchange Launch Guide

Launching a Digital Asset Exchange

Feb 8 – Read More

Blockchain 101

An Introduction to Distributed Ledger Technology

Feb 8 – Read More

How Blockchain Will Rebuild the World

The technology behind cryptocurrency is poised to alter the world forever.

Jan 28 – Read the Article

Tech Trends 2019

The eight chapters of Tech Trends 2019 look to guide CIOs through today’s most promising trends, with an eye toward innovation and growth and a spotlight on emerging trends that may well offer new avenues for pursuing strategic ambitions.

Jan 23 – Read the Article

Blockchain is Here. What’s Your Next Move?

Discover four strategies to navigate this new world.

Jan 23 – Read the Article

Blockchain Survey 2019

A report presenting the results of an annual industry survey, discussing the combined insights into topics such as the impact of blockchain on industries, benefits of blockchain, and current skills and knowledge in the space.

Jan 12 – Read the Article

Crypto Currency & Blockchain Technology: A Decentralized Future

While the Crypto-Currency space has many risks, the opportunity appears vast with constant technology updates. With a rapid rise in prices we outline the bull case for building a decentralized future.

Jan 12 – Read the Article

Deloitte’s 2018 Global Blockchain Survey

This report aggregates the opinions of more than 1,000 blockchain executives across the world.

Aug 23 – Read the Article

With Blockchain, What Comes First, Opportunity or Threat?

Blockchain is more than just a data security protocol — it could transform the way industries and individuals do business.

Jul 23 – Read the Article