Crypto.com Alpha Navigator Quest for the month July

in this month's latest issue of Alpha Navigator, our institutional-focused report for the month of July by our official partner Crypto.com.

• Bitcoin Historical Drawdowns

• Derivatives Pulse

• Fund Flow Tracker

• Fund Flow Tracker (cont.)

• Pair Trader: BTC vs. ETH

• Pair Trader: LTC vs. ADA

• Screening for Value, Growth, Momentum, Risk

• Style-Factor Screen: Layers 1 & 2

• Event Driven

Bitcoin Historical Drawdowns

We continue to track Bitcoin’s current drawdown, which has now reached -71.0%, and is the 4th largest historically.

Derivatives Pulse

BTC put-call ratio has levelled while ETH’s continues downward. This could be interpreted as a shift to more positive sentiment for ETH (perhaps a leveraged play on the upcoming Merge) - however, it could also simply be due to investors having fully exited long-positions (cash is king), therefore negating the need for exposure hedging.

Fund Flow Tracker

Aggregated exchange balance for BTC has fallen, while ETH’s has increased during the past 1 month, implying stronger selling inclination for ETH. The past month saw net outflows of 122.21K for BTC, and net inflows of 1.19M for ETH.

Fund Flow Tracker (cont.)

BTC balance of OTC desks has fallen to a yearly low, potentially implying stronger inclination to hold by larger investors.

Pair Trader: BTC vs. ETH

• BTC (Price: US$20,108.5, MCap: US$384.1B, Volume: US$27.5B). ETH (Price: US$1,098.9, MCap: US$133.3B, Volume: US$18.4B).

• BTC outperformance vs. ETH resulting in price ratio (BTC price divided by ETH price) breaching the 2-standard deviation (SD) ceiling band.

• ETH 2.0 merge catalyst still in play for Q3 or Q4 2022 (estimated). Also, any return to risk-on sentiment could potentially favour ETH over BTC.

• Market-neutral pair trade (i.e., long one and short the other) on price ratio touching standard deviation bands.

Pair Trader: LTC vs. ADA

• LTC (Price: US$51.0, MCap: US$3.5B, Volume: US$577.5M). ADA (Price: US$0.47, MCap: US$15.7B, Volume: US$1.1B).

• This trade played out since our last issue, as LTC underperformed ADA, driving the price ratio (LTC price divided by ADA price) down to the 2-standard deviation (SD) floor. It has currently bounced back up to the mean.

• Exchange delistings from LTC’s MWEB privacy upgrade remains a risk. ADA’s Vasil hard fork is running into delays, but still estimated to be in 2H2022.

• Market-neutral pair trade (i.e., long one and short the other) on price ratio touching standard deviation bands.

Screening for Value, Growth, Momentum, Risk

We apply style-factor screening based on value, momentum, growth, and risk. Style-factors seek to capture common drivers of return and risk. Metrics used within each style-factor category are shown below:

Style-Factor Screen: Layers 1 & 2

Protocols continued to suffer TVL losses in June, with ADA posting the smallest TVL contraction at -12.8%. In terms of price performance, MATIC was the best performer on a relative basis at -17.3% over the 1-month period.

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