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Bitwise/VettaFi 2024 Benchmark Survey of Financial Advisor Attitudes Toward Crypto Assets
The Bitwise crypto survey is an annual survey for the crypto industry released each January.
The 2024 Bitwise survey revealed enhanced interest in the crypto industry from clients, but there are still concerns about regulation and price volatility. The Bitwise poll showed that a potential spot Bitcoin ETF approval could create more demand among investors than many expect.
The 2024 Crypto Survey Highlights:
Conducted in October-December 2023, the survey showed several key findings:
- Client interest remains strong
88% of all financial advisors received a question about crypto from clients last year.
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Forbes Crypto Report (August 2022)
The following crypto market report by Forbes involves 157 crypto exchanges and was released in 26th of August 2022.
Key Points from the Forbes Report
- Over 570 million people visit crypto exchange websites on a monthly basis
- About 14% of all adult Americans (an estimated 46 million people) own BTC
- Only half of all reported BTC trading volume is real. The real daily BTC volume is around $128 billion
- Binance with a 27% market share and their stablecoin Tether (USDT) are leading the crypto market
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Tokenized real-world assets (RWA) are digital representations of tangible assets that are transformed into digital tokens. These tokens can be transferred and stored on a blockchain, and include securities, commodities, art, and even real estate ownership rights. Tokenizing the economy is becoming a hot topic for institutional investors because there are too many benefits to be ignored.
Exploring RWA -Real World Asset Tokens
Replacing ownership certificates and reducing transfer costs
Valuable assets are usually linked to some type of ownership certificate. The concept behind RWA is to replace common certificates with digital certificates (tokens) and lawyers with smart contracts. In this way, buyers and sellers save precious time and money.
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Crypto Trends 2022
The Bitwise/ETF Trends Survey is an annual survey for the crypto industry, published by ‘Bitwise’ and ‘ETF trends’ and released each January.
Overall, the 2022 survey’s findings show a rise in crypto allocations among financial advisors. 47% of all advisors reported owning crypto assets in their personal portfolios. 72% of those invested in crypto had exposure to Bitcoin, 50% had exposure to Ethereum, 16% invested in other altcoins. Most of them are interested in investing more in the crypto industry, but 16% believe the crypto assets are in a bubble. Better regulation, better custodian solutions, and a spot-based ETF can significantly increase the appetite of advisors to buy more crypto.
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PWC Global Crypto Hedge Fund Report (2023)
The annual PwC crypto report is produced together with CoinShares and the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). The report presents findings from two separate surveys:
(i) Traditional hedge funds survey
(ii) Crypto hedge funds
The PwC report at a glance:
- The number of traditional hedge funds investing in crypto fell to 29% (37% in 2022)
- Traditional hedge funds don’t plan to decrease their exposure in the crypto market
- 23% of traditional hedge funds are reassessing their crypto strategy due to the regulatory environment in the US
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Reforming the World Wide Web
Web 3.0 or else the Semantic Web refers to the third generation of the internet based on standards set by the WWW Consortium (W3C).
The Historical Background of Web 3.0
The term Semantic web was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. He said in 1999: “I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A "Semantic Web", which makes this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy, and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The "intelligent agents" people have touted for ages will finally materialize.”