RIGZ News and Press, Viridi Cleaner Energy Crypto-Mining & Semiconductor ETF From 07/12/22

One of the more profitable approaches to cryptocurrencies is to invest in the private seed round of a start-up seeking token financing. The crypto market hit a rough patch over the last few months. Since the average investor cannot participate in every token sale, however, the mea...

Crypto enthusiasts often claim that digital coins and tokens are uncorrelated with equities and can provide a safe haven amid stock market crashes. Based on our data, crypto certainly does not act like digital gold. In times of panic, the correlation between crypto and the stock marke...

Bitcoin’s feverish connection to the S&P 500 finally broke in June, with the 30-day S&P/BTC correlation falling from 0.77 to 0.25. As Ethereum represents ~65% of the AUM locked in DeFi, ETH was disproportionately sold. Exchange tokens fell 28% this month, modestly o...

Crypto markets were under significant pressure in June, but we remain positive on their trajectory. With summer in the Northern Hemisphere under way, we expect higher energy prices to increasingly influence consumer spending decisions, including their vehicle purchases. We believe...

Cryptocurrencies, most notably Bitcoin, have shown the ability to generate outsized returns for those who time their investments correctly. What about crypto in DC plans? We call foul. Because when it comes to defined contribution plans, the game is different. Defined contribution...

Though we are seeing the makings of some favourable readings in many on-chain, derivatives, technical and sentiment indicators, the macro and liquidity environment moving forward remain a significant headwind for crypto assets. Rather than signaling a bottom, many of these metrics are per...

The S&P Global Sector PMI™ revealed that Automobiles & Auto Parts sector output contracted worldwide for a second successive month amid the sharpest reduction in new orders since the COVID-19 pandemic and renewed supply disruptions linked to the pandemic and Russia-Ukraine ...

When money is virtually free for borrowers and near-nil yielding for investors, many people do dumb stuff with money. But when rates rise sharply, the riskiest bets blow up, and investors get reminded that capital options are far from equal. Return of principal matters most in the...

Semiconductor manufacturing ran in boom and bust cycles correlated with global GDP growth. Semiconductors have become nearly ubiquitous, a key component in numerous industrial applications, leaving the industry far less vulnerable to single retail end markets. Less cyclically sens...

Crypto exchange traded funds have been among the worst performers in the ETF space in 2022. With Bitcoin retreating below $30K and other cryptocurrencies showing an even steeper year-to-date decline, some ETFs have dropped as much as 65% since the end of 2021. Excluding leveraged and inverse ...