{"id":20836,"date":"2020-01-28T08:45:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T08:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starthostunlimiteddmffassi-ss.stackstaging.com\/etfworld.co.uk\/?p=20836"},"modified":"2020-02-05T10:50:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T10:50:24","slug":"amun-macroeconomic-sentiment-will-be-primary-driver-of-crypto-asset-markets-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/nl\/amun-macroeconomic-sentiment-will-be-primary-driver-of-crypto-asset-markets-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Amun : Macroeconomic sentiment will be primary driver of crypto asset markets in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amun has publicized its quarterly insights into the digital asset industry. This exhaustive review presented by the Amun research team unveils their thesis for two of the biggest phenomena of Q4 2019 \u2014 &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/newsletter\" class=\"broken_link\"><strong>Sign up to our free newsletters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong> <\/strong>the growth of crypto exchanges, most noticeably Binance, and the maturation of the Proof-of-Stake crypto ecosystem in their theses for Binance Coin (BNB) and Tezos (XTZ).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> \u201cThe most noticeable lesson from the last quarter of 2019 is that going forward the crypto asset market\u2019s primary price driver will be global macroeconomic events such as changes in China\u2019s economic strategy or geopolitical tensions, rather than microeconomic or industry-specific events&#8221; comments <strong>Amun\u2019s research lead, Lanre Ige<\/strong>. &#8220;This point is important to note for investors over the coming years as it will deeply affect one\u2019s investment strategy for crypto assets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Among the report\u2019s key findings include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <strong>   Q4 2019 was dominated by news of various nation-states\u2019 growing interest in the industry \u2014 particularly China\u2019s \u2014 and also the growth in the availability of crypto asset derivatives markets in both regulated and unregulated frameworks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">    2020 is likely to become an increasingly exciting year for Proof-of-Stake assets given the growing interest in assets like Cosmos and Tezos, as well as the looming launch of Ethereum 2.0 which will be the event to solidify Proof-of-Stake as a viable alternative to Bitcoin\u2019s energy-intensive Proof-of-Work<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>    Q4 2019 saw a range of acquisitions and fund-raising which point to a possible consolidation in many companies which currently offer ways for users to trade and exchange crypto assets. Two exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, are best placed to benefit from this consolidation and we expect them to heat up acquisition activity over the next year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">    A detailed investment thesis for Binance Coin (BNB) as part of the launch of the Amun BNB ETP (ABNB) where Amun\u2019s research team argue that BNB is an ideal place to benefit from the likely long-term success of Binance, as well as the potential of Binance Chain \u2014 BNB\u2019s native blockchain \u2014 to act as a facilitator of decentralized finance applications<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>    A detailed investment thesis for Tezos (XTZ) as part of the launch of the Amun Tezos ETP (AXTZ) where Amun\u2019s research argues that Tezos presents a viable alternative to the leading smart contract platform and its successful use of on-chain governance thus far will build confidence in crypto asset<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: ETFWorld.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amun has publicized its quarterly insights into the digital asset industry. 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