Meet ITB Perspectives: Our Most Ambitious Crypto Analytics Release
Highly curated interactive research dashboards that provide insights about the latest trends in the crypto market.
Today, IntoTheBlock (ITB) is announcing the general availability of Perspectives, arguably the most important release of our analytics suite. ITB has been one of the pioneers in the digital assets analytics space, powering hundreds of organizations in the crypto market to help both retail and institutional investors become more informed. However, despite our progress, we’ve regularly struggled with the fundamental mismatch between the rapid pace of the crypto market and the challenges of providing rapid, actionable, easy-to-understand, data-centric perspectives on current trends.
Let me explain. Suppose you are trying to understand a specific trend in crypto, such as memecoins or Ethereum L2 activity. Typically, you’ll pull data from multiple sources, consult various blogs, or, if you’re lucky, use dashboards created by third parties, which are difficult to evaluate in terms of their quality and maintenance over time. We experience this friction within our organization. When discussing a market thesis in our research calls about a specific trend, it can take us days to formulate a data-centric perspective on the argument. This contrasts with our institutional DeFi division, where a trading thesis needs to be validated in a matter of hours to capitalize on the market opportunity.
Essentially, in the current crypto analytics landscape, there’s a fundamental challenge in finding high-quality, actionable analytics that reflect current market trends and are trustworthy.
The Five Pillars of Effective Crypto Analytics
What differentiates great crypto analytics from mediocre ones? When it comes to crypto, the answer to this question is far from straightforward. From my experience, there are some fundamental characteristics of highly effective crypto analytics:
- Current: Effective crypto analytics should mirror present market trends.
- Deep: While simplicity is commendable, the reality is that most crucial insights in crypto markets aren’t immediately apparent and demand detailed analysis.
- Thematic: The most effective analyses in crypto markets are thesis-driven rather than asset-driven. This is because most significant movements in crypto markets are propelled by trends (e.g., DeFi, NFTs, ZKs) rather than individual assets.
- Path to Actionability: The best analytics should pave the way for an investment decision. This doesn’t necessarily mean they have to serve as a trading signal, but they should offer insights that can be converted into actionable market trends.
- Trusted Sources: In my experience, the most effective crypto analytics originate from research teams that can robustly support their thesis, version it, and maintain its relevancy over time.
ITB Perspectives is our initial step toward reinforcing these pillars by offering a meticulously curated catalog of dashboards that shed light on current trends in the crypto market.
ITB Perspectives
ITB Perspectives is a suite of analytic dashboards that offer insights into the latest trends in the crypto market. The name originates from the solution’s ability to allow the ITB research team to formulate a thesis, source the data, articulate their analytical perspective, and transition it to production in an entirely self-service manner. This process enables us to move from research to production in just hours. As a result, every few days you will discover new perspectives offering a sophisticated, research-first, actionable view of the prevailing trends in the crypto market.
The inaugural catalog of Perspectives is truly noteworthy, encompassing analyses of trends such as L2s, stablecoins, memecoins, and many more.
Each perspective is presented as a dashboard that consists of a textual description accompanied by a series of charts that shed light on that particular trend. Consider, for instance, the following dashboard centered on stablecoin activity:
Why You Should Use ITB Perspectives?
Before developing Perspectives, we engaged in extensive discussions about whether its value proposition was sufficiently distinct in a market teeming with various analytic solutions, including those from ITB. Perspectives emerged from our own challenges in swiftly formulating actionable theses about diverse market trends. In my view, there are several distinguishing factors that set Perspectives apart:
- Depth: The insights within the Perspectives catalog are directly derived from the ITB research team, and soon, from other research entities as well.
- Current: Perspectives dashboards accurately represent the ongoing trends in the crypto market.
- Growing Catalog: Every few days, new dashboards are introduced to the catalog.
- Trusted: The ITB research team consistently reviews and refines the various dashboards.
- Simple to Understand: It’s not a paradox — while our goal is in-depth analysis, we strive to ensure that the visualizations are straightforward and accompanied by clarifications, enabling investors to grasp the various perspectives.
Perspectives ranks as one of our most audacious analytic launches to date. It represents our inaugural effort to bridge the gap between research insights and actionable analytics for investors of all magnitudes. We invite you to explore it and welcome your feedback.
