Looking at this month's returns, Polkadot, Polygon, and Ethereum were the relative outperformers. Polygon has set a tentative date for the launch of its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) mainnet, targeting a release in March for its highly anticipated EVM rollup offering. The BNB token got affected by the uncertainty surrounding the SEC’s crackdown on “staking-as-a-service” providers and increased regulatory uncertainty for crypto exchanges with large staking volumes.
DEFII and DDV30 were the top performers in February 2023. We can also note that two top-10 indexes, HODLX and VNMC10, shine when analyzing returns for the past three months. This month, we released KVQ: the K33 Vinter Quality Index. It notably introduces an innovative Quality Filter developed alongside the leading digital asset research boutique, K33 (previously known under Arcane), to only select assets that have high chances to survive in the long run while representing the best chances for capital appreciation.
Here is a quick description of each index in the table, with links to the relevant methodology.
- VNMC10: Vinter Top 10 market cap weighted.
- VNEQ10: Vinter Top 10 equal weighted.
- HODLX: Top 10 market cap weighted.
- HODL: Top 5 equal weighted.
- ALTS: Top 10 excl. the largest two assets, market cap weighted.
- LAY1: The largest layer1 crypto assets, market cap weighted.
- DEFI: 50% DeFi dApps and 50% DeFi blockchains, then market cap weighted within each set.
- MOON: Top 10 layer 1 assets weighted by Github, Social and market data.
- BOLD: Bitcoin and gold, equal risk weighted.
- VDAB10: Top 10 capped market cap weighted.
- VTRXBC: Top 10 smart contract platforms, market cap weighted.
- PANDO6: Top 6 weighted by the square root of market cap.
- DDV30: Top 30 market cap weighted.
- VHASHMOM: Top 12 by market cap weighted by their momentum score times their risk parity score.
- STAKE: Top 10 of the largest staking protocols by current market capitalization including staking rewards.
- KVQ: Equal-weighted index selecting high-quality assets from an investor perspective among the top 30 by market cap.
The reference rates (“Ref rate”) are calculated using Vinter’s single-asset reference rate methodology.
