Episode Details

Recorded March 11, 2025.

Time for the Q1 market review edition of our CFB Talks Digital Assets podcast - where the CF Benchmarks research team, Gabe Selby and Mark Pilipczuk, put that complex first quarter under the microscope.

Key themes:

■ How sharp does a crypto market tumble need to be to constitute a correction?And when does a crypto correction become a bear? Get our analysts’ take on the equivalent of the down 10% but <20% rule of thumb, for stocks

■ Even amid the overall downturn, our Diversified Broad Cap Index - best proxy for crypto beta - underperformed its free float counterpart by 800 basis points. Hear why

■ Takeaways from the broader negative breadth in Q1 2025 vs. Q3 2024. And what’s the story behind XRP’s solo positive performance among large caps?

■ Flight to quality is no stranger to crypto! Detail and potential alpha in the aftermath of ‘Meme-lash’...

■ Quantifying and qualifying the strengthening stocks-crypto correlation. And why was the strongest crypto-fixed income correlation with 20-yr US Treasurys?