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CoinDesk Quarterly Review Q4 2019

Updated Oct 18, 2021, 1:58 p.m. Published Jan 22, 2020, 7:45 p.m.

Slide shows institutional inflows as measured by the size of low-leverage, regulated derivatives markets, and the importance of leverage to attracting non-fiduciary investors.

In the first of a new Quarterly Review series, CoinDesk Research features a set of metrics for investors in bitcoin, ethereum and other crypto assets, looking for indications that those assets' critical use cases are gaining real-world traction. We'll revisit developments in these and new metrics on a monthly and quarterly basis, documenting evidence of whether crypto assets and decentralized technologies are fulfilling their promise. Our aim is to contribute to investors' understanding of signals that indicate value in these novel economic systems and enterprises. You can download the full review, here.

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Galen Moore

Galen Moore is the content lead at Axelar, which is building interoperable Web3 infrastructure. He previously served as director of professional content at CoinDesk. In 2017, Galen started Token Report, a cryptocurrency investor newsletter and data service, covering the ICO market. Token Report was acquired in 2018. Prior to that, he was editor in chief at AmericanInno, a subsidiary of American City Business Journals. He has a masters in business studies from Northeastern University and a bachelors in English from Boston University.