Conceptually, alpha is used to assess the excess returns of an investing strategy relative to industry standards. Alpha is constantly pursued by capital market participants but is very uncommon and difficult to reproduce consistently.
Even with sentiment in the gutter, select AI plays, Bitcoin L2s, and regulatory-boosted legacies are posting the only real heat this week.
The crypto market this week stayed icy despite a few green pockets. BTC trades at $68,400 (modest weekly pressure), dominance holds around 58%, and total market cap hovers near $2.38T. The Fear & Greed Index is stuck at 18 (Extreme Fear) — the sort of reading that historically marks bottoms but right…
Bitcoin sits at roughly $65,600 with 57% dominance while the total crypto market cap hovers near $2.3 trillion and the Fear & Greed Index languishes at 13–16 (Extreme Fear). Macro risks—tariffs, softer GDP, and a flight to gold—have kept sentiment cautious, yet selective narratives are firing. DeFi giants just crossed trillion-dollar milestones, privacy coins are surging on-chain, Layer-1s are rebounding hard, and a few resilient memes refu…
In a week drenched in Extreme Fear, a clutch of AI-powered agents, privacy plays, and DeFi protocols lit up the charts with triple- and double-digit moves that reminded everyone: narratives still hit different.
Market snapshot: Bitcoin is trading at $67,661 (up ~1.84% on the week) with dominance hovering around 58%, while total crypto market cap sits near $2.35T after a modest rebound. The Fear & Greed Index is stuck at 12 (Extreme Fear)…
🔍 What is Merkl?
Merkl is a specialized decentralized platform developed by Angle Labs designed to revolutionize how incentives are distributed in the DeFi ecosystem. Unlike traditional yield farming where rewards are often distributed indiscriminately, Merkl uses an off-chain engine to calculate precise rewards for Liquidity Providers (LPs) based on their specific contributions (such as providing concentrated liquidity within active price…
What is SolvBTC?
SolvBTC is the flagship yield-bearing Bitcoin asset from Solv Protocol. It acts as a decentralized Bitcoin reserve and yield aggregator, designed to solve the “idle BTC” problem. Instead of letting Bitcoin sit dormant, SolvBTC integrates it into the DeFi ecosystem.
The protocol issues SolvBTC.LST, a Liquid Staking Token that represents your share in diversified, automated yield strategies. By utilizing delta-neutral trad…
