Smaller investors can have outsized impact on crypto investment markets: BIS study
Researchers looking at the “crypto carry” rate between spot and futures markets and its causes came to conclusions about crypto market booms and busts and how they happen. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has released a working paper examining “ crypto carry” — the differences between Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) spot and futures prices — and its effect on crypto investment markets . The complex paper sheds light on the behavior of crypto investors , particularly smaller investors , in relation to boom and bust cycles. “Carry” describes the results of “going long in the spot market , while selling forward the same amount forward via a futures contract.” The paper bases its findings on “stylized facts” based on a variety of exchanges over time. Very little of the carry size — about 3% — resulted from differences between interest rates on crypto and fiat or variations among exchanges, which may be crypto-native, like Binance and OKX, or regulated like the Chicago Mercan...