Binance Research Presents a Report on Cryptoasset Categories

2019-04-29

Binance Research, the market research and analysis arm of global cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has released a report on categorizing cryptoassets. Bitcoin  and Ethereum have exhibited the highest correlations, while Ripple has lower correlations that might classify it as a diversifier among crypto assets.

Binance Research’s report, titled “Categorizing Cryptoassets: A Return-Driven Cluster Analysis,” stated that digital assets can be grouped into several sub-segments, using a correlation matrix along with hierarchical clustering.

“In this report, cluster analysis over the twelve previous trading months (March 2018 to March 2019) was conducted to distinguish whether cryptoasset clusters, constructed using an unsupervised learning approach, can be created and more importantly, interpreted,” said Binance Research.

Bitcoin forks (Bitcoin Gold and Bitcoin Cash), Ethereum Classic and Litecoin form a single cluster. Binance Research also identified other potential groups of cryptoassets based on certain effects, including:

- A “Binance effect” observed on Tezos and Dogecoin, two assets not listed on Binance, which form a single child cluster.

- Potential geographical effects such as a dichotomy between American and Asian cryptoassets.

- A “Coinbase listing effect”: some assets that were reported to be listed or investigated by Coinbase seemed to belong to similar clusters.

- Some privacy coins (Dash and Monero) form a single cluster.

Read the full report here.

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