Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Upcoming Market Catalysts

The past few days/ weeks/ months have been especially tough. To stay positive, I put together a list of upcoming events that I think could help the market turn around and turn bullish again. Please comment with anything else you think should be added (big OR small!).

Constantinople - Reduces mining issuance by 33%. Decreases total crypto sell pressure. Will reduce issuance by 2.2M ETH per year ($300M @ $130 ETH). Timing: January 2019

Bakkt Launch - ICE (company behind NYSE) is launching a fully-regulated crypto exchange. First product will be physically-backed bitcoin futures. Timing: January 24, 2019

DASH Halving - Decreases total crypto sell pressure. Timing: April 2019

Fidelity Digital Assets Launch - Launching a custody + exchange service for their institutional products. Timing: 1H 2019

ErisX Launch - ErisX launching institutional crypto market. Investors are TD Ameritrade, Susquehanna, CBOE and NEX (CME subsidiary). DRW (Cumberland) and Virtu will be market makers. Will offer physically delivered futures of BTC, ETH, LTC. Timing: Q2 2019 for Spot trading, 2H 2019 for futures

CBOE and/or CME Ethereum Futures - 1H 2019?

LTC Halving - Decreases total crypto sell pressure. Timing: August 7, 2019

Casper + Sharding v1 launch - Timing: Hopefully EOY 2019 or 2020?

Crypto ETF - Final Decision on VanEck + SolidX crypto ETF proposal coming in March 2019. Other countries likely to start launching smaller ETFs and ETPs (e.g. Switzerland listing Bitcoin ETP on SIX).  Timing: Sometime in 2019-2020

Bitcoin Halving - Decreases total crypto sell pressure. Will reduce issuance by 328,500 BTC per year ($1.5B @ $4500 BTC). Timing: April 2020 for BCH, May 2020 for Bitcoin

ZCash Halving - Decreases total crypto sell pressure. Timing: Q4 2020

Any major dApp launches that should make this list?


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