Digital Strategies

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Digital Strategies
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Indices
Digital Credit
Digital Trend
Digital Opportunistic
The digitalization of finance is rapidly disrupting financial intermediation as it moves into the mainstream.

Coinbase Asset Management is spearheading investment strategies that allow clients to pivot proactively, providing scalable investments in digital assets. Our solutions are calibrated to remove barriers and promote institutional engagement in the new asset class at the highest fiduciary standards.

We were the first to market in carbon-neutral funds, in off-shore ERISA compliance, and in the use of multiple qualified custodians that deliver maximum investor protection.

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The Coinbase Asset Management Bitcoin strategy is designed to deliver bitcoin’s performance to institutional investors, utilizing best-in-class digital asset custodians, cyber security, execution platforms, administrators, auditors, and legal counsel. The long-only, passive strategy provides exposure to the largest digital asset in the market. Coinbase Asset Management believes that digital assets and blockchain technology are on the precipice of wide-scale adoption and this will be a driving force of substantial innovation in the decades ahead. The rising prospect of global monetary debasement by governments and policymakers accelerates this adoption as institutions begin to search for investment options that protect against inflation. The strategy is delivered to clients at the lowest flat fee and most attractive liquidity terms available in the marketplace.

The Coinbase Asset Management Ethereum strategy is designed to deliver Ether’s performance to institutional investors, utilizing best-in-class digital asset custodians, cyber security, execution platforms, administrators, auditors, and legal counsel. The strategy is a long-only, passive strategy providing exposure to the ETH digital asset of the Ethereum network. The Ethereum network is the most actively used blockchain in the world and is positioned at the intersection of this innovative technology and the mainstream economy. As blockchain technology is further integrated into everyday life, Ethereum and thus ether, are poised to benefit. The strategy is delivered to clients at the lowest flat fee and most attractive liquidity terms available in the marketplace. 

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Coinbase Core Index (COINCORE)

The Coinbase Core Index (COINCORE) tracks the performance of the market capitalization-weighted basket of the largest and most liquid digital assets that fulfill the fundamental and market eligibility criteria.



Coinbase Size Tilt Index (COINTILT)

The Coinbase Size Tilt Index (COINTILT) tracks the performance of the market capitalization-weighted basket of the largest and most liquid digital assets that fulfill the fundamental and market eligibility criteria, where the component weightings are calculated based on their square root of market capitalization.

Digital Credit Strategy

Digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum have progressed from fringe assets to emerging assets and are increasingly viewed as high quality collateral. Borrowing demand is robust, supported, in part, by a growing prime brokerage environment. The Coinbase Income Strategy seeks to capitalize on this dynamic. We combine our digital asset expertise and collateral management knowledge to deliver a high-quality, over-collateralized income strategy to institutional investors. We employ a systematic approach, where risk management is integral to every step in the process. Digital Income is designed to be the lowest risk yield solution in digital with no direct exposure to crypto assets.

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Digital Trend Strategy

The Coinbase Trend Strategy seeks to provide investors with time-varying exposure to digital assets (both long and short) through the use of tokens and derivatives relating to digital assets. The strategy employs a directional strategy that is based primarily on trend following, with signals across multiple lookback horizons, to form its views on digital assets. By going both long and short, the strategy seeks to benefit from unfolding trends in digital assets regardless of their direction. Overall, the strategy is highly dynamic and designed to respond to the rapid movements that can unfold in digital assets. Our research suggests that digital trend following is a unique and attractive source of returns that will be persistent over time. The strategy has an expected net Sharpe in excess of 1, with low correlation to equities and bitcoin.

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Digital Opportunistic Strategy

The bitcoin mining sector is experiencing a severe correction. Mining revenues have fallen due to declines in underlying Bitcoin prices and increased competition for new entrants and operations, while operating costs have more than doubled due to increases in global energy prices. Despite these challenges, Bitcoin mining remains a profitable business. However, operations that were aggressively financed at peak Bitcoin prices and mining margins are starting to enter an acute period of stress and, in some cases, default as operating cash flows fall short of debt service expenses. Coinbase Asset Management is looking to participate in the industry restructuring in several ways: 1) Coinbase Asset Management is looking to lend, against unencumbered electrical equipment on a Senior Secured 1st Lien basis. 2) Coinbase Asset Management is looking to purchase existing loans at prices that more closely approximate fair market value and ultimate recovery values. 3) Coinbase Asset Management is looking to participate in DIP financings and asset sales. With Digital Credit, we see an opportunity to support low-cost and advantaged operations while supporting the industry as it restructures and recapitalizes itself.

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THE CASE FOR DIGITAL ASSETS

There is no higher power. Our ability to conceive of a tomorrow that is better than today is a precondition for discovery, invention. And these two things quite naturally stack, compound. Their summation has lifted us from the Stone Age to the space station. The journey has only just begun. This should be obvious to everyone but the most hopeless pessimist…

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THE CASE FOR DIGITAL ASSETS

There is no higher power. Our ability to conceive of a tomorrow that is better than today is a precondition for discovery, invention. And these two things quite naturally stack, compound. Their summation has lifted us from the Stone Age to the space station. The journey has only just begun. This should be obvious to everyone but the most hopeless pessimist…

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A Deeper Dive
A Deeper Dive