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By Evie Vavasseur
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Protocol Revenue Over Market Cap. The methodology is pretty straightforward, at least in concept.
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What This Means for Institutional Investors. Institutional money has been circling crypto for years, but a recurring complaint from allocators…
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Open Questions and What's Missing. S&P Global hasn't said whether the index will expand to include additional metrics beyond…
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S&P Global just launched something genuinely different. The Blockchain Fundamentals Index ditches market cap as the primary lens and instead tracks digital assets based on…
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That's a bigger deal than it sounds. Almost every major crypto index on the market today weights holdings by market capitalization, which basically means bigger gets more weight,…
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The methodology is pretty straightforward, at least in concept. Instead of asking "how large is this network's market cap," the index asks "how much revenue is this protocol…
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S&P Global's pitch to investors is that protocol revenue gives you a cleaner read on a network's earning power.
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It's worth being honest about what this means in practice. A network can have a massive market cap and minimal fee revenue.
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Not everyone will immediately get it, though. Protocol revenue as a concept requires some explanation. It's not the same as a company's net income.
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An index built around protocol revenue starts to close that gap. It gives analysts something to model.
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There's also a secondary effect worth watching. If this index gains traction, it could quietly reshape incentives for blockchain projects themselves.
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It's also unclear how frequently the index rebalances, how it handles networks that see sharp swings in fee revenue quarter to quarter, or what the minimum revenue threshold…
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See also: Bitcoin ETFs See Six-Day Streak of Positive Inflows, Collecting $930 Million
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And people probably will. Index products tend to spawn ETFs, structured notes, and benchmarked funds once they build credibility.
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