Nasdaq Crypto Index rose 37.2% in January – amid bullish market sentiment

In an indication of the altering market sentiments, the Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI) booked month-to-month returns of 37.2% in January — the third-highest month-to-month return since NCI’s inception in Might 2020.

The crypto market has been shrugging off the bearish sentiment over the previous month, because the Bitcoin Concern and Greed Index moved from worry to greed after 10 months.

The value of Bitcoin (BTC) noticed its greatest month since October 2021 because it elevated 39.4% final month — the biggest cryptocurrency noticed its greatest January since 2013.

NCI, which was developed by Nasdaq in partnership with Hashdex, features a numerous basket of digital property that present an business benchmark past the value of simply BTC. As of June 2022, the basket contained BTC, Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Polkadot (DOT), Bitcoin Money (BCH), Uniswap (UNI), amongst others.

Samir Kerbage, chief know-how and product officer at Hashdex instructed StarCrypto:

“Whereas the present macro setting will proceed to current challenges for crypto and different danger property, the robust efficiency of the NCI is a transparent signal traders proceed to see the long-term worth in essentially the most disruptive and mature crypto property.”