The week ending on April 15th was a historic one for cryptocurrency markets with Coinbase’s landmark direct listing propelling markets to new all-time highs. The Coinbase offering not only legitimized cryptocurrency markets but also signaled the possibility for other crypto companies to seek public offerings. Notably, popular ETF operator Ark Investments purchased $250 million in $COIN for three of their ETFs.
Centralized and decentralized exchanges dominated the week fueled by Coinbase hype. Currencies and Web3 assets lagged behind with weekly returns of 13.6% and 13.4% respectively.

Roberto is the Head of Data Science at Messari. Prior to his current role Roberto worked as a researcher focusing on DeFi and DAO treasury management. Before joining Messari Roberto spent 4 years at BlackRock working as a quantitative developer focusing on building high performance Python tooling for research.