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NFT-Volume Risk Appetite

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paper
2022
Source
Extends: Dowling 2022 Finance.Research.Letters "Is non-fungible token pricing driven by cryptocurrencies?"; novel NFT-as-crypto-equity leading-indicator application — alphactor 2026-05-20.
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In plain terms

When NFT trading volume across marketplaces (OpenSea, Blur, etc.) surges 1 standard deviation above its 90-day trend, crypto-equity names like Coinbase and the miners tend to outperform over the next 1-2 weeks. We use NFT volume as the canary for retail speculative risk-on appetite.

How it works

NFT marketplace volume (aggregated across collections in nft_volume_daily) is a leading indicator of speculative crypto-equity demand. Rising NFT volume → COIN/MSTR/RIOT/MARA/HUT catch a bid 5-10 trading days later as retail rotates from JPEGs into liquid crypto-equity proxies; falling NFT volume drags the same names down.

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Data dependencies

  • Daily prices

    Adjusted-close OHLCV for every US-listed ticker; primary price feed.

  • NFT volume daily

    NFT marketplace and collection volume panel with Dune historical seed plus daily refresh.

Expected edge

Reported return
untested — internal
Tested over
T+0 to T+10d

Untested — internal. Target 50-150 bps annualized on the crypto-equity basket (COIN, MSTR, RIOT, MARA, HUT).

Example tickers where this is likely to fire

Illustrative only, the signal fires based on the live data, not a fixed list.

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