In search of cryptocurrency failure

• Main Authors: MA, Donglian, Jun TU, ZHU, Zhaobo
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Cryptocurrency; Failure risk; Risk-return tradeoff; Asset allocation; COVID19; Finance; Finance and Financial Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7442; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8441/viewcontent/SSRN_id4164139.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper explores the determinants of cryptocurrency failure and the pricing of crypto failure risk. We document different significant market- and characteristic-based predictors for coin and token failures. The introduction of Bitcoin futures and the outbreak of COVID19 affect the importance of many predictors. Investors require extra return for bearing high failure risk of crypto assets. The return difference across high and low failure risk crypto assets is not explained by the market, size and momentum factors in the cryptocurrency market. Finally, investors benefit from diversifying into high failure risk crypto assets that is little correlated with the stock market.