An intra-cryptocurrency analysis of volatility connectedness and its determinants: Evidence from mining coins, non-mining coins and tokens

Lanouar Charfeddine, Noureddine Benlagha () and Karim Ben Khediri

Research in International Business and Finance, 2022, vol. 62, issue C

Abstract: This paper analysis the dynamic of the volatility connectedness between three main categories of the cryptocurrency market (mineable coins, non-mineable coins and tokens).11The list four mining coins considered in this study contains Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC) and DASH (DASH), the four non-mining coins are Ripple (XRP), EOS (EOS), Binance coin (BNB), and Stellar (XLM)), and the list of four tokens includes Maker (MKR), Basic Attention (BAT), Chainlink (LINK), Augur (REP)). Furthermore, it investigates factors (internal and external) that can help to predict the net directional and total volatility connectedness indices. We find that the CC market is highly connected where mining coins dominate the CC market and are typically net transmitter of shocks. For the non-mining coins, a low connectedness with all mining coins and tokens versus a high connectedness with Stellar are highlighted. The results show also that, unlike previous studies, Ethereum is the dominant contributor to volatility spillover and the only CC net pairwise transmitter in our sample. Interestingly, we find that most of the tokens are highly connected with their platform (Ethereum) rather than bitcoin. Finally, we find that both financial and macroeconomic indicators play an important role in explaining the total and net directional connectedness, a result that can significantly help cryptocurrency market participants and investors improve their risk management and the benefits from diversification.

Keywords: Mineable coins; Non-mineable coins; Tokens; Connectedness; Economic fundamentals; Financial factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C58 G12 G15 G17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ribaf.2022.101699

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