Hayloo’s Beta Desk. Beta is how much a coin moves when Bitcoin moves a dollar: above 1.00 it amplifies Bitcoin, below 1.00 it lags. The desk splits that into what a coin catches on Bitcoin’s up-days against what it gives back on the down-days. Give back more than you catch and your portfolio is paying an altcoin tax.
TOTAL3ES – This week was brutal
The alt complex captures nothing on the way up and nearly everything on the way down. Taking the altcoins excluding Bitcoin, Ether and stablecoins as one class, the desk reads −43 cents caught on every dollar Bitcoin gains against 89 cents given back on every dollar it loses.
That is the arithmetic of a class being drained while its regulatory hope drains with it. The Senate went home on August 8 without a vote on the CLARITY Act and does not return until September 14.
Bernstein’s read is that another failure hits the whole complex, though the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) can keep writing rules on token classification, decentralized finance and self-custody without Congress. That is the trade underneath the beta: a rulebook written by agencies rather than legislators, changeable by the next administration, and no date on any of it.
Solana ran a round trip; Ethereum firmed. Last week’s record 0.50 gap between Solana’s up- and down-capture collapsed to 0.08. Its 60-day at 1.12 is the lowest since June 3, just above the line that would end an Outperform streak now 876 days old. Ethereum caught 154 cents against 123 given back, on an asymmetry eight days old that held rather than contracting.
XRP is pinned to its own boundary and the flag is red. 112 cents up against 87 down, a gap that has narrowed five weeks running from 0.57 in early July to 0.25, a hair short of the contraction the desk’s backtest sees before a regime turns in either direction. The fast and primary windows disagree for a second week. A relationship this pinned is mid-shift by construction.
Bitcoin dominance is flat on the week and still leaking. Bitcoin’s share of total crypto market value reads 56.5%, unchanged from last week and below both its 50-day and 150-day averages.
What is solid and what is soft. Solid: the 60-day betas across the series, whose errors run between 6% and 11% of the estimates, and every down-capture on the board. Soft: the entire up-side of the class read, and Solana’s residual gap, which sits inside an error bar 43% the size of its own estimate. Softest: XRP’s tag, one day old on a beta that has spent more than half of two months inside three hundredths of its own boundary.
🟠 The alt class has more life than Bitcoin, and we are studying names that do not need Washington to say yes.
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