Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) may have outgrown its status as just a hedge against traditional finance risks and is increasingly behaving like a Nasdaq-listed tech stock, according to new research from Standard Chartered‘s Head of Digital Asset Research, Geoffrey Kendrick.
What Happened: In a note shared with Benzinga Monday, Kendrick highlighted how Bitcoin’s short-term trading patterns are highly correlated to the Nasdaq Composite, suggesting BTC is serving a dual role in modern portfolios.
While Bitcoin has long been positioned as a buffer against TradFi turbulence—such as the Silicon Valley Bank collapse in March 2023—the report finds that, on shorter timelines, the cryptocurrency moves closely in tandem with U.S. technology stocks.
To illustrate this, Standard Chartered created a hypothetical index dubbed “Mag …
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