Tokenomics: Fundamental Valuation Methods for Crypto – Grayscale Investments – 4.6.23

Summary:

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Given the incongruence with traditional financial assets, how should financial advisors think about fundamental value in cryptocurrency tokens?

In this webinar, Grayscale will walk through several valuation methods for cryptocurrencies broadly, and then dive deeper into a proposed valuations framework for three token categories specifically — payment tokens, smart contract protocols, and decentralized applications.

After joining, financial advisors should better understand qualitative and quantitative methods for valuation as they consider investments into various cryptocurrency tokens like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Uniswap among others.

Speakers:

Brooke Stoddard is a VP on the Investor Solutions Team at Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest crypto asset manager with over $20 billion in assets under management (as of 2/28/2023). Since joining Grayscale in 2019, Brooke has educated financial advisors, institutional investors, and high net worth investors about the digital currency asset class and helped to raise billions of dollars in new capital into Grayscale products. Prior to joining Grayscale, Brooke was a private wealth advisor at Goldman Sachs, where he advised institutional and high net worth investors on asset allocation strategies and portfolio management. Brooke earned his Bachelor of Arts in History from Princeton and his MBA from Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Zhao works on the research team at Grayscale Investments. Since joining Grayscale, Zhao has contributed to a number of research reports ranging from high level macro analysis to deeper dives into how certain protocols work. Prior to joining Grayscale, Michael worked at a real estate private equity fund focused on acquiring and managing multifamily assets across the US. Michael earned his bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting from Georgetown University.