
Scalara announces a change to the methodology of the DeFi Pulse Index to be effective starting with the May 2022 rebalancing. The DeFi Pulse Index is a digital asset index designed to track the performance of some of the largest protocols in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space. Scalara has decided to change the ongoing maintenance… Read More »Methodology change DeFi Pulse Index: Rebalancing Frequency
Learn how the Scalara NFT Index makes highly-valued NFT collections accessible to everyone. Non-fungible tokens, in short NFTs, have become a major success story as an application of blockchain technology. It applies this innovative technology to the world of art, culture and social media. NFTs have taken over the crypto community by storm and are… Read More »What is the Scalara NFT Index NFTI?
Scalara announces the results of the April 2022 rebalance of the DeFi Pulse Index. The DeFi Pulse Index is a digital asset index designed to track the performance of some of the largest protocols in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space. In April the DeFi Pulse Index returned -29.4%. DeFi Pulse Index rebalance weights Rebalance summary… Read More »April 2022 Rebalance DeFi Pulse Index
Scalara announces a change to the composition of the DeFi Pulse Index. The change is a result of the RGT-TRIBE merger. On April 8, 2022, 26.70567 units of TRIBE will replace each unit of RGT in the DeFi Pulse Index. The merger follows community proposals and votes in December 2021. Measures to combine the two… Read More »DeFi Pulse Index Update: RGT-TRIBE Merger
Scalara announces the results of the March 2022 rebalance of the DeFi Pulse Index. The DeFi Pulse Index is a digital asset index designed to track the performance of some of the largest protocols in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space. In March (as of March 29) the DeFi Pulse Index returned +36.2%. DeFi Pulse Index… Read More »March 2022 Rebalance DeFi Pulse Index
The BTC Flexible Leverage Indices (FLIs) launch completes the index suite of leverage indices on Polygon that track the three most liquid tokens on the Polygon blockchain. The Index Coop launched the first Polygon-native token in December 2021 that implements the FLI methodology developed by Pulse.inc – now known as Scalara. Shortly after, in February 2022, tokens tracking… Read More »Launch of Bitcoin FLIs on Polygon
The Scalara NFT Index NFTI is an index that provides diversified exposure to blue-chip NFT collections by holding NFTX tokens. In this article we show how the Net Asset Value (NAV) of the Scalara NFT Index can be determined. If the components of an index are not available on an exchange, calculating its NAV may… Read More »Scalara NFT Index: How to calculate its Net Asset Value
Scalara announces the results of the February 2022 rebalance of the DeFi Pulse Index. The DeFi Pulse Index is a digital asset index designed to track the performance of some of the largest protocols in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space. DeFi Pulse Index rebalance weights Rebalance summary The above index weight factors and weights were calculated using prices and circulating… Read More »February 2022 Rebalance DeFi Pulse Index
After launching both the 2x and inverse Flexible Leverage Indices (FLIs) tracking MATIC earlier this week, Scalara now launches the Inverse ETH FLI on Polygon. The Inverse ETH Flexible Leverage Index, or short iETH-FLI-P, is an index that implements a collateralized debt position to replicate -1x the return of ETH. Its launch completes the ETH FLI suite… Read More »Launching Inverse ETH FLI
Scalara’s Flexible Leverage Index (FLI) methodology for the first time powers an inverse version – implemented by Index Coop on Polygon. The Index Coop launched the first Polygon-native token that implements the FLI methodology in December 2021. The index was well accepted by its target audience: traders that bet on short term price movement and liquidity providers… Read More »Introducing Inverse FLIs and MATIC2x
Scalara is proud to announce the launch of the Scalara NFT Index, a floor market cap weighted, yield enhanced index that tracks the performance of some of the most well-known and highly-valued NFT collections. The index provides diversified exposure to a rising new asset class at the intersection of art, culture, and blockchain technology. NFTs are non-fungible… Read More »Introducing the Scalara NFT Index
Pulse.inc announces the results of the January 2022 rebalance of the DeFi Pulse Index. The DeFi Pulse Index is a digital asset index designed to track the performance of some of the largest protocols in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space. DeFi Pulse Index rebalance weights Rebalance summary The above index weightfactors and weights were calculated using prices and circulating supplies… Read More »January 2022 Rebalance: DeFi Pulse Index
January 18, 2022 – Pulse.inc announces a change to the methodology of the DeFi Pulse Index to be effective starting with the January 2022 rebalancing. The DeFi Pulse Index is a digital asset index designed to track the performance of some of the largest protocols in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space. Pulse.inc has decided to change the weighting rules… Read More »Methodology change DeFi Pulse Index: Introduction of Minimum Weight Requirement
Learn how index investment strategies crossover into decentralized finance, reduce risk, and provide exposure to a diverse portfolio of digital assets. Given DeFi’s steady pursuit of replicating and improving financial services and products within a decentralized permissionless framework, it was only a matter of time until one of the biggest success stories in traditional finance of the… Read More »Why invest in an index?
2021 turned out to be a great year for the DeFi space. Total Value Locked (TVL) as measured by DeFi Pulse nearly quadrupled, crossing the $100bn mark several times during the year. Since its founding, the mission of DeFi Pulse has been to make DeFi accessible to everyone and provide an objective and fair view of the space. Pulse.inc is DeFi… Read More »2021: DeFi Pulse’s Year in Indices
Pulse.inc announces a change to the methodology of the DeFi Pulse Index to be effective at the December 2021 rebalancing. The DeFi Pulse Index is a digital asset index designed to track the performance of some of the largest protocols in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space. Pulse.inc updates the capping rule that is part of the weighting scheme… Read More »Methodology change DeFi Pulse Index: Introduction of Flexible Capping
After the tremendous success on Ethereum’s Mainnet, Pulse.inc’s Flexible Leverage Index (FLI) methodology was launched for the first time on Polygon by the Index Coop. Flexible Leverage Indices implement a collateralized debt position in a safe and efficient way to achieve leveraged returns and, by abstracting its management into a simple index, make it investable as a single… Read More »FLIs are coming to Polygon