1/ Some helpful charts from Hayden Capital's 73 page piece on $COIN:
Users trade more frequently over time (grey is users trading 1x per month, blue is >5x per month):
2/ Number of global crypto users continued to grow despite the 50% fall in #BTC etc from April to June 21. #ETH user adoption continued rapid growth too.
3/ Table shows some exponential adoption metrics since Q2 2020 (note the $162bn DEX Volume shown in July 2020 should be May 2021):
4/ VC firms have invested $17bn into crypto so far in 2021, up from $6bn in 2020:
5/ Hayden Capital adjust crypto exchange mkt shares to look at just US regulated spot markets. On that basis, $COIN has 55% share:
6/ Interesting charts that show the high correlation between total crypto market and monthly transacting users. r squared is 98% for data up until Q2 21 or 86% up until end 2020 (the recent extremely strong data reduces the variability in the earlier data):
7/ Also, there is a high correlation btw total crypto mkt cap and revenue per monthly transacting user. Thus $COIN doubly benefits from growth in total crypto mkt cap in terms of no of users and rev/ user:
8/ Expense mix tilted heavily to fixed costs such as G&A and Technology & Development so operating leverage to revenue growth is very high:
9/ Looking at comps, $COIN clearly cheaper than peers despite higher growth:
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1/ I've been wanting to learn about Polkadot $DOT, the layer 0 blockchain ecosystem founded by Gavin Wood @gavofyork who wrote the code for Ethereum.
2/ This video, recorded back in Jan 2021, is a great @RealVision interview with Gavin in which he explains the idea and how it all works. For anyone who wants to know about $DOT it's a great watch.
3/ I won't summarise it as there is a LOT of information contained in the 1 hour video but a few take-aways for me:
Ethereum technology was invented 6+ years ago now so Gavin thinks world ready for Blockchain 3.0 new technology.
1/ Brazilian Fintech co PagSeguro $PAGS put out operating results for Q3, with TPV growth of 85% and acquiring TPV growth of 49%, or up 58% ex the Corona voucher impact. They announced sequential growth of 1m PagBank active users, to 12.2m.
2/ If we put the PagBank business on the same valuation as Nubank's recent financing round (in which $BRK participated) at $30bn for 40m users that implies $9.15bn for PagBank's 12.2m users.
Haircut that by 20% for conservatism to get a $7.23bn valuation.
3/ Take that off PAGS market cap of $14.8bn to get a valuation of $7.5bn for the core merchant acquiring business.
2022 consensus is for $465m net income, and PagBank & the SMB Hubs investments should breakeven in that year so gives a pretty clean read on core biz consensus.
1/ Following up from my prior thread after call with $HUT IR @bigsuey she was kind enough to set me up with a follow-up call with Hut 8 CFO @ShaneDowney8 which was very helpful.
I misinterpreted IR comments that the company's recent $170m equity capital raise fully funds them to get to the 6 EH target by mid 22.
3/ They are still on track for that target and are unequivocally saying they will not be raising additional equity capital any time soon but CFO acknowledged they will need more capital to get from 3EH (where they should be by year end 21) to 6 EH.
1/ Piper survey 10,000 US teens - some interesting stats on social media usage: Instagram continues to lead monthly usage, although falling, TikTok gaining. $SNAP remains favourite, improving its lead, TikTok second then Instagram 3rd favourite, losing 2 points.
2/ $PINS gender skew among teens higher than I'd have thought - 90% skew. TikTok 64% skewed to females. Discord most skewed to men at 77% followed by Twitter (67% male skew) then $FB (65% male skew). $SNAP most balanced gender usage.
1/ $CME looks interesting in here. For PMs who are looking for ways to hedge long duration equity exposures against risk of rising rates there are not many high quality businesses available (balance sheet financials and energy not really top-of-mind for many).
2/ $CME is the monopoly US interest rate derivatives exchange (as well as dominant positions in commodity futures markets) and has strong operating leverage to an increase in US bond futures/ Eurodollar trades undertaken to hedge against inflation risks.
3/ Stock price fell 16% from June 2021 peak to recent $185 share price low and looks to be back on the hunt for higher levels. Not obviously cheap by any means at 23x EV/EBIT, 28x PE.