GeckoPulse: The Inclusion of DATCos in Stock Indices

Still in the Running

MSCI, a major provider of stock indices, has stated that it won’t immediately exclude firms with large crypto holdings, otherwise known as digital asset treasuries (DATs), from its products.

Since the firm’s announcement, Strategy shares have surged by 3.8% in the US pre-market session.

If DATs were excluded, index funds would have been forced to sell shares of Strategy and similar firms, potentially causing major market disruption.

MSCI had begun reviewing the eligibility of these firms to be included in their Global Investable Market Indexes (GIMIs) since October.

The results of their investigation has thus far led the firm to believe that DATCos that maintain more than 50% of their total holdings in crypto and digital assets can remain within their products for the time being.

However, this decision is only temporary while MSCI continues to review concerns from investors and develop new criteria to determine eligibility.

A New Horizon

Aave’s Horizon RWA lending market has reached a new milestone of $200M worth of assets borrowed on the platform.

Horizon allows institutional investors and firms to leverage their tokenized money market funds and securities to borrow stablecoins at any time they wish.

The platform was launched in late August last year, and has quickly amassed ~$600M in new deposits.

While the current rate of adoption is encouraging, the figures pale in comparison to Aave’s decentralized offerings, which has attracted over $35B in funds across 19 different chains.

A Little Modification

DeFi trading platform Infinex has made some changes to the public sale of its INX token.

The project was initially intended to raise a total of $5M with a  $2,500 cap for each wallet, but only managed to raise around $600K in the first 3 days since the sale went live.

However, in a recent announcement, the team acknowledged that their attempts in making the sale fair had resulted in a much lower turnout.

As such, individual wallet caps would be removed, meaning that users were able to deposit as much as they want.

Instead of allocations being randomly assigned, it will be distributed through a ‘water-filling’ or max-min fair allocation.

In a nutshell, each participant’s allocation will increase at the same rate until the available token supply is depleted.

Notably, Patron NFT holders will still retain their priority on allocations, while the 1-year token lock will remain.

Since the announcement, funds raised in the public sale have more than doubled to $1.4M as of the time of writing.

Predicting Property Prices

RWA real estate platform Parcl has teamed up with Polymarket to launch real estate prediction markets based on daily housing price indices.

According to a recent press release, Polymarket will list the markets on their platform, while Parcl will be in charge of supplying the data for determining market outcomes.

The initial deployment will focus on only major housing markets in the US, structured around changes in the housing price index over specific durations.

Since the announcement, the native PRCL token has surged by 92.0% from $0.02 to $0.398.

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