Abstract
AbstractThe paper focuses on financial and axiological aspects of the new instrument in the digital economy, such as digital tokens (DTs). The purpose of the article is to examine the investment performance of certain types of DTs. We suggest a categorisation of DTs according to the types of assets that they represent and analyse them in terms of profitability, risk, and effectiveness. The investment performance of different types of DTs was compared with stock market indices and commodity prices. The empirical source of information is data from the coinpaprika platform from January 2018 to July 2022. It occurs that DTs demonstrate, on average, lower investment performance than traditional instruments. However, there is a wide group of the former that can be included in the portfolio as their investment performance is higher than the one represented by stock market assets. Our contribution comprises, first, the extension of existing research on tokenization and tokens to include the investment aspect. Second, we develop and apply the original proposal of DT classification, which takes into account the hitherto neglected aspect of worldview valuation of a given DT type by market participants. Finally, we assess the investment performance of DTs (both in terms of our proposed classification and in the context of stock market indices). We also specify recommendations for investors.
Funder
Minister of Science and Higher Education of Poland
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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