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title: Return Connectedness Among Cryptocurrencies
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5131231/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5131231
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5131231
featured: 2025-02-19
citations: unknown
topic: Crypto & DeFi
---


# Return Connectedness Among Cryptocurrencies

The research analyzes the interconnectedness in returns among five major cryptocurrencies, identifying Bitcoin and Ethereum as net return transmitters and Cardano and Ripple as effective for portfolio optimization.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5131231
- Identifier: SSRN 5131231
- Released: 2025-02-10
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 85 (2025-02-19): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-02-19/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Crypto & DeFi

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