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CoinDesk Monthly Review, May 2020

Bitcoin’s returns continue to outpace other assets, but its volatility hasn’t shown steady declines, as stocks, bonds and gold have. Meanwhile, market activity is picking up: spot exchange volumes probed historic highs in May and bitcoin options markets passed a milestone and didn’t look back.
Noelle Acheson
Noelle Acheson is host of the CoinDesk "Markets Daily" podcast, and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. She is also former head of research at CoinDesk and sister company Genesis Trading. Follow her on Twitter at @NoelleInMadrid.
