Joshua de Vos

Joshua de Vos leads CoinDesk’s Research team, overseeing institutional-grade benchmarks and premium research publications. With nearly a decade of experience in digital assets, he previously headed CCData’s award-winning research division and served as Head of Research at a digital asset portfolio manager, where he developed foundational investment strategies.

At CCData—now part of CoinDesk—Joshua created the industry’s first institutional-grade ESG Benchmark and authored numerous reports covering protocols, exchanges, stablecoins, and regulatory developments.

He is a regular contributor to CoinDesk’s Markets Daily podcast and has appeared on CNBC’s Bitcoin Halving podcast, the U.S. presidential inauguration livestream, and in leading publications such as Bloomberg, Forbes, and the Financial Times.

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Crypto Long & Short: Licences, Liquidity and the Shifting Geography of Exchange Quality

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Joshua de Vos shares insights from a recent Benchmark report on how the exchange landscape is maturing and becoming more execution-focused, but increasingly uneven as regional licensing diverges, liquidity fragments, and transparency advances inconsistently. Then, we take a look at where the digital assets market may be headed in the final weeks of 2025 with Andy Baehr’s “Vibe Check."

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Crypto’s Black Friday

What began as a macro-driven unwind on crypto Black Friday rapidly evolved into a market-wide stress event — underscoring how tightly coupled liquidity, collateral and oracle systems have become, writes CoinDesk Data’s Joshua de Vos.

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Crypto for Advisors: Crypto Treasuries, ETFs and Investments

Institutional demand and favorable policy drove Q3 crypto recovery. Ether ETF flows surpassed bitcoin. Altcoins surged as bitcoin dominance fell, marking a shift toward multi-asset institutional allocation.

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Q2 2025: From Balance Sheets to Benchmarks

Joshua de Vos of CoinDesk Data breaks down the July digital assets report and touches on corporate treasury adoption, the digital assets dominating the headlines and the role of benchmarks in capital decisions.

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Why the Market Needs a Rules-Based Benchmark for Centralised Exchanges

Joshua de Vos of CoinDesk Data shares the April 2025 edition of the Exchange Benchmark report which sheds light on which exchanges operate at institutional standards and those still falling short.

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Institutions Drive Bitcoin Dominance: Q1 2025 Crypto Market Analysis

A report by CoinDesk Indices provides a detailed analysis of the crypto market’s recent performance and the significant shift being driven by institutions. Dive into the results with CoinDesk’s Joshua de Vos and Jacob Joseph.

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Inauguration Edition: A New Reality

Trump's election has increased investor confidence among institutions, helping to elevate digital assets as a mainstream asset class. The question remains if this is a long-term shift or just a temporary response, says CCData’s Joshua de Vos.

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