The aim of this paper is to derive the main factors that separate cryptocurrencies from the classical assets, by using various classification techniques applied to the daily time series of log-returns. In this sense, a daily time series of asset returns (either cryptocurrencies or classical...

The aim of this paper is to prove the phenotypic convergence of cryptocurrencies, in the sense that individual cryptocurrencies respond to similar selection pressures by developing similar characteristics. In order to retrieve the cryptocurrencies phenotype, we treat cryptocurrencies as...