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Having a quick and easy access to neatly preprocessed and ready-to-use data aggregated from multiple sources is crucial for any researcher. The BRC Data Center provides great support for any scientific endeavors aimed at investigating implications of the blockchain technology and analyzing the behavior of crypto assets. At the moment we supply 10 curated research datasets containing crypto-trading, text and risk data with more being synchronised in the background for later publishing.

Particularly, the following datasets, available only for research purposes, are accessible to the BRC members:

NASDAQ News: contains 1.4M articles with features like headline, author, link, timestamp, tag, category, mentioned companies’ abbreviations and the full text. You can choose to work either only with headlines or the full articles.
Financial Risk Meter (FRM): helps identifying different systemic risk level in the financial market over time, starting from 2020. To find out more about how the FRM is constructed, how the risk values are calculated and get a sample dataset, please visit the FRM Website.
Ethereum Statistics:
Market Data (Ether Daily Price (USD), Total Supply & Market Cap, Total Supply & Market Cap, Ether Market Capitalization, Ether Market Capitalization, Ether Supply Growth Chart)

Blockchain Data (Daily Transactions, ERC20 Daily Token Transfer, Unique Addresses, Average Block Size, Average Block Time, Average Gas Price, Average Gas Limit, Daily Gas Used, Daily Block Rewards, Block Count and Rewards, Uncle Count and Rewards, Full Node Sync (Default), Full Node Sync (Archive), Daily Active Ethereum Address, Daily Active ERC20 Address)

Network Data (Network Hash Rate, Network Difficulty, Network Pending Transactions, Network Transaction Fee, Network Utilization)

Bitcoin Transaction network: Complete historical book keeping of Bitcoin transactions between users. Network representation at different frequencies, possibly affecting price movements, alongside historical network based indexes.

Indexes: Number of active users, number of links, statistical moments the degree distribution (it can also be marketed as “statistics of first-order network properties"), higher-order network properties (or clustering and k-core values).
Trading data of up to 12 largest cryptocurrencies, collected from 8 largest cryptocurrency exchanges:

Wolfgang Karl Härdle

Research focus:
– Applied Statistics
– Econometrics
– Quantitative finance

Bitwala built the world’s first account, which offers our customers a regular bank account, crypto wallets and trading, all in one platform.

The University of Zurich, located in the city of Zürich, is the largest university in Switzerland. UZH Blockchain Center started its activities in 2017, and was formally established as a Competence Center in 2019.

Royalton Partners is an authorized Alternative Investment Fund Manager headquartered and regulated in Luxembourg.

Royalton Partner’s management team is focused on the management of illiquid assets held in closed and open-ended fund structures.

Augmento provides predictive sentiment data quantified from online crypto communication data. Augmento was acquired by Postera Capital in 2020.

PwC is a multinational accounting firm with expertise in audit and assurance, consulting and tax services. With more than 250.000 employees, PwC is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms.