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The Attention Factor: The Link That Connects Crypto and Public Equity Markets

Cyril Dujava
In an era of increasingly fragmented market microstructure, the emergence of cross-asset connectedness between Crypto and public equity markets presents a critical challenge for modern portfolio construction. This blog post examines the recent working paper by Harin de Silva, "The Attention Factor: The Speculative Risk You May Already Own," which identifies a previously underappreciated transmission channel: a speculative cohort of marginal investors whose sentiment shifts propagate correlated p