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Why Discipline Outperforms Discretion: The Case for Rule-Based Investing in Digital Assets

In financial markets, emotion is the invisible tax on performance. Even the most seasoned active managers can fall victim to optimism, fear, or short-term incentives, behaviors that collectively explain why, over long horizons, the vast majority of funds fail to beat their benchmarks.

 

An index, by contrast, doesn’t get emotional. It follows its rules.

 

That distinction lies at the heart of VIDA – Venionaire Index for Digital Assets and „VLONE“ (Venionaire Layer-1 Select Index), a rules-based benchmark engineered by Compass Financial Technologies and developed by our Web3 team at Venionaire Capital. VLONE captures the performance of leading Layer-1 blockchains – Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and many others, using transparent criteria such as liquidity, adoption metrics, network governance, and technological innovation.

 

Where an active crypto fund manager might chase narratives or overreact to market volatility, VLONE maintains structural discipline. Its quantitative methodology determines weights objectively and rebalances according to measurable fundamentals.

 

The result speaks for itself: VLONE has delivered strong cumulative returns through consistent methodology and zero human bias, as the time series of a few years of back testing shows.

 

For investors, investing in an index is more than efficiency, it’s psychological protection. By design, VLONE resists the emotional rollercoaster that undermines active decision-making in digital asset markets.

 

The recently lunched VLONE-based Decentralised Token Folio (DTF) by Reserve, a company trusted by top tier tech investors such as Peter Thiel and Sam Altman, extends this principle to an investable, on-chain structure, enabling exposure to the same disciplined framework through decentralised infrastructure.

 

In a market where sentiment swings faster than fundamentals, staying systematic isn’t just smart. It’s survival.

VLONE Outpaces Bitcoin: Why Diversification Matters in Digital Assets

In the world of digital assets, Bitcoin has long reigned supreme as the asset of choice for investors seeking exposure to the sector. Yet, recent performance metrics suggest that a broader approach, capturing the potential of multiple leading blockchains, may deliver superior results. Enter the Venionaire Layer-1 Select Index (VLONE), which has quietly outperformed Bitcoin over the past year while offering investors a diversified gateway into the most promising layer-1 ecosystems.


Performance Tells the Story

Over the twelve months to mid-September 2025, VLONE recorded an annualised return of more than 64%, compared to Bitcoin’s roughly 24% in the same period. This is not a marginal difference, it is a decisive outperformance that highlights the value of diversification within the blockchain economy.
Year-to-date, returns are more closely aligned—VLONE at 21.5% versus Bitcoin at 23.9%. But the trailing 12-month view underscores the real point: investors who limited themselves to Bitcoin left significant gains on the table.


The Price of Broader Exposure

Critics will point out that VLONE comes with higher volatility – 61% versus Bitcoin’s ~54%. This is true. But in financial markets, higher volatility is not inherently negative when it is accompanied by higher return. On a risk-adjusted basis, VLONE has rewarded investors with more return per unit of risk than Bitcoin over the past year.
The index achieves this by distributing exposure across a carefully selected basket of layer-1 blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana and other networks alongside Bitcoin itself. Each asset contributes differently across market cycles, smoothing out idiosyncratic risks while capturing growth beyond Bitcoin’s dominance.


Beyond Bitcoin: Capturing the Next Wave

Bitcoin remains the industry’s bellwether. Its liquidity, institutional adoption and market depth are unmatched. But innovation in blockchain does not stop with Bitcoin. Ethereum’s smart-contract ecosystem, Solana’s scaling breakthroughs, and other layer-1 projects are driving capital flows, developer activity and user adoption that increasingly define the future of the sector.
By allocating only around 15% to Bitcoin and distributing the balance across leading peers, VLONE ensures investors are not over-exposed to a single asset, no matter how dominant. This is not just diversification for its own sake, it is strategic positioning for the next wave of blockchain growth.


The Case for VLONE

For asset managers, wealth advisers and institutional investors, VLONE represents more than just another crypto product. It is:
  • A benchmark: the first BMR-regulated crypto index of its kind, listed on Bloomberg and Refinitiv, ensuring transparency and compliance.
  • A research-driven methodology: selection based on liquidity, adoption, and technological fundamentals, not hype.
  • A cost-efficient tool: enabling banks, brokers, and advisers to structure investment products that track a broad market benchmark rather than relying on single-asset exposure.
Bitcoin will always have its place in portfolios, it is the original, the most liquid, and the best understood. But in 2025, investors looking for real growth cannot ignore the performance of VLONE. By combining Bitcoin’s stability with the dynamism of other leading blockchains, VLONE has proven itself a smarter way to capture the upside of digital assets.
For investors, the message is clear: don’t just hold Bitcoin. Hold the future of blockchain. Invest in VLONE tracking products.


 

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