#BTCvsMarkets Increased and growing awareness from retail and institutional investors since 2017 created market movements that, at first appearance, seem to suggest that cryptocurrency and equities markets are correlated. However, it isn't so much a correlation as it is an indication of how cryptocurrency is being treated by the market that gives it this appearance.

It's important to note that cryptocurrencies can be issued by companies to raise funding. These security tokens would likely be treated much more like stocks than speculative cryptocurrencies because their value would be associated with how the company is evaluated. A cryptocurrency that is not issued as a security token doesn't have any value associated with it except for what speculators are willing to pay for it.