Joel Hugentobler

Analyst, Cryptocurrency

Joel’s research focuses on the development of digital assets and cryptocurrency as a new asset class. His areas of interest include the adoption of cryptocurrency and digital assets in investment and wealth management strategies. Joel helps clients make sense of the growth of cryptocurrency and digital asset markets.

Prior to joining Javelin, Joel worked as a DeFi analyst and trader at Imperial Asset Management. He has worked in the mortgage industry and in traditional financial markets as a stockbroker. Joel graduated from the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. He has grown passionate about the digital asset space since he first got involved in 2016.

Latest Insights

September, 2026
Javelin Report
Building the Case for Stablecoin Remittances: Javelin Models the Total Addressable Market

Stablecoins have the potential to reshape cross-border payments, but the industry often confuses transaction volume and asset value with actual revenue opportunity. Javelin sizes t...

September, 2026
Javelin Report
Migration Not Flight: The Impacts of Stablecoins on Deposits

Stablecoin growth could shift hundreds of billions of dollars out of conventional deposit products, with the greatest pressure falling on payment-intensive consumer, commercial, an...

July, 2026
Javelin Report
BIS Project Agorá: A Road Map to Tokenized Deposits for FIs

Project Agorá is more than a wholesale cross-border payments prototype. It signals that central banks, commercial banks, and financial infrastructure providers are preparing to abs...

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April, 2024
The topic of tokenizing real world assets (RWA) has been in the spotlight recently.  What makes...

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