Four Crypto Indexes, One Methodology: What Separates QSI Core, Growth, VRION, and GEQ8

Why Qatobit shipped four indexes and no flagship

An index is a rule set, and the useful question about any rule set is who it fits: at what risk tolerance, over what horizon. Qatobit answered that with four indexes. All four rebalance monthly on the same institutional-grade methodology, so what separates any two of them is how much Gold buffer or hedge the investor wants, decided before the money goes in.

The four share a construction discipline: monthly rebalancing, a documented methodology per index, and a ₹2,000 per-index minimum, whether the investor enters with a lump sum or through a Crypto SIP. Everything downstream of that discipline differs.

One flagship index would have to average across every kind of investor at once, softening itself for the cautious and diluting itself for the convicted. Four indexes each stay legible on their own terms, built for a stated risk and horizon, and the investor picks the terms that apply to them.

Four characteristics that separate them

Read them in the order below; each one narrows the field.

Asset count and concentration

VRION holds three assets: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. Core holds four: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Gold, and a stable reserve. Growth holds five, adding Solana to Core's four. GEQ8 holds eight, spread across a Platform sleeve (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, NVIDIA, 45 to 55%), a Digital Finance sleeve (Coinbase, Robinhood Markets, 30 to 40%), and an Innovation sleeve (Tesla, 10 to 20%), with hard caps so no single holding exceeds 15% or falls below 3%.

Concentration follows straight from the count. Each of VRION's three holdings starts as a meaningful share of the whole, so one asset's move carries the index a long way. GEQ8 spreads the same job across eight: its Platform sleeve alone can hold five separate names inside a 45 to 55% band, and no single company has to dominate for the sleeve to matter.

Portfolio implication: an investor who would rather no single asset drive most of the index's movement wants one of the wider constructions.

Whether there is a hedge layer

Core and Growth both carry a Gold allocation and a stable reserve, trimmed at highs and bought at troughs, the counter-cyclical logic behind how a drawdown actually recovers. VRION carries neither. GEQ8 holds no crypto, so it has no crypto hedge to carry; its three sleeves diversify by sector and geography rather than by asset class.

That trimming and topping up runs on the rule, whatever anyone expects Gold or the crypto assets to do next: sell some of whatever went up, buy some of whatever went down, on the same monthly schedule as everything else in the index.

A hedge layer builds part of the index to behave differently in a drawdown. VRION leaves it out, which hands the full downside and the full upside straight to the investor. Portfolio implication: the hedge layer is the biggest lever on how an index moves when crypto falls, so it is worth settling before you invest. Our piece on how an index actually behaves during a market crash walks through the mechanics of a drawdown.

The horizon the methodology assumes

VRION carries a stated minimum five-year horizon, because full-conviction, no-hedge construction only makes sense held through more than one cycle. Core and Growth carry no stated minimum, since their Gold buffer and stable reserve make a shorter hold more tolerable. GEQ8 rebalances monthly and adds a quarterly composition review, because its constituent companies and their weights are expected to shift as the underlying businesses do.

Core, Growth, and VRION hold a fixed asset list and rebalance only the weights inside it. GEQ8's constituent list itself can change, which makes its quarterly review a different kind of check from anything the other three run.

Portfolio implication: an investor who cannot commit to a full cycle has already answered the VRION question, since the five-year horizon is part of what the methodology assumes from the start.

What each one holds

Core: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Gold, and a stable reserve, top-weighted to BTC and ETH. Growth: the same four plus Solana, an allocation systematically built during Solana's 2022 decline and carried through its 2024 recovery, the structural feature the methodology names as Growth's advantage over Core. VRION: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with no fourth or fifth holding to dilute conviction. GEQ8: eight companies drawn from technology, digital finance, and innovation, none of them a coin.

Portfolio implication: an investor who wants crypto exposure specifically has three real choices in Core, Growth, and VRION. GEQ8 suits an investor curious about the platforms and infrastructure around digital finance who would rather not hold crypto directly.

Who each index is built for

How much room crypto gets inside a wider allocation across equity, debt, and crypto is its own decision, taken before this one. Once that is settled, the four characteristics above answer which index goes in the crypto sleeve.

Core tends to suit a first-time crypto investor who wants meaningful exposure without watching every headline: four assets, a Gold buffer working in the background, and no minimum horizon to clear first.

Growth is built for someone who already holds Core-style exposure and wants a documented upside lever while keeping the buffer. It carries Core's same four holdings plus the Solana allocation, so the choice is the buffer and one specific, named lever on top.

An investor who has already committed to holding crypto through a full cycle, and wants nothing softening that commitment, is looking at VRION. It carries the platform's highest expected volatility for exactly that reason: nothing is hedging it. Choosing it means taking the outcome directly, in both directions.

GEQ8 answers a different curiosity: the companies shaping digital finance and market infrastructure, held to the same monthly-rebalance discipline as the crypto indexes. It is priced at 0.35% per rebalance, with no annual management fee and no exit load after twelve months. Before picking any of the four, settle how much of a portfolio crypto should occupy at all.

Holding two of them at once

Nothing requires picking exactly one of the four. A Core position held for stability alongside a smaller VRION position for full conviction is two separate decisions, each made on its own terms. Growth pairs with GEQ8 the same way, crypto upside on one side and global platform companies on the other, rebalanced on different logics for different reasons. The range exists so that either combination works without a fifth product being invented for it. The one approach that fails is picking an index at random and hoping its Gold buffer, or its lack of one, happens to match a horizon nobody thought about.

All four run the same discipline, and it is on the record: monthly rebalancing, and a documented construction anyone can check. Four indexes rather than one is the same idea as a menu of efficient choices rather than a single optimal portfolio: what moves from index to index is how much hedge, how many assets, and how long a horizon the investor signs up for. Those three answers decide which index, by lump sum or by recurring plan, and no ranking can supply them.

Frequently asked questions

Is QSI Growth a better index than QSI Core?

Growth carries Core's same four holdings plus a Solana allocation, aimed at an investor who wants Core's buffer and a documented upside lever. Core alone suits an investor who wants the buffer without exposure to Solana specifically. Neither construction is designed to outrank the other.

Why does QSI VRION have no Gold or stable reserve?

VRION is built for investors who have chosen full crypto conviction over a minimum five-year horizon. Leaving the buffer out is intentional: it hands both the downside and the upside of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana straight to the investor.

Is QSI GEQ8 a crypto index?

GEQ8 holds eight global companies across a Platform, Digital Finance, and Innovation sleeve, and none of them is a coin. It shares the monthly-rebalance discipline of the three crypto indexes and is a distinct product, priced at 0.35% per rebalance with no annual management fee.

Can I hold more than one QSI index at once?

Yes. Each index carries its own ₹2,000 minimum and can be entered independently, by lump sum or Crypto SIP. Combining two, Core for stability and VRION for conviction for instance, is a two-part decision that the range is built to allow.

How often do the QSI indexes rebalance?

All four rebalance monthly. GEQ8 also carries a quarterly composition review, since its constituent companies and their weights are expected to shift as the underlying businesses do, while Core, Growth, and VRION hold fixed asset lists.

Crypto investments are subject to market risk. Not financial advice.