Yes. Dollar cost averaging is a good way to lower the risk of a particular investment type. Most people can’t successfully time any market. Most who just try to move in and out get it wrong and then undermine their own gains.
I don’t have a link, but people who invest in stocks have shown that missing out on a handful of the best days every year greatly decreases average returns over years.
It remains to be seen whether crypto will fall into the same patterns, but there have certainly been very big gaining days that you could miss if you timed it wrong.