Finance

Crypto’s calls are equally as juiced as puts, creating a “smile” in the volatility surface

Let’s quickly run through some of the events leading up to these listings

CME’s large bitcoin contracts are so big that investors are turning to micro bitcoin contracts

Trump’s win appears to have made ETF issuers more optimistic of potential approval across more types of funds

The app was conceived as a global equivalent to Venmo that uses the Solana network and Paxos’ USDP stablecoin

The municipal pension fund plots a potential 2% allocation to bitcoin funds in the coming weeks, officials say, after months-long process

Franklin’s Sandy Kaul told Blockworks that the firm is working on “new and innovative” blockchain solutions for clients

Robinhood added four new cryptocurrencies to its platform: solana, cardano, XRP and PEPE

Of course, a lot has happened since the 600+ survey respondents shared their thoughts between Aug. 15 and Oct. 1

Institutional adoption “moves slower than we want,” exec says, but could follow “an exponential curve from Q1 onwards”

BlackRock’s Samara Cohen said “a fair amount of plumbing” is needed to unlock the ability for pensions and endowments to gain BTC exposure

A pilot project from Swift, UBS and Chainlink demonstrates how tokenized funds can bridge traditional and crypto rails

Also in the tokenized fund space, Franklin Templeton launches on Base and Securitize hits $1 billion in tokenized RWA onchain

A new spot SOL ETF filing with the SEC comes a few months after VanEck kicked off the process with a filing of its own

T. Rowe Price’s technology ETF invests in companies across the hardware, software, internet and payments segments

Financial institutions are weighing the business case for tokenizing assets and regulatory considerations, Ripple’s James Wallis says

Even if you are bullish on the space, execs agree it will take a while before some of the space’s multi-trillion-dollar projections are met

The approvals come less than a month after the SEC granted Nasdaq permission to list similar options

Industry watchers have said planned products focused on crypto assets outside of BTC and ETH could face regulatory hurdles in the near-term

Institutions to test out the settlement of “digital assets and currencies” on a network that annually carries more than 5 billion financial messages

After Bitwise’s XRP ETF filing this week, one industry watcher notes: “Politics will determine whether this happens soon or in a few years”

Spain-based Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria has been working in the new Visa Tokenized Asset Platform sandbox

Bitwise took the initial steps for an XRP ETF Wednesday

The investment firm onboards Anchorage Digital Bank and BitGo as partners alongside current custodian Coinbase