Finance

Bitwise signaled its plans to list a solana ETF in the US less than a month ago

The debanking narrative has given fresh ammunition to teams building bank replacements

A Nasdaq spokesperson told me changes to the index would be announced tonight at 8 pm ET

Three factors could contribute to 2025 being the year of the crypto IPO

Reflecting on the two worlds I live in poses an interesting vignette

Bitwise execs predicted Tuesday that bitcoin ETFs will attract more flows next year than they did in 2024

And it might not be the ones you think

“Law-abiding American businesses should be able to access banking services without government interference,” Coinbase’s Paul Grewal said on X

The company did about 2.5 times the amount of crypto-backed collateral financing in November compared to the rest of 2024, exec says

Will investors take a 10% lower return to get access to a regulated investment wrapper?

Strategies consider price momentum in an effort to boost risk-adjusted returns while reducing downside risk

Bitwise on Tuesday filed an S-1 for an ETF that would hold both bitcoin and ether, nearly half a year after Hashdex plotted a similar product

ParaFi’s Ben Forman and Kevin Yedid-Botton break down their biggest predictions for the Empire podcast

Hunter Horsley says Solana is one of this cycle’s breakout successes that he thinks clients will want to access

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”