ProShares

Increased activity came amid volatile markets as Binance revealed intention to buy FTX

Products betting against the asset helped the space’s offerings avoid a fourth straight week of outflows, according to CoinShares report

The firm’s bitcoin-linked products account for roughly $770 million in combined assets under management

Trade volumes for inverse bitcoin ETFs — which provide short exposure — are surging alongside institutional investor inflows

Four Europe-domiciled exchange-traded products by 21Shares had a total return below -40%

Products seeking the inverse performance of the S&P CME Bitcoin Futures Index are expected to list on the NYSE Tuesday

Direxion and AXS Investments follow suit after ProShares proposes ETF betting against bitcoin

The fund group’s latest planned offerings would seek inverse returns to the CME Bitcoin Futures Contracts Index

The fund group’s follow-up to its bitcoin futures ETF joins three other products in the segment

The firm’s filing comes a week after similar plans from fund titan Fidelity

Proposed fund would invest in Web3- and metaverse-focused companies, as well as GBTC

Opinion: While the metaverse is based on gaming and technology, there are too many broad technology and gaming stocks in existing metaverse indices to make them effective products. But what should be left out?

ETF will track the Solactive Metaverse Theme Index (SOMETAV) and hold Apple, Meta, Unity and Nvidia as its heaviest weightings

Proposal comes after bitcoin futures products hit market and before CME Group’s launch of micro ether futures.

Firm’s latest product also invests in equity securities of blockchain companies.

Fund group’s offering will invest in a couple dozen protocols across 13 different blockchains.

Agency’s ruling to deny the physically backed product not a surprise to many industry watchers.

Filing follows partnership between crypto firm and $437 billion asset manager.

Proposed fund focused on companies involved in digital assets comes as firm awaits approval to convert GBTC to an exchange traded fund.

SEC will likely wait for more liquidity, see how bitcoin futures ETFs operate before approving ETH products, industry watchers say.

Valkyrie made history last week as the second issuer to bring a bitcoin futures-based ETF to market, now it seeks approval for a leveraged product.

Experts are unsure if Valkyrie will have the same explosive volume, and the demand from the market for this type of product may not be sustainable.

The fund’s demand has pushed the world’s largest digital currency to a new all-time high of more than $66,000 Wednesday.

The launch of a BTC ETF signals favorable regulatory outlook for bitcoin and underlying market dynamics support a larger rally in store for bitcoin investors.

The world’s first bitcoin futures ETF sustained high volume throughout the trading session.