In a recent turn of events, spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) emerged as the market leaders in the realm of cryptocurrency investment products last week. According to a recent report by Coinshares, these funds attracted $1.1 billion in inflows, marking the highest assets under management (AUM) since the early days of 2022. Coinshares Report Shows […] Original
MicroStrategy’s model offers greater flexibility than an investment trust, Saylor argued, enabling the company to develop software, generate cash flow, leveraging the capital market, and accumulate bitcoin for its shareholders and foster the Bitcoin network. Original
Bitcoin surged to $50,000, marking its highest point in over two years. Since the beginning of last year, Bitcoin’s value has seen a threefold increase, rebounding from a significant 64% drop in 2022. The last instance Bitcoin reached the $50,000 milestone was in December 2021, though it still has not surpassed its peak of nearly $69,000 from November 2021. This surge comes from a positive Bitcoin ETF market, as the new funds have attracted over $8 billion in inflows within just a month of trading. Despite Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust experiencing…
The primary driver behind this price appreciation can be attributed to the increased inflow into BTC Spot ETFs. As anticipated in previous weeks, the outflow from the Grayscale Bitcoin ETF (GBTC) was expected to diminish after the initial couple of weeks of trading. This expectation materialized, with GBTC outflows showing a significant decrease in the final days of January and continuing to decline through February. The daily outflow from GBTC during the two initial weeks post-approval averaged around $500 million. However, in the past week, total outflows from GBTC amounted…
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) could reach $112,000 as early as 2024, according to CryptoQuant. CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju believes the current trend of inflows related to spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) will continue. He said the “worst case scenario” for Bitcoin would be at least $55,000, or almost 15% higher than prices on Monday, Feb. 12. The targets were set based on the impact of inflows on Bitcoin’s market capitalization and a metric ratio that historically indicated whether prices were “overvalued” or “undervalued.” At the same time, the BTC…
CEO Ki Young Ju said on X the “worse case” for bitcoin was at least $55,000, or a nearly 15% bump from Monday’s prices. The targets were made based on the effect of inflows on bitcoin’s market capitalization and a metric ratio that has historically indicated if prices were “overvalued” or “undervalued.” Source
Since the conclusion of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading sessions on Feb. 9, 2024, the nine freshly launched ETFs have amassed 6,009.49 bitcoin, valued at approximately $288 million. Concurrently, Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), which evolved into a publicly-traded exchange-traded product, has sold off about 2,252.2 bitcoin, amounting to roughly $108 million. New Bitcoin […] Original
Please see below the most recent research on crypto ETPs from publicly listed digital asset and fintech investment business Fineqia (CSE:FNQ). Fineqia International, a leading digital asset and fintech investment business, announces that its analysis of global Exchange-Traded Products (ETPs) with digital assets as underlying collateral, revealed a 5% growth in total crypto Assets Under Management (AUM) in January, to $52.0 billion from $49.5 billion. During the same month, the market value of crypto assets decreased 2.7%, to about $1.73 trillion from $1.77 trillion. The difference between the growth in AUM of crypto ETPs and the…
The largest crypto by market capitalization ran to as high as $47,699, the highest since the bitcoin ETF launch day, before it buckled to $46,700 in a swift sell-off. Soon after, prices quickly rebounded slightly over $47,000. At press time, BTC was up 4.5% over the past 24 hours, outperforming the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20), a measure of the biggest cryptocurrencies, which advanced 3.8%. Source
The recently launched spot bitcoin ETFs, excluding Grayscale’s GBTC, added nearly another 5,000 tokens to their holdings Wednesday, and now at more than 192,000 BTC, own more of the crypto than MicroStrategy (MSTR), whose total stood at 190,000 as of the end of January. Original