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
“Breaking $45,000 allows early investors who piled on the bitcoin ETF to be almost in the money, if we continue this ascent we may even see some profit taken and could trigger a reversal where the $42,000/$40,000 level may be tested,” said Laurent Ksiss, crypto ETP specialist at CEC Capital. Original
GBTC is expected to lose further funds to newly created ETFs unless there is a meaningful cut to its fees, the report said. Source
MicroStrategy (MSTR), the software firm whose executive chairman is bitcoin maximalist Michael Saylor, reported weaker-than-expected fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, but the majority of its conference call presentation focused on the crypto. Source
Granted, there is regulation to consider and technology to develop, but the collective opportunity to move beyond Bitcoin ETFs and tokenized RWAs is immense. In a future where all assets are built, managed, and distributed on-chain, investors, asset managers, and even regulators will benefit from the transparency, efficiency, and disintermediation that results. Lower costs, global distribution, and more efficient markets await on the other side. Source
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