Helene Braun

Helene is a New York-based news reporter at CoinDesk, covering news about Wall Street, the rise of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and updates on crypto exchanges. She is also the co-host of CoinDesk's Markets Daily show on Spotify and Youtube. Helene is a recent graduate of New York University's business and economic reporting program and has appeared on CBS News, YahooFinance and Nasdaq TradeTalks. She holds BTC and ETH.

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Finance

Ex-Valkyrie Founder’s Canary Capital Group Files for First Litecoin ETF

The filing comes seven days after the one-month-old firm submitted paperwork for an XRP ETF.

Canary Capital Group, a new digital asset-focused investment firm, has plans to launch an exchange-traded fund tied to Litecoin. (Litecoin Foundation)

Finance

VanEck to Invest in Early Stage Ventures Including Crypto With New $30M Fund

The fund, called VanEck Ventures, will invest in companies in the fintech, digital asset or artificial intelligence space that are in pre-seed and seed stages.

VanEck is expanding its venture capital presence with the launch of a new $30 million fund. (Unplash/Matias Malka)

Markets

Bitget Token Tumbles 52% on 'Market Sluggishness,' Exchange Says, While Promising Compensation

The BGB token slumped to as low as $0.54 before recovering.

BGB plummeted to as low as $0.54 from $1.14 in 15 minutes at around 02:30 UTC, data on TradingView shows. (TradingView)

Finance

Spot Crypto ETFs Prompted Bitwise to Rethink Its Fund Lineup

The asset manager said the launch of the spot crypto exchange-traded funds this year has made futures-based crypto products less compelling.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan (Suzanne Cordiero/CoinDesk/Shutterstock)

Finance

Grayscale Rolls Out Aave Fund

Aave has becomes one of the largest crypto lending protocol by total value locked.

Grayscale advertisement (Grayscale)

Finance

Bitwise Makes XRP ETF Plans Official With SEC Filing

The asset manager's S-1 comes a day after it registered a trust entity with the state of Delaware.

Bitwise submitted an S-1 form to the SEC, a step forward for its dogecoin ETF plans. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Franklin Templeton Adds Aptos Blockchain to Support Tokenized Money Market Fund

The $435 million fund is also available on Avalanche, Arbitrum, Stellar and Polygon.

Aptos founders Mo Shaikh, left, and Avery Ching (Aptos Labs)

Policy

Bitwise Takes a Step Toward XRP ETF

Ripple's XRP barely budged after the Delaware filing was confirmed.

(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Finance

Robinhood Introduces Crypto Transfers in Europe as It Doubles Down on Expansion

The trading app will let customers deposit and withdraw over 20 cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ether, solana and USD coin.

Robinhood website on laptop (Unsplash)

Markets

MicroStrategy's Next Bitcoin Purchase Is Likely to Take Its Holdings Above Grayscale's GBTC

The self-described Bitcoin development company currently holds 252,220 bitcoins, but has more than $1 billion in dry powder with which to purchase additional tokens.

MicroStrategy executive chairman and co-founder Michael Saylor. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)