Bitcoin ETF


Policy

SEC's Gensler 'Disappointed' by Part of Ripple's XRP Judgement, Still Assessing Opinion

Ripple scored a partial victory in its fight with the SEC last week with a court ruling that institutional sales of the tokens violated federal securities laws, but sales on exchanges and programmatic sales did not.

SEC Chair Gensler (Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images)

Finance

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Talks Up Crypto Demand From Gold Investors

The asset management giant last month applied with regulators to open a spot bitcoin ETF.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink (Getty Images)

Markets

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Discount Narrows to Lowest Since May 2022

Buying for the trust has picked up on hopes the SEC might soon approve a spot bitcoin ETF.

GBTC's discount to NAV (Ycharts)

Policy

Grayscale Argues Leveraged Bitcoin Futures ETF Approval Shows Spot ETF Should Be Approved

The crypto asset manager is suing the SEC for rejecting its bitcoin ETF application last year.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

BlackRock CEO’s Turnabout on Bitcoin Elicits Cheers, Skepticism of Crypto Cred

Larry Fink, CEO of the world’s biggest asset manager, says crypto could “revolutionize finance,” endorsing an industry he once viewed with skepticism. But the very nature of an ETF is at odds with the original ideals of Bitcoin.

Larry Fink on Fox News (Fox Business)

Markets

SEC Approval of Spot Bitcoin ETF Is Unlikely to Be a Game Changer for Crypto Markets: JPMorgan

Such ETFs have existed for some time in Canada and Europe, but have failed to attract large investor interest, the report said.

Photo of the SEC logo on a building wall

Policy

Will 2023 Be the Year of the Bitcoin ETF?

The hype is back. Has the market changed enough?

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Finance

Valkyrie Refiles for Spot Bitcoin ETF With Coinbase as Surveillance Partner

The asset manager first filed for a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund in January 2021.

Canary Capital founder and CEO Steve McClurg (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Application Refiled, Naming Coinbase as ‘Surveillance-Sharing’ Partner

Refiled application by Nasdaq to list a BlackRock bitcoin ETF follows a report last week that the SEC deemed earlier proposals "inadequate" since they didn't specify the name of the underlying market in so-called surveillance-sharing agreements.

BlackRock's corporate office in New York, New York. (Jim.henderson/Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

Coinbase, Microstrategy Shares Rally After Cboe Refiles Bitcoin ETF Applications

Shares in Coinbase, chosen as the market for the surveillance-sharing agreements in ETF applications, rose above $80 at around 11:30 ET on Monday.

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