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GBTC announces plans to convert to an ETF which should help close the -9% NAV premium gap
The largest U.S. exchange traded products, GBTC and ETHE, for the largest two crypto assets, Bitcoin and Ethereum, have been trading at a persistent discount to their NAV for a little over a month, with GBTC sitting around -9% and ETHE sitting around -5%. Source: Bloomberg (Date: 4/5/2021) Much of the discount has been the result of investors expecting a U.S. listed Bitcoin ETF in the near future after the...
CRYPTO SPECIAL REPORT: Avalanche: Building a Novel dApp Protocol for the Internet of Finance
Ava Labs is building the Avalanche protocol which expects to deliver the highest performance, most secure, and most energy efficient general-purpose cryptonetwork for highly decentralized applications, novel financial primitives, and new interoperable blockchains. Using its innovative Avalanche consensus mechanism, the protocol hopes to create a new digital crypto-native economy for frictionless real-world and digital asset exchange, composable financial application primitives and derivatives, Web 3.0 privacy-focused data and social applications, and...
Bitcoin has rebounded to new highs and pulled back again since our last market update on Bitcoin two weeks ago. We may sound like a broken record, but we remain bullish on Bitcoin and crypto and see further upside during the balance of the year. A FEW REASONS WE SEE FOR THE RECENT PULL BACK: -Traders repositioning ahead of $6B largest ever Bitcoin options expiration tomorrow -Traditional institutions new to...
Is Wall Street going Bankless? What do they know about crypto? We bring on David Grider of FSInsight to answer these important questions for us. If an asset is legitimate, it will inevitably end up on Wall Street, the heart-center of global finance. David embodies the growing bridge from traditional finance to crypto, and he sees the space as increasingly on the radar of high-level investors. Crypto should be understood...
BITCOIN MINING: THE MODERN AGE DIGITAL GOLD RUSH As coined by Mark Twain, “During the gold rush it’s a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.” Bitcoin and the wider crypto market are the modern age digital gold rush. As investors rush to gain exposure to scarce digital assets rapidly appreciating in value, critical infrastructure and service providers have positioned themselves to capitalize on the growing market....
CRYPTO MARKETS ARE REBOUNDING FROM LAST WEEK’S RATE RISE TANTRUM Bitcoin and crypto have rallied over the last several days after crypto and the broader markets have started to shake off rising rate fears. Easing investor concerns, the quick move upward in the 10 year has slowed, but what could interest rates tell us about the possible direction of Bitcoin prices? First let’s revisit what’s recently happened:The COVID pandemic took...
COINBASE, KRAKEN, GEMINI, AND OTHER CRYPTO EXCHANGES MUST EMBRACE DEFI TO REMAIN COMPETITIVE Coinbase’s direct listing on Nasdaq is a watershed moment for the crypto industry. It will be the first public crypto company with pure and dependable cash flows that is on par with some of the largest and most established exchanges in the world. Coinbase generated 2020 revenue of $1.3 billion, compared to CBOE’s $1.2 billion, Nasdaq’s $2.9...
IOTA (MIOTA) is an alternative Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) platform, which uses the “Tangle”, a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), to enable applications primarily for the Internet of Things (IoT). IOTA is scheduled to undergo a two-part protocol upgrade, IOTA 1.5 (Chrysalis) and IOTA 2.0 (Coordicide) (Slide 2), aimed at implementing a series of major DLT technology advancements to improve network functionality and achieve greater decentralization. If successful, the upgrade could...
MARKET RECAP: NEW ATHS & CONTINUED VOLATILITY Bitcoin rallied to a high of $58,367 on Sunday before commencing a 23% sell off down to $44,888 yesterday morning and bouncing to its current price of $48,770. In our view, the recent move is nothing more than a nice healthy correction and we think recent events have de-risked the market. We continue to believe the fourth crypto bull market remains intact and...
As we noted last week, Tesla recently announced it had added $1.5 billion of Bitcoin to its balance sheet. The announcement came less than two weeks after Elon Musk added Bitcoin to his Twitter bio, an act that caused a huge buzz amongst crypto enthusiasts. Tesla’s Bitcoin purchase adds to the growing list of public companies that are buying and holding Bitcoin in their treasuries. Source: https://bitcointreasuries. org/ Excluding Tesla,...
Tesla news sent Bitcoin and crypto soaring this morning. We see this as an important moment for market validation but are not surprised by the move. In our 2021 CRYPTO OUTLOOK report we saw corporate crypto buyers as a key catalyst for demand (slide 19: factor #16) and reason for raising our price target on Bitcoin from $40k to $100k. We’re reiterating our bullish view on crypto. ● TESLA $1.5...