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A WEEK OF TABLE-TURNING DEVELOPMENTS _ETF SUMMER_ Over the last five years, there have been numerous calls for traditional financial institutions to enter the crypto industry. Once total crypto market cap surpassed the $1 trillion mark for the first time, the industry’s investors, developers, and followers began to discuss how crypto had transformed into an investable asset class and projected a significant influx of institutional investors. Until recently, several signs...
After three consecutive days of declines, traditional indices are rebounding, with the SPY -1.81% and QQQ -2.96% rising 0.10% and 0.61%, respectively. In contrast, after three days of sharp gains, BTC (-0.22%) and ETH -4.55% (-0.57%) have cooled off. The emergence of multiple Bitcoin spot ETF applications from reputable financial institutions has sparked a Bitcoin-led rally, with Bitcoin dominance (BTC.D) rising to 51.34%, its highest level since April 2021. Despite Bitcoin outperforming most...
Bitcoin has crossed above $30K for the first time since April after rising 9.4%, on track for one of its best daily performances of the year. Crypto has seen its recent decoupling from equities continue, as the S&P and Nasdaq are down 0.41% and 1.22%, respectively. Initial bullish price action from BlackRock's ETF application was further reinforced by additional spot BTC ETF applications from both Invesco and Wisdom Tree yesterday....
Equity markets pulled back today amidst doubts about the global economy, stalling the recent rally that has seen equities de-couple from crypto. US Housing in both single and multi-family projects came in far higher than expected, China experienced trimmed loan prime rates for households and businesses (4.3% --> 4.2%) but whether it is sufficient to bolster its economic recovery remains to be seen, while US10Y slipped to 3.756% from 3.768% on...
Coinbase Announces Increase to USDC Rewards Program and the French Arm of Binance Under Investigation
At the time of writing, crypto markets have continued to lag behind other asset classes today - with BTC and ETH -4.55% down 0.34% and 0.17%, respectively. Traditional markets continue to move higher, with SPX up 0.18% and NDQ up 0.08%. Gold has also risen 0.10%. The majority of altcoins continue to underperform Bitcoin and Ethereum. OP is down 1.44%, SOL -6.40% is down 0.95%, and LINK -2.37% is down 1.83%. Chainlink's price...
Crypto markets have fallen sharply, with BTC down 3.8% while ETH -4.55% is down 5.7% over the last day. Equities are rebounding today after the Fed sent mixed signals for the interest rate outlook, keeping rates unchanged for the first time since they began hiking while signaling the possibility of future hikes. The S&P continues to push 1.06% higher, and the Nasdaq is up 1.05%. Crypto initially followed equities lower yesterday,...
COINS FACE ADDITIONAL TURBULENCE Last week, we seized the opportunity to "buy the fear" in response to the SEC lawsuits targeting major crypto platforms Coinbase and Binance. In our Core Strategy, we decreased our allocation to stablecoins to 10% and lowered our allocation to alts from 17.5% to 7.5%. This turned out to be fortunate timing on our part, as altcoins continued to face significant losses over the weekend. Moreover,...
Todayâs busy news day kicked off earlier this morning with the release of the latest Producer Price Index. Data came in below expectations at MoM and YoY, likely cementing a pause in interest rate hikes at todayâs FOMC meeting. Traditional indices are up slightly in anticipation of the 2:00 PM decision, with the SPY -1.81% (+0.27%) and QQQ -2.96% (+0.31%) at 2023 highs. BTC (+0.29%) and ETH -4.55% (+0.15%) are rising in a...
Equities are continuing their tear on the back of today's CPI release. The ^SPX -1.81% and QQQ -2.96% are both trading approximately 80 bps higher. Interestingly, materials and energy are leading the market, suggesting a broadening of the emergent bull market. Crypto continues to track more closely with gold than equities, with BTC and ETH -4.55% flat over the last 24 hours. Altcoins received an early bid after the release of the highly...
CFTC Wins Lawsuit Against Ooki DAO, Solana Foundation and Polygon Labs Argues Against Securities Classification
Equity markets edged higher ahead of a key week where investors await key inflation data and the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision. May's CPI data comes out tomorrow, while the next FOMC meeting is on Wednesday. ^SPX -1.81% and QQQ -2.96% are trading 0.2% and 0.5% higher than Friday's close, while NDAQ -0.69% is down ~11% after announcing a $10.5b acquisition of Adenza, a software provider for banks and brokerages in a cash-and-stock deal....
WHAT IS MEV? MEV or Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) is a topic of crypto that has had a massive uptick in activity and debate in recent years. It occurs when the block producers in a blockchain (miners or validators) extract value by reordering, including, or excluding transactions within a block, often at the expense of users. In other words, block producers can determine the order in which transactions are processed...
