Despite undeniable growth, crypto remains volatile, posing challenges for even seasoned investors. An increasingly popular solution to navigating these risks is crypto index investing, says Julien Vallet, CEO, Finst.
The U.S. election combined with an easier monetary environment could spark the next crypto bull market, says David Lawant.
For investors, ETH’s future depends on how Ethereum balances innovation with maintaining healthy economic policy, says Matthew Kimmel, digital asset analyst, CoinShares.
Simple “engagement” isn’t enough. Banks need to start experimenting with tokenization and blockchain-powered settlement, or risk getting left behind, says Sygnum Bank’s Lucas Schweiger.
GSR’s Brian Rudick discusses the recent market meltdown, how towering bull tenets and fading risks could propel Bitcoin to $1m, and why the recent dip is a gift, all combining to make cryptocurrency’s risk-reward its most compelling in years.
Tokenized private funds primed for adoption as the industry has seen with short-term liquidity products, says Peter Gaffney, vice president, business development & strategy at Blue Water Financial Technologies Services LLC.
As regulators scrutinize DeFi more closely, participants need to improve compliance around AML and KYC and make the process easier for customers, says Thomas Gentle, Compliance Officer, Quadrata.
Research from EY-Parthenon shows that many institutional and retail investors want to increase allocations to digital assets and digital assets related products, Prashant Kher, Senior Director at EY-Parthenon.
There are already more than a dozen crypto index funds marketed to investors, ranging from $1 million to several hundred million dollars in assets under management. Here’s why they make sense to investors, says Adam Guren of Hunting Hill.
Forget million-dollar profile pictures, the real innovation of NFTs is ownership rights. This technology still has potential to transform industries, says Layne Nadeau, Founder and CEO of Nval, a pricing and analytics platform for NFTs and other assets.
Institutions need to broaden their holdings of crypto holdings in order to capture the full range of innovation in the market, says Felix Stratmann, head of research at Outerlands Capital.
Interoperability between blockchain networks. Restaking. EVMs. Some major trends giving digital assets markets a lift in the new cycle, Santiago Velasco, Senior Trader, Nonco.
Decentralized finance is coming to Bitcoin – and it could be huge.
An SEC approval for spot ETH ETFs looks unlikely but even if the SEC approves exchange traded funds for Ether, investors should learn about total return ETH investment products. That way, they can gain from staking rewards as well as the underlying asset, says Jason Hall, the CEO of Methodic Capital Management.
Retail dominance of crypto trading and the lack of institutional infrastructure and participation has led to imbalance in the structure of the options market. Here’s how we can address these challenges, says Abdulla Kanoo, Co-Founder of ARP Digital.
Recent price appreciation veils the far greater potential of blockchain technology.
After the scandals and regulatory headaches of the last market cycle, crypto is growing and embracing the needs of institutions entering the digital assets space.
The zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine enables real world asset tokenization on a far greater scale, says Colin Butler at Polygon Labs.
The approval of a wave of bitcoin exchange-traded funds will lead to a more mature market structure, say Vivek Chauhan and David Lawant, of FalconX.
The days of rising crypto prices lifting all boats, including mining stocks, may be gone. But it still looks like being a good year for digital assets, says Alex Tapscott.
From the U.S. to South Asia, jurisdictions are creating a patchwork of crypto regulatory regimes, making international business harder. Europe, with its bloc-wide Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), is different.
Although the intersection of Web3 and AI has great potential, there is a lot of confusion about this emerging technology in the market today. Mapping out the GPU supply chain, layers of the tech stack, and various competitive landscapes can help investors better understand the ecosystem and make more informed investment decisions, says David Attermann, at M31 Capital.
While most market watchers are focused on bitcoin ETFs at the moment, Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) and Real World Assets (RWA) hold a lot of long-term promise, says Colton Dillion, CEO of Hedgehog.
We see a 98% chance of approval in the next couple of weeks and the high likelihood of a Bitcoin rally to follow.
Expectations that U.S. regulators will approve spot bitcoin ETFs next year are driving prices higher. History suggests we might see a slowdown as we approach the halving in April 2024, says Path Crypto's David Liang.
Possible approval of bitcoin ETFs in 2024 is likely to change perceptions of digital assets following a year when the industry faced a backlash, Beth and Clay Haddock argue.
As tokenization takes hold, we propose a way to defer tax liabilities, bringing the tax efficiencies of ETFs to a wide market.
History shows there's likely a bright year ahead for BTC's price.
After several years of being the next-big-thing, next year will be when tokenization of real-world assets really takes off, says Colin Butler, Global Head of Institutional Capital at Polygon Companies.
The staking market was the brightest spot in DeFi this year. The arrival of liquid staking token finance is set to turbocharge activity next year.