Ark Invest purchased $92 million worth of ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) and 4,320,928 units of the US Bitcoin futures-linked ETF. Cathie Wood’s asset management firm Ark Invest has actively engaged in portfolio rebalancing this year amid a surge in stock prices of crypto firms. In the latest development on Wednesday, December 27, Ark Invest divested its Coinbase holdings and all of its GBTC holdings. In a recent trade filing, the company led by Cathie Wood revealed the sale of...
Read More »Analysts Identify 8-Day Window for 12 Spot Bitcoin ETF Approvals
The mere possibility of spot Bitcoin ETF approvals has injected fresh optimism into the crypto market. Bloomberg ETF analysts James Seyffart and Eric Balchunas have outlined a unique opportunity for 12 spot Bitcoin ETF filings to gain regulatory approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) within an eight-day window, starting today and extending to November 17. The SEC’s Timely Window The eight-day window for potential approvals comes as a result of the SEC’s extension of...
Read More »SEC to Possibly Reevaluate Grayscale Spot Bitcoin Application at November 2 Closed Meeting
Experts continue to speculate on what the SEC’s next course of action regarding crypto-based ETF applications could be. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appears to be gearing up to reexamine Grayscale’s application to convert its Bitcoin trust into a spot exchange-traded fund (ETF). This comes after a recent decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to scrape the regulator’s rejection of Grayscale’s spot Bitcoin ETF application. The court described the SEC’s...
Read More »GBTC & BITO Witness Historic $1.7B in Trading Volume as BTC Investors Anticipate Bitcoin ETF Approval
In anticipation of this pivotal event, there has been a substantial uptick in trading volume for products launched by ProShares and Grayscale. Activity surrounding Bitcoin investment products, particularly exchange-traded funds (ETFs), has seen a notable increase. This surge is primarily driven by the growing excitement within the market about potential ETF approvals in the United States. Speculation and expert opinions on the potential acceptance of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) by...
Read More »The Pro Shares Bitcoin ETF Has Seemingly Crashed
Pro Shares became famous last summer when it announced it would be unveiling the United States’ first bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF). Pro Shares Has Gone from Hero to Zero Many analysts and traders had mixed feelings about the product. On one hand, traders in the U.S. would now be gaining access to a product they had long wished for. Many people were hoping that a bitcoin-based ETF would come along soon, though there were those who doubted the product as it was...
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