For over a year, trading Hashdex’s diversified crypto ETF was like riding an amusement park without seatbelts. Investors could speculate, but if the market fell, there was little protection. That’s now changed. Options on the Hashdex Nasdaq CME Crypto Index ETF (NCIQ) went live on Nasdaq on Monday, providing investors a way to hedge, generate
Keyrock, a Brussels-based digital asset services firm, has raised a Series C round led by SC Ventures, the venture arm of Standard Chartered, at a valuation of $1.1 billion, the company said in a press release Tuesday. Ripple, which provides blockchain-based enterprise infrastructure, also participated in the fundraising as an existing backer. The funding round
With global uncertainty reaching historic highs and tensions escalating in the Middle East, leading figures in the financial world discussed the major disruptions in Bitcoin, gold, and oil markets. Strategists who came together on the channel “The Wolf Of All Streets” examined the new economic era awaiting investors. Highlighting the extreme uncertainty in the markets,
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a striking warning about the impact of the war launched against Iran in the Middle East on the global economy. A blog post published by the institution’s chief economists stated that the conflicts that began with the US and Israeli attacks on February 28 have weakened the outlook
Crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) faced a difficult week, with bitcoin and ether posting heavy outflows. Smaller assets showed mixed resilience, with $XRP attracting modest inflows. Crypto ETFs Slide as Bitcoin, Ether Post Heavy Weekly Losses The last full trading week of March began with promise, but it did not end that way. What started as
Strategy Inc.’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (STRC) went live on the popular platform Trading 212 on March 30, 2026. It gives UK retail investors direct access to a Bitcoin-backed yield product that pays roughly 11.5% annually. However, buying it directly may cost significantly more in tax than most buyers realize. Why UK
Digital asset investment products have recently recorded their earliest weekly outflow in 5 weeks. In this respect, the digital asset funds have undergone a huge $414M outflow. As per the new report from CoinShares, the investor sentiment has declined because of the extended Iran conflict as well as the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) inclination
Dune co-founder and CEO Fredrik Haga said stablecoins will remain the primary driver of blockchain adoption. He argued they have already achieved a scale that puts them well ahead of tokenized real-world assets. Speaking at ETHCC 2026 in Cannes, Haga said stablecoin usage in payments, treasury management and business-to-business transactions has made the sector the
The US SEC is now allowing broker-dealers to use a wider range of stocks—specifically, baskets of large American companies from the Russell 1000 and S&P 500 Indices—as collateral when borrowing securities from large institutional investors. Previously, firms could only use safer, traditional assets like cash, US government bonds, or bank guarantees as collateral. Under this