BlackRock’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has narrowly outperformed the S&P 500 since launch despite subjecting investors to a drawdown nearly three times as deep. The iShares Bitcoin Trust, or IBIT, returned 67.74% from its Jan. 11, 2024 debut through Aug. 31, compared with 66.14% for Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF, or VOO, on a total-return basis
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) said that some of the speculative capital directed towards the artificial intelligence (AI) sector is beginning to return to the cryptocurrency market. Zhao’s assessment points to a recent trend of investors rotating capital among different high-risk asset classes. CZ stated that some of the “hot money” flowing into the AI
With tokenization of traditional assets such as stocks, bonds and real estate a growing industry, there are still some product areas it has yet to touch. Among them are catastrophe bonds, the specialized insurance products that pay out in the event of a major disaster, such as a hurricane or earthquake. That may be set
Record Equity Exposure Strengthens Diversification Case Record stock concentration has left household portfolios more exposed to an equity-market reversal, according to Grayscale Head of Research Zach Pandl. In a Sept. 1 assessment of digital assets and equity concentration, Pandl argued that crypto could diversify an increasingly crowded stock trade without replacing equities as a core
Chainlink announced again on Tuesday, September 1, about its data feeds that relay official US economic figures across ten public blockchains. It enables blockchains to have access to GDP, inflation, and private spending, but the agreement started in August 2025. Chainlink crypto connects blockchains with government data The figures come from the US Bureau of
Robinhood Chain users paid a record $3.75 million in transaction fees on September 1. That pushed the two-month-old network ahead of Ethereum mainnet and Base for the day, and every dollar of that feeds a revenue share back to Arbitrum, the stack it runs on. DEX volume topped $1.5B, and locked value cleared $750M The
Circle issued a warning that the quantum circuits needed to attack widely used blockchain signatures are becoming leaner, citing a low-width record of 813 logical qubits. For the $USDC quantum migration, the immediate consequence is a dependency problem across every host chain, wallet, custodian, bridge and user account that must eventually accept a safer way
Kraken parent Payward has postponed its planned initial public offering until as early as the second quarter of 2027 after market conditions disrupted its previous listing schedule. Kraken IPO timeline moves into 2027 As per reports on Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the matter, Payward had pushed the offering into the second quarter of
Centrifuge’s on-chain assets have reached a remarkable combined market cap of $1.6 billion, according to a recent tweet by the influencer @tokenterminal. This significant milestone is led by JTRSY with $851.5 million and JAAA with $715 million. The growth in asset holders, which increased by 22.8% to 1,100, highlights rising interest in decentralized finance. You