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First Uniswap ETP Goes Live as Institutional DeFi Products Proliferate
Institutional investors appear to be flocking into DeFi assets, with a flurry of institutional investment products offering exposure to the decentralized finance sector being launched by major asset managers this year.
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Wall Street Swoons for Altcoins and the Drums Beat for Crypto ETFs: A DeFi Summer Roundup
Welcome to GDF’s FI Corner. We had a little break for the summer, but are back with a round up of the top stories from the establishment’s adoption of crypto. The US Senate bill may have dominated the news over August – and rightly so. The bill saw the global crypto industry put aside differences…
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There's Still a Chance the Goldman Sachs DeFi ETF Won't Track a Boomer Tech Index
Goldman Sachs’s proposed DeFi ETF has sparked speculation that the fund has more to do with boomer tech than DeFi — but there’s still a chance the banking giant may redeem itself. Goldman Sachs's DeFi and Blockchain Equity ETF will track the Solactive Decentralized Finance and Blockchain Index, according to the SEC filing. While the…
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Love Dies Hard: Data Shows Institutions Still Sweet on BTC and Crypto
Welcome to the first Global Digital Finance x The Defiant column, bringing you the stories and discussions that have caught our eye this month. From market infrastructure to institutional investors to the digitalization of private markets, we’ll look at how decentralization is reshaping traditional finance. . ETPs showing that Digital assets are ‘here to stay’ Bitcoin-indexed…
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S&P Dow Jones Adds Bitcoin and Ether Indices With ETF Providers Lining Up
The S&P Dow Jones Indices, the maker of likely the most widely referenced indices in finance, has added three crypto indexes to its offerings. The firm added the S&P Bitcoin, Ethereum and Crypto Mega Cap––a combination of BTC and ETH–– indices. The benchmarks can be used by the financial industry to track the underlying assets’…
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Grayscale Aims to Turn GBTC Into an ETF
Grayscale Investments intends to convert Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) into an exchange-traded fund (ETF), the asset manager said in a blog post Monday. “While several firms have submitted Bitcoin ETF applications in the form of an S-1 or 19b-4 to the SEC, we are confident in our current positioning and engagement with the SEC,” according…