Tagged: bitwise

September 8, 2026 @ 1:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US listed spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have now drawn about $1.68 billion in cumulative net subscriptions since they began trading last November, according to the latest industry tallies. The figure underscores a durable, if uneven, institutional bid for regulated exposure to the token even as… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 2:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management’s spot XRP exchange-traded fund has crossed a notable threshold, reaching more than $500 million in assets under management only nine months after it started trading. The firm shared the update on August 31, 2026, highlighting how quickly the product has drawn capital… Read More

September 6, 2026 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management, recently reduced the crypto market to three themes he thinks investors should own for years: Bitcoin as a hedge against currency debasement, Zcash as a privacy asset, and a long tokenization cycle involving Ethereum, Solana, Uniswap… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 5:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management’s Solana Staking ETF has become the first dedicated Solana exchange-traded fund to pass $1 billion in assets under management. The product, listed as BSOL, reached the figure about ten months after it began trading in late October 2025. The timing is what… Read More

August 26, 2026 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management has unveiled Automated Token Portfolios, or ATPs, a new offering that delivers institutionally structured model portfolios composed of tokenized stocks. These portfolios reside directly in an investor’s crypto wallet and draw on Coinbase’s tokenized stock products.Under this arrangement, Bitwise creates the underlying… Read More

August 20, 2026 @ 3:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has outlined a bold outlook suggesting that blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) transaction activity could expand by as much as 100 times in the years ahead. In a recent investment note examining common investor missteps, Hougan… Read More

August 16, 2026 @ 12:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management has entered into a partnership with Superstate, a fintech specializing in bringing securities onto blockchain platforms, to investigate the possibility of allowing investors to hold shares of select Bitwise funds in tokenized form. The crypto-focused asset manager indicated that its Bitwise Solana… Read More

August 12, 2026 @ 4:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto asset manager Bitwise Asset Management has trimmed roughly 14 percent of its global staff, bringing its headcount down from approximately 180 employees to around 155. The company confirmed the reduction in an emailed statement, noting that the changes took place during an… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the US Senate approaches its summer recess, attention remains fixed on the fate of the CLARITY Act, a major piece of digital asset market structure legislation. Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has offered a measured perspective: while passage would represent the ideal outcome… Read More

July 28, 2026 @ 9:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Large blockchain networks including Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and Avalanche (AVAX) have recorded notable increases in on-chain activity and reductions in transaction costs over the past year, even as the prices of their native tokens experienced substantial declines. This divergence between market prices and underlying… Read More

July 23, 2026 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise, has shifted focus toward specific investment categories poised to capitalize on the anticipated next wave of cryptocurrency growth. With signs of market stabilization emerging—such as Bitcoin’s recent gains amid broader equity weakness and renewed ETF inflows—Hougan urges investors… Read More

July 10, 2026 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Asset manager Bitwise has underscored a notable resilience in Bitcoin’s market structure, pointing to an incrementally higher price floor even amid intense competition for investment dollars from the artificial intelligence sector and slow progress on comprehensive crypto rules in Washington. Senior Investment Strategist Juan Leon… Read More

July 9, 2026 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Wallet users can now directly access institutional-quality yields through Plume Network’s nBASIS vault, a development that brings tokenized strategies from major asset managers Bitwise and Invesco into one of the largest self-custody wallet ecosystems. The integration marks a notable expansion of real-world asset (RWA)… Read More

July 4, 2026 @ 1:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management, believes the cryptocurrency market is on the verge of a significant shift. In a July 1, 2026, memo, he outlined why he expects a fresh bull market for Bitcoin and the wider digital asset space to… Read More

June 1, 2026 @ 1:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise has expanded its lineup of European crypto investment products with the launch of the Bitwise Canton ETP, now actively trading on Deutsche Börse’s Xetra platform. Listed now currently under the ticker BWCC (ISIN: DE000A4ARTH9), this physically backed exchange-traded product offers investors access to the… Read More

May 17, 2026 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dune Analytics has indicated that traditional asset managers are now actively shaping lending markets on Solana. Recently this month, crypto-native issuer Ethena deployed $200 million of its USDG stablecoin into two isolated lending pools—one on Kamino Finance, curated by Sentora, and the other on Jupiter… Read More

April 27, 2026 @ 11:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The expansion of net demand from institutional investors in Bitcoin has regained strong momentum, climbing to the most vigorous level recorded since the final months of 2025. This uptick, highlighted in recent market analysis, points to a notable revival of appetite among large-scale players for… Read More

April 12, 2026 @ 1:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management has recently taken another step forward in its effort to bring a spot exchange-traded fund tied to Hyperliquid’s native HYPE token to market. In the latest amendment to its US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registration statement, the firm named prominent digital-asset… Read More

April 6, 2026 @ 11:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

André Dragosch, PhD, Head of Research at Bitwise Europe, has highlighted a significant evolution in Bitcoin’s relationship with worldwide financial conditions. In a fresh examination of global money supply data, his team found that Bitcoin’s responsiveness to liquidity changes has risen markedly in recent years…. Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 11:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitwise Asset Management, a crypto asset manager, and WealthRabbit, a digital retirement plan platform for small businesses and individuals, have introduced diversified crypto portfolios to WealthRabbit clients. The new offering is available to all WealthRabbit clients on the firm’s investing portal, which allows investors to… Read More