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JUNE 30, 2023

What happened Most cryptocurrencies moved higher today, as more mainstream financial institutions filed to launch spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and as altcoins gained steam. Whether or not cryptocurrencies are commodities or securities is a big point of contention in the crypto ecosystem right now.

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MAY 24, 2024

An Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) exchange-traded fund (ETF) was approved this week, and that could open a floodgate of ETFs and funding for the crypto industry. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, approved a spot Ethereum ETF, following the approval of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) ETFs earlier this year.

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AUGUST 31, 2024

Here are some shocking statistics via a recent report from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Investor Education Foundation: 21% of investors don't think they pay any kind of fee for investing. 38% of mutual fund investors think they don't pay any mutual fund fees or expenses. Image source: Getty Images.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Many cryptocurrencies plunged in 2022 as rising rates, the collapses of high-profile exchanges and tokens, and regulatory threats drove investors toward safer investments. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the first 11 spot price exchange-traded funds ( ETFs ) for Bitcoin this January.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

SEC settlement The one catalyst that seems most likely is some form of settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this year in an ongoing lawsuit involving Ripple , the company behind the XRP crypto token. The SEC is adamant that XRP is a security, not a cryptocurrency.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission to approve an exchange-traded fund that owns Bitcoin directly. Such a fund could have advantages over the current futures-based ETFs that are currently available. But there's actually a fund that exists currently that owns spot Bitcoin. From premium to discount.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

At the beginning of August, the long-running Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) court case against Ripple (the company behind the XRP token) finally wrapped up, and it looks like the worst of XRP's regulatory headaches is over. The SEC claimed it was a security, while Ripple claimed it was a cryptocurrency.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Image source: Getty Images Beleaguered crypto exchange Binance continues to capture the headlines for all the wrong reasons. In June, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed charges against various entities in the Binance empire, including Binance; its founder, Changpeng Zhao; and Binance.US.

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JUNE 14, 2023

Cathie Wood , renowned investor and chief executive officer of Ark Invest, has become a prominent figure on Wall Street with her forward-thinking investment strategies and bold predictions. Coinbase Wood and Ark Invest have been some of Coinbase 's (NASDAQ: COIN) biggest fans ever since it went public in 2021.

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JULY 27, 2024

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) investors might recall a fine Wednesday last January when the first exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on spot Bitcoin prices hit the Street. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejected that application five years later, but the idea of spot Bitcoin ETFs persisted.

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MAY 29, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the first eight applications for Ether (CRYPTO: ETH) spot price exchange-traded funds (ETFs) from Grayscale, Bitwise, iShares, VanEck, Ark Invest, Invesco, Fidelity, and Franklin Templeton. On May 22, the U.S. Let's review the five key facts to decide.

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MAY 15, 2024

If you have $1,000 to invest in a crypto name today, you should consider grabbing approximately 2,000 XRP tokens. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launched a lawsuit against Ripple Labs and some of its top executives in December 2020. The SEC has requested damages of nearly $2 billion. Here's why.

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MAY 29, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the first eight applications for Ether (CRYPTO: ETH) spot price exchange-traded funds (ETFs) from Grayscale, Bitwise, iShares, VanEck, Ark Invest, Invesco, Fidelity, and Franklin Templeton. On May 22, the U.S. Let's review the five key facts to decide.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Bitcoin 's (CRYPTO: BTC) price nearly doubled over the past 12 months as stabilizing interest rates, the approvals of BTC exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and a bullish rotation toward riskier assets lit a fire under the world's top cryptocurrency. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this January.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The differences between XRP and other cryptocurrencies XRP is the native cryptocurrency of Ripple, a blockchain ledger which is used as a cheaper, faster, and more secure alternative to the widely used SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) protocol for money transfers. To make matters worse, the U.S.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

Yesterday's highly awaited decision from a federal appeals court appears to have paved the way for a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund ( ETF ) to finally be launched. The SEC views futures-based ETFs (which are currently allowed) as safer for investors. Who will win the race to list the first spot Bitcoin ETF?

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OCTOBER 27, 2024

Meet an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that is heavily invested in Nvidia and -- believe it or not -- offers an ultra-high yield of 8%. JPMorgan Chase launched the fund in May 2020 to give investors monthly distributions, exposure to equity markets, and relatively low volatility. This ETF is indeed heavily invested in Nvidia.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit over the past four years. It says its blockchain can process real-time gross payments, remittance transfers, and currency exchange transactions at a faster rate with much lower fees. XRP's price jumped earlier this month after Ripple finally settled its SEC lawsuit.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

In case you missed it, institutional funds recently disclosed their latest equity holdings for the third quarter of the year in their 13F forms filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Additionally, some of these funds are huge so you don't know exactly who is pulling the buy or sell button.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Earlier this year, Ark Invest's Cathie Wood stunned cryptocurrency investors by predicting that Bitcoin 's (CRYPTO: BTC) price would reach $1.5 In Ark Invest's "Big Ideas" presentation early last year, Wood said Ethereum's market cap could exceed $20 trillion -- which would require a market price of more than $166,000 per token -- by 2032.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

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MAY 12, 2024

VanEck's Matthew Sigel and Patrick Bush expect its price to reach $11,800 by 2030, while Ark Invest's Cathie Wood believes it could be worth $166,000 by 2032. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the first spot price Bitcoin exchange-traded funds ( ETFs ) earlier this year.

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JULY 26, 2024

Morgan Private Bank recently released its 2024 Global Family Office Report that shows how high net worth families invest. Sometimes people have a misconception that rich people invest differently than the rest of us, or that rich people have some "inside track" for investing, or get investment opportunities that regular people can never have.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

stock exchanges, are up an impressive 14% over the past year but have been flat over the past month. And that temptation to find unconventional approaches to investing can be very risky when investors stumble across opportunities that may seem great at first but end up being huge mistakes. What is all-or-nothing investing?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Several major cryptocurrencies rallied on Tuesday amid news of growing crypto adoption and speculation surrounding the timing of the first spot Ethereum-centric exchange-traded fund (ETF) approvals. That inaction put the onus back on the SEC to move forward with its Bitcoin ETF approval process. What's next for crypto investors?

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

One of the best ways to build wealth is through investing, and whether you are a new investor or an experienced one, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track major market indexes can be solid core holdings. That is why it is generally good to stick to investing in ETFs with low expense ratios. An investment with a 0.5%

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Regardless, cryptocurrency bulls have good reason to invest in Bitcoin, and that can be done in a few ways. The most obvious method is a cryptocurrency exchange like Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN). Fortunately, a new type of investment product eliminates that friction: spot Bitcoin ETFs. There is simply no reason to pay 1.5%

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MAY 25, 2024

Standard Chartered's bullish Ethereum analysis Geoff Kendrick, head of crypto research and emerging markets foreign exchange at Standard Chartered (OTC: SCBF.F) , hung an $8,000 year-end price target on Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) earlier this week. Speaking to the crypto news site The Block on Tuesday, Kendrick predicted that the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

More recently, the approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds has also contributed to its price appreciation. However, Cathie Wood's Ark Invest sees Bitcoin moving much higher. Should that estimate prove accurate, $10,000 invested in Bitcoin today would be worth about $296,000 by the end of the decade.

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APRIL 19, 2024

Those wild price swings might make Bitcoin seem like a risky investment for smaller retail investors. But with just $1,000, investors can still buy fractional Bitcoins or shares of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds ( ETFs ). Low interest rates also made it easy to fund the development of speculative cryptocurrency projects.

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MARCH 26, 2024

If you want to retire a millionaire with little effort, consider investing in exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. With an ETF, your money typically gets invested in many different stocks -- sometimes even hundreds or thousands. The fund's largest holdings are Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) , Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , NVIDIA Corp.

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MAY 13, 2024

While there's no guarantee that this same pattern will happen again in 2024, it's clear that investors are starting to look around for other places to invest their money beyond just Bitcoin. These include the likes of Ark Invest and BlackRock , both of which now have extraordinarily successful spot Bitcoin ETFs.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Months before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally relented, the mere hope of an approved spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) prompted a buying spree. There may even be a shift of capital if, as Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood posited, there's a substitution from gold into Bitcoin underway.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of new spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Because ETFs are a much more investor-friendly medium with shares that can be purchased throughout each trading day via any brokerage firm similar to individual publicly traded equity securities.

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JUNE 5, 2024

However, the approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) certainly contributed to those gains, and they could have a more significant impact in the future. To elaborate, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs in January. per transaction for orders under $10,000.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it charged BlackRock – the largest money manager in the world, with nearly $10 trillion in assets – for failing to properly disclose to its customers $75 million of investments it made in the entertainment industry. The story itself is fit for a Hollywood blockbuster.

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JULY 8, 2023

In the last month, a wave of major financial institutions have applied to offer spot Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETF) in a bid to bridge Wall Street with the original cryptocurrency. In fact, both Ark Invest and BlackRock have tapped Coinbase for their custodial services.

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