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Crypto Exec Pushing for Industry Support of Kamala Harris for President

J.P. Thieriot, a board member and ex-CEO of Uphold, backs the vice president in her U.S. presidency bid and says he’s hoping to build a digital assets advocacy for the Democrat.

The former CEO of crypto platform Uphold, J.P. Thieriot, is trying to drum up crypto support for Vice President Kamala Harris as she pursues the Democratic nomination in the presidential election, arguing that former President Donald Trump is offering empty promises to the industry and Harris is signaling a new openness.

Trump, the Republican nominee in the 2024 race, has quickly become the crypto favorite, garnering big-money support from industry leaders as he adopts enthusiastic cheering for the digital assets sector (which he’d looked on with open skepticism until recently). But Thieriot said there seems to be “a real opportunity to help shape the Harris campaign’s position on crypto.”

“Of course, she’s going to have to do some stuff to gain trust, but she has signaled she’d like a chance,” said Thieriot, who said he still retains a stake in Uphold and is building a new crypto trading operation, in an interview. “It would be crazy to not engage on that.”

He said he wrote a strategy paper with a wider group, which included crypto lawyers who he declined to name. They shared that document with Harris’ campaign this week and are awaiting a response.

“We would argue that crypto is this electoral cycle’s foremost interstate swing issue,” said the strategy paper, which was reviewed by CoinDesk. “Trump has already moved to try to capture this space, and raised significant capital, essentially offering vague platitudes and no meaningful policy commitments.”

The paper suggested an opening crypto fundraiser in San Francisco and predicted that Harris could garner endorsements from prominents crypto figures and potentially earn tens of millions in campaign donations from the industry. Thieriot said he’s setting up a website, and the effort can be contacted at info@crypto4kamala.co.

Industry support has most loudly gravitated toward Trump, who spoke at the recent Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tenn., and who says he’ll put a stop to the government resistance to cryptocurrency typified by the actions of Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler and the opposition of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Despite President Joe Biden’s appointment of Gensler and ongoing support of his oversight of the cryptocurrency sector, “Kamala has, I think, an opportunity at a clean slate,” Thieriot said. The strategy he and the other supporters have in mind: She makes it clear her administration will work with the industry and support clear rules for it, and she shows openness for a friendlier chief at the SEC.

Thieriot isn’t alone among crypto insiders now favoring Harris. Tonya Evans, a prominent crypto law professor and board member of the Digital Currency Group, argued that Harris offers a chance for a new course that differs from the Gensler/Warren views that have dominated this administration. Evans is involved in a group of decentralized finance leaders favoring the vice president, which has scheduled a Thursday organizational meeting.

Some of the most recent national polling shows Harris with a slight lead over Trump, though the candidates remain nearly even.

Bitcoin as a Strategic Reserve

Both former President Donald Trump and Sen. Cynthia Lummis proposed the U.S. hold its bitcoin.

Over the weekend, former U.S. President and current Republican nominee Donald Trump and a number of lawmakers spoke at the Bitcoin Nashville conference. The biggest piece of news everyone has been talking about was Trump and Sen. Cynthia Lummis’ proposals to create a strategic reserve for Bitcoin, but the event also served as Sen. Tim Scott’s entry into actual crypto discussion.

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BTC conference

The narrative

Lawmakers – and Donald Trump, who of course is hoping to regain the presidency this November – took the stage through the Bitcoin Nashville conference last week to try and appeal to BTC holders for votes or funds.

Why it matters

This is the first major U.S. election where crypto is getting attention from lawmakers and candidates. While it’s still not totally clear whether there truly is a significant mass of single-issue crypto voters, what is clear is lawmakers are going to continue to appeal to this crowd over the next few months.

Breaking it down

First up: Former President Donald Trump spoke, saying if he’s elected he’ll work to appoint friendlier regulators, but his biggest promise may be his suggestion that the U.S. would create a strategic bitcoin stockpile, a promise echoed by Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) who introduced a bill this week that would support that goal.

“And so as the final part of my plan today, I am announcing that if I am elected, it will be the policy of my administration, United States of America, to keep 100% of all the bitcoin the U.S. government currently holds or acquires into the future, we’ll keep 100%,” Trump said. “I hope you do well, please. This will serve, in effect, as the core of the strategic national bitcoin stockpile.”

The former president also acknowledged that “most of the bitcoin currently held by the United States government was obtained through law enforcement action.”

“You know that they took it from you. Let’s take that guy’s life. Let’s take his family, his house, his bitcoin. We’ll turn it into bitcoin. It’s been taken away from you, because that’s where we’re going now. That’s where this country is going to – fascist regime. And so as I take steps to transform that vast wealth into a permanent national asset to benefit all Americans,” he said.

The proposals – both from Trump and Lummis – still leave some questions unanswered at the moment, but in a broader sense, they’re more just messages to the bitcoin community at the moment, that if Trump becomes president again (and/or if Republicans become the majority party in the Senate), he’ll be friendlier toward the industry than in his first term.

Trump also shouted out Vivek Ramaswamy, who briefly also vied for the Republican ticket.

“I’ve heard from Vivek 175 million people in some form, are involved with this world of crypto and Bitcoin and all of the others, 175 million,” he said. “So when they heard that, they said, ‘Let’s be nice to them, at least until after the election.'”

You can read a partial transcript of Trump’s remarks here.

As my colleague Jesse Hamilton reported, this event also served as Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) first substantial introduction to the crypto community. The Senate Banking Committee’s top Republican, Scott – another former contender for the presidency – will become the committee’s chair if the GOP retakes the Senate, putting him in charge of legislation that could affect the Securities and Exchange Commission and crypto regulation more broadly. He did not introduce any specific policy ideas during his remarks on stage.

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Indian Survey Reveals Impact of Crypto Taxes and Anti-Money Laundering Rules on Investors

The study was conducted to assess how savvy investors are engaging with traditional finance, crypto and stablecoins in their investment portfolios.

India should consider revising its taxes on crypto and not depend on its anti-money laundering rules to reverse the impact of those high taxes, the latest survey of savvy Indian investors by a New Delhi-based technology policy think tank revealed.

The study by the Esya Centre also found that Indian investors are considerably aware of regulations relating to the taxation of cryptocurrencies (58%) and money laundering (52%), and prefer collateralized stablecoins (93%) over algorithmic ones.

The survey was conducted in March and April in five urban cities: Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Delhi, Jaipur, and Lucknow and focused on 1,342 highly educated respondents.

Critically, the study found that India’s “anti-money laundering law has led to a shift in favor of equity investments compared to crypto investments (by 8 percent).”

Since last year, India has required crypto businesses to register with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), the country’s anti-money laundering unit, to comply with processes under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Despite evidence-backed studies by Esya and others calling for reduction, India has kept high crypto taxes unchanged since introducing them in 2022.

Esya’s latest survey found that knowledge of the “tax regulations not only increases investment in crypto assets (by 10 percent), but also investment via foreign crypto platforms (by 15 percent).”

That trend was reversed to some extent evvel India blocked as many as nine off shore exchanges, some of which have now been registered in India.

The survey found that some Indian investors were circumventing offshore exchanges’ URL blocking, suggesting that the anti-money laundering laws were not “sufficient to reverse or neutralize the impact of tax regulations.”

Thus, the think tank reiterated its suggestion that the government should “consider revising the tax rules for crypto assets to prevent offshoring” and that “future attempts by the government to nudge consumers to engage responsibly in the crypto asset market should be in consultation with crypto exchanges.”

All the respondents considered crypto assets to be very attractive as an “additional investment opportunity and for cross-border transactions,” while NFTs and stablecoins were “not perceived as similarly lucrative.”

SEC’s Stuttering Litigation Strategy Draws Comment From France

French officials boast of crypto-ready laws that contrast with a stuttering enforcement campaign from the U.S. SEC – and are looking to the next generation of Web3 gaming rules.

PARIS, France – Officials in France are boasting of the regulatory certainty they can offer, as U.S. enforcers wage a fierce – if not entirely successful – war on crypto.

With a crypto registration regime in effect for years, new EU laws known as MiCA set to take effect in 2024, and lawmakers discussing a regime for gaming involving non-fungible tokens (NFTs), officials are bullish about the country’s preparedness for Web3, a conference organized by lobby group ADAN was told.

MiCA, which lets wallet providers and exchanges operate across the EU with a single license, “will allow this sector to go to the next gear in terms of regulatory requirements,” said Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, adding that France’s Financial Markets Authority (AMF), the regulator which she chairs, is “resolutely open to innovation.”

Barbat-Layani contrasted France’s situation with that across the Atlantic.

“Some of our peers, notably the U.S. SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission], have launched litigation strategies – strategies of which the successes aren’t totally clear – but which seek to treat crypto as a traditional financial instrument,” she said. “It’s a different choice to that made in Europe.”

MiCA, which passed into law in June and takes full effect in December 2024, adapts existing rules for trading in financial instruments, while the SEC has taken action against a number of crypto companies including Binance and Coinbase, arguing that they should have registered as securities trading platforms under existing rules, and that certain tokens they’ve listed should have been registered as securities.

That U.S. approach may have met a setback last week with a ruling that found Ripple’s XRP token doesn’t necessarily fall under the current, century-old securities laws.

Undimmed

France has positioned itself as a crypto hub, and companies such as Binance have registered under its existing crypto law known as PACTE, which is administered by the AMF. On Tuesday, the AMF awarded its first ever crypto license to Forge, the financial-technology arm of the bank Societe Generale, a still more demanding process that already puts Forge largely in line with MiCA.

Being regulated comes with ups and downs – as Binance found recently, when it was raided by the Paris public prosecutor for “aggravated money laundering.” Binance has said it’s cooperating with investigators, and the incident doesn’t seem to have dimmed its enthusiasm for the country.

There’s “no reason” to leave France because of that probe, Binance France’s Executive Director for Legal Stéphanie Cabossioras told the conference, adding that recent events were just part of adapting to life as a traditional finance-style regulated entity. “There are little surprises … but it will become day-to-day life.”

While entrepreneurs in France may complain of high taxes, employment restrictions, and a paucity of investment available via venture capital, the country also offers bonuses beyond regulatory certainty, says the founder of one of the country’s crypto success stories, Ledger.

“Why is Ledger in France? Its foundational technology is the smart card,” asked Éric Larchevêque, Ledger’s former chief executive officer, of the chip-based hardware. “It’s a French innovation, a technology really mastered in France… but not at all in the U.S.”

Gambling

Now, France is hoping to build on its regulatory success by legislating for a new regime for Web3-style games involving monetizable digital objects – tradable merchandise that gives rights within the game and whose value can be increased by playing more – known by its French acronym of JONUM.

If lawmakers agree a framework in the fall, there could be a “text by the end of the year,”

Isabelle Falque Pierrotin, chair of France’s National Gambling Authority (ANJ) told the event – adding that her preference was for legislation to merely set high-level objectives, such as protecting children, allowing her to negotiate details with the sector.

In May, French Web3 company Sorare, under regulatory pressure, announced changes to its NFT soccer game for the domestic market – though the ANJ only intended these as a short-term fix pending legislative changes.

If enacted, some believe those new gaming laws could make a real difference.

“What is currently being foreseen, the last versions of the regime that were discussed in the Senate a few weeks ago, show a true will and a true possibility of positioning France as the real pioneer and leader on this topic,” said Matthieu Lucchesi, an innovation and fintech specialist at law firm Gide255, adding that the law needed to be “well-calibrated” in order to be appealing.

Some quotations have been translated from French.

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Macro State of Crypto – Where It Has Been and What’s Next

Analytics can offer insight into how recent and past crypto and regulatory events have affected prices and movement. Plus: A quick Q&A on retirement funds.

Geçen hafta ABD’li bir Yargıç, XRP’nin menkul kıymet olmadığına karar verdi ve SEC, BlackRock bitcoin ETF başvurusunu kabul ederek onay sürecinin bir sonraki aşamasına geçti. Bu XRP haberinden birkaç dakika sonra, token 0,45 dolardan 0,61 dolara sıçradı ve fiyatı %25’in üzerine çıkardı. Bu kararlar ve daha pek çok karar, daha da fazla düzenleyici soruya yol açsa da, kural değişikliklerinin dijital varlık oynaklığında önemli bir faktör olduğu açıktır.

Dijital varlıklar konusunda bir danışman olarak, mevcut düzenleyici olayların ve son başarısızlıkların bitcoin, ether ve altcoinler için fiyatlandırmayı ve ticaret hacmini nasıl etkilediğini düşünmelisiniz.

Aşağıda, Amberdata’dan Greg Magadini, bizi kripto ve düzenleyici olaylara götürüyor ve bu olayların fiyatları ve hareketi nasıl etkilediğine dair bazı analizler sağlıyor.

Also, can we include crypto in retirement funds? Thanks to Bryan Courchese from Daim for answering this week’s questions on the topic.

– S.M.

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Macro state of crypto – where it has been and what’s next

In 2022, Terra Luna’s collapse, the crypto hedge fund 3AC’s bankruptcy, FTX’s scandal and other meltdowns pushed the industry into a bear market. These headlines drove the entire sector lower, often led by altcoins.

However, the first half of 2023 flipped a lot of these crypto relationships on their head as macro economic events splashed news headlines.

Bitcoin led crypto higher in January as the Fed’s hawkish narrative began to soften. This move was accompanied by a positive “spot/vol” regime, with traders buying options as Bitcoin rallied – a relationship not witnessed in 2022 when only price crashes seemed to drive volatility higher.

The takeaway was that bitcoin was trading on fundamental macro news, as opposed to crypto specific events.

If Ethereum is a crypto “technology bet,” bitcoin is a monetary alternative “pure-play.”

YTD performance of BTC (orange) and ETH (blue)

This narrative juxtaposition became obvious in March as the SVB banking crisis took hold.

Comparing the YTD performance of BTC and ETH spot prices, we can clearly see that BTC began an outperformance of ETH in reaction to the banking crisis and the Fed’s emergency response.

BTC has been able to hold onto this outperformance ever since.

YTD Ratio of implied volatility (ETH DVol divided by BTC DVol)

To see further evidence of a shift in these trading dynamics (a move towards macro events and a shift away from crypto specific news) we can observe the forward-looking option market activity.

The ratio of Deribit’s DVOL indexes, a comprehensive 30-day to maturity measure of option implied volatility (think the VIX of BTC and the VIX of ETH), shows us that the typical implied volatility premium of ETH over BTC began to dissipate in reaction to macro news events.

In mid-January we saw a market adjustment from the Fed beginning to slow down its hawkishness. This sent BTC higher and BTC IV (implied volatility) relatively higher (chart goes down).

Then in early February we saw a major outperformance linked to the Labor Department’s monthly non-farm payrolls (NFP) number. This quickly killed the idea of a Fed hawkish slowdown; BTC dropped (along with gold and other interest-rate sensitive assets) and BTC IV went down, relative to ETH IV (chart goes up).

The SVB crisis again nudged BTC IV higher, only to be temporarily paused by the ETH Shanghai upgrade.

Today, ETH IV trades around parity to BTC IV, even briefly at a discount.

Where does this leave us for the second half of 2023?

The Fed remains in a “wait-and-see” mode, after recently doing a “rate skip” at their June FOMC meeting. Although other central banks continue to raise rates, the U.S. macro picture is moving into the background as crypto specific news events become “top-of-mind.”

The regulatory events surrounding Binance, Coinbase and XRP are becoming major drivers of activity.

Today, BTC is defined as a commodity, while ETH’s categorization is more ambiguous.

This means there’s increased sensitivity for ETH’s “technology bet” narrative around regulation. A lot of ETH’s value comes from its utilization and the various DeFi, NFT and ERC-20 protocols built on top of the Ethereum infrastructure.

Lately, volatility surrounding the consumer price index (CPI), NFP and other macro events seems to have settled down, while regulatory clarity around crypto, a potential spot ETF approval and the XRP resolution is becoming a key focus; this paradigm shift could lead the market towards higher beta “altcoins” in the crypto space.

Historically, altcoins have outperformed BTC in bull markets, and the second half of 2023 is off to a bullish start, so far accompanied by mostly favorable crypto-specific news headlines.

That the recent events have increased ETH IV relative to BTC IV offers a hint that option traders are also paying attention.

– Greg Magadini, CFA Amberdata

Ask an Advisor

I help clients include crypto in their retirement accounts.

– Bryan Courchesne, CEO Daim

Q: Can advisors invest in crypto in 401K (retirement) accounts for their clients?

A: The short answer is yes, you can invest crypto in a range of retirement accounts from 401K plans to individual retirement accounts. First, make sure that you are speaking to a licensed investment advisor. Investment management is highly regulated so your Bitcoin advisor should be properly licensed. Ask for the advisor and their firm’s CRD #. You can look it up on brokercheck.org to vet that they are legit.

Q: Can my clients hold crypto in these accounts, or just funds?

A: Short answer both. The accounts could hold pure crypto, a crypto futures fund, a trust product (Like GBTC), or equities like COIN stock (which the company holds pure Bitcoin on their balance sheet.) In any investment besides pure crypto the main things to consider are tracking differences from the underlying and different fee structures.

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UK’s FCA Is Designing Prudential Requirements for Firms Carrying Out Crypto Activities

The Financial Conduct Authority will consult on rules once the government gives it the necessary powers, the regulator said in its annual report.

The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is designing prudential requirements for firms carrying out crypto activities.

The regulator, which is in charge of maintaining a registry of crypto firms approved for operations under the country’s anti-money laundering requirements, will also consult on prudential rules for companies engaged in crypto activities once the “Treasury and Parliament bring those activities under our regulation,” the regulator said in its annual report published Thursday.

The FCA did not immediately respond to a CoinDesk request for comment on the timeline for receiving regulatory powers.

The regulator already has a prudential regime for investment firms like fund managers, asset managers and trading firms that are based in the U.K. The regime requires firms to assess capital adequacy and risk to identify potential harm to investors and provide appropriate resources to mitigate harm.

Last year, the FCA put out a notice for firms with exposure to crypto companies, urging them to “have appropriate systems and controls to counter the risk of being misused for financial crime,” and review if the firms they work with are registered crypto companies.

The FCA, which was approved for a host of new powers under a recently passed financial markets bill, stands to be the U.K.’s key crypto watchdog as the country explores its ambition to be a global hub for the sector.

CoinDesk has reached out to the FCA for further comment.

Chainlink’s LINK Pops 15%, XRP Loses Steam as Bitcoin Revisits $29.6K Range Lows

Tech stocks such as Tesla and Netflix, which crypto prices tend to correlate with, sold off during the day as investors shied away from risk assets.

Cryptocurrencies slid lower Thursday with bitcoin (BTC) revisiting the bottom threshold of its month-long trading range, while Chainlink’s LINK rallied solo among the largest crypto assets.

BTC’s price dipped to as low as $29,593 during the afternoon hours, near its lowest point in a month. The largest cryptocurrency by market value has been see-sawing in a tight channel since June 21, bouncing from the $29,500 level multiple times to trade as high as $31,809.

Ether (ETH) buckled below $1,900 to change hands 1% lower than 24 hours ago.

Ripple’s XRP pared some of its impressive gains from previous days, dropping some 6% in the last 24 hours. The token’s price almost doubled to 93 cents a week ago, following a partial court victory against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). After the decline, it was still trading at around 79 cents.

LINK, the native token of the Chainlink ecosystem, defied the market slump and was the only crypto asset with sizable gains among the 40 largest tokens by market capitalization.

The token surged 15% through the day above $8 for the first time in nearly three months as some large investors – whales in crypto jargon – acquired $6 million of tokens. The price action came after Chainlink released this week an interoperability protocol that facilitates communication between blockchains and banks, tested by interbank communication system Swift.

The CoinDesk Market Index, which tracks the performance of a basket of digital assets, gained early in the day then retreated and was down 1.26% over the last 24 hours.

Crypto investors might have been concerned by a sell-off in tech stocks. The NASDAQ 100 index (NDQ) declined 2% during the day, as investors dumped shares of tech giants Tesla (TSLA) and Netflix (NFLX) after their underwhelming quarterly earnings reports, dropping some 9%.

Cryptocurrency prices have a history of correlating with risk assets such as the tech-heavy NDQ, although the relationship has wobbled this year.

“Seems like we are just having a risk-off day in general after a massive run for weeks, with investors taking profits and rebalancing,” Brett Sifling, director at investment firm Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment Management, told CoinDesk in a call.

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Danışmanlar için Kripto değişiyor. Ben Sarah Morton, bu haber bülteninin yeni editörüyüm. Gelişen kripto ekosisteminde devam eden bir yolculukta beni tur rehberiniz olarak düşünün. Müşterilerin sorduğu acil soruları yanıtlamanın yanı sıra zamanında, alakalı ve düşündürücü içerikler düzenlemek için buradayım. Ama önce: Neden ben?

Kripto dünyasına öğrenme yolculuğum altı yıldan uzun bir süre önce başladı. Blockchain teknolojilerine ve şimdi finans sektörü için yeni dijital para (“kripto” olarak da bilinir) dediğimiz şeyin yönlendirdiği yeni fırsatlar beni cezbetti. Bu yolculuk beni, müşterilerin kripto ve dijital varlıklara yatırımla ilgili sorularını yanıtlarken karşılaştıkları zorlukları anlamak için danışmanlar, finans uzmanları ve çeşitli dijital varlık topluluğu oyuncularıyla her gün çalıştığımız MeetAmi Innovations’ın kurucu ortağı olmaya götürdü.

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There is no question that current and next-generation investors are interested in digital assets (cryptocurrencies, tokens, smart contracts, and other digital representations of value). Just yesterday, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink suggested: “Bitcoin could revolutionize finance.” If he’s right, it would amplify demand from investors (recently surveyed by BCG) and their financial advisors for guidance on how to think about investing in this emerging asset class. And it’s not a simple answer.

Recent news adds to the complexity. In just the past couple of months

A recent Coinbase study showed that over 50% of Fortune 100 companies have started crypto, blockchain and Web3 projects. Such studies raise bigger questions like: How will these advancements affect digital assets? How will advisors navigate the complexities and rapidly changing nature of digital assets?

Advisors have a significant opportunity to support today’s clients and meet the needs of the next generation of investors – as long as they have a roadmap to navigate the digital-asset landscape.

This newsletter is here to help point the way. Each week Crypto for Advisors will share thought leadership from the industry, answer common and pressing questions from clients, and point to resources to better understand this rapidly evolving asset class.

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Ask an Advisor

I educate financial advisors about digital assets. Here are the three most common questions they ask about digital asset investing.

– Adam Blumberg

Q: Is investing in digital assets secure? I’ve heard of people losing all their money.

A: It can be secure if you know how to hold the assets and do your homework regarding custody.

Digital assets and crypto are based on self-custody, meaning I hold my own assets in my own wallet(s).

However, we often use centralized custodians – such as an exchange – to hold assets for ourselves and clients, as they take on much of the technology’s heavy lifting. For both you and your clients, it’s important that you research the custodian to ensure they don’t commingle assets and are solvent.

Q: Do digital assets have real value?

A: Each crypto asset has its own value proposition and investment thesis. For example, bitcoin is often viewed as a hedge against inflation, government and banks. Ether is used to run applications on the Ethereum network. Other tokens derive their value from cash flows.

Advisors should understand some of the investment theses and value drivers of various crypto assets to properly evaluate them for client portfolios.

Q: What are the risks of investing in digital assets?

A: We’ve already talked a bit about custodial risk. Cryptocurrencies are also volatile, which poses allocation risks in client portfolios, especially with clients who may need liquidity. Many of the projects and protocols the tokens represent carry their own risks, which can be deeply technical and complicated to understand.

We don’t expect advisors to evaluate all the risks on their own, and we’re seeing more models and services which help determine crypto-asset risks as they relate to client portfolios.

Adam Blumberg is the co-founder of Interaxis, a company dedicated to educating financial professionals about digital assets.

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Will 2023 Be the Year of the Bitcoin ETF?

The hype is back. Has the market changed enough?

Bir spot bitcoin borsa yatırım fonunun onaylanması umulan heyecan yeniden geri döndü. Bu kez, finans devi BlackRock’ın bir ETF yarışına girmesi, kripto endüstrisinin ilk kez bir bitcoin ETF’si başlatmaya çalışmasından on yıl sonra, Menkul Kıymetler ve Borsa Komisyonu’nun uzun zamandır beklenen ürünü onaylayacağı umudunu artırdı.

Kripto para birimi ve hükümetin kesişimine bakan bir CoinDesk haber bülteni olan State of Crypto’yu okuyorsunuz. Gelecek sürümlere kaydolmak için buraya tıklayın.

Spot ETF umutları

Hikaye

Temmuz 2013’te Cameron ve Tyler Winklevoss, ilk bitcoin borsa yatırım fonunu (ETF) başlatmak için başvurdu. On bir yıl sonra, endüstri hala bir spot bitcoin ürünü bekliyor.

neden önemli

Bir bitcoin ETF’si onaylanırsa, ABD’deki geniş bir bireysel yatırımcı yelpazesinin, bir cüzdan kurma veya bazen titiz kripto borsalarıyla uğraşma zahmetinden geçmek zorunda kalmadan bir varlık olarak bitcoin’e maruz kalmasına izin verir. Ayrıca, multimilyon dolarlık aile ofisleri gibi sofistike yatırımcılar, düzenlemeye tabi (ve dolayısıyla “güvenli”) bir bitcoin ürününe yatırım yapabilir. Savunucuların Menkul Kıymetler ve Borsa Komisyonu tarafından onaylanan bir ETF’yi görmek istemelerinin nedenlerinden bazıları bunlar.

yıkmak

İki yıldan uzun bir süre önce, Ontario Menkul Kıymetler Komisyonu, ilk Kuzey Amerika bitcoin borsa yatırım fonunu onayladı ve bu, bir Amerikan ürününün de yakında onaylanabileceği umudunu ateşledi. Daha sonra 2021’de ABD Menkul Kıymetler ve Borsa Komisyonu, ilk bitcoin vadeli işlemleri ETF’sini onaylayarak diğer birkaç benzer ürüne kapı açtı.

Şu an itibariyle, ABD’de hala spot bitcoin ETF ticareti yok, ancak BlackRock’un birkaç hafta önce dosyalanması, sektöre bunun değişebileceği zamanın gelebileceğinin sinyalini verdi. Geçtiğimiz haftalarda ABD’de spot bitcoin ETF için yarım düzine yeni başvuru gördük Piyasa bir ETF’yi destekleyecek kadar gelişti mi ve şirketler SEC’e bir ETF’nin güvenli olacağına dair yeterli güvenceyi sağlayabilir mi?

Şu anda gördüğümüz en büyük fark, bu başvuru sahiplerinin gözetim paylaşım anlaşmaları hakkında konuşmaya daha fazla zaman ayırmalarıdır (bazıları SEC’den yönlendirmelerle). Coinbase, şimdiye kadar bir ortak belirleyen tüm büyük olası ETF ihraççıları için pazar yeri olacak – BlackRock, Fidelity, VanEck ve diğerleri adına Nasdaq ve Cboe BZX.

SEC, geçmişte gözetim paylaşım anlaşmalarını gündeme getirdi. 2019’da düzenleyici kurum, Bitwise’ın bir bitcoin ETF başvurusunu reddettiğini açıklayan 112 sayfalık bir emir yayınladı ve bitcoin piyasasının manipülasyon için çok fazla potansiyele sahip olduğunu ve “önemli büyüklükteki düzenlenmiş bir pazarla gözetim paylaşımı anlaşması” yapılması gerektiğini söyledi. herhangi bir potansiyel manipülasyonu caydırmak için dayanak varlıklarla ilgili ”.

Yıllardır bitcoin ETF uygulamalarını takip eden Bloomberg Intelligence analisti James Seyffart, sorunlardan birinin, önemli büyüklükte düzenlenmiş bir pazarın ne olduğu konusunda net bir tanımın olmaması olduğunu söyledi.

“Genellikle, her seferinde tamamen ertelerler ve sonra onları reddederler. Bu süreçte bazen yorum yapıyorlar” dedi Seyffart. “Bazıları kapalı kapılar ardında olacak… Bunların bir kısmı şüphesiz olacak.”

Coinbase şüphesiz ABD’nin en büyük kripto borsasıdır. CoinGecko’ya göre, en yakın rakibi Kraken ile karşılaştırıldığında genel olarak 24 saatlik işlem hacminin (normalize edildiğinde) iki katından fazlasına sahip. Bunun büyük bir kısmı bitcoin pazarından geliyor gibi görünüyor.

SEC, borsaya açtığı davada “dünyanın en büyük kripto varlık ticaret platformlarından biri ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin en büyüğü” olduğunu söyleyerek Coinbase’in ABD’deki rolünü bile kabul etti.

SEC’in Coinbase’e açtığı davanın bitcoin piyasasıyla hiçbir ilgisi yok, ki bu şirketlerin borsayı gözetim-paylaşım anlaşması ortağı olarak aramalarının nedenlerinden biri olduğunu tahmin ediyorum.

Açık soru, SEC’in Coinbase’in önemli büyüklükte düzenlenmiş bir bitcoin piyasasını işletmesini kabul edip etmeyeceği ve bunun bir onay için gerekli olup olmadığıdır.

Geçen yıl düzenleyici, bitcoin için düzenlenmiş herhangi bir pazar olduğunu düşünmüyordu. Spesifik olarak, Nisan 2022’de Teucrium’un bitcoin vadeli işlemleri ETF’sini onayladığında SEC, bitcoin vadeli işlemleri piyasası için gözetim paylaşım anlaşmalarının neden spot ETF’ler için işe yaramayacağını açıklayan bir dipnotta “spot bitcoin piyasalarının şu anda ‘düzenlenmemiş’ olduğunu” yazdı.

Bu arada, BlackRock/Nasdaq dosyalaması, geçmişteki ETF retlerine işaret ederek, ilk etapta önemli, düzenlenmiş bir piyasa olması gerekmediğini savunuyor.

“The regulated market of significant size test does not require that the spot bitcoin market be regulated in order for the Commission to approve this proposal, and precedent makes clear that an underlying market for a spot commodity or currency being a regulated market would actually be an exception to the norm,” the filing said. “These largely unregulated currency and commodity markets do not provide the same protections as the markets that are subject to the Commission’s oversight, but the Commission has consistently looked to surveillance sharing agreements with the underlying futures market in order to determine whether such products were consistent with the Act.”

The bitcoin futures market should be enough for the SEC’s “significant size” test, the filing said.

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Bitcoin Price Rally Puts Focus on Futures Spread That Underscores Need for Spot ETFs

Observers call for spot-based bitcoin ETF as the bull market raises cost of pre-expiry rollover of positions for futures-based ETFs.

Bitcoin’in (BTC) son rallisi, vadeli işlem ve vadeli işlem tabanlı borsa yatırım fonları (ETF’ler) tüccarlarını madeni para sahiplerine göre dezavantajlı duruma getiren bir piyasa özelliğiyle ilgili endişeleri yeniden canlandırdı.

Kripto para birimi geçen ayın sonlarında 31.000 doları aşarak bir yılın en yüksek seviyesine ulaştı. Yükselişle birlikte, Chicago-Mercantile Exchange (CME) listesinde yer alan Temmuz vadeli işlem sözleşmesi fiyatları ile artık süresi dolmuş (o zamanki ön ay) Haziran vadeli işlem sözleşmesi fiyatları arasındaki fark, boğa piyasasından bu yana en yüksek boşluk olan yaklaşık 500$’a patladı. TradingView grafik platformundan alınan verilere göre 2021’in son günleri.

The sharp widening of the spread, or the so-called steepening of the contango, has grabbed eyeballs in the crypto market. The spread raises the cost of pre-expiry futures rollover, or shifting of bullish long positions from front-month to next-month contracts, and affects the performance of the futures-based products offered by ProShares, VanEck and others. Observers, therefore, said the prevailing excitement about a potential launch of a spot-based ETF is justified.

Futures have an expiry date, which mandates the rollover of positions ahead of the settlement. When the spread between the front-month and the next-month contract widens, rollovers are characterized by traders selling the expiring contract at a low price and entering the new one at a high price (the exact opposite of buy low and sell high), inadvertently bleeding money.

“We were not surprised to see the level of contango in the bitcoin futures market expand over the past week. The CME Bitcoin Futures Market has historically traded in relatively sharp contango during bull market periods, particularly when people are excited about future events (like an eventual spot bitcoin ETF approval). This level of contango will certainly impact [futures-based ETF] investors,” Matthew Hougan, chief investment officer at crypto index fund and ETF provider Bitwise Asset Management, said in an email.

“This generally points to why a spot bitcoin ETF would be superior for most investors vs. a futures-based ETF. People just want to own bitcoin, safely, with no ifs, ands, or buts. A spot-based ETF would achieve that goal,” Hougan added.

The U.S.-based futures ETFs invest in CME-listed bitcoin futures.

The spot-ETF rally

Last month, bigwigs from traditional finance like BlackRock (BLK), Invesco (IVZ), Fidelity, and others filed spot-based bitcoin ETF applications with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Bitcoin rallied nearly 12% in June.

A spot-based ETF, if approved, will be like SPDR Gold Trust ETF, which owns gold bars. The product will allow investors to hold their positions indefinitely while eliminating the rollover cost associated with futures ETFs and bypassing complexities involved with storing the cryptocurrency in a wallet. Besides, the spot-based ETF will track bitcoin’s spot price more closely than futures-based ETFs.

In other words, the spot-based ETF will be a better investment avenue than futures-based products like ProShares’ Bitcoin Strategy ETF, which have underperformed the cryptocurrency this year. ProShares’ futures-based ETF, which debuted in October 2021, is the world’s largest and most actively-traded futures-based ETF.

While BTC has gained 88% this year, shares in ProShares’ ETF, trading on NYSE under the ticker BITO, are up only 56%. That’s notable a loss of upside for BITO investors. BITO bled more than bitcoin during the 2022 bear market.

“We might expect underperformance vs. holding spot BTC. The cost of carry emphasizes that futures-based ETFs incorporate the effects of either contango, where holders experience lagging performance or backwardation, where holders experience outperformance. This emphasizes that there is a cost to investors to restricting them to just a derivatives-based ETF,” Ryan Kim, Head of Derivatives at institutional crypto derivatives platform FalconX, said.

“The dynamic does contribute to the excitement over spot-based ETFs,” Kim added.

The situation is unlikely to improve if bitcoin continues to rally, brining more buyers to the derivatives market and keeping futures premiums elevated across the different expiries.

As of Wednesday, the basis in bitcoin and ether CME futures or the difference between futures and spot prices was notably higher at the front end (30-day and 60-day) of the futures curve.

“For context, the 30-day annualized BTC basis just hit 19%, which is the highest value since October 2021, when BTC was trading at above $60,000,” Kim said. “The 30- and 60-day futures are the preferred vehicles for many investors, and more so for bitcoin than for ether.”

Ravi Doshi, co-head of trading at Genesis Global Trading, expressed a similar opinion, saying, “the bullish market sentiment has driven up the front-end CME futures basis.”

Doshi’ye göre, vadeli işlem ETF’lerinin uzun vadeli pozisyonlarını Haziran sözleşmesinden Temmuz’a çevirmesi gerektiğinden ve “spreaddeki likidite eksikliği, Temmuz sözleşmesinde vadeli işlem ETF sahiplerine mal olan geçici olarak %23’lük bir yıllık baza yol açtığından, durum geçen hafta daha da kötüleşti. canım.”