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Crypto for Advisors: Crypto as a Growth Driver

For wealth managers, crypto presents a key opportunity for growth – especially with rising mainstream interest after the approval of spot bitcoin and ether ETFs earlier this year.

In today’s issue, Nathan McCauley, co-founder & CEO of Anchorage Digital, explores how crypto could be a growth driver for advisors.

In Ask an Expert, Marissa Kim from Abra Capital Management answers questions advisors may have about including crypto in their practice.

– Sarah Morton

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Crypto is a Growth Driver for Wealth Managers

For wealth managers, crypto presents a key opportunity for growth – especially with rising mainstream interest after the approval of spot bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) earlier this year.

As organic growth in wealth management declines and the marketplace becomes more crowded and competitive, crypto can help wealth managers drive client retention and reach new clients with a differentiated offering.

Between the new spot ETFs and separately managed accounts (SMAs), wealth managers have a wide menu of options to offer crypto to their end clients.

ETFs and streamlined adoption

Spot ETFs present a streamlined path for wealth managers to offer crypto, especially for those who use ETF-based model portfolios. In recent months, some of the largest players – from major wealth management firms to Wall Street banks – have allowed advisors to offer crypto ETFs to eligible clients.

The ETF wrapper has unlocked serious latent interest in integrating crypto into traditional portfolios, driving tens of billions of dollars into the digital asset class through a regulated and accessible investment vehicle. Competition amongst ETF issuers in the U.S., in particular, sparked fee compression for these products, benefiting crypto ETF shareholders.

While spot crypto ETFs continue to be a significant unlock across mainstream and institutional finance, there are a few things wealth managers need to keep in mind. First, only SEC-regulated spot ETFs for bitcoin and ether are available on the market today. Like all spot ETFs, these products give shareholders direct exposure to – but not direct ownership of – the underlying asset.

As a result, wealth managers should also consider other complementary avenues for crypto ownership, such as SMAs.

Crypto SMAs as the next evolution

With rising adoption of SMAs across the board and increasing interest in crypto as an asset class, crypto SMAs represent a perfect marriage. By combining direct ownership with professional management, crypto SMAs offer significant benefits for both wealth managers and clients alike.

A qualified custodian serves as the base layer of a compliant crypto SMA. Today, wealth managers can access qualified custodians for crypto through turnkey asset management platforms, third-party technology platforms, and direct integrations. Safekeeping crypto with a qualified custodian gives end clients the regulatory certainty they need to participate in the asset class.

For end clients, crypto SMAs unlock the ability to access a broader range of digital assets – beyond just Bitcoin and Ethereum. The SMA structure also allows for greater flexibility in portfolio construction, which means end clients can deploy more personalized investment strategies. End clients may also benefit from improved tax efficiency.

For wealth managers, what does all of this mean? Greater client choice, which translates into enhanced client retention and differentiation from competitors in the market. By offering crypto SMAs, wealth managers can help future-proof their businesses – while providing the safety, security and regulatory certainty that clients have come to expect.

Embracing crypto through SMAs and complementary vehicles like spot ETFs can help position wealth managers to play a leading role in financial innovation, driving both long-term client satisfaction and business growth.

– Nathan McCauley, co-founder & CEO of Anchorage Digital

Ask an Expert

Q: How large of an opportunity does crypto represent? We want to understand how much firm resources we should devote toward gaining knowledge of crypto products.

It is estimated that about 50 million Americans (15%) already own crypto today, which means some of your clients likely already have exposure or are interested in getting exposure. Moreover, the adoption of cryptocurrencies is happening faster than the adoption of the internet, and we believe this participation rate may skyrocket over the next five years so that there will be significant demand from your clients.

As the wealth transfer from Boomers to Millennials occurs over the next five to 20 years, we believe millennials will have greater interest in owning cryptocurrencies and are likely to want to hold those assets directly, versus through ETFs or ETPs. There are still ways for advisors to be value-add to this type of client, but it does require investment of time to learn how clients will want to access these assets and the full breadth of product offerings beyond the ETFs.

Q: Where do digital assets fit into client portfolios from an allocation perspective?

Bitcoin is now being considered by some as a risk asset and as an asset that you would hold in a lower risk, defensive bucket, similar to precious metals or bonds. That being said, many advisors we speak to are only recommending to their clients exposure of 1-5% of total investable net worth to Bitcoin for now.

Assets like Ethereum and Solana are still being considered mostly in a high-risk bucket, more similar to owning single high-growth technology stocks, which can have significant upside as adoption continues but will also continue to be volatile, which may not be suitable for large position sizing or for some types of more conservative investors.

Q: What will happen with the regulatory environment in the U.S. – should we wait to make recommendations until the landscape is more settled?

In general, there is uncertainty in the U.S. around how digital assets should be treated under current law and whether the SEC and/or CFTC have jurisdiction over certain assets. There are many inconsistent approaches from various U.S. agencies and active cases going through the legal system now that are starting to show where the gaps are. There have also been several bipartisan crypto-related bills proposed over the last year.

While the industry certainly needs more regulatory clarity, BTC and ETH have some certainty following the approval of the spot ETFs, which confirmed that these assets are commodities – which is why these assets are likely to see increased institutional adoption.

– Marissa Kim, head of Asset Management, Abra Capital Management

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U.S. Election Betting: Regulated Presidential Markets Are Live, and Tiny Compared to Polymarket’s

With a month to go before Election Day, Kalshi and Interactive Brokers have listed prediction markets on the race for the White House.

Two U.S.-regulated, dollar-denominated prediction markets began taking bets on the presidential race this week, with a month to go before Election Day.

Kalshi, which fought a long legal battle with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to offer election contracts in the U.S., launched its presidential markets on Friday, following Wall Street powerhouse Interactive Brokers’ (IAB’s) ForecastEx, which did so the day before.

So far volumes are modest at both CFTC-supervised exchanges, with $344,101 worth of contracts traded on Kalshi and $346,000 on ForecastEx. By comparison, more than $1.2 billion has been staked on the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump at Polymarket, the crypto-powered prediction market platform, which, despite prohibiting U.S. users under a CFTC settlement, has reaped record volumes this year while Kalshi and IAB sat on the sidelines awaiting legal clarity.

“It will be hard for the two sites to catch up, but that is not entirely impossible,” said Koleman Strumpf, an economics professor at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. For one thing, “some traders may switch from Polymarket to the other sites,” he told CoinDesk. (Despite geofencing, American traders have reportedly been using VPNs to access Polymarket.)

Moreover, “more than half of all trades will happen between now and election day if history is any guide (and there is more volume for close races which this looks to be),” said Strumpf, who has studied the history of election markets.

However, Aaron Brogan, a managing attorney at Brogan Law, said that Polymarket has two advantages beyond being the first mover.

“Polymarket is theoretically accessible to people all over the world. In contrast, Kalshi’s products aren’t available to ‘foreign nationals’ and certain other excluded groups,” he said. “Second, Polymarket doesn’t have explicit position limits, but Kalshi’s rules do. In this case, the limit is quite high, but it’s conceivable that this could be a limiting factor on total market size.”

Price differences

Early afternoon Friday in New York, prices of “yes” shares for Harris were trading at 51 cents, signaling traders give her a 51% chance of winning. Trump’s odds on Kalshi were at 50%.

Harris was also leading Trump on ForecastEx, but by a wider margin, 53-47. Meanwhile, on Polymarket, the two candidates were neck and neck, at 49% each.

Harry Crane, a statistics professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, said these differences were not very meaningful. “We’re used to using polls in election forecasting, and with polls, there’s a well-understood margin of error, three percentage points usually, depending on sample size,” he said.

Similarly, in markets there is sometimes a “margin of inefficiency” where any profits to be made from arbitraging price differences are not worth the effort. “There’s no sufficient incentive for anyone to scoop up the penny that the difference might present.”

But prediction markets “don’t need to be identical to be useful for forecasting,” Crane said. Over time, observers can collect data on these markets, determine which ones had stronger predictive track records, and come up with a consensus forecast that might put more weight on one market than another, he said.

Unfinished business

Kalshi sued the CFTC last year after the agency denied its application to list contracts on which party would control each house of Congress. The company won the case (which the CFTC is appealing) and listed the congressional contracts on Sept. 13.

They traded for only a few hours before the appeals court granted the CFTC an administrative stay freezing the contracts, which it lifted Wednesday. Emboldened, the company not only revived the congressional contracts but self-certified the presidential one. Self-certification is the process whereby CFTC-regulated entities list products without the agency’s prior approval. IAB, which started ForecastEx over the summer, quickly followed suit.

The CFTC, which is also considering a proposal to ban political event contracts at the exchanges on its watch, has asked the appeals court to expedite the case. Among other reasons, the agency said its proposed regulation “may be substantially impacted by this Court’s decision on the merits.”

But it’s apparently given up on stopping these contracts from trading before the election. Its proposed timetable would have briefs filed by Nov. 22 (more than two weeks after Americans cast their votes) and oral arguments heard on Dec. 2.

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.

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.”

Tether’s Banking Relationships, Commercial Paper Exposure Detailed in Newly Released Legal Documents

Obtained by CoinDesk under a Freedom of Information Law request, the documents offer a rare but limited window into the reserves behind USDT, the crypto market’s largest stablecoin.

CoinDesk tarafından elde edilen belgelere göre, Stablecoin ihraççısı Tether, fonlarını Mart 2021’de dört banka, iki yatırım yönetimi firması, iki altın deposu ve bir altın komisyoncusu ve kendi kardeş şirketi Bitfinex’te tuttu.

Ayrıca, Qatar National Bank QPSC, Barclays Bank PLC, Deutsche Bank AG, Emirates NBD Bank PJSC ve Natwest Group PLC dahil olmak üzere çeşitli kuruluşlar tarafından ihraç edilen ticari kağıtlarda fonları vardı. Ve ihraççılarının büyük bir yüzdesi çeşitli Çin bankaları ve finans kurumlarıydı.

Tether’in geçmişte ticari kağıtlara olan güveni haber değil. Piyasa değerine göre dünyanın en büyük stablecoin’ini çıkaran ve elinde bulunduran şirket, 2021’de ticari senete fon koyduğunu kabul etti. Ancak şirketin bu tür varlıklara ne ölçüde güvendiği daha önce bilinmiyordu.

Ziraat Bankası Çin Ltd, Bank of China Hong Kong, Bank of Communications Co Ltd, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Merchants Bank, China Construction Bank, China Everbright Bank Co ve daha fazlası, Tether’in kullandığı ticari kağıt çıkardı. jeton.

Editörün notu: Bu makale, New York Başsavcılığı’na Bilgi Edinme Özgürlüğü Yasası talebiyle alınan belgelere dayanmaktadır. CoinDesk, kısmen hiç kimsenin özel bilgilerinin yanlışlıkla paylaşılmadığından emin olmak için belgeleri inceliyor ve tam olarak yayınlamadan önce uygun olduğunda düzeltiyor.

Belgelere göre 31 Mart 2021’de Tether, bu kurumlarda 35,5 milyar dolardan fazla ABD doları eşdeğeri olduğunu iddia etti. Haziran 2021’de yapılan bir eyalet Bilgi Edinme Özgürlüğü Kanunu (FOIL) talebine cevaben New York Başsavcılığı (NYAG) tarafından CoinDesk ile paylaşıldılar. Belgelerin 4 Ağustos 2021’de oluşturulmuş olduğu görülüyor ve Tether’in o günkü operasyonlarının anlık görüntüsü. 5,1 milyar dolar daha, “USDT kredileri” ve diğer varlıklar altında detaylandırıldı ve toplam 40,6 milyar dolarlık bir varlık için, kabaca o sırada dolaşımdaki 40,8 milyar USDT’ye denk geldi.

Bu nedenle, belgeler, kripto endüstrisinde uzun süredir tartışma ve varsayım konusu olan Tether’in finansmanına nadir ancak sınırlı bir pencere sunuyor. Başsavcı Letitia James, Şubat 2021’de ofisinin Tether ile anlaşmaya vardığını açıkladığında, 2017 ve 2018’de Tether’in stablecoin’i USDT’nin tam olarak desteklenmediği zamanlar olduğunu söyledi. NYAG’ın soruşturmasının sonuçlanmasından altı ay sonra oluşturulan yeni belgeler, bu iddiayı ne kanıtlıyor ne de çürütüyor.

Bununla birlikte, Tether’in belirteci destekleyen varlıkları depoladığı bulmacaya bir parça daha eklerler. Yıllar boyunca, şirketin bankacılık ilişkileri hakkındaki bilgiler yalnızca damla damla ortaya çıktı.

Tether (USDT), sayısız borsada kripto alım satımı için karşı taraf varlığı olarak önemli bir role sahip, dünyanın en büyük stablecoin’idir. Tether, dolaşımdaki her bir USDT tokeni için en az bir dolar değerinde varlık rezervi tuttuğunu iddia ederek, değerini ABD dolarına karşı tutacak şekilde tasarlanmıştır. Şirket uzun süredir USDT’nin tam olarak desteklenmediğine dair endişelerle boğuşuyor, New York Eyalet Başsavcılığı’nın Nisan 2019’da Tether’in kurumsal hisselerini paylaştığı bir borsa olan Bitfinex’e yaklaşık 850 milyon dolar borç verdiğini açıkladığında haklı çıktığı endişeleri. memurlar ve ebeveynlik ile. Bitfinex, ödeme işlemcisi yetkililer tarafından ele geçirildiğinde, kendi fonlarının bu miktarına erişimini kaybetti.

CoinDesk, FOIL talebinde, Tether’in rezervlerinin nelerden oluştuğunu ortaya koyan ilk kamuya açık belgesini yayınlamasının ardından USDT stablecoin’in desteğini detaylandıran belgeler istedi. O zamanlar, neredeyse yarısı belirtilmemiş ticari kağıttaydı.

Tether, 2021’de NYAG’ın ofisi ile anlaşmasını duyururken, NYAG ile paylaştığı bilgilerin aynısını rezervleri hakkında en az iki yıl boyunca yayınlayacağını iddia etti. Mayıs 2021’deki ilk halka açık sürümü, bir çift pasta grafik ve kısa bir açıklamaydı.

Yayınlanan belgelerdeki 7 Nisan 2021 tarihli bir portföy raporu, benzer pasta grafikler içeriyor ancak çok daha fazla bilgi içeriyor ve Tether’in rezervleri için belirli ABD doları miktarları sağlıyor. Gerçek sabit vadeli mevduatlara ilişkin bilgiler yeniden düzenlendi, ancak Tether’in mevduat sertifikalarında, tahvillerde ve özellikle ticari senetlerde milyonlarca rezerv tuttuğunu gösteriyor.

4 Haziran 2021 tarihli bir mektuba göre Tether, Ansbacher (Bahamas) Limited’de (bu yılın Şubat ayındaki Forbes raporunu onaylıyor) ve Bahamalar’daki Capital Union Bank’ta (ikinci ilişki daha önce Financial Times tarafından rapor edilmişti) ve Far’da fon bulunduruyordu. Tayvan’daki Eastern International Bank (Tether’in Tayvan bankalarını kullandığı daha önce Bloomberg tarafından rapor edilmişti, ancak isim verilmemişti). Bununla birlikte, varlıklarının büyük çoğunluğu Bahamalar merkezli Deltec Bank and Trust’taydı – o yılın Mart ayı itibariyle 26 milyar dolardan fazla. (Deltec ilişkisi, Kasım 2018’de Tether’in bankanın antetli kağıdında imzası olan ve çalışanın adını içermeyen bir mektup yayınladığından beri halka açık. Deltec’in başkanı daha sonra belgenin gerçek olduğunu CoinDesk’e doğruladı.)

CoinGecko’ya göre, 31 Mart 2021 22:30 ET itibariyle dolaşımda 40,8 milyar dolar değerinde USDT vardı.

Aynı belge, Tether’in önemli miktarda ticari senet rezervine sahip olduğunu doğrulayarak, ilgili kurumun elindeki her bir varlıkta hangi varlıkların bulunduğunu ayrıntılarıyla açıklayarak devam ediyor.

Ansbacher tarafından yayınlanan başka bir portföy raporu, Tether’in finans kuruluşundaki varlıklarının yaklaşık %85’inin ticari senet olduğunu göstererek bu ayrıntıları daha da detaylandırıyor. Tether’in varlıklarının %13,7’sinin bu şekilde olmasıyla şirket tahvilleri geri kalanının büyük bölümünü oluşturuyordu. Geri kalanı yüksek getirili tahviller, değişken faizli senetler ve kredi hesapları oluşturuyordu.

Belge imzalanmadı.

Benzer şekilde, Capital Union Bank, Tether’in varlıklarının yaklaşık %88’inin “likit varlıklar” olduğunu söyleyen bir rapor sunsa da, daha fazla bir döküm sağlamadı.

Bu belgelerin birçoğu, Tether hukuk ekibinin, düzenleyicinin Tether ile ilgili uzun süredir devam eden soruşturmasını sonuçlandırmasının hemen ardından NYAG’ın ofisi ile iletişimini detaylandırıyor.

Bu iletişimlerden birine göre, NYAG ofisinin anlaşmadan sonra Tether’in elindeki ticari kağıtlar hakkında soruları vardı.

“Tether’in ticari senet varlıklarını satın almasıyla ilgili olarak Tether, önceki mektubumuzda belirtildiği gibi farklı bankalarda hesaplar tutmaktadır. Tether, ticari kağıt teklifleri için teklifleri talep eden bankalardan, bunları doğrudan ticari kağıt ihraç etmek için ihraççılarla ilgilenen veya ticari kağıt satın almak için ikincil piyasalarda işlem yapan aracılardan ve diğer karşı taraflardan talep eder. Tether’in 25 Haziran 2021’de gönderilen dış danışmanından.

CoinDesk, Tether’in NYAG’ın belgeleri serbest bırakmasını engellemek için başvurmasının ardından yaklaşık iki yıllık bir hukuk mücadelesinin ardından belgeleri aldı. Klaris Law, CoinDesk’i mahkemede temsil ederek Şubat ayında bir zafer kazandı.

Bu makalenin yayınlanmasından önce Tether, şirketin belgelerin paylaşılmasını emreden bir mahkeme kararına itiraz etmek için gerekli adımları atmaması üzerine NYAG FOIL görevlisinin belgeleri serbest bıraktığını kabul eden bir bildiri yayınladı. Cuma günü yayınlanan ikinci bir bildiride, belgelerde nelerin yer aldığının ayrıntıları verildiği iddia ediliyor.

İlk açıklamada, “Tether, gizli müşteri verilerinin kamuya yayılmasını önlemek ve potansiyel olarak kötü niyetli kişiler tarafından istismar edilebilecek hassas ticari bilgilerin kullanılmasını önlemek için bu işlemleri ilk etapta başlattı” denildi. “Ancak, şeffaflığa olan devam eden ve kanıtlanabilir taahhüdümüz, dikkati toplumumuzun karşı karşıya olduğu gerçek sorunlardan uzaklaştıran daha fazla zaman alan ve verimsiz Amerikan davaları yerine açıklığa öncelik vermemiz gerektiği anlamına geliyor.”

Tether, bazı belgelerle ilgili ayrıntılı bir soru listesine hemen yanıt vermedi.

Tether ayrıca yaptığı açıklamada, New York hükümetinin belgeleri CoinDesk ile paylaştığı “aynı gün” merkezi olmayan finans havuzlarında milyonlarca dolar değerindeki milyonlarca doların satılmasının ardından USDT’nin depeg edilmesini “şüpheli bulduğunu” söyledi.

Aslında, stablecoin, NYAG FOIL görevlisinin belgeleri CoinDesk’in avukatlarıyla paylaşmasından en az beş saat önce, 15 Haziran’da 07:00 UTC’den (3:00 am ET) önce kısa bir süre için mandalını kaybetti.

CoinDesk Genel Yayın Yönetmeni Marc Hochstein, “CoinDesk, 12 Haziran’da avukatlarımızdan, Tether’in belgelerin ifşasını engellemeye çalıştığı uzun bir mahkeme anlaşmazlığının ardından belgeleri nihayet alacağımızı öğrendi” dedi. “Kazanma haberimizi, 15 Haziran sabahı New York’ta USDT’nin çıpasını kaybetmesinden saatler sonra belgeleri alana kadar yazı işleri kadromuz dışında kimseyle paylaşmadık. CoinDesk, raporlamamızın bütünlüğünün yanındadır.”

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Bitcoin Miners Gain Support From Texas With Two Bills Passed, One Halted

Two bills that seem to embrace mining have been sent to the governor, whereas one that would adversely affect miners was stopped at the committee stage.

Texas legislators are throwing their weight behind bitcoin mining with two bills passed in the latest legislative session that are signaling support for the industry — and one thwarted for the time being.

In the past few weeks, two bills — SB 1929 and HB 591 — that show support for miners have made it through the legislative stage and are awaiting Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature. If signed, they take effect on Sept. 1.

The bill SB 1929 requires miners whose energy capacity is larger than 75 megawatts (MW) to register with the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) of Texas as large loads operators, which then shares their data with the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the grid operator. The bill is in line with the March 2022 interim interconnection process formed by ERCOT’s Large Flexible Loads Taskforce, which is responsible for drafting policy to manage big electric loads such as bitcoin miners.

Meanwhile, HB 591 was sent to the governor on April 18, and will introduce tax exemptions from companies that put to use otherwise wasted gas, including data centers.

“These bills signal that Texas remains the jurisdiction of choice for bitcoin, blockchain, and digital assets,” said Lee Bratcher, president of local industry group Texas Blockchain Council (TBC).

The third bill, SB 1751 — dubbed by some the “anti bitcoin mining bill” and which would have capped the industry’s participation in cost-saving demand-response programs — was stopped at the committee stage. Demand-response programs are various schemes in which miners get power credits for curtailing their operations at times of peak energy demand.

State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, the bill’s lead sponsor did not respond to CoinDesk’s request for comment on this story.

“More miners in the [demand-response] program means more load can be reliably called on to help balance the grid,” said Dennis Porter, who leads another industry advocacy group, Satoshi Action Fund. “We are increasing communication with the PUC and ERCOT which will improve transparency and publicly available data on mining which ultimately is good for the industry,” he noted.

However, the opposition of SB 1751 isn’t what defeated it, said Jackie Sawicky, who has brought together hundreds of Texas residents in an activist group called Concerned Citizens of Navarro County. “The house just didn’t prioritize it and the session ended/ran out of time,” so the bill can be reintroduced in the next session, she said. The next session will start in January 2025.

Bill SB 1751 would have taken the threshold for registering with state grid authorities to 10 MW.

“Texas is setting a standard for how to adopt this new and innovative technology,” said Porter.

Texas innovation

Texas is one of the largest bitcoin mining hubs in the world due to cheap energy and friendly regulators. As policy on bitcoin mining at the federal level has lagged, the state, the largest by energy production in the U.S., is marching on with its own rules.

However, it’s not the only state that’s pro-mining. Legislation protecting mining was passed in Arkansas and Montana. Similar bills in Missouri and Mississippi have died.

By contrast, New York imposed a two-year moratorium on new fossil fuel-based bitcoin mines. Oregon is currently considering legislation that would require data centers, including miners, to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

Meanwhile, a 30% tax on bitcoin mining proposed by the Biden administration appears to have stalled. The tax didn’t make it into a bill on the debt ceiling, which passed on Wednesday. According to Rep. Warren Davidson, the tax will likely not return as part of the U.S. budget.

“With policy stagnation at the federal level, the states are stepping up to be the incubators of innovation,” TBC’s Bratcher said.

First Mover Americas: Ether Steals the Show, Alts Follow Suit

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for April 14, 2023.

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Ether (ETH) continues to outperform bitcoin (BTC) following the Ethereum network’s Shanghai upgrade, which has proven to be bullish for much of the cryptocurrency market, with many altcoins following suit. Ether is up 6% on the day vs. bitcoin which gained 1%. Bitcoin did briefly cross $31,000 on Friday for the first time since June 2022, marking a 10% gain over the last 7 days. Ether rose 13% over the same time frame. Arbitrum (ARB) an Ethereum scaling solution, led gains this week, rising almost 30%. According to Sheraz Ahmed, STORM’s managing partner, ARB is bouncing back from the overselling caused by its airdrop in March, which saw the Ethereum layer 2 distribute its long-awaited governance token to community members. The airdrop, however, was plagued with bugs and phishing scams. “The crypto markets are heavily emotionally driven, and we often see overbought/sold tokens based on over-reactions,” said Ahmed.

The tokenization of real-world assets gathers pace, Bank of America (BAC) said in a research report Thursday, which noted that the tokenized gold market surpassed $1 billion in value last month. Tokenization is the process of putting ownership of tangible assets – precious metals being one example – on the blockchain, and thus offering the convenience of buying and selling these assets around the clock as the involvement of traditional brokers is not necessary. Bank of America sees this tokenization – which could also include commodities, currencies and equities –as a “key driver of digital asset adoption.”

Solana Labs’ crypto-forward smartphone Saga will go on public sale May 8, the company behind the Solana blockchain said Thursday. Pre-ordered devices are shipping now. The Android smartphone is a gamble on mobile being imperative to the future of crypto, employees at Solana-focused companies told CoinDesk. It was nearly 10 months ago that Solana first teased the radical potential of a cellphone that doubled as a dedicated crypto hardware wallet, and the possibilities such a product could hold for its entire ecosystem. The new device from Solana Mobile costs $1,000 and is built on hardware from Bay Area smartphone company OSOM. Phonemaker names both big and small – HTC and Sirin Labs among them – have previously failed in their efforts to create a crypto-forward smartphone, setting an ominous precedent for Solana, a device built for and marketed to a single crypto ecosystem.

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Sweden Drives Final Nail Into Its Bitcoin Mining Industry With Tax Hike

The 6,000% increase in taxes per kilowatt hour of energy may “ultimately destroy the industry” in the country.

Sweden, the last remaining stronghold of bitcoin miners in Europe, is abolishing tax incentives for data centers in July – potentially putting the last nail in the coffin for the industry in the region.

Energy prices in Europe have spiked in the past year largely in part due to the war in Ukraine, driving out bitcoin miners. The northernmost regions of Norway and Sweden were some of the last areas where the industry was still profitable and operating – although the crowd had thinned out – as they offer an ideal environment for data centers; cool and home to cheap hydroelectricity.

But not even these remote parts of Europe remained unaffected from the energy crisis, which caused prices to increase and some miners to turn off their operations, at least partly, in 2022.

Energy prices started to normalize in 2023, but the upcoming tax will likely stop any new investment in Sweden, which is currently home to about 150 megawatts (MW) of mining. The tax will increase from SEK 0.006 ($0.0006) to SEK 0.36 ($0.035) per kilowatt hour (kWh) starting July of this year, according to the financial budget published in November 2022.

Based on the average electricity prices last year, the tax hike could bring the all-in energy cost to $0.093/kWh, said Jaran Mellerud, senior analyst at mining services firm Luxor Technologies. A MicroBT Whatsminer M30s, a moderately efficient and commonly used machine, would be at break-even point given current market conditions, he said.

Hive Blockchain (HIVE), a Canada-based miner with 25% of its energy capacity in Sweden as of the end of 2022, declined to comment on this story. CoinDesk couldn’t find an instance where Hive disclosed the tax hike explicitly in any of its filings. The firm has discussed its disagreement with Swedish Tax Authorities over $32.4 million in VAT that it thinks it should recover.

Norway, which hosts 250-300 MW of mining, also increased its taxes from $0.0086 to $0.015 per kWh in January, said Mellerud.

Not all hope is lost for Norway, as its energy is overall cheaper and the tax hike is more modest, Mellerud said. The industry will continue developing there, said Denis Rusinovich, co-founder of mining consulting firm Cryptocurrency Mining Group.

Looking for ways out

Sweden’s tax hike makes mining in the region “prohibitively expensive in Sweden and could ultimately destroy the industry,” said Mellerud, so bitcoin miners are looking for solutions.

Many miners are looking to diversify elsewhere, as the new tax will drastically reduce their profitability, said Enerhash CEO Daniel Jogg, who operates a site in Sweden. The tax also requires companies to pay in advance for a few months, which creates some serious cash constraints at a difficult time for the industry, he said.

Some miners could try to get through the tax hike by switching to self-mining instead of hosting others’ machines, said Rusinovich.

Others are looking at ways to get around the tax by reusing the heat produced in the data centers such that they are taxed as heat producers, Mellerud said.

Those packing up are also facing an uphill battle, said Rusinovich: “The market of potential buyers has completely dried up and there are only less than a handful of real buyers left.”

Broken trust

It is unclear whether Sweden’s new taxes were intended towards miners or the entire data center industry. The tax hike was proposed by the Swedish Ministry of Finance, which was also pushing for a ban on bitcoin mining in the European Union last year, Mellerud pointed out.

“This could be viewed as an attack on bitcoin mining,” he said.

In 2017, Sweden enacted a 98% tax cut for data centers, looking to attract businesses. Four years later, the industry hasn’t created the jobs the country was hoping for, and the macroeconomic environment has changed, said the budget report.

The energy crisis has increased electricity rates for households, and the tax cuts currently in place might actually be taking away energy from other, more job-creating industries in the manufacturing sector, said the budget.

Miners are disappointed by how the tax hike was rolled out, with what seemed like little notice or communication. Firms like Hive tout Sweden as a “stable” jurisdiction, where they don’t worry about abrupt unilateral changes in the regulatory regime.

Microsoft (MSFT), which also operates data centers in the region, has protested the measure’s abruptness, particularly given that the government had commissioned a report on the energy impact of data centers that wasn’t finished at the time of the tax hike decision, according to the budget.

There has been no official communication to the bitcoin miners active in the region, only a page on the tax authority’s website that was updated to show the change, said Rusinovich.

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That, plus the fact that the tax will be implemented in the middle of the calendar year, making it hard to plan ahead, has rubbed miners the wrong way. Companies can request a refund for any taxes levied before the start of July, a spokesperson for the Swedish tax agency said.

Enerhash will keep its operations in Sweden because they are still profitable, particularly given its geographic diversification, but they will not be investing additionally. Why would you invest there when the legal framework can change so abruptly, Jogg asked.

Edited by Nikhilesh De and Aoyon Ashraf.