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Bitcoin, Solana, Ethereum. How to Explain Cryptocurrencies to Clients

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Digital currencies have different purposes both in the real world and portfolios.

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Blockchain

Morgan Stanley Begins Coverage Of Bitcoin Miners As Wider Infrastructure Plays

The bank assigned overweight ratings to Cipher Mining and TeraWulf and a more cautious underweight rating to Marathon Digital.

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Blockchain

Strategy Loses Billions on Massive Bitcoin Hoard

From 2020 to 2024, Strategy’s shares surged 3,500% as its stock appealed to investors that didn’t want to directly deal with bitcoin.

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UBS May Be the Next Wall Street Bank to Let Clients Trade Crypto

The bank is reportedly opening up access to clients in Switzerland ahead of a global rollout.

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Markets

Tether Outbuys Most Central Banks in Gold Bunker Buildup

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Tether seems to be prioritizing buying gold because its value isn’t tied to governments as tightly as fiat currencies are.

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Caroline Crenshaw’s SEC Exit Leaves Behind an All-Republican Commission

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Cryptocurrency

Burned Bitcoin Investors Enter New Year with Less Swagger

Bitcoin, the No. 1 crypto by market cap, hasn’t recovered from a flash crash, chopping more than $1 trillion from the broader sector’s value.

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Vanguard Warms Up to Crypto, Sort Of

The firm isn’t fully convinced of crypto’s place in portfolios, with one executive likening it to a ‘digital Labubu.’

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Blockchain

JPMorgan Launches Tokenized Money-Market Fund

Innovative as the tokenized funds may be for JPMorgan, the bank is actually chasing an existing trend on Wall Street.

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Markets

State Regulators Bet on a Legal Difference Between Prediction Markets, Sports Gambling

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Connecticut claims Kalshi, Robinhood and Crypto.com don’t have the proper licenses to handle sports wagers in the state.

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