crypto

Banking

Morgan Stanley Pushes Past Crypto Blues to Build its First Bitcoin ETF

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Bitcoin ETFs just notched $697 million worth of inflows on Monday, their biggest gain since early October.

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Advisor Upside

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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Advisor Upside

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

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

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Blockchain

Bitcoin HODL’ers Unfazed by New Bottom

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Bitcoin has entered “death cross” territory, meaning its 50-day moving average has fallen below its 200-day moving average.

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Advisor Upside

Tokens Are the Future. But How Soon Will We Get There?

Outside of some high-net-worth clients’ portfolios, tokenized assets are not yet the norm among advisors.

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Blockchain

Bitcoin Struggles to Bounce Back from Deleveraging Crisis

Bitcoin has so far fallen 20% from its 2025 peak this cycle; in previous bear markets, it fell as much as 30% to 40%.

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Blockchain

Rough Week Erases Most of Crypto’s 2025 Gains

While digital assets are feeling the chill heading into fall, it’s too early to say it’s the start of a full-blown crypto winter.

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Advisor Upside

JPMorgan Tokenizes PE Fund on In-house Blockchain

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The move comes before the bank’s full rollout of its tokenization platform next year.

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Finance

The ‘Everything App’: How Robinhood Grew From Trading Platform to Financial Ecosystem

Still in the “early innings of its growth story,” Robinhood has morphed from an app with crowdsourced stock advice to a financial ecosystem.

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Blockchain

For PayPal Stablecoin Partner, $300T Error Is More Minor Mishap Than Real Risk

PayPal’s PYUSD is the world’s sixth-largest stablecoin with a current market cap of $2.7 billion, all fully-backed by US dollar deposits.

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Finance

Schwab’s Record Revenue Showcases Wall Street Bonanza From Trade Tumult, AI Revolution

Over one million brokerage accounts have now been opened with Charles Schwab for four consecutive quarters.

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