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The decision widens regulated access to direct BTC exposure and gives Swiss retail investors a new route into the asset through local fund rules.
The initiative dies procedurally — campaigners collected half the 100,000 signatures needed — but the SNB's prior liquidity and volatility objections leave the door closed on substance too.
The drive needed 100,000 signatures in three years and pulled roughly half. The SNB's pre-emptive rejection framed crypto as too volatile and illiquid to qualify.
The fund can concentrate on Bitcoin under a specific diversification exemption, while custody, sales and risk-disclosure safeguards remain in force.
Offshoring cuts come alongside a MiCA license and a pivot into broader wealth and asset management, framing the restructuring as strategic rather than distress-driven.
The approval expands regulated Bitcoin access in a major European financial center, bringing the asset closer to mainstream individual investors.
A Seychelles court has ordered KuCoin entities to pay a Swiss investor more than $2 million after ruling the exchange…
A retail-bank doorway opens in Frankfurt while BlackRock quietly bleeds BTC, and the SEC-CFTC pact lands on the same day the dollar's rivals are reorganising around it.
Sparkassen opening BTC and ETH to millions of deposants is the slow-burn story of the week, and the tape barely noticed.
The market spent a year debating whether crypto was an institutional product. Germany and BlackRock just stopped debating and started building.
A memecoin's 96% collapse meets a German banking rail and an ETF exodus. On-chain, the signal is the gap between utility and pure speculation.
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