What Is a Crypto ETF? How Crypto Funds Work for Investors
A crypto ETF lets you get exposure to digital assets through a regular brokerage account — no wallets, no private keys. Here's how they actually work.
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A crypto ETF lets you get exposure to digital assets through a regular brokerage account — no wallets, no private keys. Here's how they actually work.
EigenLayer lets stakers re-use staked ETH to secure additional services on top of Ethereum. Here is how restaking works and what EIGEN does.
Institutions walked away from $BTC and $ETH funds but kept adding to XRP and HYPE wrappers, a split that says more about how the next allocation wave is being built than last week's headline outflow…
BESO bundles BTC, ETH, and SOL with built-in staking yield into a product category that didn't exist a week ago — a structural expansion of the institutional crypto shelf, not just another ticker.
Mint-burn-arbitrage mechanics are the same ones that turned ETFs from a novelty into a $10T+ market — the question is no longer whether the wrapper works, but how fast 24/7 tokenized markets absorb…
A large ETH withdrawal into staking offers a rare signal of commitment, but rising Treasury yields and fresh protocol risk make yield quality the real test.
One amendment is just one amendment — but with $74B+ of US spot Bitcoin ETF assets still tied to Coinbase in some custody role, even small diversification moves start to read as signal.
The bet isn't the token — it's the market structure. 21Shares is reading institutional flow into Hyperliquid-exposed products as a vote for always-on trading rails, not just for HYPE.
Bitcoin ETFs opened the door for everyday and institutional investors to own Bitcoin exposure through a brokerage. Here's the complete picture.
A $696M ETF outflow, a sticky 3.4% PCE and an $8B cash wall at Strategy sit on top of a chain quietly routing BTC and ETH onto exchanges.
ETHFI gives the protocol's governance token a fee claim, but most yield comes from active AVS selection, and slashing cuts through LRT holders first.
Ethena's USDe pays yield through ETH perp funding rates, not bank deposits. The mechanism is clever but the trade has real failure modes that can collapse headline APY.
Ondo Finance tokenizes US Treasuries into USDY and OUSG, gated to verified investors. Here's how each product differs and what ONDO the token actually does.
Spot ETF outflows crossed $6B while BlackRock quietly rotated coins to Coinbase Prime. The bid is gone; the conviction isn't.
Intents let crypto users declare an outcome instead of signing a transaction. ERC-7683 standardizes that promise across chains like Ethereum, Uniswap, and Across.
As Tokyo tightens and Brussels draws a hard line, the world's largest asset manager launches a Bitcoin income ETF that turns volatility into a sellable product.
Larry Fink calls the leverage cleaned out while ETFs bleed $8B then claw back $287M, a textbook reminder that Bitcoin now trades on the same tape as gold and the dollar.
Tokenized money market funds are regulated fund shares with floating NAVs, while stablecoins are payment tokens pegged to $1. The legal wrapper changes everything.
USDe pays double-digit yield by going long spot crypto and shorting the same coin's perpetual futures. It works — until funding flips negative.
Open interest reveals how much capital is riding on crypto derivatives. Here's what it measures, what rising or falling open interest can suggest, and its limits.