Tech ETFs to Top 500 as AI, Chip Launches Surge: Balchunas
The count is the headline: more than 500 tech ETFs signals a maturing thematic wrapper industry, with AI, semis and memory as the next wave chasing past $100B in year-to-date inflows.
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The count is the headline: more than 500 tech ETFs signals a maturing thematic wrapper industry, with AI, semis and memory as the next wave chasing past $100B in year-to-date inflows.
BTC is up 15% from July lows but the market is quiet: 30-day spot volume sits at 62% of the annual average, CME futures open interest has fallen to its lowest since 2023, and Bitfinex flags $68K as…
The donation lands 23 days after the CFTC joined Gemini's bid to dismiss a derivatives case, sharpening the read that political capital and regulatory relief are moving on the same track.
A fifth of global oil flows through the 21-mile-wide chokepoint, so any sustained disruption to tanker traffic hits crude prices, shipping insurance, and risk appetite across every asset class within…
The push ties the market-structure bill to a Trump ethics carve-out, forcing Democrats to weigh the trade-off between political leverage and a once-in-a-decade rulebook for digital assets.
A 22-point intraday swing on a regulated US prediction market is a stronger signal than a single poll: it prices actual tradable conviction, not surveyed opinion.
The concession is the last unresolved piece of the Clarity Act, and the optics of self-imposed presidential restrictions are the only thing standing between the bill and a floor vote with weeks to…
Solana and Hyperliquid products now hold more than $1.25B combined, a structural altcoin-ETF bid the market has been slow to price in next to the spot BTC cohort.
Durov frames it as a friction-killer: instant, zero-fee crypto rails baked into an app that already has a billion-user distribution channel.
The BIS argues dollar-pegged tokens are insulated from the capital flight rules that govern local-currency outflows, putting pressure on monetary sovereignty in vulnerable economies.
The bill opens a tightly capped market for everyday Russians while keeping domestic crypto payments banned and carving out foreign-trade settlement as the real strategic win for Moscow.
Pavel Durov says every Telegram user gets a self-custody wallet with zero-fee crypto transfers this summer, collapsing the onboarding gap between messaging apps and self-sovereign crypto.
The president agreed to what Sen. Moreno called the most aggressive ethics language in US history, but Trump family crypto income above $1.4B is exactly why Democratic votes are still not in the bag.
A sharp repricing in CME FedWatch has the market now pricing a rate hike as the base case for 2026, a meaningful reversal from the cut consensus that dominated the start of the year.
If the bill clears, it ends a decade of SEC-CFTC turf wars over which agency polices digital assets, handing issuers, exchanges, and custody banks a single federal rulebook.
The raise lands at unicorn status for a startup positioning itself as the cross-rail bridge between stablecoins and traditional payment networks like Swift, ACH and SEPA.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cryptoassets wants barriers to banking access resolved before the FCA's 2027 regime kicks in, putting the debanking problem formally on the legislative clock.
The expiry removed too little open interest to move price on its own; the lift came from five straight ETF inflow sessions and 66,700 BTC of whale accumulation, though a $2.3B stablecoin drain keeps…
Bitcoin is now trading as a sidecar to the AI cycle: every capability leap for frontier models widens the appeal of chips and model builders over a token whose biggest holders already sell compute.
Gracy Chen is shelving the wait-and-see posture that froze Bitget's US plans in 2022 and betting the exchange can clear regulatory hurdles exchange by exchange instead of waiting on a federal…