Tagged: bitwise

September 28, 2026 @ 5:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US spot Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) took in about $188 million in net new money last week, the strongest weekly result since the products began trading. The official Solana account highlighted the figure on September 27, calling it the biggest week since launch. All seven… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 11:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NEAR Protocol’s native token has rallied sharply as Bitwise’s spot NEAR exchange-traded fund moves into the final stretch before a possible US listing. After NYSE Arca approved the listing application and the SEC declared the registration statement effective on September 24, 2026, the product—expected to… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 3:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Large institutional investors increasingly describe Bitcoin (BTC) as a digital counterpart to gold, yet they still place it inside the same portfolio sleeve they use for technology and other crypto-assets. That contradiction sits at the center of a new Bitwise research study based on interviews… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan now argues that the Senate’s failure to advance the CLARITY Act is unlikely to halt the cryptocurrency rally that began in early July. In a September 16 memo, he recast the legislative setback as a temporary obstacle rather than… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 5:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise is ending its spot Dogecoin exchange-traded product less than a year after it began trading, closing a short chapter in the first wave of US memecoin ETFs. On September 10, 2026, Bitwise Investment Advisers said it would liquidate the Bitwise Dogecoin ETF, listed on… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealth management professionals are showing growing interest in digital assets, even as most have yet to put client money to work in the space. That mixed picture emerged after Bitwise Head of Research Ryan Rasmussen and Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan spoke to a room… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 1:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US listed spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have now drawn about $1.68 billion in cumulative net subscriptions since they began trading last November, according to the latest industry tallies. The figure underscores a durable, if uneven, institutional bid for regulated exposure to the token even as… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 2:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management’s spot XRP exchange-traded fund has crossed a notable threshold, reaching more than $500 million in assets under management only nine months after it started trading. The firm shared the update on August 31, 2026, highlighting how quickly the product has drawn capital… Read More

September 6, 2026 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management, recently reduced the crypto market to three themes he thinks investors should own for years: Bitcoin as a hedge against currency debasement, Zcash as a privacy asset, and a long tokenization cycle involving Ethereum, Solana, Uniswap… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 5:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management’s Solana Staking ETF has become the first dedicated Solana exchange-traded fund to pass $1 billion in assets under management. The product, listed as BSOL, reached the figure about ten months after it began trading in late October 2025. The timing is what… Read More

August 26, 2026 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management has unveiled Automated Token Portfolios, or ATPs, a new offering that delivers institutionally structured model portfolios composed of tokenized stocks. These portfolios reside directly in an investor’s crypto wallet and draw on Coinbase’s tokenized stock products.Under this arrangement, Bitwise creates the underlying… Read More

August 20, 2026 @ 3:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has outlined a bold outlook suggesting that blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) transaction activity could expand by as much as 100 times in the years ahead. In a recent investment note examining common investor missteps, Hougan… Read More

August 16, 2026 @ 12:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management has entered into a partnership with Superstate, a fintech specializing in bringing securities onto blockchain platforms, to investigate the possibility of allowing investors to hold shares of select Bitwise funds in tokenized form. The crypto-focused asset manager indicated that its Bitwise Solana… Read More

August 12, 2026 @ 4:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto asset manager Bitwise Asset Management has trimmed roughly 14 percent of its global staff, bringing its headcount down from approximately 180 employees to around 155. The company confirmed the reduction in an emailed statement, noting that the changes took place during an… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the US Senate approaches its summer recess, attention remains fixed on the fate of the CLARITY Act, a major piece of digital asset market structure legislation. Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has offered a measured perspective: while passage would represent the ideal outcome… Read More

July 28, 2026 @ 9:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Large blockchain networks including Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and Avalanche (AVAX) have recorded notable increases in on-chain activity and reductions in transaction costs over the past year, even as the prices of their native tokens experienced substantial declines. This divergence between market prices and underlying… Read More

July 23, 2026 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise, has shifted focus toward specific investment categories poised to capitalize on the anticipated next wave of cryptocurrency growth. With signs of market stabilization emerging—such as Bitcoin’s recent gains amid broader equity weakness and renewed ETF inflows—Hougan urges investors… Read More

July 10, 2026 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Asset manager Bitwise has underscored a notable resilience in Bitcoin’s market structure, pointing to an incrementally higher price floor even amid intense competition for investment dollars from the artificial intelligence sector and slow progress on comprehensive crypto rules in Washington. Senior Investment Strategist Juan Leon… Read More

July 9, 2026 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Wallet users can now directly access institutional-quality yields through Plume Network’s nBASIS vault, a development that brings tokenized strategies from major asset managers Bitwise and Invesco into one of the largest self-custody wallet ecosystems. The integration marks a notable expansion of real-world asset (RWA)… Read More

July 4, 2026 @ 1:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management, believes the cryptocurrency market is on the verge of a significant shift. In a July 1, 2026, memo, he outlined why he expects a fresh bull market for Bitcoin and the wider digital asset space to… Read More