Tagged: bitwise

October 21, 2026 @ 3:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum and Solana both set new highs for staking participation during the third quarter of 2026, even as the returns available to stakers declined, according to Bitwise’s latest quarterly staking analysis. Growing amounts of capital locked into securing the networks diluted individual rewards, while the… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) public comment window closed on October 20, 2026, for its proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, two industry voices submitted detailed feedback seeking refinements that would reduce uncertainty for token classification, distributions, and trading. Bitwise Asset Management and the… Read More

October 15, 2026 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) and broader cryptocurrency markets faced renewed selling pressure in mid-October 2026 after US inflation data came in hotter than anticipated, reviving concerns that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates again at its late-month meeting. September’s Consumer Price Index rose 0.6 percent month-over-month… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise’s chief investment officer argues that NEAR Protocol’s investment case no longer depends solely on its longer-term ambition to serve autonomous AI agents. In an October 7, 2026 memo and related comments, Matt Hougan described the network as an operating blockchain business whose present activity… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 2:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has argued that XRP’s pull with certain institutional investors, especially financial advisors, rests on two plain considerations: confidence that the asset will still exist years from now, and a set of uses those advisors already recognize. The comments appear… Read More

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