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Franklin’s Sandy Kaul told Blockworks that the firm is working on “new and innovative” blockchain solutions for clients

Permissionless provokes thoughts on the future of crypto as folks engage in pull-up competitions

Make no mistake: Tether makes a ton of money. But exactly how much depends a lot on the price of bitcoin.

Plus, a rundown of today’s episode of Empire — Delphi’s take on market performance

Hedge funds made up a chunk of the firms disclosing positions in bitcoin ETFs

After significant lows, BTC and ETH have rebounded over $56,000 and $2,513, respectively

Though Grayscale’s expensive product spoils the category’s net flow figures, four funds see sizable inflows in the first four trading days

Plus, BlackRock’s BUIDL is paying out steady yield — and those dividends are growing

Investors add to crypto positions after “turnaround in sentiment due to lower-than-expected CPI,” CoinShares research head says

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo thinks BUIDL will potentially hit its next $500 million milestone in just a few months

Plus, Trump is headed to the heart of Bitcoinlandia with a speaking appearance at the Bitcoin 2024 conference

Franklin Templeton has the lowest intended ETH fund fee so far, though a similar advantage did not help it win the race for bitcoin ETF assets

Bitcoin has us all glued to the charts. Few likely more so than this year’s freshman class of bitcoin ETF buyers.

Roughly $1.1 billion has left the US spot funds since June 13 as BTC price is down more than 10% in past month

Firm’s hire comes as it looks to further expand its US crypto ETF lineup

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust is on the cusp of passing Grayscale’s GBTC in assets under management

The fund giant will ultimately offer a bitcoin ETF, Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals founder says

The holdings disclosure is the first from a state investment board

Bringing financial products onto the blockchain is “a huge conversation” at most TradFi giants, according to Polygon’s Colin Butler

BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF has seen zero or negative flows nine times since its 71-day net inflow streak ended on April 24

The vise grip organizations like BlackRock have on bitcoin in order to fill their ETFs is a threat to bitcoin’s adoption

At least for the near future, the majority of institutional tokenization will take place on closed, permissioned networks

Though bitcoin ETF flows give a better glimpse of how a segment of the market views crypto, analysts say it’s worth filtering out short-term noise

The world’s largest asset manager sees BTC fund outflows for the first time, while the most money left Fidelity’s product