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Matt Hougan, chief investment officer of Bitwise, said in a post that more money will be seen flowing into ETFs this year, and companies, countries, wealth managers, and traditional Financial Institutions Groups will also increase their holdings of bitcoin. Regulators, on the other hand, create productive transparency; the world (geopolitics, monetary policy, etc.) is increasingly in an environment that drives demand for bitcoin. "This will be a watershed year."
In a note to clients, Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise, said that there is currently an interesting dichotomy between institutional and retail investors in the cryptocurrency space: on the one hand, institutional investor sentiment towards cryptocurrencies is the most optimistic in history, while retail investors are in despair. Investment professionals now see cryptocurrencies as institutional capital...
Cathie Wood, founder, CEO and chief investment officer of Ark Invest, said in an interview with Bloomberg that DeepSeek's model may attract more companies to join the camp of open-source AI, thus disrupting the existing market landscape and forming a new competitive situation. Cryptocurrencies are the next Internet revolution and are currently witnessing a triple paradigm shift: first, the proportion of institutions in unpositioned squaring contracts in bitcoin futures rose from 17% in 2020 to 6...
Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise, said there is a sharp divergence in sentiment between professional investors and retail investors in the crypto market. Retail sentiment is at its lowest level in years, while professional investors are extremely bullish on the market. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index fell 25 points to 44 (fear) from 69 (greed) last month, according to the index. Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart pointed out that this is because retail investors hold a large nu...
Matt Hougan, chief investment officer of Bitwise, said in a post that fraud and bad actors in the crypto industry will decrease significantly in the next four years as David Sacks, the AI and cryptocurrency "czar" appointed by Trump, pushes forward with sound regulatory policies. Hougan believes that the previous law enforcement-oriented regulatory approach has instead increased investor risk. Previously, Sacks said that the Digital Asset Working Group will work to develop market structure norms...
Pimco's chief investment officer expects the Federal Reserve to be more likely to act only after Trump's policies are clear, and is currently actively allocating U.S. Treasuries. Click to view...
Cathie Wood, chief executive and chief investment officer of ARK Invest, said in an interview with Bloomberg: "We don't know if President Trump's memecoin [TRUMP] has much utility, but Trump is ushering in the next phase of the crypto revolution." Cathie Wood also mentioned that she will not buy TRUMP because she only owns the "Big Three" (BTC, ETH, SOL), but she also doesn't think memes are anything "scary" and they may be practical at some point.
ARK Invest CEO and Chief Investment Officer Cathie Wood is betting that Trump's regulatory and growth agenda will revive the U.S. IPO market. "Regulatory reform will go a long way towards restoring public markets," she said in an interview on Wednesday. "I understand why companies want to stay private. There is a lot of friction with the regulatory dilemmas they face going into public markets." Wall Street has been waiting for a bigger recovery in IPOs after a modest rebound in new listings in 2...
Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise, said in a social media post that "the U.S. plan to build a strategic reserve of bitcoin has not been priced by the market. It's not even close."
Matt Hougan, chief investment officer (CIO) of Bitwise, responded to news of the Czech Republic's strategic bitcoin reserve plan. Hougan had previously predicted a significant increase in bitcoin adoption this year, noting that "the dominoes are starting to fall". Yesterday, the president of the Czech National Bank (CNB), AlešMichl, said that bitcoin is being considered as part of the diversification of foreign exchange reserves. However, at present, CNB has no plans to buy crypto assets immedi...
