Morning Minute: Vanguard Flirts With Crypto

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Today’s Top News:

• Crypto Majors will meet over the weekend. BTC will collect $112,000
• Vanguard reportedly is considering providing crypto ETF access to 50m investors
• Investigating data from SEC and FINRA insider trading
• Tether is reportedly raising at a $500 billion valuation. $13 billion XPL after the first few days of the transaction
• Exaggerated NFT operates on $65K floors for over $65 million on the first day of the transaction

🛡🛡️ Vanguard cheats with cipher

The world’s second largest asset manager is considering getting US clients to purchase Crypto ETFs.

The final wall is falling.

📌What happened?

last week, American Code Vanguard reports that it is weighing selected Spot Crypto ETFs for brokerage customers.

This is a sudden departure from the 2024 stance when blocking spot Bitcoin ETFs on the platform.

There are no final decisions or product lists yet. The discussion reflects the sustained client demand and the competitive reality that most major peers already allow trading.

In particular, Vanguard CEO Salim Ramji was previously at BlackRock, overseeing the launch of Bitcoin ETF IBIT, one of the most successful ETF releases of all time.

In the asset context, Vanguard oversees ~$10 at AUM today and serves more than 50 million investors worldwide, so even a careful development will be a result of ETF liquidity.

What they are saying

“They are very systematic in their approach and understand that dynamics have been changing since 2024.” – American Code and Speak Sources

“Vanguard, the world’s second largest asset manager, plans to enable clients to invest in crypto ETFs on their platform. By this long wait, they have been “protected” from a profit of +150% in $BTC since the ETF was published. ” -Satoshi Stacker on x

🧠Why is it important?

When Vanguard enables Crypto ETF access, it adds a large set of continuous influx to Crypto majors, even with tight guardrails.

That means deeper secondary market liquidity, broader retirement penetration, and more “default” exposure from Set and Forget investors who previously had to move their assets elsewhere.

Only 1% of 11T is $110 billion inflows (probably a large rebalancing adjustment for the portfolio).

It’s huge.

It is also marked with iconic verification. The company that once said it was “not suitable for a long-term portfolio” has acknowledged the durable role of crypto along with stocks and bonds.

The final holdout is beginning to surrender.

The crypto boom cycle begins…

🌎 Macro Cryptography and Memes

Some ciphers and Web3 headings that caught my eye:

Corporate finance/ETF

• SEC and FINRA Announced survey of data for potential insider trading
• Sharplink (SBET) Offers tokenized stocks via the opening bell of Superstar

With memes

token, airdrop, protocol tracker

This is a summary of this week’s major tokens, protocols and airdrop news.

• Plasma XPL Mainnet + Tokens have been launched on major exchanges with a market capitalization of over $2.4 billion (but $1.29, down 9% from yesterday).
• Aster Leading all Perps Dexes in volume and fees over the past week, including breaking the tether with fees
• Vertex (vertice) spike Last week – 280% Come later in the whale purchase and team teaser 25m vertices Reward/Airdrop Program and Roadmap Teased
• Punk Strategy PNKSTR Token It surged to $90 million and new ATH after announcing the launch of a series of new NFT strategic tokens, including Squigles, Cryptoadz and more

ai x crypto

Section dedicated to the AI ​​sector headings of the Cryptocurrency:

• Overall market capitalization +2% was $16.9 billion, and the leader was Green
• fartcoin (+5%), Virtual (+3%), Tibbir (-5%), AIXBT (+2) & AI16Z (+2%)
• dogeai (+18%) and tibbir (+14%) Led Top Mover

What’s going on in nfts?

Here’s a list of other notable headlines for the day for the NFTS:

• eth nft Despite picks in the NFT strategy token, the leader was slightly reddish the week. Punk -3%47.6 ETH, Pudgy -2%10.23, Bayc -3%9.13 ETH
• Kaito Genesis Nfts (+170%), Goblins (+260%) and GVC (+50%) were the top movers who were well-known
• Hypurr nfts Airdropped to early high lipid users and reached an extremely 1,390 hype floor ($65,000) of $60 million daily