VanEck launched the Wealth Builder ETF today, trading on the NYSE under the ticker WBMO. The actively managed fund packages the firm’s Wealth Builder model portfolios, which advisers have used through third-party platforms, into one product anyone with a brokerage account can buy. VanEck, which oversees about $244 billion in assets, selects the holdings, sets
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $110 million on Monday, October 26. BlackRock’s IBIT supplied all of it, according to SoSoValue. Spot Ether ETFs moved the opposite way, with $88.58 million in net outflows. BlackRock sat on both sides of the tape. IBIT drew Bitcoin buyers, while its ETHA fund led Ether redemptions. The split
The tokenised commodities market has so far been dominated by gold, the easiest commodity to bring on-chain because of its liquidity, custody infrastructure and wide recognition as a global financial asset. The next opportunity lies in extending that model into markets where traditional access remains narrow, inefficient or largely reserved for specialist institutions. Tokenised commodities
Ripple opened Swell 2026 in New York on Tuesday, October 27, a day after winning final OCC approval for its national trust bank, while the 1 billion XRP it unlocked from escrow on October 1 has still not left its wallets. That last part is the XRP Ripple story most of this week’s coverage misses.
However, the White House’s broader push to regulate crypto markets suffered a setback after Congress failed to pass the Clarity Act, which would have established a federal framework for the industry. Bessent called the failure a disappointment but said the Treasury Department could work with regulatory agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and
Bitcoin price traded near $80,500 most of Tuesday, holding above the $80,000 level that has become the market’s line in the sand. Prices ranged between roughly $79,400 and $80,800 over the day, according to Bitcoin Magazine Pro data, and the asset was up about 0.3% over the prior 24 hours by mid-afternoon Eastern time. The
OneKey data retention now deletes personal order records within 30 days. The wallet maker is cutting how long it keeps checkout data after recent industry breaches. It says its own systems were not hit. It already wiped older Shopify order files. That is the stake for Bitcoin wallet security. Names, emails, and shipping details can
For two Mondays running, the most important line in Strategy’s 8-K filings was the one that read “$—”. This Monday, it reads $370 million. The latest disclosure, covering 24 to 30 August, shows the company buying bitcoin again: 4,603 BTC acquired for approximately $370 million, an average of about $80,400 per coin, taking total holdings
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI predicts something potentially enormous could happen to Solana (SOL) by January 1, 2027. When prompted, Meta says SOL could be set for a record move, based on a hypothetical landmark catalyst that isn’t impossible but remains highly unlikely. The concept involves a coordinated announcement by a consortium of major technology companies
Janus Henderson, a London-based asset manager overseeing roughly $500 billion, is bringing one of Wall Street’s best-known stock indexes onto blockchain rails through an issuer-sponsored fund. The launch comes amid an escalating debate over who gets to tokenize traditional securities. The firm teamed up with tokenization platform Centrifuge to launch JQQQ, a fund tracking the
