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A filing from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, shows that BlackRock Financial Management has increased the number of its Bitcoin futures contracts since Q1 2021.According to a Tuesday filing with the SEC, the BlackRock Global Allocation Fund included 54 Bitcoin (BTC) futures contracts issued through the
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“Initially, the Fund expects to directly invest up to 15% of its total assets in Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (‘GBTC’) and Canadian bitcoin ETFs investing in bitcoin,” the filing said. (Grayscale and CryptoX share a parent company, Digital Currency Group.) Source
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Less than two days after submitting separate applications to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, asset managers VanEck and ProShares have seemingly decided not to pursue exchange-traded funds with exposure to Ether.In individual Aug. 20 filings with the SEC, legal representatives of VanEck and ProShares both said the firms had
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New filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, reveal that four wealth management companies have acquired shares of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Investment Trust, offering further evidence of institutional adoption of digital assets. As first reported by MacroScope, a Twitter feed devoted to institutional trading and asset management, the
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Crypto investors involved in cryptocurrency mining may enjoy a significant tax break when the country’s digital currency tax regime commences in 2022.According to a report by Pulse News, South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance on Wednesday announced additional details of the country’s impending crypto tax law, which included a
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High-end bitcoin brokerage River Financial raised $17.3 million in a recent equity sale, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Thursday.Form D filings reveal two-year-old River aims to raise nearly $500,000 in additional funding for a total of nearly $17.8 million. The firm reported 34
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Trusts for Aave, Cosmos and Polkadot, as well as privacy coin Monero, have been registered in Delaware. Source
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Blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace has filed two patent applications it claims will assist authorities in tracking transactions made with the monero (XMR) cryptocurrency.According to an announcement on Friday, the firm most recently filed a document titled “Techniques and Probabilistic Methods for Tracing Monero” as a follow up to the earlier
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China led the world in blockchain patent filings in 2019, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization, by filing 58,990 applications versus 57,840 patent applications in second-place U.S. When it comes to blockchain technology, China also outwardly seems to be a leader. According to the China National Intellectual Property Administration,
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China-based digital bank, WeBank, rose to third place for number of Blockchain patents filed globally in 2019. Alibaba and Tencent took the first and second places respectively.According to the report published on April 24, the digital bank has climbed from fifth place to third after filing nearly 632 patents in
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