‘Palooza in Cryptoland:’ Bitwise predicts fresh ETF surge despite rough stretch for digital assets

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The authorities reopening whitethorn spark a caller historical tally for precocious battered cryptocurrencies.

Bitwise's Matt Hougan expects authorities to enactment caller concern products successful the space.

"It's going to beryllium ETF Palooza successful Cryptoland. I deliberation there'll beryllium 100 positive launches," the firm's main concern serviceman told CNBC's "ETF Edge" connected Monday. "We're going to spot a batch of azygous plus crypto ETPs [exchange-traded products.] What I'm astir excited about, though, is the maturation of scale based crypto ETPs."

Hougan's prediction comes during a unsmooth week for digital assets. Bitcoin fell beneath the $90,000 people for the archetypal clip since April. It traded arsenic precocious arsenic astir $126,000 successful aboriginal past month.  

Despite the unsmooth stretch, helium sees scale ETPs becoming 1 of adjacent year's biggest crypto stories and yet 1 of the biggest categories for investors.

"This manufacture volition beryllium 10 times bigger than it is today," added Hougan, whose steadfast launched the Solana Staking ETF, which tracks the terms of cryptocurrency solana, on October 28. It's down 27% since the launch. But it jumped 9% on Tuesday.

The passive money holds lone solana and stakes astir each of its SOL on-chain — pledging tokens to assistance validate transactions and unafraid the web successful speech for ongoing rewards, akin to interest, according to the firm's website. Then, those rewards backmost into the portfolio.

Hougan said those products are aimed astatine the alleged next buyer of crypto: Investors looking to bargain tiny slices for their portfolios.

"They don't needfully person an sentiment connected ethereum versus solana oregon bitcoin versus different asset," helium said. "They conscionable privation to bargain a wide swath of the crypto marketplace and clasp it for the agelong term." 

Fundstrat Global Advisors' Tom Lee besides sees a profitable displacement ahead. Lee, a long-time bitcoin bulls, cites openness from the Trump administration.

"Experimentation and innovation are being encouraged by this administration," the firm's caput of probe and CNBC contributor told "ETF Edge" successful the aforesaid interview.

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