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Hong Kong’s first spot cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds began trading on Tuesday, as the Asian financial hub takes on the US in the race to dominate the booming market.
The launch follows the launch of similar products in the US by groups such as BlackRock and Fidelity Investments in January, which attracted billions of dollars in investment and helped push the price of bitcoin to a record high of more than $73,000 in March.
The Hong Kong units of three mainland Chinese asset managers – Bosera Asset Management, Harvest Global Investments and China Asset Management – have each launched two ETFs that track the prices of bitcoin and ether.
The three bitcoins ETFEach gained about 3% in their debut, while ether ETFs gained between 0.4% and 1% in early trading.
Hong Kong announced its efforts to become a cryptocurrency center in 2022, after years of pandemic restrictions and Beijing’s tightening control over the city have tarnished its image as a global financial hub.
“This is the first time that virtual asset spot products have been launched in the Asian market. . . verifying Hong Kong’s leading position in Asia in the development of crypto assets,” said Joseph Chan, Hong Kong’s Undersecretary for Financial Services and Treasury, at a listing ceremony for the six funds on Tuesday morning.
CSOP Asset Management launched Hong Kong’s first bitcoin and ether futures ETFs in late 2022, while the SFC published rules for spot ETFs in December.
In January, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved the country’s first spot bitcoin ETFs. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust has more than $17 billion in assets under management, according to Bloomberg data, driven by billions of dollars in net inflows and sharp gains in digital asset prices this year.
The 11 U.S.-based bitcoin spot ETFs have attracted about $12 billion in total net inflows since their launch, according to London-based Farside Investors.
Robert Zhan, director of risk consulting at KPMG China, said the most optimistic forecasts expect Hong Kong funds to attract more than $3 billion in net inflows.
But Zhan added that the relatively stable prices of ether and bitcoin ahead of the ETF’s launch suggested the targets may be unrealistic given current market sentiments. The price of Bitcoin and Ether fell by about 1% each in the hour following the funds’ listing on Tuesday morning.
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Still, the launch of cryptocurrency-linked funds by three of China’s biggest traditional asset managers has generated excitement in the industry, despite Beijing’s strict cryptocurrency rules and warnings from mainland authorities and state media against trading in digital assets. .
China banned all cryptocurrency trading in 2021, but a substantial number of investors still trade the coins using alternative solutions such as virtual private networks.
Donald Day, chief operating officer of Hong Kong-based digital asset exchange VDX and a former regulator at the city’s Securities and Futures Commission, said the funds could serve active investors who can’t or don’t want to trade during business hours. functioning of the USA.
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The price of bitcoin has surged to more than its all-time high in recent months, surpassing $70,000 per bitcoin and triggering a wave of mega-optimistic predictions about the price of bitcointhough it fell again this week, falling below $65,000 after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady.
Now, as Elon Musk suddenly breaks his silence on bitcoin and cryptocurrenciesBillionaire investor Mark Cuban called a California plan to digitize 42 million car titles using blockchain an “incredible step forward” and “huge” for cryptocurrencies.
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Mark Cuban, famous Shark Tank investor and billionaire owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, has… [+] called a cryptocurrency update “amazing” amid bitcoin’s price slump.
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has digitized 42 million car titles using blockchain, it was reported by Reuters, through technology company Oxhead Alpha on the Avalanche blockchain and designed to detect fraud and facilitate the securities transfer process.
“This is an incredible development for crypto,” Cuban, best known as an investor on TV’s Shark Tank and owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, posted on X, joking that U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler could sue the state as part of his hostility toward cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
“The reason this is huge for crypto is because people who hold the tokens will have an app with an Avalanche wallet,” Cuban said. “Tens of millions of Californians having and using a crypto wallet in the next five years, or however long it takes, normalizes the use of wallets and crypto.”
John Wu, president of Avalanche developer Ava Labs, told Reuters that California’s DMV is “creating a wallet that you can download on your phone.”
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Bitcoin’s price has rallied this year, triggering a wave of bullish bitcoin price predictions from… [+] people like billionaire Mark Cuban.
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Last month, Cuban predicted that if the US dollar falls as the global reserve currency, bitcoin could become “a global ‘safe haven’” and a “global currency.” potentially sending the price of bitcoin to a much higher level.
According to Cuban, bitcoin could become what its most ardent supporters “envision” — a means “of protecting our economies… This is already happening in countries facing hyperinflation.”
The price of bitcoin has skyrocketed over the past year, largely due to the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, leading a bitcoin attack on Wall Street.
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