Ether’s Future: 4 Things That Could Make or Break Its Bullish Comeback in 2025
Lower network fees and declining blockchain usage continue to drag down ETH’s performance, even though Ethereum is king in institutional dominance.
VOO vs. QQQ: Tech Thrills or S&P Chills? A High-Stakes ETF Face-Off 🎢
VOO’s expense ratio is so low, it’s basically a coupon for 10% off at Bed, Bath & Beyond. Meanwhile, QQQ charges more than your gym membership-but promises returns that’ll make your head spin faster than a NASDAQ ticker board.
Your Advocates Sells $19.6M in BOND Shares
The sale reduced BOND’s presence in the fund’s portfolio from 7.5% of reportable assets under management to a mere 0.4%, a diminution as stark as the fading light of a waning star. The top holdings that followed bore the weight of their own histories, each a testament to the capriciousness of markets: DCOR, DFIC, UDFEM, FAS, and SPIB, their values etched in percentages that spoke of both triumph and trepidation.
Bitcoin’s Plunge: A Tale of Greed, Fear, and Crypto Tears 😭💸
What sorcery, you ask, has wrought this calamity? And could the fall deepen, like a character in a Bulgakov novel spiraling into the absurd? 🌀
UK’s GBP Stablecoin Crisis: Will It Outshine the US and EU?
Mark Fairless, that paragon of financial foresight, declares that stablecoins are “a logical extension to reduce friction in international global payments.” One might ask, is this logic or merely a desperate attempt to keep up with the digital age? 🤔
XRP ETF Saga: A Calendar, Fees, and a Dash of Absurdity 🗓️💸
In a missive on the platform of X, Paul Barron, with the gravitas of a soothsayer, proclaimed that Canary Capital’s XRP ETF shall debut today, bearing a modest management fee of 0.50%, having secured the benediction of Nasdaq. Franklin Templeton, ever the patient suitor, awaits its turn between November 14 and 18. Bitwise, with frugality as its mantle, shall follow on November 19 or 20, boasting the humblest fee of 0.34%. 🧮💰
🤑 Bitcoin’s Grand Masquerade: Czechs & Luxembourgers Join the Crypto Carnival! 🎭
On a chilly November 13th, amidst the gilded halls of the Bitcoin Amsterdam 2025 conference, Luxembourg’s Finance Minister Gilles Roth proclaimed his nation’s descent into the crypto maelstrom. With a flourish worthy of a tragic hero, he announced that 1% of the country’s sovereign wealth fund-a paltry €7 million-had been sacrificed to the Bitcoin gods. “We must be first!” he cried, his voice echoing through the halls of financial hubris. “For what is life without a dash of recklessness?” 🌪️
🚀 Blockchain Goes Chic: Dusk & NPEX Bring European Securities to the Crypto Soiree! 🥂
Dusk, that darling blockchain network, and NPEX, the ever-so-regulated Dutch stock exchange, have announced their dalliance with Chainlink’s interoperability and data standards.
The collaboration, my dear, is crafting an end-to-end framework for the issuance, secure cross-chain settlement, and data publication of regulated European securities. How très chic! 🥂
UFC & Polymarket: When Gladiators Meet Gamblers 🤝🥊💸
In a tale more convoluted than Anna Karenina, TKO Group Holdings, the proud architects of UFC and the forthcoming Zuffa Boxing, have forged a multi-year pact with Polymarket, the world’s most audacious prediction market. This union crowns Polymarket the “Exclusive and Official Prediction Market Partner” of both UFC and Zuffa Boxing, a title so grand it could make Napoleon weep-or at least scroll TikTok.