ETF approval drives Bitcoin towards all-time high at $65K – Crypto Weekly Roundup, October 18, 2024
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ETF approval drives Bitcoin towards all-time high at $65K – Crypto Weekly Roundup, October 18, 2024

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 Bitcoin has soared aloft $60K, accepting tantalizingly abutting to best highs on letters that the aboriginal Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) has been accustomed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

This affliction accursed Bitcoin 8% college over the aftermost week, additional added by Russian President Vladimir Putin who told CNBC on Wednesday that he believes crypto has value. Meanwhile, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon took the befalling to advance his own appearance that “Bitcoin is worthless”, two weeks afterwards his coffer appear a agenda that said institutions are replacing gold with Bitcoin.

Elsewhere, contempo eToro additions Polkadot, Polygon, and Solana pushed advanced of the bazaar with double-digit assets all round. Shiba fell bottomward in burnout with 11% account losses afterwards a mega rally, and Dogecoin fabricated a apathetic attack to bolt up with 4% gains.

In a awe-inspiring achievement for crypto, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to let the aboriginal U.S. Bitcoin futures ETF barrage on Monday afterwards years of alone applications.

Sources said to be accustomed with the amount told CNBC that the SEC isn’t acceptable to block the ETFs proposed by ProShares and Invesco, triggering a assemblage that saw Bitcoin breach through $60K, for the aboriginal time back April of this year.

Although these ETFs accept attracted criticism for actuality backed by futures affairs and not the basal asset, they could still accept big implications for Bitcoin — acceptance tax-sheltered and retirement accounts to calmly get exposure, and potentially aperture the cryptoasset to a abundant broader audience.

While all eyes were on Bitcoin, Polkadot agilely surged added than 20% as the blockchain belvedere appear it was accessible to cycle out the final allotment of its roadmap.

On Wednesday, the aggregation appear a date for the launch of parachains. These are absolute chains that can affair their own tokens and be tailored to a specific use case, while still abutting aback to the capital Polkadot chain.

Slots for parachain development will be awash via auctions starting on November 11th, and are accepted to abate the circulating accumulation of Polkadot by acute participants to lock up the asset for the continuance of the parachain lease.

eToro has added Solana (SOL) to its alternative of cryptoassets. The SOL badge admiral a blockchain belvedere that claims to be able to abutment 50,000 affairs per additional after sacrificing decentralization.

Solana joins the contempo additions of Filecoin (FIL) and Polkadot (DOT), bringing the absolute cardinal of cryptoassets accessible on eToro to 32.

The aftermost time Bitcoin approached best highs at $20K, it was baffled aback angrily for weeks afore it assuredly bankrupt though.

This time however, the bulk of Bitcoin captivated on exchanges is abutting best lows — suggesting traders accept no ambition of affairs and could be affective funds to wallets for abiding storage.

On the bearish side, Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead anticipates that the ETF barrage could be a archetypal “sell the news” moment, and activate a agnate dump to that apparent afterwards the CME’s advertisement of Bitcoin futures in December 2017.