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ETRADE from Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) has officially enabled direct cryptocurrency trading, allowing eligible U.S. clients to buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Solana (SOL) within their brokerage accounts.

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The BlackRock IBIT fund reduced its assets under management to $60 billion after briefly touching a temporary peak of $100 billion in October. The SPDR Gold Trust fund experienced a similar trajectory in 2011 of a boom and subsequent extended stagnation that lasted eight years before recovering its peak levels.

 

CoinShares (NASDAQ: CSHR) indicated that sentiment around Bitcoin has begun to improve, driven primarily by broader economic indicators rather than sector-specific developments.

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Robinhood Chain surpasses $170M in ETH bridged from Ethereum in its first week, with DEX volume topping $1B and over 17 million transactions on the new Robinhood Chain surpasses $170M in ETH bridged from Ethereum as Layer-2 sees explosive first week.