LATEST: First-ever XRP ETF To launch In The U.S. After SEC Approval

Teucrium Investment Advisors LLC is set to revolutionize the cryptocurrency investment landscape with the launch of the first-ever leveraged XRP ETF in the United States. Approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission the Teucrium 2x Long Daily XRP ETF will start trading on NYSE Arca under the ticker XXRP this Tuesday.

The ETF aims to deliver twice the daily return of XRP by utilizing swap agreements and will vary in performance based on the cryptocurrency’s daily price movements. With a management fee of 1.89% this product is tailored for short-term active investors who are bullish on XRP’s prospects. Indices and ETPs in Europe will serve as benchmarks to set the swap prices given the absence of a spot XRP ETF in the U.S.

The debut of this leveraged ETF follows Teucrium’s history with crypto funds including a Bitcoin futures ETF launched last year and plans for a 2x Short Daily XRP ETF. This introduction signifies a growing acceptance and regulatory clarity for cryptocurrency ETFs in the market highlighted by the recent $50 million settlement between Ripple Labs and the SEC resolving their legal disputes.

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VIX shows volatility will not be stopping anytime soon

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Surprise, surprise. Wall Street’s favorite fear index is spiking. 

The Cboe Volatility Index was hovering around 48 Monday afternoon after spiking to 60 overnight. The index measures projected S&P 500 volatility over the next 30 days. 

The VIX’s 30-day moving average has been on the rise in recent weeks, coming in at 21.4 at the beginning of the month vs. its long-running average of 19.5. 

We’re now almost four standard deviations above the long-term average, marking a level of volatility most recently seen in 2020 and 2008. 

You’re going to see a lot of comparisons…

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BTC resilience tested as volatility persists

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It seems the market was acting up while I was out of office Thursday and Friday. It hasn’t stopped, either.

Several industry watchers called out BTC’s resilience at the end of last week (compared to US equities, for example) following Trump’s tariff reveal. 

Then the asset’s price plummeted.  

While BTC price stood around $83,000 Friday, Forward Guidance podcast guest Tony Greer called corporate bitcoin buying at every price level “astounding.” He also noted institutions’ ongoing willingness to buy the dip and their apparent long-term belief in the asset.

Though…

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Pro Crypto, Anti Privacy: Will Trump Free Samourai?

Last month, the Treasury lifted sanctions on Tornado Cash. In response, many rekindled their calls for the Trump administration to drop the charges against Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, the developers of Samourai Wallet who are currently being prosecuted in the Southern District of New York.

What many appear to have missed is that the Treasury’s sanctions reversal for Tornado Cash also revealed the Treasury’s stance on privacy services. And it isn’t looking good.

Tornado Cash’s removal from OFAC’s SDN list followed a lawsuit by Tornado Cash users in a Texas District Court case that has become known as Van Loon v. US Department of the Treasury, in which it was…

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MacBooks to Metaplanet: The corporate bitcoin dominoes are falling

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All eyes are on the tariff-addled traditional markets today — most notably, people are watching to see whether bitcoin will show (as it did on Friday) signs that it might perform as a hedge against global uncertainty. 

Regardless, analysts continue to maintain prior price projections for bitcoin, with Standard Chartered, VanEck and Galaxy all noting that the fundamentals of the industry remain strong, with corporate and government adoption continuing apace. 

Indeed, as we wait for GameStop to buy its first bitcoin, even the (generally) bearish pundits (like Mark Cuban) remain positive…

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An Excerpt From The Satoshi Papers: A Nation Of Individuals?

It is the prospect of the sovereign individual that seems to most trouble the nation-state today. This odd threat perception has been the outgrowth of a political genealogy that, in the generations since the American Revolution, has increasingly come to equate the state with society while constellating the individual as the enemy of both. This equation would have been profoundly disconcerting to the founders of the American republic, who called forth a new national project precisely to preclude the abuses of an entrenched and predatory overclass—an aristocracy—that deemed itself the rightful custodian, in perpetuity, of the fate and best interests of a people. The political…

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