Vlad loaded up on $gme while wearing a red headband today

Calamos just filed for a Bitcoin Buffer ETF which will seek to offer 100% downside protection from bitcoin while capturing a portion of the upside using FLEX options. These are big hits on the equity side, this is first stab at btc tho

Katie Greifeld I called the Salim hire btw. Here’s proof! Please clap. Lol.

Still think it’s unlikely that this means vanguard launches a #Bitcoin ETF (at least near term). But I think Salim could reverse Vanguard’s stance on not allowing their clients to buy spot Bitcoin ETFs on their brokerage platform 👀

JUST IN: Salim Ramji will be the new Vanguard CEO. He used to head up BlackRock's global ETF business. First time ever Vanguard hired outsider as CEO. Every other one was internal star and former Bogle assistant. INTERESTING. SEMI-SHOCK.

Shrinking the number of episodes for a season worked out so extremely well for the final season of Game of Thrones!

Déjà vu

Wow, a state pension bought $IBIT in first quarter. Normally you don't get these big fish institutions in the 13Fs for a year or so (when the ETF gets more liquidity) but as we've seen these are no ordinary launches. Good sign, expect more, as institutions tend to move in herds

TLDR: the SEC asked commenters re the Eth spot ETFs whether these filers have properly filed their ETF listing proposals as commodities. This shows the SEC is perhaps considering to Eth is a security in their denial. Our odds of approval remain the same: slim to none. Nice job of…

Its still rolling guys. Its still rolling. $GME traded around $80 this morning for a few minutes in the pre market. Utterly fascinating

Obligatory Grayscale airport ad post

My colleague Rebecca Sin just launched a new podcast about ETFs and asset management in Asia!

Here’s the first episode

Great having ⁦Robbie Mitchnick⁩ (BlackRock’s head of digital assets) in the Bloomberg ⁦Bloomberg Podcasts⁩ studio today for his first Trillions intv. We covered so much past present and future. Learned a lot. Ep comes out next week. ⁦James Seyffart⁩

I'm going to Italy this fall and was planning to start using Duolingo to learn some basics of Italian. Screw it -- ill just use this haha

Apparently the market thought the same as me for $DUOL. Chat GPT-4o is wild. h/t Steve Hou (“LEASE MORE”)

We all coordinated to wear blue

FYI, I will be speaking about #Bitcoin at the DC Blockchain Summit this week with James Seyffart Todd F. Kuehl and Katherine Dowling. Please look me up, if you are there! dcblockchainsummit.com