Helene Braun

Helene is a New York-based markets reporter at CoinDesk, covering the latest news from Wall Street, the rise of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds and updates on crypto markets. She is a graduate of New York University's business and economic reporting program and has appeared on CBS News, YahooFinance and Nasdaq TradeTalks. She holds BTC and ETH.

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Finance

VanEck Starts Digital Asset Management Platform and NFT Marketplace

The platform, called SegMint, aims to streamline the sharing of access and ownership of self-custodied assets.

Safe Vault (Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Ark and 21Shares to Disclose Spot Bitcoin ETF Reserves Via Chainlink Integration

The move comes after fellow spot bitcoin ETF issuer Bitwise drew applause from industry experts for making its wallet address public in January.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Hits Record Volume of Over $1.3B for Second Consecutive Day

Spot bitcoin ETFs again booked a strong day, recording over $2 billion in daily trading volume but slightly fell short of Monday's record.

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin ETF High Volume Doesn't Always Mean Heavy Buying: NYDIG

The "turnover ratio" offers an indication of the proportion of a fund's assets traded each day.

Scrabble letters spelling ETF arranged a rack

Finance

Reddit Discloses Bitcoin and Ether Holdings in IPO Filing

The company also acquired ether and Polygon "as a form of payment for sales of certain virtual goods.”

Reddit has submitted a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “RDDT.” (Brett Jordan/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin ETF Price/Flow Correlation Is Declining: JPMorgan

The correlation reached as high as 0.84 in January, based on estimates from JPMorgan, but it has since slowed.

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Markets

Bitcoin ETF Net Inflows Slow to a Trickle as Price Flattens

The 10 spot funds attracted only 500 bitcoin on Wednesday, the least since Feb. 6.

Scrabble letters spelling ETF arranged a rack

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Sam Bankman-Fried Replaces Lawyers Ahead of Sentencing

Bankman-Fried replaced his former lawyers, Mark Cohen and Christian Everdale, as he’s headed into sentencing negotiations.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)