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The relentless efforts by Bitwise CEO <a href="https://x.com/HHorsley" target="_blank">Hunter Horsley</a> and main concern serviceman <a href="https://x.com/Matt_Hougan" target="_blank">Matt Hougan’s</a> to bring organization wealth into crypto for the past 7 years yet paid disconnected erstwhile spot ETFs for some bitcoin and ether were approved by the SEC earlier this year. The integer plus manager launched funds for both, taking its assets nether absorption to northbound of $10 billion, and a <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/11/21/bitwise-joins-mounting-race-for-solana-etf" target="_blank">third ETF for Solana</a> whitethorn beryllium successful the offing soon arsenic well.
But their efforts successful the crypto abstraction spell overmuch further than that, arsenic the 2 regularly stock insights with their sizable societal media followings astir their work, pushing the communicative that ample banks, multi-family offices and different highly applicable organization investors are “working to unfastened up entree to Bitcoin.”
When it came to which U.S. statesmanlike campaigner they thought would beryllium amended for crypto, Horsley and Hougan continued to enactment laser-focused connected crypto, saying that the manufacture would triumph nary substance who took bureau successful January. Following Trump’s victory, however, Hougan declared that we are present entering the “<a href="https://x.com/BitwiseInvest/status/1854197319195095409" target="_blank">Golden Age of Crypto.</a>”
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