Market Update - September 1st 2023

1 de set. de 2023

Grayscale ETF ruling boosts BTC: A U.S.Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Grayscale in their lawsuit against the SEC, which challenged the agency’s denial of an application to convert Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) to an ETF. GBTC is currently the largest Bitcoin fund with over $16.3 billion USD in AUM. The ruling led to higher prices for BTC.

Powell speech and cooling economic data led to higher market prices: Markets were higher following Jerome Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole last Friday, in which no surprises were indicated. Cooling GDP and jobs data further bolstered these gains.

PEPE trends down following rug pull rumors: PEPE experienced a sharp drop in price last week as rumors of a rug pull circulated. The anonymous developer who claimed to be in control of the funds now says that the remaining 10 trillion tokens are safe and will remain until a “use or burn arises.”

X receives Rhode Island payments license: Twitter Payments LLC, the payment branch of X, was approved by Rhode Island for a license request to store, transfer, and exchange Bitcoin and other digital assets on behalf of its users. This marks another step in Elon Musk’s quest to turn X into the “everything app.”

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