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Total day one inflows across all 11 ETFs came in at ~$721M, with Bitwise’s BITB in the lead at $238M AUM.

January 12, 2024

gm and Happy Friday.

Total day-one inflow across all 11 ETFs came in at ~$721M, with Bitwise’s BITB in the lead at $238M AUM. Despite the massive inflows, the market seems unhappy overall with these results, and BTC is down ~4% on the day. Day one volume was over $4B. 

Notably, the $7T AUM asset manager Vanguard opted to block access to the ETFs via their platform. Others, like JP Morgan, added a risky asset warning before allowing the purchase.  

Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, went on CNBC this morning and gave us some bullish content comparing BTC to gold and mentioning that he sees value in a spot ETH ETF. He also seems very bullish “tokenization,” a rebranding of the classic security token narrative. 

ARB and OP continued to lead compared to other ETH beta verticals such as LSDs and DEXs. While ETH is up some 30% since the beginning of Dec, OP is up ~150% and ARB ~133% in the same time frame. 

Assuming the bid could be in anticipation of the Dencun upgrade, one potentially overlooked catalyst is that soon after Dencun, Uniswap will be able to launch V4 of its exchange.

Another outperformer of late is ENS. Despite decreasing registrations and revenue, the token is up almost 300% since the beginning of the month. Likely the result of Vitalik mentioning it on Jan 3.

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Our very own Westie built (on a single screen) and published the most comprehensive MakerDAO dashboard yesterday, and published a flashnote to go along with it, where he discussed the key implications and conclusions from Maker’s revenue model, DAI metrics, and Spark Protocol.

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