Bitcoin News
By Dan Saada
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Stablecoins Win the Room. It's not hard to see why stablecoins are landing better with this crowd.
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Tokenization Draws Real Attention. Tokenization is the other big theme pulling adviser interest.
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Bitcoin's Adviser Problem Isn't Going Away Fast. Bitcoin's challenges with this audience aren't new, but Hougan's comments put a fresh timestamp on…
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Financial advisers aren't warming up to Bitcoin. That's the blunt takeaway from Bitwise, whose chief investment officer Matt Hougan said engaging traditional finance…
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Hougan's comments came out of recent conversations Bitwise had with advisers from the traditional finance world.
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It's not hard to see why stablecoins are landing better with this crowd. Advisers spend their careers managing risk for clients. Volatility is the enemy.
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Stablecoin adoption across finance has grown sharply in recent years, and the advisory community is clearly paying attention. The appeal isn't just stability, either.
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Bitwise's Hougan didn't sugarcoat the Bitcoin problem. Engaging advisers on it has been challenging — his word, not a softened paraphrase.
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Tokenization is the other big theme pulling adviser interest. The basic idea — converting ownership of real-world assets into digital tokens on a blockchain — opens up a lot of…
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Real estate, private credit, infrastructure, even fine art — tokenization lets advisers think about these asset classes differently.
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Related: Financial Advisors Now Want Stablecoins and Tokenization More Than Bitcoin
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The concept fits existing financial frameworks better than Bitcoin does. Advisers can look at a tokenized bond or a tokenized real estate fund and map it onto something they…
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Bitcoin's challenges with this audience aren't new, but Hougan's comments put a fresh timestamp on them. Regulatory uncertainty still hangs over the space.
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It's worth noting that Bitcoin's prominence in the broader crypto market is undisputed. Retail investors, hedge funds, corporate treasuries — plenty of sophisticated players hold…
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That gap between Bitcoin's market dominance and its adviser adoption rate is kind of fascinating. The asset is 16 years old at this point. It has spot ETFs in the US.
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