Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has laid out why financial advisors are buying Ripple\u2019s native token, and the reasons have little to do with it price.<\/p>\n
His remarks follow an 80% rise in XRP ETF net assets during the third quarter, to a record $1.77 billion on September 25.<\/p>\n
Hougan called<\/a> XRP \u201cone of the Mount Rushmore assets in crypto\u201d and gave two reasons it appeals to investors. The first is that they are confident it won\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of financial advisors look at crypto and wonder, \u2018Are these things for real? Will they persist? Will they be here in the future?\u2019 And XRP has this enormous track record and this enormous background that gives people confidence it will be there in the future,\u201d Hougan explained.<\/p>\n The second reason is practical. XRP \u201cfits into real-world applications that they can understand,\u201d according to the CIO. Advisors follow the stablecoin space and the cross-currency and liquidity space, and pay attention to news such as Ripple getting a bank charter.<\/p>\n XRPL community figure Hussein Zangana, who goes by Vet on X, made a related case, calling the network \u201creal\u201d and adding<\/a> that it \u201chas persisted the most amount of scrutiny any crypto has received.\u201d\u00a0As CryptoPotato<\/em> reported earlier, XRP ETFs took in<\/a> about $76 million last week, their best week in a month, extending the run to 11 straight weeks of inflows.<\/p>\n Bitwise\u2019s fund leads with $677 million in cumulative inflows, followed by Franklin\u2019s at $501 million, while the one from 21Shares has so far bled $21.15 million.\u00a0On Monday, SoSoValue data shows, Canary\u2019s XRPC added $3.96 million, taking cumulative inflows across all XRP ETFs to $1.79 billion. Total net assets were $1.68 billion, below Friday\u2019s record level.<\/p>\n In related news, Bitwise filed an updated prospectus on September 28 for its XRP fund, which charges a 0.34% fee and holds its coins with Coinbase Custody. This is because, as analyst Xaif Crypto noted<\/a>, the ETF keeps issuing new shares, so the prospectus has to stay current.<\/p>\n At the time of writing, XRP was trading around $1.50, up about 2% in 24 hours, almost 7% in the last 14 days, and nearly 8% across the past month. However, it\u2019s still 47% lower than where it was a year ago and 59% below its all-time high of $3.65.<\/p>\n The Ripple token is on track for a third straight green month, having gained about 30% in August and a more modest 2.10% in July, something Xaif Crypto reminded<\/a> has rarely happened in bear markets.<\/p>\n The last time XRP had a longer run of consecutive monthly gains was in 2023, when it went on a run from September to December that year, which was broken by an 18% drop in January 2024.<\/p>\n The post Bitwise CIO Explains XRP\u2019s Institutional Appeal After 80% ETF Jump<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has laid out why financial advisors are buying Ripple\u2019s native token, and the reasons have little to do with it price. His remarks follow an 80% rise in XRP ETF net assets during the third quarter, to a record $1.77 billion on September 25. XRP Will Always Be Around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}XRP Price Watch<\/h2>\n