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- 10, 2026 at 10:55 am UTC Share Cover art/illustration via CryptoSlate.
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- Two years ago, Bitcoin gained something it had chased for a long time: a place in the tradfi default menu. Plenty of people could get exposure to Bitcoin in 2023, as anyone with an exchange account and a tolerance for operational risk could click “buy.” Yet most capital in the US moves through brokerages, retirement accounts, advisory platforms, model portfolios, and compliance checklists. For that money, Bitcoin needed to arrive in a form that looked and felt like the rest of a portfolio. On Jan.
- 10, 2024, the SEC approved the listing and trading of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products.
- A day later, the first US spot Bitcoin ETFs began trading, and by Thursday afternoon, about $4.6 billion worth of shares had changed hands. That first session was a historically unmatched success, and it shifted who gets to matter at the margin in Bitcoin’s market. The biggest change over the past two years comes from a new buyer base flowing in through a familiar wrapper.
