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Where do digital assets sit in an alternatives portfolio? The answer depends on the mandate, the vehicle and the risk budget.
Karl Naïm, Group Chief Commercial Officer and SEO Middle East at XBTO will be at @SALTConference London on 3 and 4 November. If you are attending, we look forward to seeing you there.
Approving a digital asset allocation is the first decision. Sizing it, choosing the vehicle and budgeting the risk is the work that follows.
Karl Naïm, our Group Chief Commercial Officer, will be joining the panel "Building a Winning Digital Asset Portfolio: How institutional investors are incorporating digital assets into their portfolios" at Apex Invest Zurich alongside:
🎙️ Anthony Bassili, @CoinbaseAM Coinbase Asset Management
🎙️ Freddie Mead, Howden Re
🎙️ Justin Kugel, @worldlibertyfi World Liberty Financial
Moderated by Diana Biggs, Nausicaa
📅 Wednesday, 28 October | 12:25 – 12:55
Institutional demand was strong enough to keep crypto advancing in September. Every rally ran into the same wall of oil, inflation and bond yields.
The data underneath the headline tells a more nuanced story. 🧵
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Here are the top developments that stood out in September:
1️⃣ The Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time since 2023, to 3.75–4.00%
2️⃣ The Senate voted 50–49 to advance the CLARITY Act, ten votes short of the required threshold
3️⃣ The SEC created a five-year exemption for genuine tokenised US equities
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September finished with Bitcoin caught between two powerful forces: improving crypto-specific demand and adoption on one side, and unusually expensive global capital on the other.
Read more for the top 10 in this month’s edition of The Wire. 🔗
xbto.com/resources/the-wire-…
The conversation around institutional digital assets has moved past whether they belong in a portfolio. The focus now is how, and what comes next for the broader ecosystem.
Gabriel Karageorgiou, our Investment Strategist, will be moderating "Digital Assets & Blockchain: The Next Chapter of Innovation" at the World Family Office Forum Asia, hosted by @ConnectGroupHQ.
🎙️ Zann Kwan, Revo Digital Family Office @RevoDFO
🎙️ Henry Mcphie, @streamex
🎙️ Leo Chiu, @click_ventures
📅 Thursday, 15 October | 16:00 – 16:40 | Day 1
Gabriel will also deliver the keynote "Digital Assets: Speculative Bet or Strategic Allocation?"
📅 Thursday, 15 October | 16:40 – 17:00 | Day 1
📍 World Family Office Forum Asia, Hong Kong
If you're attending, we look forward to seeing you there.
What does digital asset allocation actually look like inside a portfolio construction process?
Karl Naïm, our Group Chief Commercial Officer, will be joining the Focus Session "Portfolio Construction" at @AIM_Summit alongside:
🎙️ Sabrina Denis, Janus Henderson Investors @JHIAdvisors
🎙️ Dr Ralf Seiz, Finreon AG
Moderated by Naeem Aslam, Zaye Capital Markets.
📅 Monday, 12 October | 16:35 – 17:10
Glad to be part of the Crypto Valley Association @thecryptovalley ecosystem.
Switzerland is one of the most mature regulatory and institutional environments in digital assets, and we're committed to being present within it for the long term. Through this membership with CVA, we're looking forward to engaging with the Swiss financial community and building lasting relationships across the ecosystem.
New connections in the ecosystem, new opportunities to build on. Welcome to @xbtogroup in the CVA ecosystem.
Founded in 2015, @xbtogroup has grown from a proprietary trading firm into a full-service crypto quantitative investment firm, developing risk-adjusted strategies across the alpha-beta continuum, with a strong focus on BTC.
👉 Get to know XBTO: xbto.com/
@xbtogroup is regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority and the Financial Services Regulatory Authority in Abu Dhabi, with teams in Bermuda, Miami, New York, London, Paris, and Abu Dhabi.
Bitcoin just had its strongest month since 2024. It's still down for the year, and it still lost to three other coins.
The data underneath the headline tells a more nuanced story. 🧵
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Bitcoin failed at $81,265 on August 25 and $81,480 on August 28 — the same band that rejected May's rally at $82,814. Roughly 8% of total supply was acquired in that $80,000-$82,000 zone, which also holds the 50-week moving average and the aggregate cost basis of a significant share of US ETF holders.
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The regime call: constructive on demand, constrained on price. The demand problem has eased. The price-clearing problem hasn't.
The open question for September is whether a break above $82,000 comes on strong spot volume without an accompanying open interest spike.
Full structural analysis in this month's edition of The Wire. 🔗
xbto.com/resources/the-bid-c…
XBTO is proud to be the first member of @proofoftalk's Founding Circle as its arrival in Abu Dhabi takes shape, joining as Founding Partner, Institutional Digital Asset Manager.
This extends a partnership that started with XBTO as Gold Partner in Paris, and we're proud to support Proof of Talk as it brings that same energy to Abu Dhabi. This is a market XBTO operates in directly, and exactly the kind of room worth showing up for: 2,000 decision-makers shaping the region's institutional digital asset industry.
We'll be at Louvre Abu Dhabi, December 3 & 4, 2026.
#DigitalAssets #InstitutionalCrypto #AbuDhabi #XBTO #ProofOfTalk