Building the World's Largest Crypto Index Fund

Today we’re joined by Bitwise Co-Founder & CTO, Hong Kim to discuss how Bitwise has built the world's largest crypto index fund and the future of crypto ETF's and institutional onboarding into crypto.

In this episode we discuss: 

• Bitwise metrics & early days 
• ETF’s brand/transparency importance 
• Crypto native branding ETFs
• Bitwise’s customer profile  
• Bitwise report
• What is a financial advisor?
• ETF performance: BTC vs ETH
• Wirehouse/financial advisors relationships
• Wealth transfers among demos
• BTC outperformance
• Bitcoin ETF BTC absorption risks
• ETH ETF staking/restaking

And much more—enjoy!

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Chapters:
(00:00) Introduction

(01:25) Bitwise metrics & early days 

(09:20) ETF’s brand/transparency importance 

(16:31) Crypto native branding ETFs

(20:39) Bitwise’s customer profile  

(24:39) Bitwise report

(29:43) What is a financial advisor?

(32:08) ETF performance: BTC vs ETH

(44:01) Wirehouse/financial advisors relationships

(47:26) Wealth transfers among demos

(48:43) BTC outperformance

(50:36) Bitcoin ETF BTC absorption risks

(59:52) ETH ETF staking/restaking

(1:03:53) Outro

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Host

Boxer

Wizard relations @DuneAnalytics. The data must flow.

Host

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hildobby

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