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Unlike ETFs, SMAs give you direct ownership of your assets, which enables greater portfolio customization to meet your specific risk/return needs goals. That is, SMAs can be custom-tailored by your investment manager to meet your unique requirements – risk tolerance, investment horizon, financial goals and more. Direct ownership also facilitates more transparent and straightforward tax management strategies, such as tax-loss harvesting. Finally, SMAs are custody-agnostic, allowing investors to choose from a wide variety of custodians and venues ranging from Anchorage, BitGo, Coinbase and Kraken. Read the full article here

Legion, describing itself as a “merit-based ICO platform,” has emerged from stealth and announced a $2 million raise from founders, accelerators and angels. Backers include Cyber Fund, AllianceDAO, Delphi Labs, CoinGecko, Mike Dudas, Alex Svanevik, Peter Smith, Maggie Love, Jon Wu, Ryan Watkins and LongHash. According to the team: “The platform plans to become MiCA compliant and provide investment access to non-accredited investors. By ranking investors by merit (on-chain and off-chain reputation), rather than net-wealth, Legion says teams can build higher quality communities, and short-term holders are disincentivized.” Read the full article here

Bitcoin (BTC), however, has been unable to get out of its own way. Though recovering nicely from the early August panic that briefly took prices below $50,000, bitcoin at its current $60,800 is far below an all-time high of around $73,500 touched all the way back in March. Read the full article here

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One year ago, HashKey Capital forecast that ether liquid-staking derivatives would double from their August 2023 total value locked to $44 billion by August 2025. Halfway through, it looks like things are on track. The TVL of Ether LSDs hit $36.25 billion, with Lido claiming a 70% market share, according to data from DeFiLlama. Despite relatively stagnant ETH prices recently, demand for staking continues to rise, with the validator entry queue surging to an all-time high of around 7,400, HashKey Capital analysts wrote in a note to CoinDesk. “However, annualized staking yields have remained at around 3.5% for the past…

Crypto over-the-counter (OTC) desks, which act as an intermediary between two trading parties without revealing information about the trade to the public, now hold 368,000 bitcoin (BTC) worth over $22 billion, according to data tracking firm CryptoQuant. Read the full article here

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The machines were operating without the required BaFin permission and posed money laundering risks, the statement said. BaFin officials with the support of the police and the Deutsche Bundesbank took action against operators in a total of 35 locations. Cash amounting to almost 250,000 euros ($278,124) was confiscated. Read the full article here

It sacked Josh Lehman, the foundation’s executive director since 2021, and replaced him, on an interim basis, with Christopher Colby, founder of a prediction market startup called Alphabet. The board also scrapped a fundraising proposal, backed by Lehman, to create a new layer-2 blockchain on top of Ethereum (using a software development kit from the Cosmos ecosystem). Read the full article here

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