The U.S. regulatory crackdown is pushing American crypto firms to look for opportunities overseas, jpmorgan says. The clampdown has also “deterred institutional investors from engaging with crypto.”
, as a proactive measure in response to rising U.S. regulatory pressures,” analysts led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou wrote.
The crackdown has increased pressure on crypto firms, JPMorgan said, but more importantly there is still no clarity on important issues such as ether’s status as a security, which will ultimately impact the cryptocurrency’s demand and liquidity. The regulatory clampdown has also “deterred institutional investors from engaging with crypto,” and because of this investors have been buying gold rather than bitcoin as a hedge against a potential “catastrophic scenario” in the wake of theBitcoin’s rally this year appears to have been driven by retail buying rather than institutional investors, the bank said. The largest cryptocurrency has gained 76% year-to-date.
Another catalyst for bitcoin’s outperformance has been Bitcoin Ordinals, the report added. Ordinals is a new protocol that allows
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