SEC Approves First 3x Bitcoin and Ether Funds

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the first US products offering three times the daily returns of bitcoin and ether, granting CBOE's request to list the leveraged funds. Until now, US crypto funds were capped at 2X leverage. The products will be operated by Volatility Shares and will use regulated bitcoin and ether futures rather than actual bitcoin or ether. The funds are not trading yet, and they target three times a daily move rather than three times bitcoin's long-term performance, meaning the leverage resets every day and creates massive volatility decay. In an example, a $100 investment rises 30% to $130 on a day bitcoin gains 10%, then falls 30% to $91 on a day bitcoin drops 10%, leaving the 3X ETF down 9% while bitcoin itself finishes down 1%.

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SEC approves first 3x leveraged bitcoin futures funds, expanding regulated access but with volatility decay risk.

Ethereum
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SEC approves first 3x leveraged ether futures funds, expanding regulated access but with volatility decay risk.

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