This Week on Crypto Twitter: More BlackRock Banter as Ripple and Crypto.com Grow Globally

From the market perspective, crypto’s biggest talking point this week was a carry over from last week: top investment firm BlackRock’s decision to apply to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for approval of a Bitcoin spot ETF.

While the SEC has swatted away such proposals like flies for years, there’s a sense that this one’s different. It helps that BlackRock—the world’s largest asset manager with a whopping $9 trillion in assets under management—has applied for 576 ETFs and has only been rejected once.

That air of experience and confidence helped propel the price of Bitcoin to a one-year high this weekend.