Helene Braun

Helene Braun

Helene is a New York-based news reporter at CoinDesk, covering news about Wall Street, the rise of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and updates on crypto exchanges. She is also the co-host of CoinDesk's Markets Daily show on Spotify and Youtube. Helene is a recent graduate of New York University's business and economic reporting program and has appeared on CBS News, YahooFinance and Nasdaq TradeTalks. She holds BTC and ETH.

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Fidelity Adds Staking to Ether ETF Application, Sending LIDO Up 9%
The asset manager filed to launch an ethereum fund in November.
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Fidelity Investments sign on a building
Fidelity’s Bitcoin Fund Becomes Fifth Most Popular of All ETFs in 2024
The Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund has attracted $6.9 billion from investors since its launch in January, the fifth-highest amount of all exchange-traded funds.
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Bitcoin ETFs' Hot Start Seems Largely Driven by Retail Investors
Data shows that the average trade size for the biggest spot bitcoin ETF, BlackRock’s IBIT, hovers around $13,000, suggesting that a big chunk of its demand is coming from nonp...
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Markets Daily Wide
CoinDesk Markets Week in Review
CoinDesk Indices presents notable data insights from the week, followed by additional analysis from an industry expert.
Markets Daily Wide
Flows into VanEck's Bitcoin ETF are picking up (Shutterstock)
Ether ETFs Could Be Bigger Than Bitcoin ETFs, Says VanEck
The issuer of the VanEck Bitcoin Trust this week dropped its management fee to zero for a limited time in an attempt to attract more capital to that fund.
Flows into VanEck's Bitcoin ETF are picking up (Shutterstock)
Markets Daily Wide
Crypto Update | Why Are Traders Shorting Ethereum? With John Lo
The latest price moves and insights with Helene Braun and guest John Lo, managing partner of digital assets at Recharge Capital.
Markets Daily Wide
Markets Daily Wide
Crypto Update | Dencun Is a Milestone, But the Real Price Driver Is Ether ETF Hope, Says Brian Dixon
The latest price moves and insights with Helene Braun and guest Brian Dixon, CEO of Off the Chain Capital.
Markets Daily Wide
Canadian rapper Drake on Tuesday shared a clip of Michael Saylor’s interview on CNBC on his Instagram account, reaching over 146 million followers. (Charito Yap/Flickr)
Rapper Drake Posts Michael Saylor's Bitcoin Video to His 146M Instagram Followers
Michael Saylor said that bitcoin will “eat gold” in an interview with CNBC on Monday.
Canadian rapper Drake on Tuesday shared a clip of Michael Saylor’s interview on CNBC on his Instagram account, reaching over 146 million followers. (Charito Yap/Flickr)
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VanEck Temporarily Cuts Bitcoin ETF Fee to Zero After Lagging in Assets
HODL, VanEck’s spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), has so far attracted a little over $305 million in assets, which is far below most of its competitors.
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MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said bitcoin will be a much more valuable asset than gold in the future. (Photo by Marco Bello/Getty Images)
'Bitcoin Is Going to Eat Gold': MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor
MicroStrategy is the owner of 205,000 bitcoin worth nearly $15 billion at the current per token price of $72,000.
MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said bitcoin will be a much more valuable asset than gold in the future. (Photo by Marco Bello/Getty Images)