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🧊Is Silver Hotter Than Bitcoin?
Plus, Blackrock wants to tokenize the S&P 500.
Ivan
September 12, 2025
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Bitcoin is underperforming physical gold, but now it has also started underperforming physical silver. What is going on?
BlackRock is charging on with its tokenization plans and wants to bring the entirety of the S&P 500 on-chain. How will that work?
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TOP STORY
Silver zoomed to its 14-year high on Thursday, spurring a similar rise in cryptocurrencies linked to the precious metal.
Spot silver was up 1.22% to $42.07 per ounce as of this writing, matching levels last touched in January 2011.
The gains trickled down to physical silver-backed coins, such as Kinesis Silver.
The latest spike pushed its year-to-date gains to over 33%, according to CoinMarketCap, higher than Bitcoin but slightly trailing Ethereum.
Where does BTC go from here compared to silver?
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BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, is reportedly exploring ways to tokenize its exchange-traded funds, the latest in a broader Wall Street effort to bring real-world assets onto blockchains.
The move would be subject to regulatory approval, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Put simply, this would mean that the fund shares, which are normally traded on stock exchanges during market hours, will be issued as tokens on the blockchain.
How exactly would this work?
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