South Korea-based KB Financial Group signed a strategic partnership agreement with Pantera Capital on April 28 in Seoul. Pantera Capital, a U.S.-based blockchain venture capital and hedge fund firm founded in 2003, manages approximately $5.2 billion in assets and launched the first Bitcoin-focused i

According to ChainCatcher, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 both closed at record highs this month as Wall Street rallied. Hedge funds attracted $45 billion in inflows during the first quarter of 2026, marking the highest quarterly inflow since 2007, with total industry assets reaching $5.2

According to Adrian Fritz, chief investment officer at 21Shares, Bitcoin spot ETFs have attracted nearly $2 billion in inflows year-to-date in 2026, strengthening Bitcoin's position in institutional asset allocation despite prices remaining below $80,000. Inflows have come from retail investors, ins

According to regulators including the Federal Reserve and Bank of England, hedge funds have accumulated a record $6.6 trillion in leverage to finance bets on U.S. Treasuries, with short positions in Treasury futures reaching historic extremes. The IMF's April 2026 report flagged that some hedge fund

Gate News message, April 25 — Peng Fu, newly appointed chief economist at XinHuo Group, outlined his analysis of Bitcoin's underlying business logic in a series of posts on X today. According to Fu, the commercial models of Bitcoin perpetual futures and ETFs are fundamentally identical to the

Gate News message, April 25 — Yiming Zhang, a senior quantitative researcher at Jump Trading, has secured seed funding from hedge fund giant Millennium Management to launch his own external management operation, according to BusinessInsider. Zhang will operate as an external manager and is subject t

Gate News message, April 24 — LTP, a leading global institutional digital asset prime brokerage, has secured a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) License from the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). This milestone marks LTP's official entry into the Middle East and North Africa

Gate News message, April 24 — Avis (ticker: CAR), an auto rental company, experienced extreme volatility on April 21, with its stock price collapsing nearly 70% after surging more than 600% over the preceding period. The stock peaked at $713.97 on April 21 before the sharp reversal. The dramatic mo

Gate News message, April 23 — CME Group reported record first-quarter 2026 financial results, with revenue reaching $1.9 billion, a 14% increase year-on-year, as trading volumes surged across all asset classes. The derivatives exchange posted net income of $1.2 billion and diluted earnings per

Gate News message, April 23 — Yiming Zhang, a senior quantitative researcher who spent 17 years at Jump Trading, has secured seed funding from Millennium Management, a major hedge fund, to launch operations as an external manager (an independent fund manager operating within the firm's