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Industry analysts see Trump’s presidential win as a green light for more than half a dozen proposed crypto ETFs waiting on regulatory approval to list in the US.

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In November, shortly after Trump’s victory in the US presidential race, Sigel reportedly said the odds of the US greenlighting a SOL ETF in 2025 are now “overwhelmingly high.”

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During the US elections in November, betting platforms proved more accurate than traditional polling, forecasting not only Trump’s win but also his party’s sweep of the US House and Senate.

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Bettors are wagering that 2025 will be a banner year for cryptocurrency markets, with BTC and ETH hitting all-time highs and several new types of crypto ETFs listing in the US.

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Coinbase is considering making tokenized shares of its stock available to United States users of Base, its Ethereum layer-2 network, Base developer Jesse Pollak said in a post on the X platform.

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Tokenized COIN shares are already available to non-US users through protocols such as Backed, a tokenized real-world assets (RWA) platform, Pollak said in a Jan. 3 X post.

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COIN on Base is “something we are looking into in the new year,” Pollack said, adding that eventually, “every asset in the world will be on Base.”

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Pollak said Coinbase has “no concrete plans right now” and is in “an exploratory phase” as the exchange works to understand how to navigate US regulations.

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“We need regulatory clarity and improvements that embrace onchain as an open platform to unlock this for everyone,” Pollack added.

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Collectively, tokenized RWAs — including tokenized securities — represent a $30 trillion market opportunity globally, Colin Butler, Polygon’s global head of institutional capital, told Cointelegraph in an August interview.

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Collectively, tokenized RWAs — including tokenized securities — represent a $30 trillion market opportunity globally, Colin Butler, Polygon’s global head of institutional capital, told Cointelegraph in an August interview.

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Criminals can now cross-check the data with other governmental public records and pinpoint addresses. Thanks to the total transparency from the Skattelister, “crypto hodlers are particularly vulnerable to theft,” said Mellerud.

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Norwegian Hashlabs Mining co-founder Jaran Mellerud told Cointelegraph that “criminals are likely happy to get information served to them by the newspapers, who create their own filtered list of the richest crypto holders.”

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As Bitcoin has surpassed $100,000 into new all-time highs, local media has been publishing lists of the nation’s biggest crypto holders. Potentially a candidate for such a list, prominent Norwegian pseudonymous Bitcoin community advocate Hodlonaut condemned this practice on X:

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According to the Skatteetaten, the Norwegian tax office, at least 48,000 Norwegians have declared that they own cryptocurrencies. The public online governmental portal, called the Skattelister, is accessible by anybody over 16 years old.

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While overall numbers of physical attacks are relatively low, the crypto community fears these attacks may increase as the number of crypto millionaires surges due to Bitcoin’s surging price.

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While that’s poor operational security for any Bitcoiner, Wall also pointed to the Swedish financial transparency policy as a big factor, as criminals could check their total wealth and retrieve their addresses through the governmental open data.

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According to prominent Swedish Bitcoiner Eric Wall, a recurring pattern in these cases is that “the victims had livestreamed a podcast about Bitcoin/crypto days before their assault or mentioned Bitcoin in a public context.”

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In Sweden, a string of assaults in recent years has seen victims brutally attacked for their Bitcoin holdings. On Nov. 8, 2023, Aftonbladet reported that four masked men tied up a Swedish couple, assaulting them with knives. One victim had to be airlifted by helicopter to the nearest hospital.

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To escape, the victim jumped from a second-floor balcony, risking serious injury. Although he sustained wounds, the 40-year-old survived the ordeal.

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