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Daily-reset ETFs and notes using leverage or derivatives to multiply an index, sector, or single stock's daily return, with compounding effects over time.
VS Trust's 3x bitcoin and ether funds won SEC approval of their exchange-listing rules on Oct. 2, moving daily-reset leverage closer to trading. Because the triple exposure resets every session, a holder can be right about bitcoin for months and still lose money.
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Ripple Prime writes total return swaps for US leveraged ETFs and collects the financing fees, while XRP fell more than 8% in a week to $1.39. Swap clients need no XRP, so the revenue builds Ripple's value without adding token demand.
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Ripple Prime will act as prime broker, clearer and lender to funds of Brevan Howard, a $35 billion manager whose affiliated funds invested in Ripple in 2025. That makes those funds both Ripple's investors and its borrowers, though neither firm disclosed how much business moves.
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Ripple is financing leveraged stock ETFs through its prime brokerage arm, a business it entered by buying Hidden Road for $1.25 billion. The fees come with exposure to client funds that one large move in a single stock can wipe out.
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Korean investors put $477 million into two defensive US ETFs in September, nearly three times the $168 million sent to a triple-leveraged chip fund. Their $589 million of net buying covers about 7.5% of the $7.8 billion rise in US holdings since August, so price gains account for the rest.
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Jane Street already trades leveraged ETFs and creates their shares. Now it is writing the total return swaps inside them, a business a handful of banks have had to themselves.
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The Bank of Korea's September policy report puts the two chipmakers at nearly half the Kospi's market value. It warns that daily rebalancing in leveraged products can carry price moves between Hong Kong and Seoul.
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Individuals net sold 459.8 billion won across five semiconductor ETFs in the first eleven days of September and put 90.1 billion won into the gold, nuclear, battery and power funds credited with the rotation.
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Korean investors turned net sellers of US equities in the first eleven days of September, but take out the $677.44 million of SOXL they sold and the rest of the book was a net purchase of $546.43 million.
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From August 19 the Financial Services Commission and the Korea Exchange will meter access to single-stock leveraged ETFs with simulated trading, coursework and a 30 million won cash floor. Retail leverage becomes a licensed activity, priced in hours and idle cash.
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