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WisdomTree plans MoonPay access for WTGXX
WisdomTree and MoonPay have announced a Sept. 17 collaboration to build another U.S. access route to the WTGXX tokenized Treasury money market fund while MoonPay plans to use the fund in its stablecoin reserve management.
Summary
- WisdomTree plans MoonPay access to WTGXX for eligible U.S. investors through its regulated broker-dealer network.
- MoonPay plans to use WTGXX as part of its stablecoin reserve management under the collaboration.
- WTGXX invests in cash, short-term Treasuries, Treasury-backed repos, and registered government money market funds exclusively.
- MoonPay says its network includes more than 35 million accounts and over 1,700 partner businesses.
- WisdomTree has already enabled 24/7 trading and instant settlement for WTGXX within U.S. regulatory rules.
WisdomTree said the planned connection will use MoonPay’s blockchain technology and distribution network, which the companies said reaches more than 35 million accounts and over 1,700 partners. MoonPay has not identified a stablecoin that will hold WTGXX reserves, disclosed an allocation amount or given a date when the investor access point will become available.
MoonPay access to WTGXX remains under development
The arrangement is designed to give eligible U.S. investors another route into WTGXX outside WisdomTree’s existing direct channels. Transactions in the regulated fund will still involve WisdomTree Securities, Inc., the broker-dealer that distributes WTGXX.
MoonPay will supply technology and access to its customer network, but WisdomTree states that MoonPay is not acting as a broker-dealer or investment adviser for WTGXX. The distinction keeps the securities activity tied to WisdomTree’s regulated distribution structure.
No launch date appears in the announcement. WisdomTree describes the MoonPay access point as something it “is building,” while the technology is “expected to support” access once the planned integration is ready. Those statements describe future work and do not confirm that retail investors can buy WTGXX through MoonPay today.
Jonathan Steinberg, WisdomTree’s founder and CEO, said the companies want to create another path for eligible U.S. investors to move assets into the fund.
“Working with MoonPay as an access point can give eligible U.S. investors another path to deploy their assets into WTGXX,” Steinberg said. The wording describes the intended product structure, not a completed rollout.
MoonPay says its U.S. regulatory footprint includes a New York BitLicense, a New York Limited Purpose Trust Charter and money transmitter licenses. Its corporate description lists operations across fiat payments, crypto trading, commerce and stablecoin infrastructure.
WTGXX was reworked for stablecoin reserve eligibility
WTGXX is an open-end money market mutual fund registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Its investment objective is to generate current income while preserving capital and liquidity and maintaining a stable $1.00 net asset value per share.
The latest SEC-filed prospectus requires the fund to keep at least 99.5% of total assets in government securities, cash and fully collateralized repurchase agreements. Under normal conditions, WTGXX invests exclusively in U.S. dollar cash, short-term Treasury securities, overnight Treasury-backed repos and registered government money market funds.
WisdomTree changed the product’s name and investment policy in November 2025 specifically to address stablecoin reserve use. An SEC-filed notice said the changes were intended to make the fund an eligible investment option for payment stablecoin issuers seeking to comply with the GENIUS Act and related rules.
The current prospectus carries the same language. It says WTGXX invests in a manner intended to satisfy the types of eligible reserve assets permitted for payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act. That does not mean every stablecoin issuer can automatically use the fund without considering its own regulatory requirements.
At June 30, WTGXX held 80.9% of net assets in U.S. government obligations and 19.3% in repurchase agreements. Treasury bills accounted for 64.1%, while a floating-rate Treasury note represented 16.8%. Its holdings included overnight repos with institutions such as Deutsche Bank.
The fund charges a 0.25% annual expense ratio. Its fiscal-year return through June 30 was 3.75%, compared with 3.90% for the ICE U.S. 1-Month Treasury Bill Index. Past returns do not establish what future WTGXX investors will earn.
WisdomTree already offers WTGXX around-the-clock liquidity
Before the MoonPay agreement, WisdomTree had expanded how investors could move in and out of WTGXX.
In February, the company launched 24/7 secondary trading and instant settlement for WTGXX after receiving SEC exemptive relief. WisdomTree Securities acts as principal in that structure, with eligible transactions settling against USDC outside conventional securities-market hours.
By June, WisdomTree had reduced secondary-market redemption commissions for its Instant Liquidity service to zero basis points. The service operates through WisdomTree Connect and allows qualifying investors to access WTGXX liquidity around the clock.
WTGXX has entered other treasury and blockchain workflows during 2026. WisdomTree reported that Plume and Toku used the fund in a payroll pilot, LotusUSD referenced it within a reserve framework, and Stable Sea made it available for corporate treasury use.
As earlier corporate cash coverage reported, Stable Sea expanded its WisdomTree offering in August to include two more digital funds alongside WTGXX. Eligible businesses place orders through WisdomTree Securities while using Stable Sea’s interface.
The SEC has independently classified WTGXX among the money market funds it identifies as tokenized. The regulator’s April statistics included WTGXX alongside products from Franklin Templeton, Fidelity, Dreyfus and M3Sixty whose ownership records are maintained at least partly through crypto networks.
WTGXX still carries ordinary money market and technology risks. WisdomTree warns that investors can lose money, the $1 share value is not guaranteed, and the fund is neither a bank account nor FDIC-insured. The prospectus separately notes risks connected with blockchain technology, including theft, inaccessibility and regulatory changes.
MoonPay has already connected another tokenized fund
The WisdomTree agreement is not MoonPay’s first connection to a regulated tokenized money market product.
In June, Franklin Templeton connected its BENJI fund with MoonPay Trade for institutional users. As prior MoonPay fund coverage reported, that arrangement allows eligible institutions to exchange stablecoins such as USDC and USDT for tokenized fund shares through MoonPay’s onchain trading infrastructure.
MoonPay Trade was introduced in May as an institutional platform covering tokenized assets, stablecoin liquidity and decentralized finance connections. Earlier institutional platform coverage reported that the service supports functions including tokenized fund subscriptions, collateral transfers and onchain lending.
The WisdomTree collaboration differs in its stated distribution plan because the companies are targeting eligible individual investors in the U.S. through WisdomTree’s broker-dealer structure. MoonPay’s role in WTGXX stablecoin reserve management creates a second part of the relationship beyond investor access.
WisdomTree has described the deal as a possible base for future work covering other tokenized funds and international markets. Caroline D. Pham, CEO of MoonPay Institutional, said the relationship shows how blockchain infrastructure can be used with regulated U.S. investment products.
The companies have not named any additional fund, country or launch schedule for that potential work. Their Sept. 17 announcement similarly does not specify which MoonPay-issued or supported stablecoin would use WTGXX, how much of its reserves could be allocated to the fund, or when those reserve purchases would begin.
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Bitcoin Could Get More Support Than Gold as ETF Hedging Eases: JPMorgan
JPMorgan analysts led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou said in a note this week that Bitcoin (BTC) could draw more price support than gold if hedging demand in the ETF market eases, with short interest in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) sitting near its highest level of the year.
IBIT’s put-to-call open interest ratio runs above that of the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD), which the analysts read as heavier hedging around Bitcoin, while short interest in GLD sits below its historical average.
Bitcoin Vs. Gold
Bitcoin still faces a more skeptical positioning backdrop than gold despite recent inflows and a build-up of futures positioning, the note said. Moreover, figures reported by FINRA and compiled by MarketBeat put IBIT’s short base at 45.9 million shares as of the August 31 settlement date, the highest reading of 2026 and up 23.8% from 37.1 million two weeks earlier.
The position equals 3.53% of the float and would take 0.6 days of the fund’s average trading volume, about 53 million shares, to cover. At the end of March, the short base stood near 13 million shares, the year’s low.
Bitcoin and gold funds both drew inflows after the Federal Reserve’s late-July meeting, when the debasement trade returned, according to the note. That’s part of the reason behind the rally that carried Bitcoin toward $80,000 and gold near $4,600 an ounce as investors rotated into scarce assets on US fiscal concerns.
However, momentum faded over the past week as inflation-adjusted bond yields rose and the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act in a procedural vote that fell short of the 60 votes needed, the analysts wrote. Gold ETFs have recovered all of their outflows from earlier this year, the note said, while Bitcoin funds have recaptured about half.
Panigirtzoglou’s team has run the Bitcoin-gold comparison before. In February, with crypto assets under pressure, the analysts put a volatility-adjusted comparison to gold at $266,000 per Bitcoin, in their words, “an unrealistic target for this year” but one that “shows the upside potential over the long term once negative sentiment is reversed.”
Bitcoin traded near $76,500 on Thursday, little changed over the past 24 hours, per CoinGecko data.
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Moreover, US spot Bitcoin ETFs have swung hard this month, posting $236 million in outflows on September 1 before taking in $731 million on September 3, their strongest day since January, with IBIT alone accounting for roughly $454 million.
Net assets across the funds stood at $103.3 billion in early September, about 6% of Bitcoin’s market capitalization, per SoSoValue data.
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A slot is the short window in which a designated validator can add a block. At 250 milliseconds, Solana will target four slots each second, up from about 3.3, giving wallets, exchanges and trading applications a more current view of the network.
Validators, or entities that supply computing power to maintain any blockchain network, will remain leaders for four consecutive slots. The faster clock therefore reduces each leader’s control window from 1.2 seconds to one second, handing transaction-ordering power to the next validator sooner.
That matters for applications such as oracle-powered markets and automated market makers, where stale prices or a few hundred milliseconds of uncertainty can affect whether a transaction executes as intended.
Users should see transaction updates sooner, while swaps have a smaller window in which the market can move before they reach the network. That can mean fewer failed trades and less chance of receiving a materially different price than expected.
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Such an attack would not endanger mainnet funds. Any potential attack would only target “Sepolia,” where test ether has no meaningful cost, but could leave blocks without transaction payloads and derail the infrastructure testing needed before Glamsterdam reaches Ethereum itself.
What is Glamsterdam?
Glamsterdam is Ethereum’s next major upgrade, designed to fit more activity into each block without overwhelming the computers that verify it. Together with changes to gas pricing, the upgrade is intended to support a block gas limit of about 200 million, creating room for more payments and trades before users begin bidding fees higher.
The upgrade moves the relationship between validators and specialized block builders into Ethereum’s protocol. Builders assemble transaction blocks and compete to supply them. Once a validator accepts the winning bid, the builder is expected to reveal the underlying transactions.
And that process becomes easy to abuse on a free test network. A malicious operator can submit bids far above every legitimate builder, win repeatedly and then withhold the promised payload.
Developers said existing safeguards typically fall back to locally built blocks only after several payloads go missing.
Potuz added that clients also need to identify and reject individual builders so an attacker cannot return under a new identity and continue winning.
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“Corporate treasuries were a big buyer through 2025, and they have stepped back,” Glassnode said. “Their average entry, the Corporate Treasury Cost Basis, sits at $80.5K, about 6% above spot, so the group as a whole is under water.”
Bitcoin topped that level recently but failed to keep gains.

Data source Bitcoin Treasuries now puts public-company holdings at about 1.22 million BTC across 181 listed firms. Strategy remains the dominant buyer and holder, with about 845,050 BTC. Tokyo-listed Metaplanet is among the next-largest corporate stacks. As a group, those treasuries are still underwater at current prices.
“A reclaim of $80.5K would put the treasuries back in profit and remove one layer of overhead supply; until then their entry is one more ceiling,” Glassnode added.
Other demand indicators paint a mixed picture
U.S.-listed spot bitcoin ETFs have attracted billions of dollars since early August, signaling a rebound in institutional demand for the cryptocurrency. However, they remain roughly $1 billion short of turning positive on a year-to-date basis, according to data source SoSoValue.
The Coinbase premium indicator has remained mostly negative since May, aside from a brief move into positive territory on Sept. 5, according to data from CoinGlass. A negative reading means bitcoin is trading at a discount on Coinbase relative to prices on offshore exchange Binance, suggesting that U.S. buyers are showing weaker demand than traders elsewhere.
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The BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted six to three to hold, with three members wanting an immediate hike. A day earlier, the Federal Reserve raised US rates to 4%.
Why the Fed Hiked and the BoE Didn’t
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate a quarter point to a range of 3.75% to 4% on September 16. It was the first US rate hike since 2023, coming a day before the BoE’s own decision.
Both central banks are responding to the same shock. Energy prices have surged since the Middle East conflict disrupted supply. Brent crude has climbed above $100 a barrel, lifting UK inflation to 3.1% in August, up from 2.9% in July.
Governor Andrew Bailey argues rates cannot fix an oil-driven price shock directly. He also sees little evidence that higher energy costs are spreading into wages. The Fed, facing a stronger labor market and its own inflation concerns, chose to act instead of waiting.
Economists at Dutch bank ING say the UK carries less wage-spiral risk now than in 2022. That gives the BoE more room to wait before raising rates.
Why Households Are Already Feeling It
UK households are not waiting for a formal hike to feel the cost. The average five-year mortgage rate has climbed to 5.87%, its highest level since November 2023. Lenders are already pricing in the chance of tighter policy ahead.
That leaves the BoE balancing two risks. Moving too fast could squeeze an already fragile economy. Waiting too long risks letting the energy shock harden into a lasting wage-price spiral.
Three policymakers already want a hike, and the Fed just moved the opposite way. If energy prices stay elevated, 3.75% may not be the final stop this year.
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