Bitcoin (BTC) Dips Below US$83K as Tron (TRX) Surges 10% on Solana Integration

Crypto prices remain on an unclear trajectory for now, with Bitcoin (BTC) currently trading for US$82,833 (AU$130,209), down 0.4%

Crypto prices are currently in an unclear territory, with Bitcoin (BTC) now trading for US$82,833 (AU$130,209) after a 0.4% decrease over the 24-hour period.

Most other cryptocurrencies are also trading slightly in the red, with only Ethereum (ETH) and Tron (TRX) in the green, 1.8% and 10% respectively.

The surge comes as Tron founder Justin Sun announced that TRX will soon be integrated into the Solana ecosystem.

TRX will be soon on solana. Ready to buy and collaborate 🤝

That’s quite the departure from Sun’s past statements, when he wanted to establish Tron as the “Solana killer” and make it one of the three largest cryptos by 2027.

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While other coins didn’t rally as much as Tron, another market indicator is tentatively bullish: US spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have started to see encouraging inflows.

It seems that these funds, now a measure of Bitcoin’s success through institutional adoption, have paused their outflows.

As previously reported, the US ETFs saw continued net outflows over the past few weeks, with only a couple of days in the black and most days with hundreds of millions in net outflows.

Monday marked a cautious trend reversal – the first instance of consecutive net inflows for these ETFs since February. The day saw US$274.6 million (AU$431.8 million) in net inflows, while data for Tuesday is not yet fully available.

Ethereum ETFs however, didn’t enjoy the same success, bleeding now for nine consecutive days, losing a combined US$306 million (AU$481.1 million).

But altcoins ETFs remain a relevant topic as a recent survey of 350 institutional investors by Coinbase and EY-Parthenon found. They said a majority of respondents who hold crypto do so via ETFs and many are planning to buy further altcoin ETFs, if they get approval.

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In the meantime, Polkadot (DOT) is the latest in the long list of altcoins to attract asset manager’s attention. NASDAQ has just filed a 19b-4 for a 21Shares Polkadot ETF, following an S-1 filing earlier.

Grayscale also has an application for a Polkadot ETF in the running, and there are several other applications for ETFs – including XRP, Dogecoin, Solana, Avalanche, HBAR, Cardano and Litecoin, to name a few.

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Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart said in a recent interview that they believe the chances for approval for these funds is above 50%.

He noted that Litecoin is the most likely candidate (based on its status as digital silver and similarity to Bitcoin) and Dogecoin (due to its Proof-of-Work mechanism).