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The cryptocurrency area has been in a bear market for the previous few months, however some business specialists consider it will emerge stronger.

Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald advised Blockworks in an interview that she believes the cryptocurrency market will emerge stronger from the ongoing crypto winter. 

The crypto market has misplaced greater than 60% of its worth over the previous 9 months. The whole cryptocurrency market cap dropped from the all-time excessive of $3 trillion to at present stand round $1 trillion. Wald said that;

“Having been via a pair cycles now, I feel what’s most attention-grabbing to me that I additionally suppose we’ll see is simply all the innovation that comes out of bear markets. There’s at all times a cleaning that occurs of firms that weren’t well-suited from a foundational degree, that weren’t robust, and that had been fads, not tendencies.

So we’ll see numerous blockchains come out stronger than ever, they usually’ll have extra of a differentiated placement in all people’s minds, reasonably than what I really feel for the previous yr has been an undifferentiated understanding in the retail market of ‘crypto’ encompassing all the pieces. There will be extra of an understanding of who is robust, who must be watched and who needs to be part of which ecosystem and why.”

The United States Securities and     Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected quite a few Bitcoin spot ETF proposals, together with these submitted by Valkyrie. However, the CEO mentioned she shouldn’t be giving up on gaining the approval wanted to listing the spot Bitcoin ETF. she mentioned;

“We completely are nonetheless working towards our objective of bringing the holy grail — a spot bitcoin ETF — to market, particularly when contemplating how a lot demand bitcoin futures ETFs have seen.

We nonetheless suppose that till a crypto trade registers with the SEC, we’re not going to see spot bitcoin ETF approval. So we’re positively, sadly, in a holding sample there ready for an trade. Exchanges can take 12 to 18 months for approval as soon as registering with the SEC. Unfortunately, that’s most likely a practical timeline.”

Bitcoin is buying and selling above the $22k degree after recovering from the losses it recorded earlier this week.