ETFs and high-net-worth retail accounts opened Bitcoin to institutions, but the influx was modest. Derivatives and the sheer size of the market make price manipulation harder, flattening volatility while also limiting upside.
Robinhood and Coinbase have invested because Lighter offers a bridge between traditional brokerage services and DeFi, but institutional participation requires on-chain KYC and regulatory-friendly designs to overcome the cold-start liquidity problem.
Nang clarifies why retail traders are largely invisible to the market, how institutions profit from order-flow, and why the rise of meme stocks changed the dynamics slightly.
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