By Isaac • May 30, 2026 10:17 am •
Demand for the biggest crypto assets has not gone away. It has gotten picky.
Two threads from May 29 show the same instinct from different angles. Bitcoin buyers are reaching for downside protection, and XRP traders are bidding a bounce that keeps running into the same wall.
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Start with Bitcoin. Calamos told CoinDesk that a slice of investors would rather hold a protected Bitcoin structure than buy spot BTC outright.
The pitch is exposure with guardrails. Matt Kaufman of Calamos laid out the thinking in a CoinDesk post.
“We’re seeing people move into protected Bitcoin, the ability to get access to the price movement of Bitcoin, but with guardrails.”
Matt Kaufman of @Calamos discusses why
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