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Goldman Sachs’ $2.36B Crypto Disclosure Validates Institutional Participation
We view Goldman Sachs’ disclosure of roughly $2.36 billion in crypto exposure as a powerful validation of digital assets’ maturation into mainstream finance, especially given the bank’s scale and historic caution toward the sector.
According to its Q4 2025 SEC 13F filing, Goldman Sachs holds approximately $1.1 billion in Bitcoin and $1.0 billion in Ethereum, alongside $153 million in XRP and $108 million in Solana, all via regulated spot ETF positions rather than direct token custody.
While this allocation represents a modest 0.33 percent of Goldman’s reported portfolio, the structure of these positions highlights a nuanced shift toward infrastructure-backed participation rather than pure speculation.
The near-equal weighting between Bitcoin and Ethereum, a divergence from traditional market-cap-biased institutional models, underscores growing confidence in both store-of-value and smart-contract ecosystems.
In the near term, this revelation is likely to bolster positive price sentiment for Bitcoin and Ethereum as core holdings and signal ongoing institutional interest during periods of volatility.
The inclusion of XRP and Solana exposure also injects targeted confidence into these ecosystems, enhancing visibility for regulated liquidity flows that could support broader adoption and deeper market depth.
Overall, Goldman Sachs’ approach reinforces a maturing institutional thesis for digital assets.
By participating through compliant vehicles like ETFs, major financial players are helping forge a path for steadier capital allocation trends, enhanced liquidity and resilient market development across the crypto industry.
Gracy Chen, CEO at Bitget
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MegaETH Mainnet Signals a New Phase in Ethereum Scalability
We view MegaETH’s mainnet launch as a bold and welcome step forward in Ethereum’s scaling journey, demonstrating that aggressive Layer-2 optimizations can deliver real-time performance while preserving Ethereum’s security and settlement model.
The network has gone live with ambitious throughput targets, aiming for 50,000 transactions per second and ultra-low latency (as fast as 10-millisecond block times), marking a meaningful evolution in how blockchains approach speed and responsiveness.
Unlike typical rollups that focus on throughput or cost reduction alone, MegaETH’s performance-first design is part of a broader industry shift toward specialized execution environments anchored to Ethereum that can handle demanding, latency-sensitive applications.
By delivering near-real-time interactions and high transaction capacity without sacrificing settlement security, MegaETH enriches the ongoing debate on how best to scale Ethereum’s ecosystem.
For developers and liquidity providers, this launch expands optionality and could attract innovative apps across DeFi, gaming, high-frequency finance, and beyond to environments that combine speed with Ethereum compatibility.
As the ecosystem grows, monitoring early usage metrics, TVL inflows, developer engagement, and on-chain activity on MegaETH will be key in assessing its impact and potential to spill over into broader sentiment for Ethereum and related infrastructure.
In the medium term, this development signals that real-time execution layers are becoming a meaningful part of Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, offering complementary paths that accelerate mainstream adoption without forcing trade-offs in core trust assumptions.
Ryan Lee, Chief Analyst at Bitget
Disclosure:This article does not contain investment advice or recommendations. Every investment and trading move involves risk, and readers should conduct their own research when making a decision.
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