The UK FCA proposed allowing authorized investment funds to allocate up to 10% of assets to crypto ETNs, expanding regulated crypto exposure while maintaining retail investor safeguards

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10% is enough to make BTC/ETH ETNs a standard sleeve in UK multi-asset UCITS/NURS, especially because the FCA already frames the ETN wrapper like physical gold rather than a direct crypto holding. The asymmetry matters: QIS gets no cap, while LTAF/FAIF structures are blocked, so professional money can size exposure while retail wrappers get controlled beta through issuers like BlackRock, 21Shares, Bitwise and WisdomTree. Direct coins stay out until the FCA works through cryptoasset safeguarding, so DeFi custody and on-chain settlement remain irrelevant to this flow for now.

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