The acquisition expands Goldman’s defined-outcome ETF business and brings the bank deeper into crypto-linked investment products.
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Nate Kostar, a writer at Cointelegraph, is a writer based in Mexico City. He’s the author of the non-fiction book The Renaissance Man Project, along with several albums and collections of poetry. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of New Orleans and lives with his wife and their Chihuahua, Chia. His crypto holdings in Bitcoin and Solana exceed Cointelegraph’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
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