{"id":58208,"date":"2025-11-12T23:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=58208"},"modified":"2025-11-12T23:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:01:31","slug":"exclusive-when-volatility-rises-income-rises-how-chicagos-etf-managers-are-monetizing-bitcoin-volatility-with-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=58208","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: &#8216;When Volatility Rises, Income Rises,&#8217; How Chicago&#8217;s ETF Managers Are Monetizing Bitcoin Volatility With Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Chicago&#8217;s deep roots in options trading and market infrastructure are fast turning it into the epicenter of the next wave in crypto ETFs, said panelists at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/fintech-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Benzinga Fintech Day &amp; Awards 2025<\/a><\/strong>, featuring Quantify Funds CEO <strong>David Dziekanski<\/strong>, Kelly Intelligence founder <strong>Kevin Kelly<\/strong>, and Cyber Hornet ETF&#8217;s Co-Founder <strong>Mike Willis<\/strong>. Together, the trio outlined how Chicago&#8217;s financial DNA \u2014 options, execution tech, and advisory wealth management \u2014 is powering a bridge between traditional finance and the digital-asset frontier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/financing\/25\/11\/48788808\/exclusive-fintech-vcs-shift-from-ai-hype-to-real-fundamentals-as-growth-at-all-costs-ends\">EXCLUSIVE: Fintech VCs Shift From AI Hype To Real Fundamentals As \u2018Growth At All Costs\u2019 Ends<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blending Bitcoin With Traditional Markets<\/h2>\n<p>Willis said <strong>Cyber Hornet\u2019s S&amp;P 500 and Bitcoin 75\/25 Strategy ETF<\/strong>\u00a0(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BBB\">BBB<\/a>) combines 75% S&amp;P 500 exposure with 25% Bitcoin, designed for \u201cthe Bitcoin-curious\u201d investor base among financial advisers. The idea, he noted, is to smooth the volatility that scares many wealth managers while still offering meaningful upside if Bitcoin rallies. The fund initially launched with Bitcoin futures to avoid custody risks, but plans to shift to spot holdings in its next update.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Monetizing Crypto Volatility With Options<\/h2>\n<p>Kelly, whose firm oversees the <strong>Amplify Bitcoin 2% Monthly Option Income ETF<\/strong> (BATS:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BITY\">BITY<\/a>) and <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong>the Amplify Bitcoin Max &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/etfs\/specialty-etfs\/25\/11\/48822181\/exclusive-when-volatility-rises-income-rises-how-chicagos-etf-managers-are-monetizing-bitcoin?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"EXCLUSIVE:\" volatility rises income how chicago etf managers are monetizing bitcoin with options>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago&#8217;s deep roots in options trading and market infrastructure are fast turning it into the epicenter of the next wave in crypto ETFs, said panelists at\u00a0Benzinga Fintech Day &amp; Awards 2025, featuring Quantify Funds CEO David Dziekanski, Kelly Intelligence founder Kevin Kelly, and Cyber Hornet ETF&#8217;s Co-Founder Mike Willis. Together, the trio outlined how Chicago&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-58208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}