Let's take a quick look at the headlines.

An XRP ETF will make its world debut and a new theory on Satoshi Nakamoto's identity gains traction.

It's Thursday, February 20th, 2025.

This is a Consensus CoinDus Daily Special from Hong Kong.

The world's first spot XRP exchange traded fund is set to soon debut in Brazil after being approved by the country's securities regulator.

The website for the Commissau de Valores and Mobiliarios shows that the fund, the hashdex, NASDAQ, XRP, Fundo

de Indique, is currently in a pre-operational phase after being set up on December 10th,

2024. The fund's administrator is local investment brokerage firm Genial Investmentos,

and the fund manager is hashed.

An official release date will be released soon.

Countries targeted by U.S. government sanctions have surged in illicit crypto activity,

receiving nearly $16 billion in digital assets last year, about 39% of illicit token transactions.

According to a chain analysis report released Wednesday, as Western restrictions tighten,

sanctioned nations are turning to cryptocurrencies and alternative financial systems to sustain

trade and access capital.

Cryptom mixing platform, Tornado Cash, was also still able to handle hundreds of

millions of dollars in crypto transactions a month in 2024, despite being targeted by U.S.

authorities.

Is Satoshi Nakamoto hiding in plain sight?

A new theory is gaining traction this week that Twitter founder and Block CEO, Jack Dorsey, is the synonymous creator of Bitcoin.

DeBank CEO, Sean Murray makes the case that Dorsey's early involvement in the cypherpunk movement,

cryptography interest, and computer science background align with Bitcoin's technical origins.

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