BlackRock Amends Ethereum ETF Application; Bloomberg’s Balchunas Sees ETF Going Live By June
A ‘Seed Capital Investor’ has purchased 400,000 shares of the proposed filing, BlackRock revealed in its document.
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U.S. Lawmaker at Center of Crypto Negotiation Predicts Digital Assets Law by Next Year
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) vowed the crypto industry won’t have long to wait to get U.S. regulations, now that the U.S. House of Representatives has shown the way.
U.S. Treasury Isn’t Trying to Ban Crypto Mixers, Top Official Says
FinCEN’s 2023 proposal to require crypto companies to report transactions that involved mixing is about transparency, not banning mixers, said Brian Nelson, U.S. Treasury undersecretary.
NYSE Would Consider Crypto Trading If Regulatory Picture Were Clearer, President Says at Consensus 2024
NYSE President Lynn Martin and Bullish CEO Tom Farley discussed crypto regulations, changing U.S. politics and the limitations and opportunities of blockchain tech to improve traditional markets.
Web3 Digital Identity Network Galxe Crafts Own Layer-1 Blockchain Gravity
Gravity’s first iteration will go live this June, with plans for the final version with staking and restaking to launch in the second quarter of 2025.
U.S. Treasury Describes NFTs as ‘Highly Susceptible to Use in Fraud and Scams’
“The report determines that illicit actors can use NFTs to launder proceeds from predicate crimes,” the Treasury said.
TradFi Rushes In: Goldman Sachs Digital Assets Lead Matthew McDermott on the Institutional Embrace of Tokenization
The financial industry veteran discusses ETFs, tokenization and future banking blockchain opportunities at Consensus 2024.
The Protocol: Behind the Scenes as Big-Tent Consensus Goes Up
We took a spin through some of the side events and preparations taking place Tuesday ahead of CoinDesk’s annual conference, which starts Wednesday in Austin.
U.S. House’s Emmer Says Best Hope for Crypto Legislation Is Year-End Session
Despite the crypto industry’s high-profile recent wins in Congress, major legislation faces a massive practical roadblock in the Senate, U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) acknowledged Wednesday, saying that chamber will want its own say in a big crypto bill, leaving little time in the waning congressional session.
Cathie Wood Says Ether ETF Filings Were Approved Because Crypto Is an Election Issue
Wood says the filings in support of ether ETFs were not approved in a regular way.